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Liza: Hillary Clinton's faux feminism lost her the election ... Recalling Clinton's infamous "baking cookies" remark ... Liza says Clinton used "neoliberal identity politics" ... Progressive, liberal, neoliberal: please define ... Liza's book on focus groups, Divining Desire ... The truth about famous failures: New Coke and the Edsel ... Was 2016 a rejection of focus-group driven politics? ...

Why the Putin meeting caused Matt’s mom to turn against Trump ... Russian spy Maria Butina and the appeal of foreigners who bolster our politics ... “Blame America first” and the dangers of moral equivalency ... Russia’s history as “difficult actor” ... How Bill got duped by Sacha Baron Cohen ... Why Matt has sympathy for those fooled by Butina and Baron Cohen ... Bill: Repealing Roe would “rip America in two” ...

Michael: The liberal narrative about Trump is contradictory ... Michael: Trump's worst acts were also done by past presidents ... Aryeh: Trump doesn't care about politics ... Do pundits accomplish anything by constantly psychoanalyzing Trump? ... Does Trump have a non-interventionist instinct? ... Why Michael doesn't buy the Russia narrative ... Aryeh: The hacked emails hurt Hillary, but not in the way you think ... Michael: Democrats should focus on Trump's corruption in office ... Why are so many leftists skeptics of Russiagate? ...

"Vesuvian wrath" over Trump's press conference performance ... What explains Trump's antics at the NATO meeting? ... The Cold Warriors and the doves have swapped roles ... The growing international alliance of anti-internationalists ... Did the Iraq War make Trump president? ... Jacob explains the foreign policy realism of The National Interest ... Jacob: Trump's foreign policy hearkens back to the pre-WWII GOP ... Bob’s fantasy about Theresa May ... Why does Trump like Putin so dang much? ...

Will reports on the Roe v. Wade movie and becomes part of the story ... Down the rabbit hole of the QAnon conspiracy theory ... What draws people to conspiracy theories? ... Are the latest Mueller indictments the end of Seth Rich conspiracizing? ... Ben Garrison, the leading pro-Trump political cartoonist ... How does the alt-right view antifa? ... Meet Jacob Wohl, Trump's #1 Twitter fanboy ...

Matt is disappointed that Trump didn't pick Amy Barrett for the Court ... Matt: Choosing Barrett would have been a "win-win" ... Why did Trump pick the white guy? ... Does anyone on the right (aside from Matt) believe in diversity? ... Red-state Democrats' hard votes on Kavanaugh ... Bill: Dems must win the Senate to kill the Trump judiciary project ... Should NeverTrumpers be happy about Kavanaugh? ...

John: Trump has the brain of a 13-year-old boy ... Glenn: Trump will be viewed as more effective than Obama ... Is Trump an idiot? A savant? ... Glenn: Clarence Thomas is a symbol of African-American excellence ... John wishes Thomas wasn't silent at oral argument ... Critiquing the black intelligentsia ... How big of a problem is the "Starbucks and swimming pools" problem? ...

How streaming sites like PornHub changed the porn industry ... Arabelle: Consumers of porn don’t respect its creators ... Under FOSTA, who is a “sex trafficker,” anyway? ... Escorts vs. prostitutes: Is class the only distinction? ... Arabelle’s article on Stormy Daniels and the Resistance ... Bill’s article on the alt-right’s anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about porn ... Arabelle: There's a lot of racism in the porn industry ... The uphill battle for labor rights in sex work ...

Trump leaves his mark on Bill’s Fourth of July celebrations ... How to vet a Supreme Court nominee ... The Court as a battlefield in the culture war ... Bill’s advice for Sen. Susan Collins: Insist on a non-partisan nominee ... Do Supreme Court justices mellow with age? ... Bill: “Abolish ICE” is splitting the Democratic Party ...

How Trump and the evangelical right became bedfellows ... “Two Corinthians” and Trump’s familiarity with the prosperity gospel ... Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s likely pick to dismantle Roe v. Wade ... Bob: State-level abortion laws will deepen the divide between red and blue states ... Did Trump pay to cover up an abortion?—and why evangelicals don’t care ... Sarah: Becoming numb to Trump’s transgressions is “how authoritarianism works” ... Bob’s tactical approach to political outrage ... Was deplatforming Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s dinner a good idea? ...