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Why sanity is winning out in the congressional primaries ... Is Dennis Kucinich the future of the Democratic party? ... Among crazy bastards, Trump is sui generis ... Why Trump’s tough guy strategy is working with North Korea ... Matt: McCain has a right to snub Trump at his own funeral ...

Democrats and Republicans spin Trump’s tax overhaul ... Why does Paul Krugman think the bill is regressive? ... Larry gives the bill a final grade of B- ... Larry’s plan to make food stamps more equitable and accessible ... Why no one is talking about the deficit ... Corporation are legal fictions: why tax them? ...

Is the anti-Trump sentiment of scholars biasing their research? ... Busting demographic myths about the 2016 election ... Status threat vs. economic anxiety as sources of Trump's support ... Do liberals have a deep need to see Trump voters as creepy? ... The many strategic mistakes Clinton made ... "Negative intersectionality" as a problem for Democrats ... Musa gives Trump good odds for 2020 ... Musa: A return-to-normalcy campaign by Dems won't cut it ...

How did Giuliani go from America's Mayor to national punchline? ... What happened to the GOP's elder statesmen? ... Analyzing the $130,000 Michael Cohen revelation ... How much credit does Trump deserve for the thaw in North Korea? ... Matt: In a negotiation, North Korea would outfox Trump ... Rubio's media faux pas ...

Damon wonders whether international law is hopeless ... Bob: America would be better off if it respected the UN Security Council ... How legitimate is international law? ... Damon: There's no real judicial system in international law ... United Nations 1.0 vs. United Nations 2.0 ... Why do chemical weapons outrage us in a way that bombs do not? ...

Osita’s piece on Kanye West’s pro-Trump tweets ... Kanye as a bellwether for the mainstreaming of the alt-right ... Why is Jordan Peterson on Kanye's radar? ... Osita: Kanye isn’t going to convert his fans into Trump supporters ... Kanye and Trump, masters of publicity ...

David's dissertation questioning the William F. Buckley narrative ... George Wallace's 1968 appearance on Buckley's show Firing Line ... Who was more conservative, Buckley or Wallace? ... Buckley's snobbery vs. Wallace's populism ... Parallels between Wallace and Trump ... David: The conservative gatekeepers are gone ...

Matt endorses the Karate Kid relaunch ... Trump runs his mouth on Fox & Friends ... Was Ronny Jackson treated unfairly? ... Trump's reverse Midas touch ... Why do GOP presidents keep appointing unqualified people? ... Will conservatives dump Trump? ... President Kanye, here we come ...

Jonah's new book, Suicide of the West ... Children of the affluent who hate affluence ... Jonah criticizes the Howard-Zinnified view of history ... The problem with Alinskyite conservatives ... Capitalism and its (white conservative) discontents ... The trouble with being a measured conservative critic of Trump (i.e., being Jonah) ... Jonah’s plan for Western Suicide prevention ...

David: American conservatism is basically white cultural resentment ... Is the left as tribal as the right? ... The "war on Christmas" as a case study ... Is pluralistic democracy contrary to human nature? ... Maybe nothing can unify Americans as a nation any more ... So whom should the NYT op-ed page hire? ... The one thing Trump could do to alienate his base ...