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What Brink's new book The Captured Economy says about the balance between equality and liberty ... Why do the US and Uganda have similar inequality metrics? ... Why some libertarians are making room for anti-poverty measures ... Brink: Republicans have become their worst caricature ... A diagnosis of the white working class ... Breaking the government’s dependency on lobbyists ...

Bob and Judith try to rank the sexual predators in terms of badness, from Harvey Weinstein on down ... Male power in all its variety ... Are we entering a neo-Victorian era? ... Why understanding isn't forgiveness ... Stepping down in disgrace as a career move ... After the purge, will women finally feel at home in the workplace? ... Bob and Judith share their own experiences with workplace sexual harassment ...

How Kate created the website Whores of Yore ... A people’s history of sex work ... Body-positive messaging from Victorian pornography ... Kate’s upcoming crowdfunded book, A Curious History of Sex ... Why are teens having so much anal sex? ... Kate: Porn ain’t what it used to be ...

James O’Keefe’s failed WaPo sting as a microcosm of conservative dysfunction ... Was O’Keefe coordinating with Roy Moore’s campaign? ... Bill: 2020 will be the year of the woman for Democrats... ... ...and Elizabeth Warren has the edge ... Reevaluating Biden in the wake of Weinstein ... Matt’s critique of the GOP tax plan ... Bill: The tax plan will create a lot of angry middle-class voters ...

When and where does income redistribution make sense? ... Why the decline of the small-town country club matters ... How today's politics brought out Glenn’s latent Reaganite ... Steve: No third party can circumvent congressional power ... Glenn: To condemn Trump is to weaken the legitimacy of the office ... Are we overcorrecting for men’s improprieties? ...

The history of laughing at Nazis, starting with Chaplin in The Great Dictator ... Making fun of Hitler after WWII ... How The Producers shocked viewers just 22 years after WWII ... Is there such a thing as a good Holocaust joke? ... Why jokes about ISIS differ in meaning across borders ... Christa: SNL’s Trump jokes are not subversive ...

Making sense of the wave of sexual assault allegations ... Should Al Franken resign? ... History lesson: How Taft raised taxes and split the Republican Party ... Why tax reform has always been like “making sausage” to the average voter ... Bill thinks Doug Jones has a chance against Roy Moore ... Matt recalls the brief moment he considered voting for Hillary ...

Betsy’s work on prejudice and conflict earns her a MacArthur “Genius” grant ... Betsy: Media tells us what other people think ... Across tribal divides in Rwanda, even gifts can be malicious ... How social media algorithms control consciousness ... How peer “influencers” can make schools safer (and kinder) ...

Jorge on why studying religion is studying reality ... How do you “de-colonize” religion? Make it the central point of life ... Jorge: "The state project is a religious project" ... The mayor of San Juan and the “woman vs. Trump” narrative ... How Puerto Ricans sent a message by not voting ... The role of Protestant work ethic in early Puerto Rican missions ...

How Tom came to study failed presidential candidate George McGovern ... McGovern’s successful career in agricultural policy ... How McGovern brought the New Deal to the developing world ... Ryan: Are we still over-correcting for 1972? ... Could McGovern have changed the course of the Vietnam War? ... McGovern’s comparison of the wars in Iraq and Vietnam ...