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Matt’s controversial stance on Trump’s words to an Army widow ... A word of praise for the DMZ fans ... How FDR drove the Dixiecrats to the right ... Why Dems should think twice before purging party leaders ... Should Bannon’s challenge against the GOP be taken seriously? ...

Critiquing Ta-Nehisi Coates's new book ... Will the bubble burst on race-centric thinking? ... John pulls no punches on Coates’s writing ... The case for hope over pessimism in the black community ... Glenn: The Jim Crow era is over ...

After Trump, do ideas even matter? ... Why Trump and Obama both reject "the Blob” ... How foreign leaders make sense of Trump’s public contradictions ... Do rumor mills have a place in the ideas industry? ... Dan: TED Talks are for thought leaders, not public intellectuals ...

Heather’s statement on the #metoo hashtag and sexual assault awareness ... What “America first” means to the rest of the world ... Is the liberal international order in danger? Heather says yes ... Dan’s book Avoiding Trivia makes a surprise appearance ... Heather: Social media matters, but information warfare is nothing new ...

How tribalism underpins the current political moment ... Has cosmopolitan London lost its character? ... Why a strong national identity could restore unity in the US ... Andrew: Dems should make economic inequality their centerpiece issue ... How Bob’s Mindful Resistance project confronts tribalistic thinking ...

Matt clarifies his controversial remarks about Harvey Weinstein ... Is attention from women a given perk of professional status? ... Newt Gingrich as a case study in professional improprieties ... Why sexual harassment may never be “solved” ... Bannon turns to the primaries in his war against the GOP ...

Bill: Banning bump stocks on guns isn’t enough ... Why gun-related tragedies don’t spur effective legislation ... Matt questions whether Bret Stephens is really a conservative ... The trouble with interpreting the Second Amendment ... Bill: Trump is too lazy to start his own war ...

Why John’s books have never included an author photo ... On the inadequacy of the term ‘nonfiction’ ... The importance of a really good lede ... John’s simple cure for writer’s block ... Why John likes to challenge the reader’s vocabulary ...

Mark's rise to prominence at Columbia as a radical student leader ... Mark: We thought Vietnam marked the decline of American empire ... Without a union base, do Democrats have a chance? ... Why violence is bad political strategy ... Mark's vision for the left: a takeover of the Democratic Party ...

When considering race became good business sense ... A brief history of sports and nationalism ... How Hollywood’s casting by race skirts civil rights laws ... John: Society is too diverse for a pure meritocracy ... What does Silicon Valley owe the rest of us? ...