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Tough times for objective reality ... Animal personhood ... What if everything’s conscious? ... Daniel Dennett’s idea of consciousness as a "user illusion" ... Is science getting less exciting? ... Big data and neural networks ... Save the date: A nation-wide solar eclipse in August ...

Punching “Nazis”: Good or bad? ... Does assaulting Richard Spencer give him more power? ... The “Proud Boys” vs. “Antifa” confrontation as a case study ... The college campus free speech debate ... The case for caring less about campus protests ...

Trump’s tax plan vs. the Republican “Better Way” plan ... Can supply-side economics work this time? ... What Paul Krugman gets wrong about about the House tax bill ... Laurence offers his own tax proposal ... Why is Wal-Mart fighting a border adjustment tax? ... The case against Goldman Sachs alumni as economic advisers ...

Global Dispatches makes its Bloggingheads debut ... How Trump’s expansion of the "global gag rule" hurts health care ... Why Niger has the highest birth rate in the world ... How Jill became a feminist ... Jill’s new book, The H-Spot, on what women want ...

The pro-gun Democrat who might win Montana’s special election ... Should Democrats stop backing gun control? ... What the Seth Rich conspiracy theory shows about conservative news ... Are Hannity’s days at Fox News numbered? ... Bill’s outrageously early guide to 2020 ...

The Brazilian scandals that won’t go away ... It’s corruption, all the way down! ... The chances that Brazil will be hit by a populist wave ... Venezuela’s downward spiral ... Will there be a military coup in Venezuela? ... Why Latin America worries about Trump ...

How acute is the North Korea nuclear weapons crisis? ... Will South Korea bring back its “Sunshine Policy”? ... What North Korea thinks of Trump ... What China and Japan think of Trump ... How Duterte is shaping foreign policy in the Philippines ...

Is this the beginning of the end for GOP power? ... The possibility of impeachment ... Are the Republicans blowing their big break? ... The odds of getting President Pence ... The tarnished legacy of Roger Ailes ... Will the Trump era prompt conservative soul-searching? ...

Is North Korea behind the global malware attack? ... The surprisingly long range of the missile North Korea just tested ... Why China won't solve the North Korea problem ... Options for dealing with North Korea, from bad to worst ... How Japan and South Korea are responding to escalating tensions ... Jeffrey’s advice on what to do about North Korea’s nuclear program ... The outlook for arms control under Trump ...

James’s new book, Locking Up Our Own ... Why black politicians backed harsh criminal laws in the 1960s ... Was a punitive system inevitable given the desire to fight crime? ... Was there really a “black silent majority”? ... Can social policy combat crime better than law enforcement? ... The root causes of mass incarceration ...