Matt Lewis and Bill Scher discuss Trump’s 2024 plans, the history of CPAC, and the state of bipartisanship under Biden.

The new NYT documentary on Britney Spears ... The many ways the media mistreated Britney ... Revisiting the paparazzi, the head shaving, and the umbrella ... The conservatorship and the #FreeBritney movement ... Why we should have listened to the "leave Britney alone" guy ... Jason Alexander (the other one), K-Fed, and Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce ... Alana's book subscription project ...

Mickey’s critique of the Romney Family Plan ... Bob declares victory over the coronavirus ... Does Ted Cruz’s Cancun blunder bode ill for a future presidential run? ... How Rush tanked Trump’s 2020 campaign ... A somewhat dubious (but very salacious) Jeffrey Epstein update ... Distinguishing Biden’s bullshit from Trump’s bullshit ... Was January 6 a “riot” or an “insurrection”? ... Parrot Room preview: Woody and Mia, Ben Smith on Donald McNeil, Bob on Iran deal, etc. ...

Do Glenn and John over-discuss race and racism? ... The hurdles to hosting debates on TGS ... The guys consider their role in the national discourse on race ... The challenges of being a contrarian ... Confronting in-school violence among Black youth ... The New York Times' "contemptible" treatment of Donald McNeil ...

Bill’s hat problem ... Ted Cruz’s perplexingly timed vacation ... Rush Limbaugh’s legacy ... The twelve-year anniversary of Rick Santelli’s Tea Party rant ... What Biden can learn from Obama’s bailout package ...

Lauren's new novel, Fake Accounts ... Autofiction in the disinformation age ... Why the novel's narrator is unnamed ... Berlin, the city of expats hanging out ... The uses and abuses of a fragmentary narrative ... Twitter is made out of people ... When a book reviewer publishes her first novel ...

How one of Will’s tweets went awry ... Who are the Rationalists? ... Explaining the Slate Star Codex/New York Times controversy ... Journalism’s epistemological challenges ... Open debate and its discontents ... Will: SSC has been exploited by people with dangerous ideas ... The (over)reaction to the Times’ SSC piece ... Why homogenous groups overestimate their objectivity ...

Phoebe's new position as a senior editor at The Signal ... "Cleansing your timeline" vs. "doomscrolling" ... The agony and the ecstasy of Twitter ... Twitter's insane risk-reward ratio ... How Twitter makes unpopular ideas seem popular ... With Trump banned, will Twitter return to being a niche site for weirdos? ... Aryeh's twisted fascination with MAGA and QAnon Twitter bios ... Would we all be better off if social media didn't exist? ...

Mickey snags a vaccination appointment ... Bob speculates wildly about coronavirus mutations ... What’s missing from the Democrats’ case against Trump ... How Mickey (almost) launched Bruce Springsteen’s career ... Who will inherit the Republican Party? ... Dueling scandals at the New York Times and the Lincoln Project ... Bob and Mickey find common cause in Venezuela ... Parrot Room preview: Marty Peretz disses Rob Malley, the week in cancellation, and the next vast right wing conspiracy. ...

Tracing wokeism's origins to mid-century postmodernism ... Determining the right historical narrative on race ... Do progressives have a problem confronting their own racism? ... What can and can't be said about the 2020 election ... Can the insurrectionists be defended? ... Biden vs. Trump on critical race theory ... James challenges Glenn's recent mea culpa on Trump ...