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Mickey teases a tantalizing reconciliation rumor ... Biden backs off campaign promise to raise refugee cap ... Bob worries that there’s a loophole in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal ... Rising Russia-U.S. tensions ... Should we pledge to defend Taiwan? ... Mickey: Corporate political activism is an alarming anti-democratic trend ... Bob scolds the Washington Post ... Israel’s attack on Iran and on American diplomacy ... J.D. Vance’s senatorial ambitions ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s genius point about Israel and identity politics, more Jeffrey Goldberg trash talk, how Dominion Voting Systems is helping Fox, Naomi Wolfe and Steve Bannon form an unholy alliance ...

Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the J&J pause, the GOP-corporate rift, and what the Gaetz scandal says about the Republican Party.

Alex’s new book, Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home ... Kurt Wolff’s fugitive life as a literary subversive ... Alex’s father’s experience fighting for Germany in WWII ... The complementary war recollections of Alex’s and Bob’s fathers ... Helen and Kurt Wolff’s founding of, and exit from, Pantheon Books ... The expansive life and fitting death of Kurt Wolff ... A father’s flight from the past, a son’s revisitation ... Did the German bourgeoisie’s devotion to aesthetic experience blind them to their moral responsibilities? ... Endpapers as objet d’art ...

The softer side of infrastructure ... The pitfalls of overracializing policy ... Bob gets pedantic with the New York Times ... Bob: Even if George Floyd was overdosing, Derek Chauvin is accountable for his death ... Is there something to Matt Gaetz’s claim that he is the victim of extortion? ... Bring on the vaccine passports ... Mickey reconciles himself to reconciliation ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey cancels himself, new Tiger Woods driving data, and just how big of an asshole was Bob during Slate’s Slow Burn taping? ...

Bill Scher and special guest Matt Cooper discuss Manchin’s machinations, the politics of the crime spike, Kamala Harris’ new role as border crisis manager, and the merits of Substack.

Jesse’s new book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Solve Our Social Ills ... Does the Implicit Association Test actually measure bias? ... The flawed methodology underlying the superpredator theory ... Why the grit theory lacks staying power ... The replication crisis in experimental psychology ... Jesse clarifies his views on child gender dysphoria and transgender athletes ...

The rapid rise of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ... Madawi: MbS is Saudi Arabia's response to the Arab Spring ... Populism and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi ... Why Saudi Arabia cares so much about Iran ... Madawi: Don't expect an Israeli flag in Riyadh quite yet ... How much can Biden influence Saudi policy? ... Has MbS bitten off more than he can chew? ...

Iran’s move toward China ... Gaetzgate explained (or at least described) ... Puzzling over Biden’s infrastructure bill strategy ... The political risks of racial equity legislation ... Is the corporate pressure campaign against the Georgia voting law working? ... The George Floyd jury’s pressure chamber ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey takes the Deplorable Automotive Challenge, the strange death of Tony Hsieh, the challenges of post-Covid bathroom design, and is Mickey pampered? ...

Life as a university professor during Covid ... What happened to the civil rights movement? ... Glenn and John disagree on voter suppression ... Debating Stacey Abrams’ approach to politics ... The exaggeration of victimhood ... How social media has changed academia ...

The long, hard, potholed road to the infrastructure bill ... Biden's less-than-bipartisan opening position ... Can conservatives count on Joe Manchin? ... "Talking filibuster" talk ... The legacy of Jim Crow in the current voting rights debate ... Bill falls victim to a series of devastating April Fools' Day pranks ... Will the Democrats' "Jim Crow" argument backfire? ...