Birthdays, bowling, and baseball ... Who will win the upcoming debate? ... Bill's advice for Trump ... Should Hillary strike first? ... How should the moderators approach the debates? ... Matt asks for birthday tribute ...

The Jimmy Carter story you've probably never heard ... Should Hillary address white grievances more? ... The increasingly tribal nature of politics ... Could Trump lose the popular vote, but win the election? ... Bill and Matt debate media bias and Clinton's pneumonia ... Matt: Skepticism about Hillary's health is fair ...

A postmortem on the Commander-in-Chief Forum ... Phil Donahue’s experiment with an unmoderated debate ... What does good moderation look like? ... Gary Johnson’s “What is Aleppo?” moment ... Hillary’s shrinking lead ... How novelists and futurists can help national security ...

How will McCain and Rubio fare in November? ... Bill: Anti-incumbent sentiment isn't all that strong ... Should presidential primaries take our second choices into account? ... Why the GOP might not be fixable ... Dissecting Rush Limbaugh's recent Trump comments ...

How will Stephen Bannon affect Trump's campaign? ... Does Trump just want a media empire? ... Matt on how to fix the GOP ... Bill on why the system isn't rigged against Johnson and Stein ... Bill and Matt debate libertarianism ... Why is it so hard for political parties to die? ... The guys walk down DMZ memory lane ...

What did Trump mean by his Second Amendment comment? ... Will the Republicans learn from 2016? ... Why Never Trumpers won't be to blame for a Trump loss ... Can The Donald break through his approval ceiling? ... Why the guys aren't sold on Evan McMullin ... Bill on the long-term damage your protest vote could do ...

How Bill and Matt fared at the DNC ... Did the Dems entrap Trump with Khizr Khan? ... Has Trump hit an approval ceiling? ... Is Gary Johnson a bad libertarian? ... Why Matt may not vote ... Matt: The GOP is still salvageable ...

Drama at the Democratic convention ... Bill: Jill Stein could do as well as Nader in 2000 ... The guys agree: Michelle Obama nailed her speech ... Was Debbie Wasserman Schultz's resignation necessary? ... Bill's self-imposed convention isolation ... Matt: "I'm basically homeless" (politically) ...

Matt's life of excitement at the RNC ... Is the convention Too Dumb to Fail writ large? ... Bill: Cruz is not the answer to Trumpism ... Which GOP politicians come out of this looking good? ... Matt: Hillary doesn't have it in the bag ... Do the Dems need a game-changing VP pick? ...

Matt: Trump has a type (for veep) ... What to expect at the GOP convention ... A Trump counterfactual: What if he were normal? ... The rise of American socialism, kind of ... Can free trade bring world peace? ... Would Rubio be polling better than Trump? ...