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 ...

Campus protests as activist theater ... Glenn: Antifa groups are the real fascists ... Debating whether activists want power more than justice ... The religious vibes of leftwing protests ... The triumph of individualism: A teaser of the next Glenn-John talk ...

The murky link between facts and beliefs ... Is it fair to call Scott Pruitt a “climate change denier”? ... How facts get used and abused when talking about policing and race ... Comedy as a force for good… ... …and a source of trouble ... Showing loyalty to your group by challenging it ...

Would reparations for slavery repair anything? ... The faulty logic behind reparations and affirmative action ... John: Is it worth engaging with social justice arguments? ... The problem with tests for unconscious bias ... Is “the system” responsible for racial disparities? ... How to disrupt destructive cultural norms ...

The “normalizing Trump” debate ... Trump’s desire to keep judges “in check” ... Political posturing around Gorsuch and Garland ... Should judges infer that Trump wants a Muslim ban? ... Glenn defends the Shelby County ruling on voting rights ... Ann defends Citizen’s United ...

Why the Obamacare Medicaid expansion worked ... How block grants would reshape Medicaid ... Predicting the future of health care reform ... How health care reform is crucially different from welfare reform ... What preventing inner city violence looks like ... What’s the best way to get guns off the street? ...

Race, joblessness, crime: What’s the link? ... The causes of violent crime ... Why is there a racial divide in domestic abuse rates? ... Bob: Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline begins at home ... The case for vocational programs ...

Alden gives an insider’s look at Chicago violence ... It’s not all bad on the South Side ... What’s causing the violence in Chicago? ... Debating how to end the violence ... How strict should gun laws be? ... Alden: Don’t just blame the parents ...

The state of health care post-Obamacare ... What’s wrong with Obamacare ... The GOP plan: Tax credits for all (health care for some)! ... Laurence’s plan for fixing health insurance ... Getting rid of waste ... Is Laurence’s plan politically palatable? ...

The legacy of economist Kenneth Arrow ... Did Trump finally have his “presidential” moment? ... The emptiness of Trump’s joint session speech ... The path to bipartisanship ... Where’s the liberal rebuttal to “America First”? ... The moral case for cosmopolitanism ...