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How Ben sparked a Downton Abbey crisis in Congress ... Why the House is weirder than the Senate ... The secret to writing a great congressional profile ... Jeb Bush's underwhelming policy speech ... Should DeflateGate keep the Pats out of the White House? ...

Should we care about Brian Williams's helicopter lie? ... Another nail in the coffin for institutional authority ... How rational irrationality lost Seattle the Super Bowl ... Obama's Crusades comments spark backlash ... Can the GOP elite prevent a clown show in 2016? ... Matt: Scott Walker seems too dull to win the presidency ...

In Iraq, America is frenemies with Iran-backed Shiite militias ... Is there a smarter way to fight ISIS? ... How big of a security threat is Iran to the US? ... Eli is more worried than Bob about Iran getting nukes ... Bob and Eli relitigate a war or two for old times’ sake ... Will the burning of the Jordanian pilot backfire on ISIS? ...

Running for president? Write a book first ... Candidates who use their book tour to get wonky ... Does anyone actually buy these books? ... Locking down the "conservative culture warrior" vote ... Which of this year's GOP authors will win it all? ... Rebecca on takeaways from the Koch summit ...

Freddie: Jonathan Chait is mostly right about P.C. ... Political correctness, outrage, and exhaustion ... Are campus activists largely wasting their time? ... Aryeh criticizes Chait's critics ... How politics on Twitter is like professional wrestling ... Freddie: Only the privileged say "check your privilege" ...

Academia and the public: A love/hate relationship ... Is the public skeptical because academics are biased? ... How higher ed differs in America vs. Europe ... Dan: Education is about a lot more than economic growth ... Moving toward a digital classroom ... Who needs experts, anyway? ...

Why is NYC so expensive and Rochester, NY so cheap? ... Those evil hipsters, drinking PBR and driving up the rent! ... "Contempt," the suburbs, and public transportation ... Is gentrification a red herring? ... Debating why the rent is so damn high ... How can we make NYC housing more affordable? ...

What Romney's exit means for 2016 ... The poker champ/YouTube star in charge of the Florida GOP ... Is Marco Rubio running for president or senator? ... The unusual candidates in Ohio's senate race ... Why progressives aren't "Ready for Sherrod" ... Is Scott Walker just Mitt Romney redux? ...

Does Serial signal the end of the old-school podcast? ... Narrative manipulation in fiction and non-fiction (e.g. Serial) ... Is Koenig concealing what she really thinks? ... Bob: Adnan did it ... Aryeh argues that a third party was involved ... Debating what Adnan's behavior at Cathy's proves ...

Who will win the Super Bowl...and who should? ... Have conservatives had it with Sarah Palin? ... Matt applies his "too dumb to fail" lens to the 2016 field ... Why did Andrew Sullivan retire from blogging? ... Blogging: It's harder than you think! ... Is American Sniper a pro-war film? ...

Sudbury Valley, a school like no other ... Dan: Our school is the polar opposite of a regular school ... A student-run administration and judicial system ... How Sudbury differs from other progressive schooling ... What do American children actually need to learn? ... Sudbury's lessons for public schools ...

Mark calls for a truce in the gay cake wars ... Opening Pandora's cake box ... Is Friends homophobic? ... A close reading of "gay panic" jokes ... Coca-Cola ran an ad with a gay couple. Hooray? ... What it's like to get hate mail ...

Deflategate, Bridgegate, catchgate ... Was LBJ a bad person? ... Troubling historical inaccuracies in Hollywood films ... Ann says Scott Walker is presidential material ... Is being a Midwesterner a political asset? ... Serial and the meaning of "reasonable doubt" ...

Why did Boehner pull the 20-week abortion ban bill? ... A new gender divide among House Republicans ... Do conservatives have foot-in-mouth disease? ... Get psyched for 2016 Senate races! ... The Mardi Gras carnival that is Louisiana politics ... Evaluating Joni Ernst, emerging broker of power ...

Should Obama beef up his defense of Western liberalism? ... Heather: GOP may overplay its hand with Netanyahu invite ... Dan: Ukraine is a classic test of international realism ... Are American drones fueling instability in Yemen? ... Drezburt dishes the dirt on Davos ...