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AIPAC Throwdown by Josh Barro

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss joins to talk about his victory in a hotly contested congressional primary; we discuss whether Gavin Newsom's Twitter is homophobic or merely tacky.

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James Kirchick is a writer at large for Air Mail and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

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