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Each week on This Is Critical, host Virginia Heffernan digs into one of the cultural topics that informs our political discourse. Topics range from cat fishing, to legal cannabis, to high-brow vs. low-brow culture. Heffernan is a contributing editor at WIRED, a co-host of Slate’s Trumpcast podcast, and a columnist at the Los Angeles Times.