Explain It to Me

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RR
 May 10, 2024
Difficult to tell the voices apart sometimes.


 Dec 17, 2021


 Jun 30, 2021

Steve S
 Mar 5, 2021
used to be a terrific podcast, but now provides only a mediocre analysis of public policy. Has gone downhill a lot since Matthew Iglesias left.


 Jan 8, 2021

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Is my dentist scamming me? Why do political campaigns cost so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement? Explain It To Me is the hotline for all your unanswered questions. Sometimes explanations are hard to find, misinformation is rampant, and those internet searches and AI asks can come up empty. Call 1-800-618-8545 with what’s on your mind, and host Jonquilyn Hill will be your friendly guide to the answers you're looking for — and maybe even the ones you don’t expect. New episodes every Wednesday starting September 18.  Part of Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episode Date
My parents divorced. Will I?
Oct 10, 2024
Is it okay to go to the zoo?
Oct 02, 2024
Why do I say “like” so much?
Sep 25, 2024
Is my dentist scamming me?
Sep 18, 2024
Introducing Explain It to Me
Sep 08, 2024
Our next chapter
May 30, 2024
How we Got Milk
May 29, 2024
Those pesky delivery fees
May 22, 2024
Panic! At The Drugstore
May 15, 2024
A new era of cannabis research
May 08, 2024
Are baby bonds a good investment?
May 01, 2024
Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?
Apr 24, 2024
Is homelessness a crime?
Apr 17, 2024
Abortion and the erosion of privacy
Apr 10, 2024
What is “fetal personhood”?
Apr 03, 2024
A safety net’s poverty trap
Mar 27, 2024
Let’s fix child care together
Mar 20, 2024
Bringing back the SAT
Mar 13, 2024
The AI election
Mar 06, 2024
The case for banning...millionaires?
Feb 28, 2024
How racism ages Black people
Feb 21, 2024
Skipping the broom
Feb 14, 2024
Eviction: the scarlet E
Feb 07, 2024
Let’s fix retirement together
Jan 31, 2024
How to be a (realistic) climate optimist
Jan 24, 2024
How celebrity fandom explains Trump
Jan 17, 2024
Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard
Jan 10, 2024
Are unions making a comeback?
Dec 20, 2023
Why are so many kids missing school?
Dec 13, 2023
Can Black churches lead the way on teen mental health?
Dec 06, 2023
The Devil wears fast fashion
Nov 29, 2023
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
Nov 22, 2023
Why everything is (still) so expensive
Nov 15, 2023
BDS and the history of the boycott
Nov 08, 2023
Will school choice change the future of education?
Nov 01, 2023
The sandwich generation: Caring for kids and seniors
Oct 25, 2023
Why your health insurance is tied to work
Oct 18, 2023
Conservative socialism?
Oct 11, 2023
How (not) to budget
Oct 04, 2023
NYC’s not-so-sudden migrant surge
Sep 27, 2023
What’s up, doc(ket)?
Sep 20, 2023
Who protects workers from extreme heat?
Sep 13, 2023
Why isn’t school lunch free?
Aug 30, 2023
Trump’s RICO problem
Aug 23, 2023
Biden messed with Texas
Aug 16, 2023
Biden wants YOU (to go to therapy)
Aug 09, 2023
A new era for birth control
Aug 02, 2023
Who broke student loans?
Jul 26, 2023
Expecting: Weed and Pregnancy
Jul 19, 2023
It's an HOA world; you're just living in it
Jul 12, 2023
The Republican plot to defund public libraries
Jun 28, 2023
A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Jun 21, 2023
We need to rethink discipline in schools
Jun 14, 2023
The kids suing their state for climate change
Jun 07, 2023
The fate of affirmative action
May 24, 2023
Why is child labor making a comeback?
May 17, 2023
The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained
May 10, 2023
Policymaking on the high seas
May 03, 2023
How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s roads safer
Apr 26, 2023
Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval process, explained
Apr 18, 2023
How corporations got all your data
Apr 11, 2023
Do assault weapons bans work?
Apr 04, 2023
Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”
Mar 28, 2023
Why Illinois wants to end cash bail
Mar 21, 2023
The debt ceiling drama
Mar 14, 2023
What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry
Mar 07, 2023
How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
Feb 28, 2023
Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?
Feb 21, 2023
The Ukraine war: past, present, and future
Feb 14, 2023
$14 trillion and no mules
Feb 07, 2023
The Biden policy that could change your neighborhood
Jan 31, 2023
Insulin is for the world
Jan 24, 2023
Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act
Jan 17, 2023
Reintroducing The Weeds
Jan 16, 2023
The great American gerrymander
Jan 10, 2023
The scourge of the “time tax”
Dec 27, 2022
Climate optimism in 2023
Dec 20, 2022
Our mental health doom loop
Dec 13, 2022
The bipartisan bill that could protect elections
Dec 06, 2022
The rebirth of industrial policy
Nov 29, 2022
It’s time to regulate crypto
Nov 22, 2022
The Weeds’ weed episode
Nov 15, 2022
How to call an election
Nov 08, 2022
How to fix inflation
Nov 01, 2022
Why scaring voters works
Oct 25, 2022
The most interesting issues on the ballot
Oct 18, 2022
The candidates haunting the GOP
Oct 11, 2022
AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM
Oct 04, 2022
Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?
Sep 27, 2022
The fastest growing voting bloc in America
Sep 20, 2022
Who decides how we’ll save the future?
Sep 13, 2022
Vitamin X
Sep 06, 2022
It’s a policy team takeover!
Aug 30, 2022
The rebirth of industrial policy
Aug 23, 2022
Could the war on terror be over?
Aug 16, 2022
The new politics of abortion
Aug 09, 2022
Maybe we’re not doomed?
Aug 02, 2022
Weeds Time Machine: The ADA
Jul 26, 2022
What the hell is up with SCOTUS?
Jul 19, 2022
The legal limbo of abortion rights
Jul 12, 2022
Pregnancy in a post-Roe America
Jun 28, 2022
ConGRADulations, fellow kids
Jun 21, 2022
How the world became rich
Jun 14, 2022
Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?
Jun 07, 2022
The gun control stalemate, explained
May 31, 2022
The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia
May 27, 2022
Immigration, democracy, and the rise of the Western far right
May 24, 2022
The scourge of the “time tax”
May 17, 2022
Ukraine and the global food supply crisis
May 10, 2022
What the Alito leak means for Roe — and everything else
May 05, 2022
The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade
May 03, 2022
Why do we go to war?
Apr 26, 2022
Weeds Time Machine: The Clean Air Act
Apr 19, 2022
Tax time at the culture wars
Apr 12, 2022
Taxes! Let’s get right Intuit.
Apr 05, 2022
The Great Expiration
Mar 29, 2022
The art of the gerrymander
Mar 22, 2022
The myth of US energy independence
Mar 15, 2022
Why it’s so hard to move in America
Mar 08, 2022
Russia's terrible invasion
Mar 01, 2022
A quick update
Feb 25, 2022
Why San Francisco’s school board got booted
Feb 23, 2022
Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
Feb 18, 2022
The curse of the midterms
Feb 15, 2022
Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics
Feb 11, 2022
Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?
Feb 08, 2022
It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.
Feb 04, 2022
Think of the children
Feb 01, 2022
Unions!
Jan 28, 2022
What happens to voting rights now?
Jan 25, 2022
Are corporations winning at inflation?
Jan 21, 2022
What BBB means for climate policy
Jan 19, 2022
How the 1918 flu pandemic ended
Jan 14, 2022
The case for more babies
Jan 11, 2022
The building blocks of radicalization
Jan 07, 2022
Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?
Jan 04, 2022
Best Of: The coming climate exodus
Dec 28, 2021
America’s Public Health Experiment: Federal failures
Dec 21, 2021
America's Public Health Experiment: More checks, less politics
Dec 17, 2021
Can school be normal again?
Dec 14, 2021
America’s Public Health Experiment: The agencies Covid broke
Dec 10, 2021
Learning to love rent control
Dec 07, 2021
America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure
Dec 03, 2021
Defund the police?
Dec 01, 2021
Biden’s $3.40 a gallon problem
Nov 24, 2021
Taxing Back Better
Nov 19, 2021
How does the pandemic end?
Nov 16, 2021
Reshaping America’s cities
Nov 12, 2021
Pass the SALT?
Nov 10, 2021
The Most Dangerous Branch: Covid-19 v. The Constitution
Nov 05, 2021
Is Facebook really that bad?
Nov 02, 2021
Housing policy, but make it British
Oct 29, 2021
The case for and against open borders
Oct 26, 2021
The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia
Oct 22, 2021
Is inflation out of control?
Oct 19, 2021
The home care fight in Congress
Oct 15, 2021
The coming climate exodus
Oct 12, 2021
The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade
Oct 08, 2021
Yes, vaccine mandates work
Oct 05, 2021
How genes impact your life
Oct 01, 2021
The debt ceiling’s threat to America
Sep 28, 2021
AMA time with Dylan, German, and Jerusalem
Sep 24, 2021
Means testing our patience
Sep 21, 2021
Ezra, Matt, and Sarah Try (Again) to Podcast
Sep 17, 2021
The Weeds Will Live Forever
Sep 14, 2021
The Federal Reserve's regulatory issues
Sep 10, 2021
The Federal Reserve: Climate Change edition
Sep 07, 2021
Who's afraid of a big bad poll?
Sep 03, 2021
Galaxy Brain Recession
Aug 31, 2021
Afghan refugees face an uncertain future
Aug 27, 2021
Boosters: Worth it or not, here they come
Aug 25, 2021
Baby making vibes
Aug 20, 2021
Back to School: Masters mishaps
Aug 17, 2021
Reign of Terror
Aug 13, 2021
Back to School: Learning loss
Aug 10, 2021
Dare to speak freely
Aug 06, 2021
Back to School: All for pre-K, and pre-K for all
Aug 04, 2021
Getting power to the people
Jul 30, 2021
Time Machine: Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
Jul 28, 2021
Prices on the rise
Jul 23, 2021
Time Machine: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Jul 21, 2021
The critical race theory debate
Jul 16, 2021
Time Machine: Volcker Shock
Jul 14, 2021
Cruelty: the point
Jul 09, 2021
Time Machine: No Child Left Behind
Jul 07, 2021
Coming attractions
Jun 30, 2021
Who started Covid?
Jun 26, 2021
So, for the next pandemic....
Jun 23, 2021
What's the deal with that new Alzheimer's drug?
Jun 16, 2021
Zoning our way through it
Jun 12, 2021
Hot jobs summer
Jun 09, 2021
The pipeline to prison
Jun 05, 2021
The lab-leak hypothesis
Jun 02, 2021
Stephen Breyer should retire
May 28, 2021
Give more money to cranks!
May 25, 2021
Research the police
May 21, 2021
Masks off! Party time?
May 18, 2021
The plan for more free school
May 14, 2021
Homelessness and the rising tide
May 11, 2021
The app store war
May 07, 2021
The "hundred days" myth
May 05, 2021
There's lead in your turmeric
Apr 30, 2021
A Manchin for all seasons
Apr 28, 2021
Why transit projects fail
Apr 23, 2021
The pandemic playbook
Apr 21, 2021
Think like a scout
Apr 17, 2021
White paper-palooza
Apr 14, 2021
It's time for class warfare
Apr 10, 2021
Bidencare?
Apr 07, 2021
The politics of cultural criticism
Apr 03, 2021
All circuits matter
Mar 31, 2021
The optimistic leftist
Mar 27, 2021
Is gun violence fixable?
Mar 24, 2021
All about inflation
Mar 19, 2021
Asylum policy for the here and now
Mar 17, 2021
Introducing Unexplainable
Mar 14, 2021
An A.I. wrote this title
Mar 12, 2021
The right to vote, constrained
Mar 10, 2021
Facebook's shadow court
Mar 05, 2021
How to destroy the suburbs
Mar 03, 2021
All organizing is local
Feb 26, 2021
Covid-$1.9T
Feb 23, 2021
The problem of child care
Feb 19, 2021
The Antipope in Mar-a-Lago
Feb 17, 2021
Rethinking immigration
Feb 12, 2021
What's happening with the stimulus?
Feb 10, 2021
The future of remote work
Feb 05, 2021
Where are the vaccines?
Feb 03, 2021
Filibusted
Jan 29, 2021
Biden's immigration shuffle
Jan 27, 2021
Freedom from markets
Jan 22, 2021
Biden's rescue plan
Jan 20, 2021
The Next Four Years: Fighting tech monopolies
Jan 15, 2021
Will the GOP be Q-pilled or Coup-pilled?
Jan 13, 2021
Unemployment Insurance in the pandemic, and beyond
Jan 08, 2021
America's vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm
Jan 06, 2021
Best of: Homelessness and how to fix it
Dec 22, 2020
The Next Four Years: Beyond the student debt debate
Dec 18, 2020
Build Back Exactly The Same
Dec 15, 2020
The Next Four Years: An optimistic climate agenda
Dec 11, 2020
The blob is back
Dec 08, 2020
The Next Four Years: The Covid transition
Dec 04, 2020
The job nobody wants
Dec 01, 2020
The post-election economy
Nov 24, 2020
The Next Four Years: Joe Biden’s world
Nov 20, 2020
Georgia on my mind
Nov 17, 2020
The Next Four Years: How to make a Biden Boom
Nov 13, 2020
The never ending election story
Nov 10, 2020
Democracy lost
Nov 06, 2020
Election Day Special
Nov 03, 2020
Lessons learned from Trump’s first term
Oct 30, 2020
Biden’s border options
Oct 27, 2020
Trump’s last stand
Oct 23, 2020
Trump's second term agenda
Oct 20, 2020
Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble
Oct 17, 2020
Email scandals are back!
Oct 16, 2020
What is critical race theory, anyway?
Oct 13, 2020
By the People: The Supreme Court's war on democracy
Oct 10, 2020
The stimulus standoff
Oct 09, 2020
On biracial identity (with Thomas Chatterton Williams)
Oct 06, 2020
By the People: Blame the Constitution
Oct 03, 2020
Fighting back against factory farming
Oct 02, 2020
A dark, dangerous debate
Sep 30, 2020
By the People: How to make sure your vote is counted
Sep 26, 2020
Dianne Feinstein, please listen to this episode!
Sep 25, 2020
After RBG
Sep 22, 2020
By the People: How to rig an election
Sep 19, 2020
One Billion Americans
Sep 18, 2020
How Trump closed the border
Sep 15, 2020
The definitive case against the filibuster
Sep 11, 2020
Steal this podcast
Sep 08, 2020
LAW AND ORDER
Sep 04, 2020
Trump sells out
Sep 01, 2020
The Trump Show
Aug 28, 2020
The Cut: Optimism
Aug 26, 2020
Trump's peddling a fake Covid-19 cure
Aug 25, 2020
Democratic convention special
Aug 21, 2020
WTF is happening with USPS
Aug 18, 2020
What the hell is the Republican party doing?
Aug 14, 2020
What is the economy, stupid?
Aug 11, 2020
Veepstakes
Aug 07, 2020
The stimulus standoff
Aug 04, 2020
The Great Awokening
Jul 31, 2020
Trafficking, and trafficking panics
Jul 28, 2020
The evidence on crime and policing
Jul 24, 2020
Bad for the Jews?
Jul 21, 2020
Biden reloaded
Jul 17, 2020
School’s out for Covid
Jul 14, 2020
The Covid resurgence
Jul 10, 2020
Contagious enthusiasm
Jul 07, 2020
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Jul 03, 2020
The war on bad statues
Jun 30, 2020
The Veepstakes
Jun 26, 2020
Talking about talking
Jun 23, 2020
The legal doctrine that protects brutal policing
Jun 19, 2020
Fixing the police
Jun 16, 2020
America gives up on Covid-19
Jun 12, 2020
After George Floyd
Jun 09, 2020
Defund the police?
Jun 05, 2020
The global class war
Jun 02, 2020
Tweeting through it
May 29, 2020
Joe Biden ain't black
May 26, 2020
The stimulus failure
May 22, 2020
Actual enumeration
May 19, 2020
The psychology of opening up
May 15, 2020
Will the economy bounce back?
May 12, 2020
Reopening without a plan
May 08, 2020
How to win elections
May 05, 2020
Are Democrats getting rolled?
May 01, 2020
A faster Covid-19 vaccine
Apr 28, 2020
Who models the modelers?
Apr 24, 2020
Opening up
Apr 21, 2020
Help is on the way (sort of)
Apr 17, 2020
The corporate bailout watchdog
Apr 14, 2020
How does this end?
Apr 10, 2020
Covid-19 and the border
Apr 07, 2020
Coronavirus meets health reform
Apr 03, 2020
The mask fiasco
Mar 31, 2020
When $2 trillion isn’t enough
Mar 27, 2020
Fighting coronavirus with corporate conscription
Mar 24, 2020
The story of Trump's swamp
Mar 21, 2020
Devaluing black assets
Mar 20, 2020
Rescuing the economy from coronavirus
Mar 17, 2020
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
Mar 14, 2020
Meet the YIMBYs
Mar 13, 2020
Mayor Pete and the state of LGBTQ politics
Mar 10, 2020
A "titan" of social conservatism on the courts and his battles ahead
Mar 07, 2020
Behind the Covid-19 curve
Mar 06, 2020
Coronavirus 101
Mar 03, 2020
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Feb 29, 2020
Going nuclear
Feb 28, 2020
Black voters take the stage
Feb 25, 2020
The year of housing reform
Feb 21, 2020
Mike can get what done?
Feb 18, 2020
Private equity, explained
Feb 14, 2020
After asylum
Feb 11, 2020
How we pick a president
Feb 07, 2020
Iowapocalypse Now
Feb 04, 2020
Fix recessions by giving people money
Jan 31, 2020
A conversation about anti-Semitism
Jan 28, 2020
The road to polarization
Jan 24, 2020
Green New Germany
Jan 22, 2020
Three roads to universal coverage
Jan 21, 2020
The way forward on family leave
Jan 17, 2020
Ezra and Matt debate the debaters
Jan 15, 2020
Mission Accomplished?
Jan 14, 2020
Why are we fighting Iran?
Jan 10, 2020
Midichlorian chili
Jan 07, 2020
Neighborhood Defenders
Jan 03, 2020
2019 in review
Dec 31, 2019
The next abortion debate
Dec 27, 2019
No room at the inn (live!)
Dec 24, 2019
Wine cave cage match
Dec 20, 2019
Primary mooples
Dec 17, 2019
Policy by other means
Dec 13, 2019
The free college debate
Dec 10, 2019
Movement building in the Trump era
Dec 06, 2019
You say "usmca," I say "U-S-M-C-A"
Dec 03, 2019
Build housing near transit
Nov 29, 2019
Impeachment's policy roots
Nov 26, 2019
Single-payer federalism
Nov 22, 2019
Groypers vs. Conservatism Inc.
Nov 19, 2019
The case for subsidized jobs
Nov 15, 2019
Introducing Reset
Nov 13, 2019
The billionaire backlash
Nov 12, 2019
The internet we lost
Nov 08, 2019
Paying for single-payer
Nov 05, 2019
Beyond the leaky bucket
Nov 01, 2019
The fall of Katie Hill
Oct 29, 2019
The scary truth about air pollution
Oct 25, 2019
The electability debate
Oct 22, 2019
The four words that will decide impeachment
Oct 19, 2019
Debating the robot takeover
Oct 16, 2019
Understanding the student debt crisis
Oct 15, 2019
Progressives' Supreme Court problem
Oct 11, 2019
Mayor Pete explains his prescription drug plan
Oct 09, 2019
What to expect when you’re impeaching
Oct 08, 2019
Homelessness and how to fix it
Oct 04, 2019
Trump's war on the homeless
Oct 01, 2019
America's missing babies
Sep 27, 2019
The Kiev Caper
Sep 24, 2019
Did economists break America?
Sep 20, 2019
Out of sight, out of mind
Sep 17, 2019
ABCDebate
Sep 13, 2019
50 shades of Green New Deal
Sep 13, 2019
A plan to revive American unions
Sep 10, 2019
The left’s path to power
Sep 06, 2019
Trump's primary challengers
Sep 03, 2019
The case for foreign policy restraint
Aug 30, 2019
Trump's latest trade war
Aug 27, 2019
Does America need trade deals?
Aug 23, 2019
Slavery and its legacy
Aug 20, 2019
Trump's war on Medicaid
Aug 16, 2019
Epstein conspiracy time
Aug 13, 2019
The case for a Green New Deal
Aug 09, 2019
Domestic terrorism after El Paso
Aug 06, 2019
The second Democratic debate
Aug 02, 2019
The many mysteries of Jeffrey Epstein
Jul 30, 2019
Dysfunctional federalism
Jul 26, 2019
Go back to Cincinnati
Jul 23, 2019
Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel
Jul 19, 2019
Space Force all the way!
Jul 16, 2019
School’s out for summer
Jul 12, 2019
Ask Weeds Anything
Jul 09, 2019
A progressive case for globalism
Jul 05, 2019
Democracy's week in court
Jul 02, 2019
Debate Weeds: Ezra and Matt on the long-awaited Democratic presidential debate
Jun 28, 2019
What’s really going on with child detention?
Jun 25, 2019
What’s really happening in Central America
Jun 21, 2019
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
Jun 19, 2019
The “illiberal” right
Jun 18, 2019
5 big ideas to use tax credits to fight poverty
Jun 14, 2019
Into the weeds with Elizabeth Warren
Jun 11, 2019
A user's guide to antitrust
Jun 07, 2019
Trump’s tariff triple option
Jun 04, 2019
Monetary mysteries revealed
May 31, 2019
Building the Trump state
May 28, 2019
Rethinking education reform
May 24, 2019
The loneliness of Justin Amash
May 21, 2019
America's two housing crises
May 17, 2019
Make America 2015 Again
May 14, 2019
Green New Weeds
May 10, 2019
Sarah's Last Stand
May 07, 2019
Mexico: America's waiting room
May 03, 2019
Incels and bullshitters
Apr 30, 2019
Was The Weeds on the wrong side of history?
Apr 26, 2019
What to obstruct when you’re obstructing
Apr 23, 2019
Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]
Apr 18, 2019
Trump Family (Tax) Values
Apr 16, 2019
How Canada got Medicare-for-all done
Apr 12, 2019
The Purge: DHS
Apr 09, 2019
Attack of the clone bills
Apr 05, 2019
Learning from Norway's lesbian mothers
Apr 02, 2019
Infrastructure Week (and Farm Week and Teacher Week)
Mar 29, 2019
Mueller's investigation is over. Obamacare repeal isn't.
Mar 26, 2019
Should presidential candidates get into the weeds?
Mar 22, 2019
The reparations primary
Mar 19, 2019
Live Weeds with Julián Castro
Mar 15, 2019
Introducing Switched on Pop
Mar 13, 2019
Live Weeds with Pete Buttigieg
Mar 12, 2019
The long con
Mar 08, 2019
But seriously, how are you going to pay for it?
Mar 05, 2019
The Weeds fixes racism
Mar 01, 2019
Amy Klobuchar and the Jill Robinson effect
Feb 26, 2019
Day care for all!
Feb 22, 2019
Collusion and the Mueller endgame
Feb 19, 2019
Emergency Weeds
Feb 15, 2019
What’s the best way to help the poor?
Feb 12, 2019
WTF, VA?
Feb 08, 2019
Do we need private insurance?
Feb 05, 2019
House Democrats’ plan to save democracy
Feb 01, 2019
Elizabeth Warren and the Two-Income Trap
Jan 29, 2019
The end of the shutdown
Jan 25, 2019
Investigating ER bills and SNAP fraud
Jan 22, 2019
You can't eat your principles for dinner
Jan 18, 2019
Taxing the rich
Jan 15, 2019
Tucker Carlson vs the free market
Jan 11, 2019
Ask Weeds Anything
Jan 08, 2019
New year, no government
Jan 04, 2019
Classic Weeds: The great white panic
Jan 01, 2019
The Weeds Year-End Spectacular
Dec 28, 2018
Congress actually did something important
Dec 21, 2018
Bernie and Biden and Beto, oh my!
Dec 18, 2018
A big, beautiful podcast about the border wall
Dec 14, 2018
A Weeds farewell to Paul Ryan
Dec 11, 2018
Pod Save the US-Saudi alliance?
Dec 07, 2018
Midwest Republicans lost in 2018 — but they’re not giving up power
Dec 04, 2018
Mexico was the wall all along
Nov 30, 2018
The many flavors of Medicare-for-all
Nov 27, 2018
The Impact: How do you make education funding fair?
Nov 23, 2018
The future of conservatism is being forged in California
Nov 20, 2018
Facebook is bad, please join our Facebook group
Nov 16, 2018
Jeff Sessions is gone but not forgotten
Nov 09, 2018
About last night
Nov 07, 2018
Seattle’s plan to save democracy
Nov 06, 2018
Bad for the Jews
Nov 02, 2018
Operation Win the Midterms
Oct 31, 2018
Republicans’ health care message: Lie a lot
Oct 30, 2018
Our elections are being hacked
Oct 26, 2018
What's next for House Democrats?
Oct 24, 2018
Cory Booker’s plan to close the racial wealth gap
Oct 23, 2018
Trump versus the Caravan
Oct 19, 2018
Republicans run everything, and they’re mad as hell
Oct 17, 2018
America’s moral failure on climate
Oct 16, 2018
I’mma let you finish
Oct 12, 2018
As tough as Texas
Oct 10, 2018
The craziest Obamacare lawsuit yet
Oct 09, 2018
Alexa, raise the minimum wage
Oct 05, 2018
When women run
Oct 03, 2018
Death to NAFTA! Long live USMCA!
Oct 02, 2018
Do Republicans even care if Kavanaugh is guilty?
Sep 28, 2018
What Sarah learned on parental leave
Sep 25, 2018
What could stop the next Botham Jean?
Sep 21, 2018
#MeToo goes to the Supreme Court
Sep 18, 2018
Can Elon Musk save Tesla from himself?
Sep 14, 2018
I am the Resistance inside The Weeds podcast
Sep 11, 2018
Colin Kaepernick, the most important election issue in the world
Sep 07, 2018
What’s at stake in the midterms
Sep 04, 2018
America picked a lousy time to turn its back on refugees
Aug 31, 2018
John McCain vs. the idea of John McCain
Aug 28, 2018
The art of the squeal
Aug 24, 2018
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save/destroy capitalism
Aug 21, 2018
We’re not gonna pay rent
Aug 17, 2018
Lordy, Omarosa has tapes
Aug 14, 2018
#FakeScience
Aug 10, 2018
The Great Twitter Wars of 2018
Aug 07, 2018
Paul Manafort, alleged ostrich-collar criminal
Aug 03, 2018
The great white panic
Jul 31, 2018
“Mission Accomplished,” trade war edition
Jul 27, 2018
What Republicans can do on Trump and Russia
Jul 24, 2018
It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America
Jul 20, 2018
There’s collusion, and then there’s collusion
Jul 17, 2018
Republicans' plan for health care: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jul 13, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court
Jul 10, 2018
1,2,3,4 Trump declares a trade war
Jul 06, 2018
Family detention is the new family separation
Jul 03, 2018
America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice
Jun 29, 2018
With borders wide open
Jun 26, 2018
The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court
Jun 22, 2018
Which children matter?
Jun 19, 2018
Ask Weeds Anything...Again!
Jun 15, 2018
Why 12-step programs work — and family separation doesn’t
Jun 12, 2018
Can we get tough on rapists without being “tough on crime”?
Jun 08, 2018
Cake Wars, Supreme Court edition
Jun 05, 2018
Trump isn’t losing immigrant kids, but he is taking them from their parents
Jun 01, 2018
The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explained
May 29, 2018
Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)
May 22, 2018
Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web
May 18, 2018
Drugs! (But not the fun kind)
May 15, 2018
The many scandals of Michael Cohen
May 11, 2018
Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?
May 08, 2018
Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?
May 04, 2018
What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?
May 01, 2018
Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained
Apr 27, 2018
Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)
Apr 24, 2018
Boiling the frogs of war
Apr 20, 2018
Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military
Apr 17, 2018
All 👏 payer 👏 rate 👏 setting 👏
Apr 13, 2018
The imprudent Scott Pruitt
Apr 10, 2018
Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news
Apr 06, 2018
Is Donald Trump ruining the Census?
Apr 03, 2018
The optimistic take is things have always been bad (Worldly crossover)
Mar 30, 2018
Is Facebook bad?
Mar 27, 2018
Cambridge Analytica: Scandal, hype, or both?
Mar 23, 2018
The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?
Mar 20, 2018
Abolish ICE
Mar 16, 2018
Trigger warning: Discussion of White House chaos and political correctness
Mar 13, 2018
Nickname fights and wildcat strikes
Mar 09, 2018
Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks
Mar 06, 2018
Guns, Weeds, and Steel
Mar 02, 2018
Medicare for Many More
Feb 27, 2018
The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard
Feb 23, 2018
It's finally infrastructure week
Feb 20, 2018
DACApocalypse in the Senate
Feb 16, 2018
The gender pay gap is mostly about children
Feb 13, 2018
The six-hour shutdown, explained
Feb 09, 2018
What's up with Amazon's health venture — and the stock market
Feb 06, 2018
MS-13, explained
Feb 02, 2018
The state of our podcast is strong
Jan 31, 2018
The white genocide episode you’ve been waiting for
Jan 26, 2018
Shutdown deal special
Jan 22, 2018
The Shutdown Special
Jan 19, 2018
No one wants to take responsibility for sick kids or fake news
Jan 16, 2018
Shithole special
Jan 12, 2018
Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time
Jan 09, 2018
Winter, explained
Jan 05, 2018
Why is US life expectancy falling?
Jan 02, 2018
The most undercovered policy stories of 2017
Dec 29, 2017
Ask Weeds Anything!
Dec 22, 2017
Tax reforms and garbage factories
Dec 19, 2017
The Great Awokening comes to Congress
Dec 15, 2017
Alabama senate special
Dec 13, 2017
Is the FBI good now?
Dec 08, 2017
Net neutrality, explained (Also! Why CVS is buying Aetna)
Dec 05, 2017
How the GOP is weaponizing the tax code
Dec 01, 2017
Five big problems with the GOP tax plan
Nov 28, 2017
A very Weeds Thanksgiving
Nov 21, 2017
Tax reform special
Nov 17, 2017
Republicans’ Roy Moore problem
Nov 14, 2017
Virginia is for Democrats
Nov 10, 2017
The vaunted, versatile VAT
Nov 07, 2017
The tax bill's winners and many, many losers
Nov 03, 2017
Indictment special! Plus: is Paul Ryan cowardly or courageous?
Oct 31, 2017
Purge 3: The Bannoning
Oct 27, 2017
Republicans: "Math" means you have to cut taxes on the rich. Weeds: Nope.
Oct 24, 2017
How immigration took over Virginia’s governor race
Oct 20, 2017
The Impact: The curious case of the $629 Band Aid
Oct 18, 2017
How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?
Oct 17, 2017
Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse
Oct 13, 2017
CHIPping away at gerrymandering
Oct 10, 2017
Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform
Oct 06, 2017
Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?
Oct 03, 2017
The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response
Sep 29, 2017
What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?
Sep 26, 2017
Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment
Sep 22, 2017
The worst GOP healthcare bill yet
Sep 20, 2017
White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos
Sep 15, 2017
BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI
Sep 13, 2017
Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and roll
Sep 08, 2017
Trump's art of the sabotage
Sep 06, 2017
Deferred action podcasting
Sep 01, 2017
The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster
Aug 30, 2017
Donald Trump vs the congressional GOP
Aug 25, 2017
How the rich ate all the growth
Aug 23, 2017
Statue limitations
Aug 18, 2017
A very meritorious podcast
Aug 16, 2017
Can John Kelly fix the Trump administration? Can anyone?
Aug 11, 2017
Is Google in an "ideological echo chamber"?
Aug 09, 2017
The bacon fat theory of school segregation, and some White House chaos
Aug 02, 2017
ACA repeal is finally dead (maybe)
Jul 28, 2017
Skinny repeal and Trump's management by tweet
Jul 26, 2017
A deep dive on basic income
Jul 21, 2017
At last, a Weeds about weed (also Obamacare)
Jul 19, 2017
McConnellCare II: Cruz Control
Jul 14, 2017
Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)
Jul 12, 2017
Understanding the opioid epidemic
Jul 07, 2017
Trumpism and travel bans
Jul 05, 2017
Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to write a budget
Jun 30, 2017
CB--Oh no this health care bill is terrible too
Jun 28, 2017
Senate Republicans' health care idea: Make the poor pay more for less
Jun 23, 2017
Georgia (and Obamacare repeal) on our minds
Jun 21, 2017
Trump’s “buck stops somewhere else” foreign policy
Jun 16, 2017
Legends of the secret health care bill
Jun 14, 2017
Infrastructure week (jk it's about Comey)
Jun 09, 2017
Meet Sprinklecare
Jun 08, 2017
Jared Kushner: International man of mystery
Jun 02, 2017
A platinum get out of jail free card
May 31, 2017
Weeds in the Wild: Tennessee's Healthcare Bald Spot
May 29, 2017
CB--Oh, this bill stinks
May 26, 2017
Trump's budget has landed, and it's terrible
May 24, 2017
All the Trump scandal drama you've been craving
May 19, 2017
Trump chaos, UBI, and the fracking baby boom
May 17, 2017
Weeds in the Wild: Free Money... For Everyone!
May 12, 2017
The wall in our hearts
May 10, 2017
AHCApocalypse III
May 05, 2017
High-Risk Podcasting
May 03, 2017
AHCApocalypse II
Apr 28, 2017
French elections, national service, and Queens at war
Apr 26, 2017
Weeds Live!
Apr 19, 2017
Weeds in the Wild: Meet Joan, the Robotic Pelvis
Apr 14, 2017
The World's Worst Club
Apr 12, 2017
Nuclear Winter
Apr 05, 2017
A cheery discussion of global warming, Obamacare repeal, and death
Mar 31, 2017
Weeds in the Wild: Postville
Mar 24, 2017
Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers
Mar 21, 2017
CB-uh oh!
Mar 15, 2017
AHCApalooza
Mar 08, 2017
Don't Call It a State of the Union
Mar 01, 2017
Death Panel If You Do, Death Panel If You Don't
Feb 22, 2017
Weeds in the Wild: Sarah Goes to Kentucky
Feb 17, 2017
Privet, Amerika!
Feb 15, 2017
The Time Traveling Emanuel Brothers
Feb 09, 2017
SCOTUS, DBCFT, and Hitler's Highways
Feb 01, 2017
The Don't-Call-It-A-Muslim-Ban
Jan 30, 2017
Gag Order and Infrastructure
Jan 26, 2017
Inauguration Special
Jan 21, 2017
DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats
Jan 18, 2017
Trump Cabinet, Obamacare Update, and Heroin
Jan 10, 2017
Sarah and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
Jan 06, 2017
Happy New Year
Jan 04, 2017
Year-End Spectacular
Dec 28, 2016
Kentucky, the Rust Belt, and the Big Picture on Trade
Dec 21, 2016
Russia and the American Dream
Dec 14, 2016
Trump's Surprisingly Ambitious Education Agenda
Dec 07, 2016
Assessing the Trump Cabinet — and Exploring How Recessions Affect Health
Nov 30, 2016
Conflicts of Interest, Trump and the Media, and Rethinking Teen Pregnancy
Nov 23, 2016
Sneak peak: a new Vox podcast, about how policy effects real people
Nov 21, 2016
The Trump Agenda
Nov 16, 2016
Trumpocalypse Now
Nov 09, 2016
The Massive Policy Stakes of 2016
Nov 04, 2016
Is Obamacare Failing?
Oct 26, 2016
Final Debate Special
Oct 20, 2016
Second Presidential Debate Special
Oct 10, 2016
Veep Debate and Cranky Judges
Oct 05, 2016
The First Debate and Pet Health Care
Sep 29, 2016
An Interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell
Sep 21, 2016
Best Census Ever, the Trump Foundation, and Class Discrimination
Sep 14, 2016
Gender Wage Gap and the Mystery of State Legislatures
Sep 08, 2016
EpiPen Prices, the Clinton Foundation, and Lead Exposure
Aug 31, 2016
Obamacare Update and Aging America
Aug 24, 2016
Think Tanks, Transition, and What Drives Trumpkins
Aug 18, 2016
Trump's tax plan, democratic legitimacy, and the Freakonomics of decisionmaking
Aug 12, 2016
Interview with Atul Gawande
Aug 03, 2016
DNC-Palooza
Jul 28, 2016
Republican Convention Special
Jul 22, 2016
Basic Income and Police Shootings
Jul 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
Jul 14, 2016
Free College, Email Extravaganza, and the China Shock
Jul 08, 2016
Brexit 2, SCOTUS on abortion, and the missing male workers
Jul 01, 2016
Welfare reform, SCOTUS deadlock, and health care jerk
Jun 25, 2016
Guns, Brexit, and Free Condoms
Jun 17, 2016
5uper Tue5day
Jun 10, 2016
Accountable Care Organizations, more Swedish administrative data, and the big city recovery
Jun 03, 2016
Health care innovation, did Dems rig the primary, and fetal stress
May 27, 2016
90s nostalgia, Obamacare lawsuits, and the truth about abortion
May 20, 2016
Competition in Obamacare marketplaces and how low-income housing can boost poor neighborhoods
May 13, 2016
Trump is the Republican nominee. What happens next?
May 06, 2016
Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
May 02, 2016
Land value taxes, soda taxes, and carbon taxes — oh my!
Apr 29, 2016
Our undemocratic primaries, Obama's new fiduciary rule, and the challenge of information polarization
Apr 22, 2016
Interview with Jason Furman
Apr 18, 2016
Why inequality matters, Trump's delegate problem, and the geography of life expectancy
Apr 15, 2016
What the hell is going on with tax havens, explained
Apr 08, 2016
A medical struggle to digitize, a tax calculator, and a paper that explains Trump
Apr 01, 2016
Replacing No Child Left Behind, wonky March Madness, and Uber's productivity
Mar 25, 2016
Super(b) Tuesday special
Mar 16, 2016
The productivity slowdown, TrumpCare, and better textbooks
Mar 11, 2016
Super Tuesday/Exhausted Wednesday special!
Mar 02, 2016
TPP, the Nevada Caucus, and the Great Texas Abortion clinic shutdown.
Feb 26, 2016
The Supreme Court vacancy and the possible collapse of American democracy
Feb 19, 2016
Could more corruption fix American politics?
Feb 12, 2016
The Iowa Caucuses
Feb 02, 2016
Will taxing the rich hurt growth – and will third parties save politics?
Jan 29, 2016
Ross Douthat on campus conservatism, being thankful for Donald Trump, and how to write so liberals will read you
Jan 26, 2016
Campaign finance and global inequality — with lead poisoning in between
Jan 22, 2016
Obama's Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare's jobs impact
Jan 15, 2016
Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed stand-off in between
Jan 08, 2016
Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts
Dec 25, 2015
Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters
Dec 18, 2015
Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke
Dec 15, 2015
Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate
Dec 11, 2015
Dietary fat and climate change
Dec 04, 2015
Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between
Nov 20, 2015
We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?
Nov 13, 2015
How politics is making us stupid
Nov 06, 2015
Are we counting poverty all wrong?
Oct 30, 2015
Want to fix inequality by taxing the rich? Good luck.
Oct 23, 2015
The Weeds: Can the government trick you into dieting?
Oct 16, 2015
Arthur Brooks on think tanks, happiness, and management
Oct 15, 2015
Would single payer health care work in America?
Oct 09, 2015
Ezra, Matt and Sarah Try to Podcast
Oct 02, 2015