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Explain It to Me — 808 episodes

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1

Chems in your cosmetics

2

The cost of “I do”

3

Burnout sandwich

E
4

How to fight burnout

5

Why you have to be optimistic

6

Can someone explain these prices?

7

Your accent… explained

8

The book of Mormon influence

9

Sugar crash

10

Your clutter is holding you back

11

You, me, and ADHD

12

Make credit cards work for you

13

No one will save us but ourselves

14

Living in a winter bummerland

15

Surviving online cringe

E
16

Battling brain rot

E
17

Sexy TV is back

E
18

Why everyone is sick right now

19

Internet bad

E
20

Is your brain lying to you?

E
21

Let AI replace you

22

The rise of the introverts

23

Talk turkey to me

24

The case for renting forever

25

Why your health insurance is so expensive

E
26

That text is a scam

27

Paging Dr. ChatBot

E
28

Why (some) food tastes better abroad

E
29

Should we give toddlers phones?

30

Is empathy toxic?

31

Who is the modern American dad?

32

A nation of jerks

33

Why horror kills at the box office

E
34

The United States is Southern now

35

The golden age of exercise

E
36

Hacking our health

E
37

What wellness costs us

38

America’s high-speed rail fail

E
39

Is tipping fair?

40

The summer I turned into a bookworm

41

Chat BFF

E
42

Our complicated relationship with the flag

E
43

Can we ever know our dogs?

44

Sleepaway camp's nostalgia economy

45

Let's fight over bike lanes

46

The recession indicator game

E
47

How Gen Z found religion

48

Why are my allergies getting worse?

49

The drama and trauma of 23andMe

50

Why is personal style so hard?

E
51

Retire? In this economy?!

52

Is climate progress doomed?

53

What if college isn't for everyone?

54

Is a house still a good investment?

55

Explain It to Me can be ad-free!

56

Blinded by the headlights

57

Gen Sex

58

Did diversity ever work...at work?

59

Why does dating suck for guys?

60

Ok for real, what is a REAL ID?

61

We’ve got some news for you!

62

Why can't I sleep?

63

Should I freeze my eggs?

64

We have some questions for you

65

Is flying ethical?

66

Why can I make a citizen's arrest?

67

Should I buy antibacterial soap?

68

Is cuffing season real?

69

Bite-sized questions

70

Why is it so hard to make new friends?

71

Could ranked choice voting fix our elections?

72

Why can’t I tell my left from my right?

73

What just happened, and what comes next

74

It’s election week. Ask us anything.

75

Why can I buy Halloween candy that would be banned in other countries?

76

Why do I keep getting these weird fundraising texts?

77

Will the world end before I can retire?

78

My parents divorced. Will I?

E
79

Is it okay to go to the zoo?

80

Why do I say “like” so much?

81

Is my dentist scamming me?

82

Introducing Explain It to Me

83

Our next chapter

84

How we Got Milk

85

Those pesky delivery fees

86

Panic! At The Drugstore

87

A new era of cannabis research

88

Are baby bonds a good investment?

89

Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?

90

Is homelessness a crime?

91

Abortion and the erosion of privacy

92

What is “fetal personhood”?

93

A safety net’s poverty trap

94

Let’s fix child care together

95

Bringing back the SAT

96

The AI election

97

The case for banning...millionaires?

98

How racism ages Black people

99

Skipping the broom

100

Eviction: the scarlet E

101

Let’s fix retirement together

102

How to be a (realistic) climate optimist

103

How celebrity fandom explains Trump

E
104

Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard

105

Are unions making a comeback?

E
106

Why are so many kids missing school?

107

Can Black churches lead the way on teen mental health?

108

The Devil wears fast fashion

109

Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet

110

Why everything is (still) so expensive

111

BDS and the history of the boycott

112

Will school choice change the future of education?

113

The sandwich generation: Caring for kids and seniors

114

Why your health insurance is tied to work

115

Conservative socialism?

116

How (not) to budget

117

NYC’s not-so-sudden migrant surge

118

What’s up, doc(ket)?

119

Who protects workers from extreme heat?

120

Why isn’t school lunch free?

121

Trump’s RICO problem

122

Biden messed with Texas

123

Biden wants YOU (to go to therapy)

124

A new era for birth control

125

Who broke student loans?

126

Expecting: Weed and Pregnancy

127

It's an HOA world; you're just living in it

128

The Republican plot to defund public libraries

129

A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

130

We need to rethink discipline in schools

131

The kids suing their state for climate change

132

The fate of affirmative action

133

Why is child labor making a comeback?

134

The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained

135

Policymaking on the high seas

136

How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s roads safer

137

Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval process, explained

138

How corporations got all your data

139

Do assault weapons bans work?

140

Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”

141

Why Illinois wants to end cash bail

142

The debt ceiling drama

143

What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry

144

How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything

145

Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?

146

The Ukraine war: past, present, and future

147

$14 trillion and no mules

148

The Biden policy that could change your neighborhood

149

Insulin is for the world

150

Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act

151

Reintroducing The Weeds

152

The great American gerrymander

E
153

The scourge of the “time tax”

154

Climate optimism in 2023

155

Our mental health doom loop

156

The bipartisan bill that could protect elections

E
157

The rebirth of industrial policy

158

It’s time to regulate crypto

E
159

The Weeds’ weed episode

E
160

How to call an election

161

How to fix inflation

162

Why scaring voters works

163

The most interesting issues on the ballot

164

The candidates haunting the GOP

165

AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM

166

Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?

167

The fastest growing voting bloc in America

168

Who decides how we’ll save the future?

169

Vitamin X

170

It’s a policy team takeover!

171

The rebirth of industrial policy

E
172

Could the war on terror be over?

173

The new politics of abortion

174

Maybe we’re not doomed?

E
175

Weeds Time Machine: The ADA

176

What the hell is up with SCOTUS?

E
177

The legal limbo of abortion rights

178

Pregnancy in a post-Roe America

179

ConGRADulations, fellow kids

180

How the world became rich

181

Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?

182

The gun control stalemate, explained

183

The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia

184

Immigration, democracy, and the rise of the Western far right

185

The scourge of the “time tax”

186

Ukraine and the global food supply crisis

187

What the Alito leak means for Roe — and everything else

E
188

The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade

E
189

Why do we go to war?

190

Weeds Time Machine: The Clean Air Act

191

Tax time at the culture wars

192

Taxes! Let’s get right Intuit.

193

The Great Expiration

194

The art of the gerrymander

195

The myth of US energy independence

196

Why it’s so hard to move in America

197

Russia's terrible invasion

198

A quick update

199

Why San Francisco’s school board got booted

200

Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem

201

The curse of the midterms

202

Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics

203

Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?

204

It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.

205

Think of the children

206

Unions!

207

What happens to voting rights now?

208

Are corporations winning at inflation?

209

What BBB means for climate policy

210

How the 1918 flu pandemic ended

211

The case for more babies

212

The building blocks of radicalization

213

Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?

214

Best Of: The coming climate exodus

215

America’s Public Health Experiment: Federal failures

E
216

America's Public Health Experiment: More checks, less politics

217

Can school be normal again?

E
218

America’s Public Health Experiment: The agencies Covid broke

E
219

Learning to love rent control

220

America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure

221

Defund the police?

222

Biden’s $3.40 a gallon problem

223

Taxing Back Better

224

How does the pandemic end?

225

Reshaping America’s cities

226

Pass the SALT?

227

The Most Dangerous Branch: Covid-19 v. The Constitution

228

Is Facebook really that bad?

229

Housing policy, but make it British

230

The case for and against open borders

231

The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia

232

Is inflation out of control?

233

The home care fight in Congress

234

The coming climate exodus

235

The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade

236

Yes, vaccine mandates work

237

How genes impact your life

238

The debt ceiling’s threat to America

239

AMA time with Dylan, German, and Jerusalem

240

Means testing our patience

241

Ezra, Matt, and Sarah Try (Again) to Podcast

242

The Weeds Will Live Forever

243

The Federal Reserve's regulatory issues

244

The Federal Reserve: Climate Change edition

245

Who's afraid of a big bad poll?

246

Galaxy Brain Recession

247

Afghan refugees face an uncertain future

248

Boosters: Worth it or not, here they come

249

Baby making vibes

250

Back to School: Masters mishaps

251

Reign of Terror

252

Back to School: Learning loss

253

Dare to speak freely

254

Back to School: All for pre-K, and pre-K for all

255

Getting power to the people

256

Time Machine: Buchanan v. Warley (1917)

257

Prices on the rise

258

Time Machine: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

259

The critical race theory debate

260

Time Machine: Volcker Shock

261

Cruelty: the point

262

Time Machine: No Child Left Behind

263

Coming attractions

264

Who started Covid?

265

So, for the next pandemic....

266

What's the deal with that new Alzheimer's drug?

267

Zoning our way through it

268

Hot jobs summer

269

The pipeline to prison

270

The lab-leak hypothesis

271

Stephen Breyer should retire

272

Give more money to cranks!

273

Research the police

274

Masks off! Party time?

275

The plan for more free school

276

Homelessness and the rising tide

277

The app store war

278

The "hundred days" myth

279

There's lead in your turmeric

280

A Manchin for all seasons

281

Why transit projects fail

282

The pandemic playbook

283

Think like a scout

E
284

White paper-palooza

285

It's time for class warfare

286

Bidencare?

287

The politics of cultural criticism

288

All circuits matter

289

The optimistic leftist

290

Is gun violence fixable?

291

All about inflation

292

Asylum policy for the here and now

293

Introducing Unexplainable

294

An A.I. wrote this title

295

The right to vote, constrained

296

Facebook's shadow court

297

How to destroy the suburbs

298

All organizing is local

299

Covid-$1.9T

300

The problem of child care

301

The Antipope in Mar-a-Lago

302

Rethinking immigration

303

What's happening with the stimulus?

304

The future of remote work

305

Where are the vaccines?

306

Filibusted

307

Biden's immigration shuffle

308

Freedom from markets

309

Biden's rescue plan

310

The Next Four Years: Fighting tech monopolies

311

Will the GOP be Q-pilled or Coup-pilled?

E
312

Unemployment Insurance in the pandemic, and beyond

313

America's vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm

314

Best of: Homelessness and how to fix it

315

The Next Four Years: Beyond the student debt debate

316

Build Back Exactly The Same

317

The Next Four Years: An optimistic climate agenda

318

The blob is back

319

The Next Four Years: The Covid transition

320

The job nobody wants

321

The post-election economy

322

The Next Four Years: Joe Biden’s world

323

Georgia on my mind

324

The Next Four Years: How to make a Biden Boom

325

The never ending election story

326

Democracy lost

327

Election Day Special

328

Lessons learned from Trump’s first term

329

Biden’s border options

330

Trump’s last stand

331

Trump's second term agenda

332

Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble

333

Email scandals are back!

334

What is critical race theory, anyway?

335

By the People: The Supreme Court's war on democracy

336

The stimulus standoff

337

On biracial identity (with Thomas Chatterton Williams)

338

By the People: Blame the Constitution

339

Fighting back against factory farming

340

A dark, dangerous debate

341

By the People: How to make sure your vote is counted

342

Dianne Feinstein, please listen to this episode!

343

After RBG

344

By the People: How to rig an election

345

One Billion Americans

346

How Trump closed the border

347

The definitive case against the filibuster

348

Steal this podcast

349

LAW AND ORDER

350

Trump sells out

351

The Trump Show

352

The Cut: Optimism

353

Trump's peddling a fake Covid-19 cure

354

Democratic convention special

355

WTF is happening with USPS

356

What the hell is the Republican party doing?

357

What is the economy, stupid?

358

Veepstakes

359

The stimulus standoff

360

The Great Awokening

361

Trafficking, and trafficking panics

362

The evidence on crime and policing

363

Bad for the Jews?

364

Biden reloaded

365

School’s out for Covid

366

The Covid resurgence

367

Contagious enthusiasm

368

Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect

369

The war on bad statues

370

The Veepstakes

371

Talking about talking

372

The legal doctrine that protects brutal policing

373

Fixing the police

374

America gives up on Covid-19

375

After George Floyd

376

Defund the police?

377

The global class war

378

Tweeting through it

379

Joe Biden ain't black

380

The stimulus failure

381

Actual enumeration

382

The psychology of opening up

383

Will the economy bounce back?

384

Reopening without a plan

385

How to win elections

386

Are Democrats getting rolled?

387

A faster Covid-19 vaccine

388

Who models the modelers?

389

Opening up

390

Help is on the way (sort of)

391

The corporate bailout watchdog

392

How does this end?

393

Covid-19 and the border

394

Coronavirus meets health reform

395

The mask fiasco

396

When $2 trillion isn’t enough

397

Fighting coronavirus with corporate conscription

398

The story of Trump's swamp

399

Devaluing black assets

400

Rescuing the economy from coronavirus

401

Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election

402

Meet the YIMBYs

403

Mayor Pete and the state of LGBTQ politics

404

A "titan" of social conservatism on the courts and his battles ahead

405

Behind the Covid-19 curve

406

Coronavirus 101

407

Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate

408

Going nuclear

409

Black voters take the stage

410

The year of housing reform

411

Mike can get what done?

412

Private equity, explained

413

After asylum

414

How we pick a president

415

Iowapocalypse Now

416

Fix recessions by giving people money

417

A conversation about anti-Semitism

418

The road to polarization

419

Green New Germany

420

Three roads to universal coverage

421

The way forward on family leave

422

Ezra and Matt debate the debaters

423

Mission Accomplished?

424

Why are we fighting Iran?

425

Midichlorian chili

426

Neighborhood Defenders

427

2019 in review

428

The next abortion debate

429

No room at the inn (live!)

430

Wine cave cage match

431

Primary mooples

432

Policy by other means

433

The free college debate

434

Movement building in the Trump era

435

You say "usmca," I say "U-S-M-C-A"

436

Build housing near transit

437

Impeachment's policy roots

438

Single-payer federalism

439

Groypers vs. Conservatism Inc.

440

The case for subsidized jobs

441

Introducing Reset

442

The billionaire backlash

443

The internet we lost

444

Paying for single-payer

445

Beyond the leaky bucket

446

The fall of Katie Hill

447

The scary truth about air pollution

448

The electability debate

449

The four words that will decide impeachment

450

Debating the robot takeover

451

Understanding the student debt crisis

452

Progressives' Supreme Court problem

453

Mayor Pete explains his prescription drug plan

454

What to expect when you’re impeaching

E
455

Homelessness and how to fix it

456

Trump's war on the homeless

E
457

America's missing babies

458

The Kiev Caper

459

Did economists break America?

460

Out of sight, out of mind

461

ABCDebate

462

50 shades of Green New Deal

463

A plan to revive American unions

464

The left’s path to power

E
465

Trump's primary challengers

466

The case for foreign policy restraint

467

Trump's latest trade war

468

Does America need trade deals?

469

Slavery and its legacy

470

Trump's war on Medicaid

471

Epstein conspiracy time

E
472

The case for a Green New Deal

473

Domestic terrorism after El Paso

474

The second Democratic debate

475

The many mysteries of Jeffrey Epstein

476

Dysfunctional federalism

477

Go back to Cincinnati

478

Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel

479

Space Force all the way!

480

School’s out for summer

481

Ask Weeds Anything

482

A progressive case for globalism

483

Democracy's week in court

484

Debate Weeds: Ezra and Matt on the long-awaited Democratic presidential debate

485

What’s really going on with child detention?

486

What’s really happening in Central America

487

Jamestown: Utopia for Whom

488

The “illiberal” right

E
489

5 big ideas to use tax credits to fight poverty

490

Into the weeds with Elizabeth Warren

491

A user's guide to antitrust

492

Trump’s tariff triple option

493

Monetary mysteries revealed

494

Building the Trump state

495

Rethinking education reform

496

The loneliness of Justin Amash

497

America's two housing crises

498

Make America 2015 Again

499

Green New Weeds

500

Sarah's Last Stand

501

Mexico: America's waiting room

502

Incels and bullshitters

E
503

Was The Weeds on the wrong side of history?

504

What to obstruct when you’re obstructing

505

Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]

E
506

Trump Family (Tax) Values

507

How Canada got Medicare-for-all done

508

The Purge: DHS

509

Attack of the clone bills

510

Learning from Norway's lesbian mothers

511

Infrastructure Week (and Farm Week and Teacher Week)

512

Mueller's investigation is over. Obamacare repeal isn't.

513

Should presidential candidates get into the weeds?

514

The reparations primary

515

Live Weeds with Julián Castro

516

Introducing Switched on Pop

517

Live Weeds with Pete Buttigieg

518

The long con

519

But seriously, how are you going to pay for it?

520

The Weeds fixes racism

521

Amy Klobuchar and the Jill Robinson effect

522

Day care for all!

523

Collusion and the Mueller endgame

524

Emergency Weeds

525

What’s the best way to help the poor?

526

WTF, VA?

527

Do we need private insurance?

528

House Democrats’ plan to save democracy

529

Elizabeth Warren and the Two-Income Trap

530

The end of the shutdown

531

Investigating ER bills and SNAP fraud

532

You can't eat your principles for dinner

533

Taxing the rich

534

Tucker Carlson vs the free market

535

Ask Weeds Anything

536

New year, no government

537

Classic Weeds: The great white panic

E
538

The Weeds Year-End Spectacular

539

Congress actually did something important

E
540

Bernie and Biden and Beto, oh my!

E
541

A big, beautiful podcast about the border wall

542

A Weeds farewell to Paul Ryan

E
543

Pod Save the US-Saudi alliance?

544

Midwest Republicans lost in 2018 — but they’re not giving up power

E
545

Mexico was the wall all along

E
546

The many flavors of Medicare-for-all

E
547

The Impact: How do you make education funding fair?

548

The future of conservatism is being forged in California

E
549

Facebook is bad, please join our Facebook group

E
550

Jeff Sessions is gone but not forgotten

E
551

About last night

552

Seattle’s plan to save democracy

553

Bad for the Jews

554

Operation Win the Midterms

555

Republicans’ health care message: Lie a lot

556

Our elections are being hacked

557

What's next for House Democrats?

558

Cory Booker’s plan to close the racial wealth gap

559

Trump versus the Caravan

560

Republicans run everything, and they’re mad as hell

561

America’s moral failure on climate

562

I’mma let you finish

563

As tough as Texas

564

The craziest Obamacare lawsuit yet

565

Alexa, raise the minimum wage

566

When women run

567

Death to NAFTA! Long live USMCA!

568

Do Republicans even care if Kavanaugh is guilty?

569

What Sarah learned on parental leave

570

What could stop the next Botham Jean?

571

#MeToo goes to the Supreme Court

572

Can Elon Musk save Tesla from himself?

573

I am the Resistance inside The Weeds podcast

574

Colin Kaepernick, the most important election issue in the world

575

What’s at stake in the midterms

576

America picked a lousy time to turn its back on refugees

577

John McCain vs. the idea of John McCain

578

The art of the squeal

579

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save/destroy capitalism

580

We’re not gonna pay rent

581

Lordy, Omarosa has tapes

582

#FakeScience

583

The Great Twitter Wars of 2018

584

Paul Manafort, alleged ostrich-collar criminal

585

The great white panic

586

“Mission Accomplished,” trade war edition

587

What Republicans can do on Trump and Russia

588

It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America

589

There’s collusion, and then there’s collusion

590

Republicans' plan for health care: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

591

Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court

592

1,2,3,4 Trump declares a trade war

593

Family detention is the new family separation

594

America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice

595

With borders wide open

596

The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court

597

Which children matter?

598

Ask Weeds Anything...Again!

599

Why 12-step programs work — and family separation doesn’t

600

Can we get tough on rapists without being “tough on crime”?

601

Cake Wars, Supreme Court edition

602

Trump isn’t losing immigrant kids, but he is taking them from their parents

603

The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explained

604

Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)

605

Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web

606

Drugs! (But not the fun kind)

607

The many scandals of Michael Cohen

608

Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?

609

Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?

610

What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?

611

Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained

612

Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)

613

Boiling the frogs of war

614

Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military

615

All 👏 payer 👏 rate 👏 setting 👏

616

The imprudent Scott Pruitt

617

Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news

618

Is Donald Trump ruining the Census?

619

The optimistic take is things have always been bad (Worldly crossover)

620

Is Facebook bad?

621

Cambridge Analytica: Scandal, hype, or both?

622

The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?

623

Abolish ICE

624

Trigger warning: Discussion of White House chaos and political correctness

625

Nickname fights and wildcat strikes

626

Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks

627

Guns, Weeds, and Steel

628

Medicare for Many More

629

The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard

630

It's finally infrastructure week

631

DACApocalypse in the Senate

632

The gender pay gap is mostly about children

633

The six-hour shutdown, explained

634

What's up with Amazon's health venture — and the stock market

635

MS-13, explained

636

The state of our podcast is strong

637

The white genocide episode you’ve been waiting for

638

Shutdown deal special

639

The Shutdown Special

640

No one wants to take responsibility for sick kids or fake news

641

Shithole special

642

Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time

643

Winter, explained

644

Why is US life expectancy falling?

645

The most undercovered policy stories of 2017

646

Ask Weeds Anything!

647

Tax reforms and garbage factories

648

The Great Awokening comes to Congress

649

Alabama senate special

650

Is the FBI good now?

651

Net neutrality, explained (Also! Why CVS is buying Aetna)

652

How the GOP is weaponizing the tax code

653

Five big problems with the GOP tax plan

654

A very Weeds Thanksgiving

655

Tax reform special

656

Republicans’ Roy Moore problem

657

Virginia is for Democrats

658

The vaunted, versatile VAT

659

The tax bill's winners and many, many losers

660

Indictment special! Plus: is Paul Ryan cowardly or courageous?

661

Purge 3: The Bannoning

662

Republicans: "Math" means you have to cut taxes on the rich. Weeds: Nope.

663

How immigration took over Virginia’s governor race

664

The Impact: The curious case of the $629 Band Aid

665

How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?

666

Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse

667

CHIPping away at gerrymandering

668

Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform

669

Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?

670

The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response

671

What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?

672

Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment

673

The worst GOP healthcare bill yet

674

White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos

675

BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI

676

Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and roll

677

Trump's art of the sabotage

678

Deferred action podcasting

679

The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster

680

Donald Trump vs the congressional GOP

681

How the rich ate all the growth

682

Statue limitations

683

A very meritorious podcast

684

Can John Kelly fix the Trump administration? Can anyone?

685

Is Google in an "ideological echo chamber"?

686

The bacon fat theory of school segregation, and some White House chaos

687

ACA repeal is finally dead (maybe)

688

Skinny repeal and Trump's management by tweet

689

A deep dive on basic income

690

At last, a Weeds about weed (also Obamacare)

691

McConnellCare II: Cruz Control

692

Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)

693

Understanding the opioid epidemic

694

Trumpism and travel bans

695

Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to write a budget

696

CB--Oh no this health care bill is terrible too

697

Senate Republicans' health care idea: Make the poor pay more for less

698

Georgia (and Obamacare repeal) on our minds

699

Trump’s “buck stops somewhere else” foreign policy

700

Legends of the secret health care bill

701

Infrastructure week (jk it's about Comey)

702

Meet Sprinklecare

703

Jared Kushner: International man of mystery

704

A platinum get out of jail free card

705

Weeds in the Wild: Tennessee's Healthcare Bald Spot

706

CB--Oh, this bill stinks

707

Trump's budget has landed, and it's terrible

708

All the Trump scandal drama you've been craving

709

Trump chaos, UBI, and the fracking baby boom

710

Weeds in the Wild: Free Money... For Everyone!

711

The wall in our hearts

712

AHCApocalypse III

713

High-Risk Podcasting

714

AHCApocalypse II

715

French elections, national service, and Queens at war

716

Weeds Live!

717

Weeds in the Wild: Meet Joan, the Robotic Pelvis

718

The World's Worst Club

719

Nuclear Winter

720

A cheery discussion of global warming, Obamacare repeal, and death

721

Weeds in the Wild: Postville

722

Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers

723

CB-uh oh!

724

AHCApalooza

725

Don't Call It a State of the Union

726

Death Panel If You Do, Death Panel If You Don't

727

Weeds in the Wild: Sarah Goes to Kentucky

728

Privet, Amerika!

729

The Time Traveling Emanuel Brothers

730

SCOTUS, DBCFT, and Hitler's Highways

731

The Don't-Call-It-A-Muslim-Ban

732

Gag Order and Infrastructure

733

Inauguration Special

734

DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

735

Trump Cabinet, Obamacare Update, and Heroin

736

Sarah and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare

737

Happy New Year

738

Year-End Spectacular

739

Kentucky, the Rust Belt, and the Big Picture on Trade

740

Russia and the American Dream

741

Trump's Surprisingly Ambitious Education Agenda

742

Assessing the Trump Cabinet — and Exploring How Recessions Affect Health

743

Conflicts of Interest, Trump and the Media, and Rethinking Teen Pregnancy

744

Sneak peak: a new Vox podcast, about how policy effects real people

745

The Trump Agenda

746

Trumpocalypse Now

747

The Massive Policy Stakes of 2016

748

Is Obamacare Failing?

749

Final Debate Special

750

Second Presidential Debate Special

751

Veep Debate and Cranky Judges

752

The First Debate and Pet Health Care

753

An Interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell

754

Best Census Ever, the Trump Foundation, and Class Discrimination

755

Gender Wage Gap and the Mystery of State Legislatures

756

EpiPen Prices, the Clinton Foundation, and Lead Exposure

757

Obamacare Update and Aging America

758

Think Tanks, Transition, and What Drives Trumpkins

759

Trump's tax plan, democratic legitimacy, and the Freakonomics of decisionmaking

760

Interview with Atul Gawande

761

DNC-Palooza

762

Republican Convention Special

763

Basic Income and Police Shootings

764

Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.

765

Free College, Email Extravaganza, and the China Shock

766

Brexit 2, SCOTUS on abortion, and the missing male workers

767

Welfare reform, SCOTUS deadlock, and health care jerk

768

Guns, Brexit, and Free Condoms

769

5uper Tue5day

770

Accountable Care Organizations, more Swedish administrative data, and the big city recovery

771

Health care innovation, did Dems rig the primary, and fetal stress

772

90s nostalgia, Obamacare lawsuits, and the truth about abortion

773

Competition in Obamacare marketplaces and how low-income housing can boost poor neighborhoods

774

Trump is the Republican nominee. What happens next?

775

Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter

776

Land value taxes, soda taxes, and carbon taxes — oh my!

777

Our undemocratic primaries, Obama's new fiduciary rule, and the challenge of information polarization

778

Interview with Jason Furman

779

Why inequality matters, Trump's delegate problem, and the geography of life expectancy

780

What the hell is going on with tax havens, explained

781

A medical struggle to digitize, a tax calculator, and a paper that explains Trump

782

Replacing No Child Left Behind, wonky March Madness, and Uber's productivity

783

Super(b) Tuesday special

784

The productivity slowdown, TrumpCare, and better textbooks

785

Super Tuesday/Exhausted Wednesday special!

786

TPP, the Nevada Caucus, and the Great Texas Abortion clinic shutdown.

787

The Supreme Court vacancy and the possible collapse of American democracy

788

Could more corruption fix American politics?

789

The Iowa Caucuses

790

Will taxing the rich hurt growth – and will third parties save politics?

791

Ross Douthat on campus conservatism, being thankful for Donald Trump, and how to write so liberals will read you

792

Campaign finance and global inequality — with lead poisoning in between

793

Obama's Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare's jobs impact

794

Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed stand-off in between

795

Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts

796

Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

797

Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke

798

Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate

799

Dietary fat and climate change

800

Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between

801

We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?

802

How politics is making us stupid

803

Are we counting poverty all wrong?

804

Want to fix inequality by taxing the rich? Good luck.

805

The Weeds: Can the government trick you into dieting?

806

Arthur Brooks on think tanks, happiness, and management

807

Would single payer health care work in America?

808

Ezra, Matt and Sarah Try to Podcast