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Title
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Introducing Explain It to Me

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Our next chapter

103

How we Got Milk

104

Those pesky delivery fees

105

Panic! At The Drugstore

106

A new era of cannabis research

107

Are baby bonds a good investment?

108

Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?

109

Is homelessness a crime?

110

Abortion and the erosion of privacy

111

What is “fetal personhood”?

112

A safety net’s poverty trap

113

Let’s fix child care together

114

Bringing back the SAT

115

The AI election

116

The case for banning...millionaires?

117

How racism ages Black people

118

Skipping the broom

119

Eviction: the scarlet E

120

Let’s fix retirement together

121

How to be a (realistic) climate optimist

122

How celebrity fandom explains Trump

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Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard

124

Are unions making a comeback?

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Why are so many kids missing school?

126

Can Black churches lead the way on teen mental health?

127

The Devil wears fast fashion

128

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

129

Why everything is (still) so expensive

130

BDS and the history of the boycott

131

Will school choice change the future of education?

132

The sandwich generation: Caring for kids and seniors

133

Why your health insurance is tied to work

134

Conservative socialism?

135

How (not) to budget

136

NYC’s not-so-sudden migrant surge

137

What’s up, doc(ket)?

138

Who protects workers from extreme heat?

139

Why isn’t school lunch free?

140

Trump’s RICO problem

141

Biden messed with Texas

142

Biden wants YOU (to go to therapy)

143

A new era for birth control

144

Who broke student loans?

145

Expecting: Weed and Pregnancy

146

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

147

The Republican plot to defund public libraries

148

A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

149

We need to rethink discipline in schools

150

The kids suing their state for climate change

151

The fate of affirmative action

152

Why is child labor making a comeback?

153

The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained

154

Policymaking on the high seas

155

How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s roads safer

156

Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval process, explained

157

How corporations got all your data

158

Do assault weapons bans work?

159

Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”

160

Why Illinois wants to end cash bail

161

The debt ceiling drama

162

What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry

163

How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything

164

Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?

165

The Ukraine war: past, present, and future

166

$14 trillion and no mules

167

The Biden policy that could change your neighborhood

168

Insulin is for the world

169

Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act

170

Reintroducing The Weeds

171

The great American gerrymander

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172

The scourge of the “time tax”

173

Climate optimism in 2023

174

Our mental health doom loop

175

The bipartisan bill that could protect elections

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176

The rebirth of industrial policy

177

It’s time to regulate crypto

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178

The Weeds’ weed episode

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179

How to call an election

180

How to fix inflation

181

Why scaring voters works

182

The most interesting issues on the ballot

183

The candidates haunting the GOP

184

AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM

185

Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?

186

The fastest growing voting bloc in America

187

Who decides how we’ll save the future?

188

Vitamin X

189

It’s a policy team takeover!

190

The rebirth of industrial policy

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191

Could the war on terror be over?

192

The new politics of abortion

193

Maybe we’re not doomed?

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194

Weeds Time Machine: The ADA

195

What the hell is up with SCOTUS?

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196

The legal limbo of abortion rights

197

Pregnancy in a post-Roe America

198

ConGRADulations, fellow kids

199

How the world became rich

200

Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?