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We’re not gonna pay rent

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Lordy, Omarosa has tapes

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#FakeScience

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The Great Twitter Wars of 2018

605

Paul Manafort, alleged ostrich-collar criminal

606

The great white panic

607

“Mission Accomplished,” trade war edition

608

What Republicans can do on Trump and Russia

609

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

610

There’s collusion, and then there’s collusion

611

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

612

Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court

613

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

614

Family detention is the new family separation

615

America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice

616

With borders wide open

617

The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court

618

Which children matter?

619

Ask Weeds Anything...Again!

620

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

621

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

622

Cake Wars, Supreme Court edition

623

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

624

The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explained

625

Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)

626

Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web

627

Drugs! (But not the fun kind)

628

The many scandals of Michael Cohen

629

Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?

630

Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?

631

What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?

632

Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained

633

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

634

Boiling the frogs of war

635

Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military

636

All 👏 payer 👏 rate 👏 setting 👏

637

The imprudent Scott Pruitt

638

Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news

639

Is Donald Trump ruining the Census?

640

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

641

Is Facebook bad?

642

Cambridge Analytica: Scandal, hype, or both?

643

The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?

644

Abolish ICE

645

Trigger warning: Discussion of White House chaos and political correctness

646

Nickname fights and wildcat strikes

647

Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks

648

Guns, Weeds, and Steel

649

Medicare for Many More

650

The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard

651

It's finally infrastructure week

652

DACApocalypse in the Senate

653

The gender pay gap is mostly about children

654

The six-hour shutdown, explained

655

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

656

MS-13, explained

657

The state of our podcast is strong

658

The white genocide episode you’ve been waiting for

659

Shutdown deal special

660

The Shutdown Special

661

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

662

Shithole special

663

Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time

664

Winter, explained

665

Why is US life expectancy falling?

666

The most undercovered policy stories of 2017

667

Ask Weeds Anything!

668

Tax reforms and garbage factories

669

The Great Awokening comes to Congress

670

Alabama senate special

671

Is the FBI good now?

672

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

673

How the GOP is weaponizing the tax code

674

Five big problems with the GOP tax plan

675

A very Weeds Thanksgiving

676

Tax reform special

677

Republicans’ Roy Moore problem

678

Virginia is for Democrats

679

The vaunted, versatile VAT

680

The tax bill's winners and many, many losers

681

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

682

Purge 3: The Bannoning

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

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How immigration took over Virginia’s governor race

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

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How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?

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

688

CHIPping away at gerrymandering

689

Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform

690

Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?

691

The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response

692

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

693

Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment

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The worst GOP healthcare bill yet

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White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos

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BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI

697

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

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Trump's art of the sabotage

699

Deferred action podcasting

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The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster