Explain It to Me

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Explain It to Me episodes

October 23, 2020 Trump’s last stand
Ezra and Matt on the final presidential debate.

Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producer
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55 min
October 20, 2020 Trump's second term agenda
Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the policy stakes in 2020.

Hosts:
Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer
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59 min
October 17, 2020 Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble
Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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40 min
October 16, 2020 Email scandals are back!
Ezra and Matt discuss Hunter Biden’s laptop, social media regulation, and the ongoing stimulus standoff.

Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producer
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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54 min
October 13, 2020 What is critical race theory, anyway?
Ian Haney Lopez joins Jane to discuss critical race theory: what it is and what it isn't.

Resources:
"Which Party Represents the Racial Future?" by Ross Douthat

Guest:
Ian Haney Lopez (@IanHaneyLopez), Professor of Law, UC Berkeley

Host:
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior Politics Reporter, Vox

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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53 min
October 10, 2020 By the People: The Supreme Court's war on democracy
In this last episode of the By The People mini-series, host Ian Millhiser talks with legal scholar Pam Karlan about how the Supreme Court has harmed our democracy in the recent past, and what it's likely to do to voting rights in the future. Then he speaks with Supreme Court journalist Mark Joseph Stern about court-packing and other possible ways to reform the Court.

Featuring:
Pam Karlan, Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School
Mark Joseph Stern, Staff Writer at Slate

Host:
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser), Senior Correspondent, Vox

Credits:
Producer/Editor: Jackson Bierfeldt
Editor: Elbert Ventura
Executive Producer: Liz Nelson

About Vox:
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1 hr 2 min
October 09, 2020 The stimulus standoff
Ezra and Matt on the deadlock in congress and the VP debate.

Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:
Erick Gomez, Schuyler Swenson (@SchuylerSwenson), and Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producers
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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57 min
October 06, 2020 On biracial identity (with Thomas Chatterton Williams)
Jane and Thomas Chatterton Williams talk about mixed-race identity, race and racism, and what being biracial means now.

Resources:
"My Family's Life Inside and Outside America's Racial Categories" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, NYT
"A Detailed Look at the Downside of California’s Ban on Affirmative Action" by Kevin Carey, NYT
"Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”" by Isaac Chotiner, NYT
"The Great Escape From Slavery of Ellen and William Craft" by Marian Smith Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine
"Black With (Some) White Privilege" by Anna Holmes, NYT
"Still Processing: Being Biracial" by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, NYT
"The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic

Guest:
Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill), Contributing Writer at New York Magazine, Columnist at Harpers Magazine

Host:
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior Politics Reporter, Vox

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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1 hr 1 min
October 03, 2020 By the People: Blame the Constitution
Host Ian Millhiser talks with political scientist Norm Ornstein and Vox’s Matt Yglesias about the structural factors — many of them written into the Constitution itself — that impede a democratic majority from electing their preferred leaders and several ideas about how these hurdles can be overcome.
Relevant resources:
Confirm you are registered to vote
Featuring:
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Matthew Yglesias, Senior Correspondent at Vox
Host:
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser), Senior Correspondent, Vox
Credits:
Producer/Editor: Jackson Bierfeldt
Editor: Elbert Ventura
Executive Producer: Liz Nelson
About Vox:
Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.
Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts. Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas.

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1 hr 6 min
October 02, 2020Fighting back against factory farming
On this special episode, we give you a preview of season 3 of the Future Perfect podcast. Vox's Dylan Matthews comes on to talk about meat and environmental justice.
Subscribe to Future Perfect on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week.

Further listening and reading:
ProPublica’s Talia Buford has done in-depth reporting on the problems of overflowing pig waste lagoons in North Carolina, and you can see images of the aftermath of lagoon flooding from Hurricane Florence collected here.
Pig waste from factory farms is not just a problem in North Carolina. You can read about issues in Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio.

We always want to hear from you! Please send comments and questions to [email protected].
This podcast is made possible thanks to support from Animal Charity Evaluators. They research and promote the most effective ways to help animals.

Featuring:
Marianne Engleman Lado, Environmental Justice Clinic, Vermont Law School
Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox

More to explore:

Follow all of Future Perfect’s reporting on the Future of Meat.

Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them.

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