Explain It to Me

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Explain It to Me episodes:

May 29, 2020 Tweeting through it
Ezra and Matt on Trump's war on social media, plus Joe Biden's policy agenda.
*This episode was recorded on Thursday, May 28th, 2020.
Resources:
"Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain" by Kara Swisher, NYT
"Joe Biden has a plan for that" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

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

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer
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59min
May 26, 2020 Joe Biden ain't black
Jane, Dara, and Matt on gaffes and the racial politics of 2020
Resources:
"Do Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” comments ultimately matter?" by Fabiola Cineas, Vox
White paper

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
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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1h
May 22, 2020 The stimulus failure
Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.
Resources:
"Nancy Pelosi says Democrats opted against putting federal aid on autopilot in their $3 trillion coronavirus spending package to avoid amplifying sticker shock" by Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider
"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ
"Federalism Is an Asset" by Danielle Allen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Josh Simons, & Carmel Shachar, Harvard

References:
Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy, The Hamilton Project
Fix recessions by giving people money - The Weeds, featuring Claudia Sahm
The case for subsidized jobs - The Weeds, featuring Indi Dutta-Gupta

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

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

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53min
May 19, 2020 Actual enumeration
Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census.

Resources:
"The pandemic may leave communities of color undercounted in the census — and cost them billions" by Donna M. Owens, Vox
"Trump is still trying to collect citizenship data for redistricting" by Nicole Narea, Vox
"A once-in-a-century pandemic collides with a once-in-a-decade census" by Andrew Whitby, Brookings
"Over a million Hispanics turned white between the 2000 and 2010 Census" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox
White paper

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
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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52min
May 15, 2020 The psychology of opening up
Ezra and Matt on the deep roots (or not) of the lockdown debate.

Resources:
"Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox
"This drawing explains a surprising amount about your political views" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox
"America’s coronavirus testing numbers are really improving — finally" by German Lopez
"The Density Divide" by Will Wilkinson, Niskanen Center
"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ
"Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel &Paul M. Romer

Books referenced:
Prius or Pickup? by Jonathan Weiler & Marc Hetherington
Open versus Closed by Christopher M. Federico, Howard G. Lavine, & Christopher D. Johnston

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

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

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56min
May 12, 2020 Will the economy bounce back?
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression.

Resources:
"As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal" by Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post

"Get ready for a second wave of economic pain" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

"The economy is in free fall. So why isn’t the stock market?" by Emily Stewart, Vox

White paper

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
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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About Vox
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1h 5min
May 08, 2020 Reopening without a plan
Ezra and Matt on America's lost month and what happens next.
Resources:
"April was another lost month for Trump’s coronavirus response" by German Lopez, Vox
"Flattening the curve isn’t good enough" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox
"COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint" by Peter M. Sandman & Jody Lanard, Cidrap
"Canada succeeded on coronavirus where America failed. Why?" by Zack Beauchamp, Vox
"US coronavirus data is at odds with Trump’s push to get the economy back up and running" by Aaron Rupar, Vox

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

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

Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts

About Vox
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52min
May 05, 2020 How to win elections
Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the great mobilization vs persuasion debate.

Resources:
"What Happened in the Georgia Gubernatorial Election?" Catalist Analytics, Medium
"The case for taking Trump’s black outreach seriously" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox
"Michelle Obama Is Mad at ‘Our Folks,’ Not Trump Voters: ‘That’s My Trauma’" by Kevin Fallon, Daily Beast
White paper

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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About Vox
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1h 8min
May 01, 2020 Are Democrats getting rolled?
Ezra and Matt on congressional bargaining strategy and the China blame game.
Resources:
"Congressional Democrats are governing from the minority" by Ezra Klein, Vox
"Many world leaders have seen double-digit polling surges amid coronavirus. Trump isn’t one of them." by Roge Karma, Vox

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

Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts

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.

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53min
April 28, 2020 A faster Covid-19 vaccine
Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the possibility of "human challenge trials" to speed vaccine development.
Resources:
"How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor" by Michael Specter, The New Yorker
"What Each Side of the COVID-19 Debate Should Understand About the Other" by Brian Doherty, Reason
"Special Report: Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade" by Gabriel Stargardter, Drazen Jorgic, Reuters
White paper

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

Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts
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.
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52min

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