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February 21, 2020 The year of housing reform
Mercatus' Emily Hamilton on what's working and what isn't to increase housing abundance.
Guest:
Emily Hamilton, (@ebwhamilton) Research Fellow, Mercatus
Host:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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58 min
February 18, 2020 Mike can get what done?
Jane, Dara, and Matt on Michael Bloomberg’s record as mayor of New York City.
Related material:
"National education ratings show NYC student test scores stagnant since 2013, ranks them about average for big cities" by Michael Elsen-Rooney, New York Daily News

"Boost for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan as de Blasio Supports Cuomo Plan" by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jesse McKinley, NYT

"The quiet, massive rezoning of New York" by Sarah Laskow, Politico

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Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox
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1 hr 3 min
February 14, 2020 Private equity, explained
Vox business and politics reporter Emily Stewart on the mysteries of one of America's most powerful industries.
Guest:
Emily Stewart, (@EmilyStewartM) Reporter, Vox
Host:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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52 min
February 11, 2020 After asylum
Jane and Matt join as Dara explains her reporting on the new reality at the border.
Related material:
"“Women to One Side, Men to the Other”: How the Border Patrol’s New Powers and Old Carelessness Separated a Family" by Dara Lind, ProPublica

"Two Gay Immigrants Left Everything For Safety In The US. Instead, They Were Sent To Guatemala." by Hamed Aleaziz, Buzzfeed

"The demise of America’s asylum system under Trump, explained" by Nicole Narea, Vox

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Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox
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48 min
February 07, 2020 How we pick a president
University of Maryland political scientist David Karol joins Matt to explain the consequences of presidential nomination reform.
Guest:
David Karol, (@DKarol) Government & Politics professor, University of Maryland
Host:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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1 hr 28 min
February 04, 2020 Iowapocalypse Now
Vox politics reporter Andrew Prokop joins Dara and Matt to explain Monday night's disaster.
Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica
Andrew Prokop (@awprokop), Senior politics correspondent, Vox
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1 hr 9 min
January 31, 2020 Fix recessions by giving people money
Claudia Sahm from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth joins Matt to explain a surprisingly simple strategy to stabilize the economy.
Guest:
Claudia Sahm, (@Claudia_Sahm) Director of Macroeconomic Policy, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Host:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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1 hr 15 min
January 28, 2020 A conversation about anti-Semitism
Matt, Dara and Jane talk about the rise in anti-Semitic violence aimed at Hassidic communities, and what the political implications may be.
Related reading:
"The conspiracy theories behind the anti-Semitic violence in New York" Jane Coaston, Vox
Hosts:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics reporter, Vox
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51 min
January 24, 2020 The road to polarization
Ezra Klein joins Matt to discuss his forthcoming book; Why We're Polarized.
Guest:
Ezra Klein, (@ezraklein) Co-founder and Editor-at-Large, Vox
Host:
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox
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1 hr 22 min
January 22, 2020 Green New Germany
Introducing season 3 of The Impact!
The 2020 candidates have some bold ideas to tackle some of our country's biggest problems, like climate change, the opioid crisis, and unaffordable health care. A lot of their proposals have been tried before, so, in a sense, the results are in.
This season, The Impact has those stories: how the big ideas from 2020 candidates succeeded — or failed — in other places, or at other times. What can Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposal to fight the opioid crisis learn from what the US did to fight the AIDS epidemic? How did Germany — an industrial powerhouse that invented the automobile — manage to implement a Green New Deal? How did public health insurance change Taiwan?

In this bonus episode Jillian and team fly to Germany to investigate a law that looks a lot like part of the Green New Deal some Democrats are proposing in the US.
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30 min