Explain It to Me

Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to talk about single-payer's big day on Capitol Hill and some hot administrative data from Rhode Island.

Related reading:

CBO report

Dylan’s article on a Medicare-for-all hearing

Dylan’s other article on the Medicare-for-all hearing

Sarah and Dylan on the different Democratic health care plans

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Dara, Jane, and Matt discuss Dara's fresh reporting on asylum officers' complaints about Trump's "wait in Mexico" policy initiative.

Related reading:

Dara’s piece on asylum officers

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Senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp joins Jane and Matt to share his reporting on the origins and evolution of a troubling new internet community.

Related reading:

“Our incel problem” by Zack Beauchamp

Research paper

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Sarah, Ezra, and Matt celebrate Vox's fifth anniversary with a look at the changing nature of the policy dialogue in Washington.

This special episode of The Weeds was taped in front of a live audience at The LINE DC to celebrate Vox’s fifth anniversary. If you enjoyed it, we think you’ll also enjoy this live taping of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher featuring Julia Angwin, and this special episode of The Ezra Klein Show with Vox’s co-founders Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Vox Media’s Publisher Melissa Bell.

The Weeds is a Vox Media Inc. Production

Produced by: Jeff Geld

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Matt, Jane, and Andrew Prokop talk about the Mueller report — which one of them has actually read to the end.

Related reading:

Quinta Jurecic’s color-coded analysis of Mueller’s obstruction language

Rick Hasen’s article on Mueller not prosecuting Donald Trump Jr.

Full Mueller report

White paper

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Ezra Klein joins Zack, Jenn, and Alex in a crossover episode with Worldly on Robert Mueller’s just-released report. They explain the special counsel's main findings on collusion with Russian election interference and on obstruction of justice and why they aren’t good for Trump. Then they zoom out and talk about what this whole episode reveals about the health of American democracy and how this gives a green light for Russia and other authoritarian powers to intervene in future US elections. Given how important this report is, and how early they got up to cover it, your intrepid hosts were too tired for jokes this week — sorry.

The full text of the report, compiled by Alex for your reading pleasure

A refresher on who's who in the Trump-Russia universe

Here's a look at the collusion section of the report from Zack

Here's another take from Zack on Attorney General William Barr's worrying role in all of this

Ten examples of potential obstruction in Mueller's report

How 11 legal experts evaluate the claims of obstruction

Zack and Future Perfect's Dylan Matthews break down the big winners and losers from the report

The Big Vox Explainer on the Mueller report

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Dara, Sarah, and Matt talk about the suspiciously timed retirement of Trump's sister, IRS enforcement, and new research on how police stops can actually cause crime.

Related reading:

ProPublica study on the EITC audits

White paper

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Ezra returns to discuss filibuster reform and the legacy of Tommy Douglas with Sarah and Matt.

Recommended reading:

Tommy Douglas named greatest Canadian

Filibuster reform explainer

Sanders and reconciliation explainer

Doctor strike explainer

White paper

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Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss Trump's personnel shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security and what's next for immigration policy.

Recommended reading:

Jake Tapper on Trump telling border patrol agents to ignore the law

The White House’s wish list for DHS actions

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation, explained

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Matt, Sarah, and Dara copied this discussion of model legislation from an asbestos lobbyist.

Recommended reading:

USA Today article

Article on 'ALEC'

Research on model legislation 1

Research on model legislation 2

Research on model legislation 3

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