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- The Weeds fixes racism
Jane, Dara, and Matt excavate the most contentious moment in the Cohen hearing in a hunt for "racist bones."
Recommended reading:Dara on the Meadows/Tlaib standoff
Jane on Steve King
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57 min - Amy Klobuchar and the Jill Robinson effect
Sarah and Matt discuss the recent spate of stories about the Minnesota senator — and an announcement from Ezra!
Relevant articles:
Paper on the Jill Robinson Effect
Buzzfeed Klobuchar story
Huffington Post Klobuchar story
Kelsey Piper story on the fake white paper
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54 min - Day care for all!
Sarah, Dara, and Matt discuss Elizabeth Warren's universal child care plan — and the other options on the table.
Relevant articles:
Alvin Chang wealth tax explainer
Jonathan Cohn day care story
Quebec day care study
Warren's child care plan
The Family Fun Pack
Head Start negative evaluation
Head Start positive evaluation
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59 min - Collusion and the Mueller endgame
Andrew Prokop joins Dara and Matt to explain what we've learned from the latest developments in the Russia investigation.
Andrew's article on Jerome Corsi's unreliable book
Article on the redacted Manafort transcript
Marcy Wheeler article
Special counsel regulation text
Trump Tower Moscow explainer
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1 hr 10 min - Emergency Weeds
Dara, Sarah, and Matt explain the border security deal and Trump’s plan to bypass Congress.
Dara's article
Matt's article on non-legislative priorities
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1 hr 2 min - What’s the best way to help the poor?
Dylan Matthews joins Sarah, Ezra, and Matt to discuss five new plans on poverty from leading Democrats.
Dylan's Article
Sarah's Article on Childhood Wealth
Elizabeth Warren's Housing Bill
Cory Booker's HOME Act
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59 min - WTF, VA?
Virginia is embroiled in multiple blackface scandals — and Jane Coaston, Sarah Kliff, and Dylan Scott are here to talk about it.
Video about Slavery in the US Medical System
Jane's Article
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46 min - Do we need private insurance?
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt break down the latest twist in the Medicare-for-all debate — plus rigorous new research on Facebook.
White Paper
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51 min - House Democrats’ plan to save democracy
Jane, Dara, and Matt break down HR 1 — the first bill from the new Democratic majority.
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59 min - Elizabeth Warren and the Two-Income Trap
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt analyze the presidential candidate’s first popular book and review new evidence on the dangers of opioid marketing.
Ezra's Article
Matt's Article
White Paper
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59 min
About Explain It to Me
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Explain It to Me is the hotline for the issues that matter to your life. Send us your questions about health, personal finance, relationships, and anything else that matters to you. Host Jonquilyn Hill will take you on a journey to find the answers, whether it's to the halls of Congress or the local bar. You’ll get the answers you were looking for, and sometimes ones you didn't expect — and always with a dose of humor. New episodes every Sunday. Part of Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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