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- Can we get tough on rapists without being “tough on crime”?Sarah, Dara and Matt talk about the recent recall of Judge Aaron Persky, the California judge who sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months when he was convicted of sexual assault in 2016.References and further reading:Julia Ioffe's piece on the Stanford professor who led the charge against PerskyAP reporting on Persky's record as a judgeRachel Marshall's Vox.com piece on why the recall isn't a progressive victoryJohn Pfaff Twitter thread on how elections impact judicial behaviorGerman Lopez's piece on incarceration rates from 1985-2010Laura McGann's piece on men in #metoo exileWesley Lowery's piece on widespread unsolved murders in major American cities
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43 min - Cake Wars, Supreme Court editionDara, Sarah and Matt trace the Supreme Court Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling back to peyote and then discuss a Swedish study about lottery winners.References and further reading:Vox.com explainer on the Masterpiece Cakeshop rulingVox.com piece about religious liberty in American historyThe Gallup poll on rates of support for gay marriage, mentioned by SarahWhite paper on Swedish lottery winners
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44 min - Trump isn’t losing immigrant kids, but he is taking them from their parentsSarah and Matt are joined by Vox.com Congress reporter Tara Golshan to talk about missing children, separated families, and the latest immigration action on the Hill.References and other reading:Sarah's piece with an immigration expert explaining the 1,500 "missing" migrant childrenSarah explainer on family separationsTara's piece on Republican moderates and immigrationDara's explainer on the family separation policy
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53 min - The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explainedLibby Nelson, Vox.com news editor and former education reporter, joins Matt and Sarah to talk about the discipline practices and educational outcomes at so-called "no excuses" charter schools. Then they turn to a white paper that looks at lead poisoning and fertility.References and further reading:Illinois Public Radio story on Noble AcademyVideo of teacher at Success Academy ripping up student's homeworkResearch mentioned by Libby on outcomes at the Harlem Children's ZoneUpper West Side parents mad about school integration planWhite paper on lead poisoning and fertility
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58 min - Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)Sarah and Matt talk about America’s rapidly falling birthrate, and a study on the long-term benefit of the 1980s Medicaid expansion.References and further reading:National Center for Health Statistics report on declining birth ratesVox's Julia Belluz's piece on the low birthrate trendNPR piece on the CDC report on declining fertility rates in the U.S.Sarah's piece on why teen births are decliningLyman Stone paper Sarah mentioned arguing that government interventions don't boost fertilityNY Times piece Matt referenced on American women having fewer children then they'd likeDylan Matthew's piece explaining the child allowance planThe white paper on Medicaid coverage and economic mobilityConverge with Casey Newton is a new conversational game show from The Verge. Listen to the first episode today, and subscribe wherever you're enjoying this podcast.
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52 min - Caught in the Intellectual Dark WebSenior politics reporter Jane Coaston joins Dara and Matt to debate the “identity politics” backlash and the prospects for pluralism.References and further reading:Bari Weiss' piece on the 'intellectual dark web'Conor Friedersdorf's piece on how the left fuels the right's bigotry
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1 hr 2 min - Drugs! (But not the fun kind)Sarah, Dara and Matt discuss the the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs and a white paper that looks at the correlation between counties that vote Republican and the number of low and high-skilled immigrants living in those communities.References and further reading:Dylan Scott's piece on the price of prescription drugs mentioned by SarahThe white paper on 'The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States'
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1 hr 1 min - The many scandals of Michael CohenVox.com senior political reporter Andrew Prokop joins Dara and Matt to explain the strange tale of Donald Trump’s lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who now seems to be in serious legal hot water.References and further reading:Andrew's piece on the corporations that hired Michael CohenAndrew's piece on the Cohen's ties to RussiaAndrew's Stormy Daniels explainer
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1 hr 20 min - Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?Sarah, Dara, and Matt analyze Trump’s drastic rollback of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Haiti and discuss new research on the never-ending “economic anxiety” debate.References and further reading:Dara's TPS explainerWhite paper on attitudes toward social change
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59 min - Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?Vox's science reporter Brian Resnick joins Dara and Sarah to talk about psychiatry's Goldwater Rule, which has never met a test like Donald Trump.References and further reading:Brian's piece on why Trump's fitness for office is not a medical questionBrian's explainer on the Goldwater RuleSharon Begley's article Trump's mental health mentioned by SarahSarah's piece on fax machinesDara's piece on why the palace intrigue stuff matters to Trump
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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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