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  • Gag Order and Infrastructure

    Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about widely-misunderstood Trump administration efforts to shut up career civil servants, talk about infrastructure, and ask journalism's most pressing question: What's up with eggs?

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Inauguration Special

    Shortly after the inauguration ceremonies ended, Ezra, Matt, and Sarah gathered to analyze what it all means in the first Trump-era Weeds episode. 

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    44 min
  • DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

    Sarah, Ezra, and Matt are joined by Libby Nelson to discuss Trump's not-so-great hires, not-so-great polls, and new research into how career staff act during presidential transitions.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Trump Cabinet, Obamacare Update, and Heroin

    Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about the rush to hold hearings on Trump's cabinet appointees, the sudden emergence of trouble in repeal paradise, and an effort to cut down on pill abuse that backfired massively. 

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    1 hr
  • Sarah and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare

    Two weeks before he leaves office, President Obama sits down for a lengthy conversation about the lessons of the Affordable Care Act and the law's uncertain future.

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    1 hr 14 min
  • Happy New Year

    Sarah and Matt offer predictions for 2017, and offer tax wonk tips about when to time your child's birth. 

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    51 min
  • Year-End Spectacular

    Sarah, Ezra, and Matt each review one big thing they learned in a tumultuous year for policy and politics. 

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    1 hr 3 min

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