Taxes are due in less than two weeks, and some of us have extra stress around that … because things are different this year. It’s the first time most people are feeling the 2017 tax overhaul, the biggest change in the tax code for three decades. It raised the standard deduction and gave most folks a small tax cut. Refunds are generally lower, which is technically good news, but might feel like bad news for people who rely on that spring windfall. Taxes are the beat for Marketplace reporter Marielle Segarra, and she gets us smart this week. (She still files her returns by snail mail!)

Here are links to the articles in Vox and The Guardian we talked about this week, and don’t forget you can watch this and other episodes of Make Me Smart on our YouTube channel.

Today’s show is sponsored by Panopto, Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Cort.