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used to be a terrific podcast, but now provides only a mediocre analysis of public policy. Has gone downhill a lot since Matthew Iglesias left.
Jan 8, 2021
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Nov 17, 2020
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A safety net’s poverty trap
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Let’s fix child care together
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Bringing back the SAT
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Mar 13, 2024 |
The AI election
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Mar 06, 2024 |
The case for banning...millionaires?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
How racism ages Black people
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Skipping the broom
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Eviction: the scarlet E
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Let’s fix retirement together
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Jan 31, 2024 |
How to be a (realistic) climate optimist
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Jan 24, 2024 |
How celebrity fandom explains Trump
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Are unions making a comeback?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Why are so many kids missing school?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Can Black churches lead the way on teen mental health?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
The Devil wears fast fashion
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Why everything is (still) so expensive
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Nov 15, 2023 |
BDS and the history of the boycott
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Will school choice change the future of education?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
The sandwich generation: Caring for kids and seniors
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Why your health insurance is tied to work
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Conservative socialism?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
How (not) to budget
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Oct 04, 2023 |
NYC’s not-so-sudden migrant surge
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Sep 27, 2023 |
What’s up, doc(ket)?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Who protects workers from extreme heat?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Why isn’t school lunch free?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Trump’s RICO problem
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Biden messed with Texas
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Biden wants YOU (to go to therapy)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
A new era for birth control
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Aug 02, 2023 |
Who broke student loans?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Expecting: Weed and Pregnancy
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Jul 19, 2023 |
It's an HOA world; you're just living in it
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Jul 12, 2023 |
The Republican plot to defund public libraries
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Jun 28, 2023 |
A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
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Jun 21, 2023 |
We need to rethink discipline in schools
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Jun 14, 2023 |
The kids suing their state for climate change
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Jun 07, 2023 |
The fate of affirmative action
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May 24, 2023 |
Why is child labor making a comeback?
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May 17, 2023 |
The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained
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May 10, 2023 |
Policymaking on the high seas
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May 03, 2023 |
How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s roads safer
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Apr 26, 2023 |
Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval process, explained
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Apr 18, 2023 |
How corporations got all your data
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Do assault weapons bans work?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”
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Mar 28, 2023 |
Why Illinois wants to end cash bail
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Mar 21, 2023 |
The debt ceiling drama
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Mar 14, 2023 |
What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry
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Mar 07, 2023 |
How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
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Feb 28, 2023 |
Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?
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Feb 21, 2023 |
The Ukraine war: past, present, and future
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Feb 14, 2023 |
$14 trillion and no mules
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Feb 07, 2023 |
The Biden policy that could change your neighborhood
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Insulin is for the world
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Reintroducing The Weeds
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Jan 16, 2023 |
The great American gerrymander
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Jan 10, 2023 |
The scourge of the “time tax”
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Dec 27, 2022 |
Climate optimism in 2023
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Dec 20, 2022 |
Our mental health doom loop
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Dec 13, 2022 |
The bipartisan bill that could protect elections
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Dec 06, 2022 |
The rebirth of industrial policy
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Nov 29, 2022 |
It’s time to regulate crypto
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Nov 22, 2022 |
The Weeds’ weed episode
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Nov 15, 2022 |
How to call an election
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Nov 08, 2022 |
How to fix inflation
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Why scaring voters works
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Oct 25, 2022 |
The most interesting issues on the ballot
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Oct 18, 2022 |
The candidates haunting the GOP
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Oct 11, 2022 |
AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
The fastest growing voting bloc in America
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Who decides how we’ll save the future?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
Vitamin X
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Sep 06, 2022 |
It’s a policy team takeover!
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Aug 30, 2022 |
The rebirth of industrial policy
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Could the war on terror be over?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
The new politics of abortion
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Aug 09, 2022 |
Maybe we’re not doomed?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Weeds Time Machine: The ADA
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Jul 26, 2022 |
What the hell is up with SCOTUS?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
The legal limbo of abortion rights
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Pregnancy in a post-Roe America
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Jun 28, 2022 |
ConGRADulations, fellow kids
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Jun 21, 2022 |
How the world became rich
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
The gun control stalemate, explained
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May 31, 2022 |
The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia
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May 27, 2022 |
Immigration, democracy, and the rise of the Western far right
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May 24, 2022 |
The scourge of the “time tax”
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May 17, 2022 |
Ukraine and the global food supply crisis
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May 10, 2022 |
What the Alito leak means for Roe — and everything else
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May 05, 2022 |
The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade
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May 03, 2022 |
Why do we go to war?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Weeds Time Machine: The Clean Air Act
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Apr 19, 2022 |
Tax time at the culture wars
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Taxes! Let’s get right Intuit.
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Apr 05, 2022 |
The Great Expiration
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Mar 29, 2022 |
The art of the gerrymander
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Mar 22, 2022 |
The myth of US energy independence
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Mar 15, 2022 |
Why it’s so hard to move in America
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Russia's terrible invasion
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Mar 01, 2022 |
A quick update
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Feb 25, 2022 |
Why San Francisco’s school board got booted
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
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Feb 18, 2022 |
The curse of the midterms
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?
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Feb 08, 2022 |
It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
Think of the children
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Unions!
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Jan 28, 2022 |
What happens to voting rights now?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Are corporations winning at inflation?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
What BBB means for climate policy
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Jan 19, 2022 |
How the 1918 flu pandemic ended
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Jan 14, 2022 |
The case for more babies
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Jan 11, 2022 |
The building blocks of radicalization
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Jan 07, 2022 |
Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Best Of: The coming climate exodus
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Dec 28, 2021 |
America’s Public Health Experiment: Federal failures
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Dec 21, 2021 |
America's Public Health Experiment: More checks, less politics
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Can school be normal again?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
America’s Public Health Experiment: The agencies Covid broke
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Learning to love rent control
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Dec 07, 2021 |
America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Defund the police?
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Biden’s $3.40 a gallon problem
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Nov 24, 2021 |
Taxing Back Better
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Nov 19, 2021 |
How does the pandemic end?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Reshaping America’s cities
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Nov 12, 2021 |
Pass the SALT?
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Nov 10, 2021 |
The Most Dangerous Branch: Covid-19 v. The Constitution
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Is Facebook really that bad?
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Housing policy, but make it British
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Oct 29, 2021 |
The case for and against open borders
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Oct 26, 2021 |
The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia
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Oct 22, 2021 |
Is inflation out of control?
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Oct 19, 2021 |
The home care fight in Congress
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Oct 15, 2021 |
The coming climate exodus
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Oct 12, 2021 |
The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Yes, vaccine mandates work
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Oct 05, 2021 |
How genes impact your life
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Oct 01, 2021 |
The debt ceiling’s threat to America
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Sep 28, 2021 |
AMA time with Dylan, German, and Jerusalem
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Sep 24, 2021 |
Means testing our patience
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Sep 21, 2021 |
Ezra, Matt, and Sarah Try (Again) to Podcast
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Sep 17, 2021 |
The Weeds Will Live Forever
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Sep 14, 2021 |
The Federal Reserve's regulatory issues
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Sep 10, 2021 |
The Federal Reserve: Climate Change edition
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Sep 07, 2021 |
Who's afraid of a big bad poll?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
Galaxy Brain Recession
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Aug 31, 2021 |
Afghan refugees face an uncertain future
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Aug 27, 2021 |
Boosters: Worth it or not, here they come
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Baby making vibes
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Back to School: Masters mishaps
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Aug 17, 2021 |
Reign of Terror
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Aug 13, 2021 |
Back to School: Learning loss
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Aug 10, 2021 |
Dare to speak freely
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Back to School: All for pre-K, and pre-K for all
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Aug 04, 2021 |
Getting power to the people
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Time Machine: Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
Prices on the rise
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Jul 23, 2021 |
Time Machine: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
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Jul 21, 2021 |
The critical race theory debate
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Time Machine: Volcker Shock
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Jul 14, 2021 |
Cruelty: the point
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Jul 09, 2021 |
Time Machine: No Child Left Behind
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Coming attractions
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Who started Covid?
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Jun 26, 2021 |
So, for the next pandemic....
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Jun 23, 2021 |
What's the deal with that new Alzheimer's drug?
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Jun 16, 2021 |
Zoning our way through it
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Jun 12, 2021 |
Hot jobs summer
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Jun 09, 2021 |
The pipeline to prison
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Jun 05, 2021 |
The lab-leak hypothesis
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Jun 02, 2021 |
Stephen Breyer should retire
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May 28, 2021 |
Give more money to cranks!
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May 25, 2021 |
Research the police
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May 21, 2021 |
Masks off! Party time?
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May 18, 2021 |
The plan for more free school
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May 14, 2021 |
Homelessness and the rising tide
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May 11, 2021 |
The app store war
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May 07, 2021 |
The "hundred days" myth
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May 05, 2021 |
There's lead in your turmeric
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Apr 30, 2021 |
A Manchin for all seasons
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Apr 28, 2021 |
Why transit projects fail
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Apr 23, 2021 |
The pandemic playbook
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Think like a scout
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Apr 17, 2021 |
White paper-palooza
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Apr 14, 2021 |
It's time for class warfare
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Apr 10, 2021 |
Bidencare?
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Apr 07, 2021 |
The politics of cultural criticism
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Apr 03, 2021 |
All circuits matter
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Mar 31, 2021 |
The optimistic leftist
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Mar 27, 2021 |
Is gun violence fixable?
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Mar 24, 2021 |
All about inflation
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Mar 19, 2021 |
Asylum policy for the here and now
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Introducing Unexplainable
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Mar 14, 2021 |
An A.I. wrote this title
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Mar 12, 2021 |
The right to vote, constrained
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Mar 10, 2021 |
Facebook's shadow court
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Mar 05, 2021 |
How to destroy the suburbs
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Mar 03, 2021 |
All organizing is local
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Feb 26, 2021 |
Covid-$1.9T
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Feb 23, 2021 |
The problem of child care
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Feb 19, 2021 |
The Antipope in Mar-a-Lago
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Rethinking immigration
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Feb 12, 2021 |
What's happening with the stimulus?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
The future of remote work
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Feb 05, 2021 |
Where are the vaccines?
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Feb 03, 2021 |
Filibusted
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Jan 29, 2021 |
Biden's immigration shuffle
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Freedom from markets
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Jan 22, 2021 |
Biden's rescue plan
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Jan 20, 2021 |
The Next Four Years: Fighting tech monopolies
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Jan 15, 2021 |
Will the GOP be Q-pilled or Coup-pilled?
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Unemployment Insurance in the pandemic, and beyond
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Jan 08, 2021 |
America's vaccine distribution needs a shot in the arm
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Jan 06, 2021 |
Best of: Homelessness and how to fix it
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Dec 22, 2020 |
The Next Four Years: Beyond the student debt debate
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Dec 18, 2020 |
Build Back Exactly The Same
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Dec 15, 2020 |
The Next Four Years: An optimistic climate agenda
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Dec 11, 2020 |
The blob is back
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Dec 08, 2020 |
The Next Four Years: The Covid transition
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Dec 04, 2020 |
The job nobody wants
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Dec 01, 2020 |
The post-election economy
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Nov 24, 2020 |
The Next Four Years: Joe Biden’s world
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Nov 20, 2020 |
Georgia on my mind
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Nov 17, 2020 |
The Next Four Years: How to make a Biden Boom
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Nov 13, 2020 |
The never ending election story
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Nov 10, 2020 |
Democracy lost
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Nov 06, 2020 |
Election Day Special
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Nov 03, 2020 |
Lessons learned from Trump’s first term
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Oct 30, 2020 |
Biden’s border options
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Trump’s last stand
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Oct 23, 2020 |
Trump's second term agenda
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Oct 20, 2020 |
Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble
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Oct 17, 2020 |
Email scandals are back!
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Oct 16, 2020 |
What is critical race theory, anyway?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
By the People: The Supreme Court's war on democracy
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Oct 10, 2020 |
The stimulus standoff
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Oct 09, 2020 |
On biracial identity (with Thomas Chatterton Williams)
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Oct 06, 2020 |
By the People: Blame the Constitution
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Oct 03, 2020 |
Fighting back against factory farming
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Oct 02, 2020 |
A dark, dangerous debate
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Sep 30, 2020 |
By the People: How to make sure your vote is counted
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Sep 26, 2020 |
Dianne Feinstein, please listen to this episode!
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Sep 25, 2020 |
After RBG
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Sep 22, 2020 |
By the People: How to rig an election
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Sep 19, 2020 |
One Billion Americans
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Sep 18, 2020 |
How Trump closed the border
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Sep 15, 2020 |
The definitive case against the filibuster
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Sep 11, 2020 |
Steal this podcast
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Sep 08, 2020 |
LAW AND ORDER
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Sep 04, 2020 |
Trump sells out
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Sep 01, 2020 |
The Trump Show
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Aug 28, 2020 |
The Cut: Optimism
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Aug 26, 2020 |
Trump's peddling a fake Covid-19 cure
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Democratic convention special
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Aug 21, 2020 |
WTF is happening with USPS
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Aug 18, 2020 |
What the hell is the Republican party doing?
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Aug 14, 2020 |
What is the economy, stupid?
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Veepstakes
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Aug 07, 2020 |
The stimulus standoff
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Aug 04, 2020 |
The Great Awokening
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Jul 31, 2020 |
Trafficking, and trafficking panics
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Jul 28, 2020 |
The evidence on crime and policing
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Jul 24, 2020 |
Bad for the Jews?
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Jul 21, 2020 |
Biden reloaded
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Jul 17, 2020 |
School’s out for Covid
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Jul 14, 2020 |
The Covid resurgence
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Jul 10, 2020 |
Contagious enthusiasm
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Jul 07, 2020 |
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
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Jul 03, 2020 |
The war on bad statues
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Jun 30, 2020 |
The Veepstakes
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Jun 26, 2020 |
Talking about talking
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Jun 23, 2020 |
The legal doctrine that protects brutal policing
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Jun 19, 2020 |
Fixing the police
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Jun 16, 2020 |
America gives up on Covid-19
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Jun 12, 2020 |
After George Floyd
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Defund the police?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
The global class war
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Jun 02, 2020 |
Tweeting through it
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May 29, 2020 |
Joe Biden ain't black
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May 26, 2020 |
The stimulus failure
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May 22, 2020 |
Actual enumeration
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May 19, 2020 |
The psychology of opening up
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May 15, 2020 |
Will the economy bounce back?
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May 12, 2020 |
Reopening without a plan
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May 08, 2020 |
How to win elections
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May 05, 2020 |
Are Democrats getting rolled?
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May 01, 2020 |
A faster Covid-19 vaccine
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Apr 28, 2020 |
Who models the modelers?
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Apr 24, 2020 |
Opening up
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Apr 21, 2020 |
Help is on the way (sort of)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
The corporate bailout watchdog
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Apr 14, 2020 |
How does this end?
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Apr 10, 2020 |
Covid-19 and the border
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Apr 07, 2020 |
Coronavirus meets health reform
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Apr 03, 2020 |
The mask fiasco
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Mar 31, 2020 |
When $2 trillion isn’t enough
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Mar 27, 2020 |
Fighting coronavirus with corporate conscription
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Mar 24, 2020 |
The story of Trump's swamp
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Mar 21, 2020 |
Devaluing black assets
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Mar 20, 2020 |
Rescuing the economy from coronavirus
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Mar 17, 2020 |
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
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Mar 14, 2020 |
Meet the YIMBYs
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Mayor Pete and the state of LGBTQ politics
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Mar 10, 2020 |
A "titan" of social conservatism on the courts and his battles ahead
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Mar 07, 2020 |
Behind the Covid-19 curve
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Mar 06, 2020 |
Coronavirus 101
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Mar 03, 2020 |
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
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Feb 29, 2020 |
Going nuclear
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Black voters take the stage
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Feb 25, 2020 |
The year of housing reform
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Mike can get what done?
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Feb 18, 2020 |
Private equity, explained
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Feb 14, 2020 |
After asylum
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Feb 11, 2020 |
How we pick a president
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Feb 07, 2020 |
Iowapocalypse Now
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Feb 04, 2020 |
Fix recessions by giving people money
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Jan 31, 2020 |
A conversation about anti-Semitism
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Jan 28, 2020 |
The road to polarization
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Jan 24, 2020 |
Green New Germany
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Jan 22, 2020 |
Three roads to universal coverage
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Jan 21, 2020 |
The way forward on family leave
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Jan 17, 2020 |
Ezra and Matt debate the debaters
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Jan 15, 2020 |
Mission Accomplished?
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Jan 14, 2020 |
Why are we fighting Iran?
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Jan 10, 2020 |
Midichlorian chili
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Jan 07, 2020 |
Neighborhood Defenders
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Jan 03, 2020 |
2019 in review
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Dec 31, 2019 |
The next abortion debate
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Dec 27, 2019 |
No room at the inn (live!)
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Dec 24, 2019 |
Wine cave cage match
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Dec 20, 2019 |
Primary mooples
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Dec 17, 2019 |
Policy by other means
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Dec 13, 2019 |
The free college debate
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Dec 10, 2019 |
Movement building in the Trump era
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Dec 06, 2019 |
You say "usmca," I say "U-S-M-C-A"
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Build housing near transit
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Nov 29, 2019 |
Impeachment's policy roots
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Nov 26, 2019 |
Single-payer federalism
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Nov 22, 2019 |
Groypers vs. Conservatism Inc.
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Nov 19, 2019 |
The case for subsidized jobs
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Nov 15, 2019 |
Introducing Reset
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Nov 13, 2019 |
The billionaire backlash
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Nov 12, 2019 |
The internet we lost
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Nov 08, 2019 |
Paying for single-payer
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Beyond the leaky bucket
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Nov 01, 2019 |
The fall of Katie Hill
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Oct 29, 2019 |
The scary truth about air pollution
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Oct 25, 2019 |
The electability debate
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Oct 22, 2019 |
The four words that will decide impeachment
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Oct 19, 2019 |
Debating the robot takeover
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Oct 16, 2019 |
Understanding the student debt crisis
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Progressives' Supreme Court problem
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Oct 11, 2019 |
Mayor Pete explains his prescription drug plan
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Oct 09, 2019 |
What to expect when you’re impeaching
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Oct 08, 2019 |
Homelessness and how to fix it
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Oct 04, 2019 |
Trump's war on the homeless
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Oct 01, 2019 |
America's missing babies
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Sep 27, 2019 |
The Kiev Caper
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Sep 24, 2019 |
Did economists break America?
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Out of sight, out of mind
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Sep 17, 2019 |
ABCDebate
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Sep 13, 2019 |
50 shades of Green New Deal
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Sep 13, 2019 |
A plan to revive American unions
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Sep 10, 2019 |
The left’s path to power
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Sep 06, 2019 |
Trump's primary challengers
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Sep 03, 2019 |
The case for foreign policy restraint
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Aug 30, 2019 |
Trump's latest trade war
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Aug 27, 2019 |
Does America need trade deals?
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Aug 23, 2019 |
Slavery and its legacy
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Aug 20, 2019 |
Trump's war on Medicaid
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Aug 16, 2019 |
Epstein conspiracy time
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Aug 13, 2019 |
The case for a Green New Deal
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Aug 09, 2019 |
Domestic terrorism after El Paso
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Aug 06, 2019 |
The second Democratic debate
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Aug 02, 2019 |
The many mysteries of Jeffrey Epstein
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Jul 30, 2019 |
Dysfunctional federalism
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Jul 26, 2019 |
Go back to Cincinnati
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel
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Jul 19, 2019 |
Space Force all the way!
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Jul 16, 2019 |
School’s out for summer
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Jul 12, 2019 |
Ask Weeds Anything
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Jul 09, 2019 |
A progressive case for globalism
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Jul 05, 2019 |
Democracy's week in court
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Jul 02, 2019 |
Debate Weeds: Ezra and Matt on the long-awaited Democratic presidential debate
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Jun 28, 2019 |
What’s really going on with child detention?
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Jun 25, 2019 |
What’s really happening in Central America
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Jun 21, 2019 |
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
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Jun 19, 2019 |
The “illiberal” right
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Jun 18, 2019 |
5 big ideas to use tax credits to fight poverty
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Jun 14, 2019 |
Into the weeds with Elizabeth Warren
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Jun 11, 2019 |
A user's guide to antitrust
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Jun 07, 2019 |
Trump’s tariff triple option
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Jun 04, 2019 |
Monetary mysteries revealed
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May 31, 2019 |
Building the Trump state
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May 28, 2019 |
Rethinking education reform
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May 24, 2019 |
The loneliness of Justin Amash
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May 21, 2019 |
America's two housing crises
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May 17, 2019 |
Make America 2015 Again
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May 14, 2019 |
Green New Weeds
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May 10, 2019 |
Sarah's Last Stand
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May 07, 2019 |
Mexico: America's waiting room
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May 03, 2019 |
Incels and bullshitters
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Apr 30, 2019 |
Was The Weeds on the wrong side of history?
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Apr 26, 2019 |
What to obstruct when you’re obstructing
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Apr 23, 2019 |
Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]
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Apr 18, 2019 |
Trump Family (Tax) Values
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Apr 16, 2019 |
How Canada got Medicare-for-all done
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Apr 12, 2019 |
The Purge: DHS
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Apr 09, 2019 |
Attack of the clone bills
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Apr 05, 2019 |
Learning from Norway's lesbian mothers
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Apr 02, 2019 |
Infrastructure Week (and Farm Week and Teacher Week)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
Mueller's investigation is over. Obamacare repeal isn't.
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Mar 26, 2019 |
Should presidential candidates get into the weeds?
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Mar 22, 2019 |
The reparations primary
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Mar 19, 2019 |
Live Weeds with Julián Castro
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Mar 15, 2019 |
Introducing Switched on Pop
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Mar 13, 2019 |
Live Weeds with Pete Buttigieg
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Mar 12, 2019 |
The long con
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Mar 08, 2019 |
But seriously, how are you going to pay for it?
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Mar 05, 2019 |
The Weeds fixes racism
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Mar 01, 2019 |
Amy Klobuchar and the Jill Robinson effect
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Feb 26, 2019 |
Day care for all!
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Feb 22, 2019 |
Collusion and the Mueller endgame
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Feb 19, 2019 |
Emergency Weeds
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Feb 15, 2019 |
What’s the best way to help the poor?
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Feb 12, 2019 |
WTF, VA?
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Feb 08, 2019 |
Do we need private insurance?
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Feb 05, 2019 |
House Democrats’ plan to save democracy
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Feb 01, 2019 |
Elizabeth Warren and the Two-Income Trap
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Jan 29, 2019 |
The end of the shutdown
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Jan 25, 2019 |
Investigating ER bills and SNAP fraud
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Jan 22, 2019 |
You can't eat your principles for dinner
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Jan 18, 2019 |
Taxing the rich
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Jan 15, 2019 |
Tucker Carlson vs the free market
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Jan 11, 2019 |
Ask Weeds Anything
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Jan 08, 2019 |
New year, no government
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Jan 04, 2019 |
Classic Weeds: The great white panic
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Jan 01, 2019 |
The Weeds Year-End Spectacular
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Dec 28, 2018 |
Congress actually did something important
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Dec 21, 2018 |
Bernie and Biden and Beto, oh my!
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Dec 18, 2018 |
A big, beautiful podcast about the border wall
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Dec 14, 2018 |
A Weeds farewell to Paul Ryan
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Dec 11, 2018 |
Pod Save the US-Saudi alliance?
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Dec 07, 2018 |
Midwest Republicans lost in 2018 — but they’re not giving up power
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Dec 04, 2018 |
Mexico was the wall all along
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Nov 30, 2018 |
The many flavors of Medicare-for-all
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Nov 27, 2018 |
The Impact: How do you make education funding fair?
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Nov 23, 2018 |
The future of conservatism is being forged in California
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Nov 20, 2018 |
Facebook is bad, please join our Facebook group
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Nov 16, 2018 |
Jeff Sessions is gone but not forgotten
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Nov 09, 2018 |
About last night
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Nov 07, 2018 |
Seattle’s plan to save democracy
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Nov 06, 2018 |
Bad for the Jews
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Nov 02, 2018 |
Operation Win the Midterms
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Oct 31, 2018 |
Republicans’ health care message: Lie a lot
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Oct 30, 2018 |
Our elections are being hacked
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Oct 26, 2018 |
What's next for House Democrats?
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Oct 24, 2018 |
Cory Booker’s plan to close the racial wealth gap
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Oct 23, 2018 |
Trump versus the Caravan
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Oct 19, 2018 |
Republicans run everything, and they’re mad as hell
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Oct 17, 2018 |
America’s moral failure on climate
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Oct 16, 2018 |
I’mma let you finish
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Oct 12, 2018 |
As tough as Texas
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Oct 10, 2018 |
The craziest Obamacare lawsuit yet
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Oct 09, 2018 |
Alexa, raise the minimum wage
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Oct 05, 2018 |
When women run
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Oct 03, 2018 |
Death to NAFTA! Long live USMCA!
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Oct 02, 2018 |
Do Republicans even care if Kavanaugh is guilty?
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Sep 28, 2018 |
What Sarah learned on parental leave
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Sep 25, 2018 |
What could stop the next Botham Jean?
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Sep 21, 2018 |
#MeToo goes to the Supreme Court
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Sep 18, 2018 |
Can Elon Musk save Tesla from himself?
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Sep 14, 2018 |
I am the Resistance inside The Weeds podcast
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Sep 11, 2018 |
Colin Kaepernick, the most important election issue in the world
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Sep 07, 2018 |
What’s at stake in the midterms
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Sep 04, 2018 |
America picked a lousy time to turn its back on refugees
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Aug 31, 2018 |
John McCain vs. the idea of John McCain
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Aug 28, 2018 |
The art of the squeal
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Aug 24, 2018 |
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save/destroy capitalism
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Aug 21, 2018 |
We’re not gonna pay rent
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Aug 17, 2018 |
Lordy, Omarosa has tapes
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Aug 14, 2018 |
#FakeScience
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Aug 10, 2018 |
The Great Twitter Wars of 2018
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Aug 07, 2018 |
Paul Manafort, alleged ostrich-collar criminal
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Aug 03, 2018 |
The great white panic
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Jul 31, 2018 |
“Mission Accomplished,” trade war edition
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Jul 27, 2018 |
What Republicans can do on Trump and Russia
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Jul 24, 2018 |
It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America
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Jul 20, 2018 |
There’s collusion, and then there’s collusion
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Jul 17, 2018 |
Republicans' plan for health care: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jul 13, 2018 |
Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court
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Jul 10, 2018 |
1,2,3,4 Trump declares a trade war
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Jul 06, 2018 |
Family detention is the new family separation
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Jul 03, 2018 |
America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice
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Jun 29, 2018 |
With borders wide open
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Jun 26, 2018 |
The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court
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Jun 22, 2018 |
Which children matter?
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Jun 19, 2018 |
Ask Weeds Anything...Again!
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Jun 15, 2018 |
Why 12-step programs work — and family separation doesn’t
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Jun 12, 2018 |
Can we get tough on rapists without being “tough on crime”?
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Jun 08, 2018 |
Cake Wars, Supreme Court edition
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Jun 05, 2018 |
Trump isn’t losing immigrant kids, but he is taking them from their parents
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Jun 01, 2018 |
The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explained
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May 29, 2018 |
Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)
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May 22, 2018 |
Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web
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May 18, 2018 |
Drugs! (But not the fun kind)
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May 15, 2018 |
The many scandals of Michael Cohen
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May 11, 2018 |
Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?
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May 08, 2018 |
Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?
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May 04, 2018 |
What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?
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May 01, 2018 |
Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained
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Apr 27, 2018 |
Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)
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Apr 24, 2018 |
Boiling the frogs of war
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Apr 20, 2018 |
Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military
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Apr 17, 2018 |
All 👏 payer 👏 rate 👏 setting 👏
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Apr 13, 2018 |
The imprudent Scott Pruitt
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Apr 10, 2018 |
Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news
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Apr 06, 2018 |
Is Donald Trump ruining the Census?
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Apr 03, 2018 |
The optimistic take is things have always been bad (Worldly crossover)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
Is Facebook bad?
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Mar 27, 2018 |
Cambridge Analytica: Scandal, hype, or both?
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Mar 23, 2018 |
The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?
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Mar 20, 2018 |
Abolish ICE
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Mar 16, 2018 |
Trigger warning: Discussion of White House chaos and political correctness
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Mar 13, 2018 |
Nickname fights and wildcat strikes
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Mar 09, 2018 |
Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks
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Mar 06, 2018 |
Guns, Weeds, and Steel
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Mar 02, 2018 |
Medicare for Many More
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Feb 27, 2018 |
The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard
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Feb 23, 2018 |
It's finally infrastructure week
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Feb 20, 2018 |
DACApocalypse in the Senate
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Feb 16, 2018 |
The gender pay gap is mostly about children
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Feb 13, 2018 |
The six-hour shutdown, explained
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Feb 09, 2018 |
What's up with Amazon's health venture — and the stock market
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Feb 06, 2018 |
MS-13, explained
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Feb 02, 2018 |
The state of our podcast is strong
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Jan 31, 2018 |
The white genocide episode you’ve been waiting for
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Jan 26, 2018 |
Shutdown deal special
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Jan 22, 2018 |
The Shutdown Special
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Jan 19, 2018 |
No one wants to take responsibility for sick kids or fake news
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Jan 16, 2018 |
Shithole special
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Jan 12, 2018 |
Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time
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Jan 09, 2018 |
Winter, explained
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Jan 05, 2018 |
Why is US life expectancy falling?
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Jan 02, 2018 |
The most undercovered policy stories of 2017
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Dec 29, 2017 |
Ask Weeds Anything!
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Dec 22, 2017 |
Tax reforms and garbage factories
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Dec 19, 2017 |
The Great Awokening comes to Congress
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Dec 15, 2017 |
Alabama senate special
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Dec 13, 2017 |
Is the FBI good now?
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Dec 08, 2017 |
Net neutrality, explained (Also! Why CVS is buying Aetna)
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Dec 05, 2017 |
How the GOP is weaponizing the tax code
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Dec 01, 2017 |
Five big problems with the GOP tax plan
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Nov 28, 2017 |
A very Weeds Thanksgiving
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Nov 21, 2017 |
Tax reform special
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Nov 17, 2017 |
Republicans’ Roy Moore problem
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Nov 14, 2017 |
Virginia is for Democrats
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Nov 10, 2017 |
The vaunted, versatile VAT
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Nov 07, 2017 |
The tax bill's winners and many, many losers
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Nov 03, 2017 |
Indictment special! Plus: is Paul Ryan cowardly or courageous?
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Oct 31, 2017 |
Purge 3: The Bannoning
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Oct 27, 2017 |
Republicans: "Math" means you have to cut taxes on the rich. Weeds: Nope.
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Oct 24, 2017 |
How immigration took over Virginia’s governor race
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Oct 20, 2017 |
The Impact: The curious case of the $629 Band Aid
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Oct 18, 2017 |
How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?
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Oct 17, 2017 |
Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse
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Oct 13, 2017 |
CHIPping away at gerrymandering
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Oct 10, 2017 |
Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform
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Oct 06, 2017 |
Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?
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Oct 03, 2017 |
The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response
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Sep 29, 2017 |
What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?
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Sep 26, 2017 |
Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment
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Sep 22, 2017 |
The worst GOP healthcare bill yet
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Sep 20, 2017 |
White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos
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Sep 15, 2017 |
BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI
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Sep 13, 2017 |
Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and roll
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Sep 08, 2017 |
Trump's art of the sabotage
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Sep 06, 2017 |
Deferred action podcasting
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Sep 01, 2017 |
The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster
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Aug 30, 2017 |
Donald Trump vs the congressional GOP
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Aug 25, 2017 |
How the rich ate all the growth
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Aug 23, 2017 |
Statue limitations
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Aug 18, 2017 |
A very meritorious podcast
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Aug 16, 2017 |
Can John Kelly fix the Trump administration? Can anyone?
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Aug 11, 2017 |
Is Google in an "ideological echo chamber"?
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Aug 09, 2017 |
The bacon fat theory of school segregation, and some White House chaos
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Aug 02, 2017 |
ACA repeal is finally dead (maybe)
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Jul 28, 2017 |
Skinny repeal and Trump's management by tweet
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Jul 26, 2017 |
A deep dive on basic income
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Jul 21, 2017 |
At last, a Weeds about weed (also Obamacare)
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Jul 19, 2017 |
McConnellCare II: Cruz Control
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Jul 14, 2017 |
Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)
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Jul 12, 2017 |
Understanding the opioid epidemic
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Jul 07, 2017 |
Trumpism and travel bans
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Jul 05, 2017 |
Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to write a budget
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Jun 30, 2017 |
CB--Oh no this health care bill is terrible too
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Jun 28, 2017 |
Senate Republicans' health care idea: Make the poor pay more for less
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Jun 23, 2017 |
Georgia (and Obamacare repeal) on our minds
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Jun 21, 2017 |
Trump’s “buck stops somewhere else” foreign policy
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Jun 16, 2017 |
Legends of the secret health care bill
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Jun 14, 2017 |
Infrastructure week (jk it's about Comey)
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Jun 09, 2017 |
Meet Sprinklecare
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Jun 08, 2017 |
Jared Kushner: International man of mystery
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Jun 02, 2017 |
A platinum get out of jail free card
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May 31, 2017 |
Weeds in the Wild: Tennessee's Healthcare Bald Spot
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May 29, 2017 |
CB--Oh, this bill stinks
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May 26, 2017 |
Trump's budget has landed, and it's terrible
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May 24, 2017 |
All the Trump scandal drama you've been craving
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May 19, 2017 |
Trump chaos, UBI, and the fracking baby boom
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May 17, 2017 |
Weeds in the Wild: Free Money... For Everyone!
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May 12, 2017 |
The wall in our hearts
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May 10, 2017 |
AHCApocalypse III
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May 05, 2017 |
High-Risk Podcasting
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May 03, 2017 |
AHCApocalypse II
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Apr 28, 2017 |
French elections, national service, and Queens at war
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Apr 26, 2017 |
Weeds Live!
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Apr 19, 2017 |
Weeds in the Wild: Meet Joan, the Robotic Pelvis
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Apr 14, 2017 |
The World's Worst Club
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Apr 12, 2017 |
Nuclear Winter
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Apr 05, 2017 |
A cheery discussion of global warming, Obamacare repeal, and death
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Mar 31, 2017 |
Weeds in the Wild: Postville
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Mar 24, 2017 |
Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers
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Mar 21, 2017 |
CB-uh oh!
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Mar 15, 2017 |
AHCApalooza
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Mar 08, 2017 |
Don't Call It a State of the Union
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Mar 01, 2017 |
Death Panel If You Do, Death Panel If You Don't
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Feb 22, 2017 |
Weeds in the Wild: Sarah Goes to Kentucky
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Feb 17, 2017 |
Privet, Amerika!
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Feb 15, 2017 |
The Time Traveling Emanuel Brothers
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Feb 09, 2017 |
SCOTUS, DBCFT, and Hitler's Highways
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Feb 01, 2017 |
The Don't-Call-It-A-Muslim-Ban
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Jan 30, 2017 |
Gag Order and Infrastructure
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Jan 26, 2017 |
Inauguration Special
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Jan 21, 2017 |
DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats
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Jan 18, 2017 |
Trump Cabinet, Obamacare Update, and Heroin
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Jan 10, 2017 |
Sarah and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
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Jan 06, 2017 |
Happy New Year
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Jan 04, 2017 |
Year-End Spectacular
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Dec 28, 2016 |
Kentucky, the Rust Belt, and the Big Picture on Trade
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Dec 21, 2016 |
Russia and the American Dream
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Dec 14, 2016 |
Trump's Surprisingly Ambitious Education Agenda
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Dec 07, 2016 |
Assessing the Trump Cabinet — and Exploring How Recessions Affect Health
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Nov 30, 2016 |
Conflicts of Interest, Trump and the Media, and Rethinking Teen Pregnancy
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Nov 23, 2016 |
Sneak peak: a new Vox podcast, about how policy effects real people
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Nov 21, 2016 |
The Trump Agenda
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Nov 16, 2016 |
Trumpocalypse Now
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Nov 09, 2016 |
The Massive Policy Stakes of 2016
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Nov 04, 2016 |
Is Obamacare Failing?
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Oct 26, 2016 |
Final Debate Special
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Oct 20, 2016 |
Second Presidential Debate Special
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Oct 10, 2016 |
Veep Debate and Cranky Judges
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Oct 05, 2016 |
The First Debate and Pet Health Care
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Sep 29, 2016 |
An Interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell
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Sep 21, 2016 |
Best Census Ever, the Trump Foundation, and Class Discrimination
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Sep 14, 2016 |
Gender Wage Gap and the Mystery of State Legislatures
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Sep 08, 2016 |
EpiPen Prices, the Clinton Foundation, and Lead Exposure
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Aug 31, 2016 |
Obamacare Update and Aging America
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Aug 24, 2016 |
Think Tanks, Transition, and What Drives Trumpkins
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Aug 18, 2016 |
Trump's tax plan, democratic legitimacy, and the Freakonomics of decisionmaking
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Aug 12, 2016 |
Interview with Atul Gawande
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Aug 03, 2016 |
DNC-Palooza
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Jul 28, 2016 |
Republican Convention Special
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Jul 22, 2016 |
Basic Income and Police Shootings
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Jul 15, 2016 |
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
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Jul 14, 2016 |
Free College, Email Extravaganza, and the China Shock
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Jul 08, 2016 |
Brexit 2, SCOTUS on abortion, and the missing male workers
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Jul 01, 2016 |
Welfare reform, SCOTUS deadlock, and health care jerk
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Jun 25, 2016 |
Guns, Brexit, and Free Condoms
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Jun 17, 2016 |
5uper Tue5day
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Jun 10, 2016 |
Accountable Care Organizations, more Swedish administrative data, and the big city recovery
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Jun 03, 2016 |
Health care innovation, did Dems rig the primary, and fetal stress
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May 27, 2016 |
90s nostalgia, Obamacare lawsuits, and the truth about abortion
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May 20, 2016 |
Competition in Obamacare marketplaces and how low-income housing can boost poor neighborhoods
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May 13, 2016 |
Trump is the Republican nominee. What happens next?
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May 06, 2016 |
Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
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May 02, 2016 |
Land value taxes, soda taxes, and carbon taxes — oh my!
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Apr 29, 2016 |
Our undemocratic primaries, Obama's new fiduciary rule, and the challenge of information polarization
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Apr 22, 2016 |
Interview with Jason Furman
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Apr 18, 2016 |
Why inequality matters, Trump's delegate problem, and the geography of life expectancy
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Apr 15, 2016 |
What the hell is going on with tax havens, explained
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Apr 08, 2016 |
A medical struggle to digitize, a tax calculator, and a paper that explains Trump
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Apr 01, 2016 |
Replacing No Child Left Behind, wonky March Madness, and Uber's productivity
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Mar 25, 2016 |
Super(b) Tuesday special
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Mar 16, 2016 |
The productivity slowdown, TrumpCare, and better textbooks
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Mar 11, 2016 |
Super Tuesday/Exhausted Wednesday special!
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Mar 02, 2016 |
TPP, the Nevada Caucus, and the Great Texas Abortion clinic shutdown.
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Feb 26, 2016 |
The Supreme Court vacancy and the possible collapse of American democracy
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Feb 19, 2016 |
Could more corruption fix American politics?
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Feb 12, 2016 |
The Iowa Caucuses
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Feb 02, 2016 |
Will taxing the rich hurt growth – and will third parties save politics?
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Jan 29, 2016 |
Ross Douthat on campus conservatism, being thankful for Donald Trump, and how to write so liberals will read you
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Jan 26, 2016 |
Campaign finance and global inequality — with lead poisoning in between
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Jan 22, 2016 |
Obama's Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare's jobs impact
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Jan 15, 2016 |
Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed stand-off in between
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Jan 08, 2016 |
Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts
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Dec 25, 2015 |
Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters
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Dec 18, 2015 |
Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke
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Dec 15, 2015 |
Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate
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Dec 11, 2015 |
Dietary fat and climate change
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Dec 04, 2015 |
Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between
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Nov 20, 2015 |
We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?
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Nov 13, 2015 |
How politics is making us stupid
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Nov 06, 2015 |
Are we counting poverty all wrong?
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Oct 30, 2015 |
Want to fix inequality by taxing the rich? Good luck.
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Oct 23, 2015 |
The Weeds: Can the government trick you into dieting?
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Oct 16, 2015 |
Arthur Brooks on think tanks, happiness, and management
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Oct 15, 2015 |
Would single payer health care work in America?
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Oct 09, 2015 |
Ezra, Matt and Sarah Try to Podcast
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Oct 02, 2015 |