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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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America gives up on Covid-19 Jun 12, 2020

Show notes

Ezra and Matt on the return of a virus that never went away.

Resources:

"America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic" by Alexis C. Madrigal & Robinson Meyer, WaPo

"14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections" by Kim Bellware & Jacqueline Dupree, WaPo

"How Trump uses a crisis: Repeal rules while nobody is looking" by Rachel Augustine Potter, WaPo

Hosts:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

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After George Floyd Jun 09, 2020

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Jane, Dara, and Matt on America's dual reckonings with racism and police impunity

Resources:

"It's Time To Bust Police Unions" by Peter Suderman, Reason

"Libertarianism For Me, Authoritarianism For Thee" by Chris Arnade, American Compass

A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes

"10 Events that Shaped Cincinnati: Timothy Thomas is Shot and Killed" by Cedric Rose, Cincinnati Magazine

"The data proves that school segregation is getting worse" by Alvin Chang, Vox

"NYC delays controversial rezoning of 7 Brooklyn elementary schools" by Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York

"Restrictive Zoning Promotes Racial Segregation" by Matthew Yglesias, Slate

Mapping Police Violence

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Hosts:

Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox

Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox

Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

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Defund the police? Jun 05, 2020

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Ezra and Matt on reformism vs radicalism and reimagining law enforcement

Hosts:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producer

Jackson Bierfeldt, Editor

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The global class war Jun 02, 2020

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Barron's economics commentary Matt Klein explains what's really behind international trade conflicts

Guest:

Matthew C. Klein (@M_C_Klein) Senior Writer, Barrons and author of Trade Wars Are Class Wars

Host:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

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Tweeting through it May 29, 2020

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Ezra and Matt on Trump's war on social media, plus Joe Biden's policy agenda.

*This episode was recorded on Thursday, May 28th, 2020.

Resources:

"Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain" by Kara Swisher, NYT

"Joe Biden has a plan for that" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Hosts:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

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Joe Biden ain't black May 26, 2020

Show notes

Jane, Dara, and Matt on gaffes and the racial politics of 2020

Resources:

"Do Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” comments ultimately matter?" by Fabiola Cineas, Vox

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Hosts:

Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox

Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox

Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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The stimulus failure May 22, 2020

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Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.

Resources:

"Nancy Pelosi says Democrats opted against putting federal aid on autopilot in their $3 trillion coronavirus spending package to avoid amplifying sticker shock" by Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider

"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ

"Federalism Is an Asset" by Danielle Allen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Josh Simons, & Carmel Shachar, Harvard

References:

Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy, The Hamilton Project

Fix recessions by giving people money - The Weeds, featuring Claudia Sahm

The case for subsidized jobs - The Weeds, featuring Indi Dutta-Gupta

Hosts:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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Actual enumeration May 19, 2020

Show notes

Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census.

Resources:

"The pandemic may leave communities of color undercounted in the census — and cost them billions" by Donna M. Owens, Vox

"Trump is still trying to collect citizenship data for redistricting" by Nicole Narea, Vox

"A once-in-a-century pandemic collides with a once-in-a-decade census" by Andrew Whitby, Brookings

"Over a million Hispanics turned white between the 2000 and 2010 Census" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

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Hosts:

Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox

Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox

Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

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The psychology of opening up May 15, 2020

Show notes

Ezra and Matt on the deep roots (or not) of the lockdown debate.

Resources:

"Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

"This drawing explains a surprising amount about your political views" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

"America’s coronavirus testing numbers are really improving — finally" by German Lopez

"The Density Divide" by Will Wilkinson, Niskanen Center

"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ

"Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel &Paul M. Romer

Books referenced:

Prius or Pickup? by Jonathan Weiler & Marc Hetherington

Open versus Closed by Christopher M. Federico, Howard G. Lavine, & Christopher D. Johnston

Hosts:

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox

Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production

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Will the economy bounce back? May 12, 2020

Show notes

Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression.

Resources:

"As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal" by Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post

"Get ready for a second wave of economic pain" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox

"The economy is in free fall. So why isn’t the stock market?" by Emily Stewart, Vox

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Hosts:

Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox

Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox

Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:

Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer

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