Explain It to Me
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Explain It To Me is the hotline for all your unanswered questions. Sometimes explanations are hard to find, misinformation is rampant, and those internet searches and AI asks can come up empty. Call 1-800-618-8545 with what’s on your mind, and host Jonquilyn Hill will be your friendly guide to the answers you're looking for — and maybe even the ones you don’t expect. New episodes every Wednesday starting September 18.
Part of Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Biden’s border options
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the big immigration questions that will face a new administration.
46 min
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Trump’s last stand
Ezra and Matt on the final presidential debate
51 min
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Trump's second term agenda
Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the policy stakes in 2020
55 min
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Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble
38 min
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Email scandals are back!
Ezra and Matt discuss Hunter Biden’s laptop, social media regulation, and the ongoing stimulus standoff
52 min
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What is critical race theory, anyway?
Ian Haney Lopez joins Jane to discuss critical race theory: what it is and what it isn't.
49 min
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By the People: The Supreme Court's war on democ...
What the Supreme Court will do to our voting rights
58 min
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The stimulus standoff
Ezra and Matt on the deadlock in congress and the VP debate.
53 min
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On biracial identity (with Thomas Chatterton Wi...
Jane and Thomas Chatterton Williams talk about mixed-race identity, race and racism, and what being biracial means now.
57 min
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By the People: Blame the Constitution
How America’s constitution is rigged against democracy
62 min
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Fighting back against factory farming
The human costs of the meat we eat
56 min
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A dark, dangerous debate
Ezra and Matt on the disturbing presidential showdown.
67 min
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By the People: How to make sure your vote is co...
The pandemic election
56 min
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Dianne Feinstein, please listen to this episode!
Ezra and Matt discuss the past and future of the US Senate.
60 min
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After RBG
Vox’s judiciary expert Ian Milhiser joins the panel to explain Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy and the future of American jurisprudence
54 min
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By the People: How to rig an election
America’s voter suppression problem
63 min
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One Billion Americans
Ezra and Matt discuss the early days of blogging, Twitter, climate change, and Matt's case for having 1 billion Americans.
88 min
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How Trump closed the border
Rep. Veronica Escobar joins Jane, Dara, and Matt to talk about Texas politics and the use of the pandemic as a pretext to clamp down on asylum.
56 min
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The definitive case against the filibuster
Ezra joins Matt to workshop his latest article — and save American democracy.
49 min
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Steal this podcast
Meredith Haggerty joins Jane and Matt to debate looting and corporate cooptation of social justice.
52 min
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LAW AND ORDER
Matt and Ezra discuss why crime is rising in certain American cities, and the country's growing housing crisis.
59 min
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Trump sells out
Dara, Jane, and Matt discuss Jane’s argument that the GOP establishment changed Trump more than he changed the party
61 min
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The Trump Show
Ezra and Matt on the GOP convention and the politics of "law and order".
53 min
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The Cut: Optimism
Avery explores what optimism means in 2020, and why some people are better at conjuring it, and how those who aren’t can change their own mindset.
29 min
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Trump's peddling a fake Covid-19 cure
Jane, Dara, and Matt on convalescent plasma, FDA reform, and the politics of science
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