The Weeds
Politics is how people achieve power. Policy is what they do with it. Every week on The Weeds, host Jonquilyn Hill and guests break down the policies that shape our lives, from abortion to financial regulations to affirmative action to housing. We dive deep and we get wonky, but we have fun along the way. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Bad for the Jews?
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Nick Cannon, Louis Farrakhan, and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
56 min
277
Biden reloaded
Ezra and Matt on Joe Biden’s unification strategy with the left.
62 min
278
School’s out for Covid
Jane, Dara, and Matt on the school reopening debate and the political consequences of HIV/AIDS.
55 min
279
The Covid resurgence
Ezra and Matt on how America failed while the world made progress on the pandemic
48 min
280
Contagious enthusiasm
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Biden’s excitement gap.
58 min
281
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Land of the Giants is a podcast from our friends at Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network that examines the most powerful tech companies of our time.
21 min
282
The war on bad statues
Jane, Dara, and Matt on Confederate Memorials, Woodrow Wilson, and the battle for historical memory.
60 min
283
The Veepstakes
Ezra and Matt on Warren, Abrams, Harris, and the Tammies, and the links between racial and economic justice.
50 min
284
Talking about talking
Jane, Dara, and Matt explain “intersectional,” “structural” and the new language of identity discourse.
42 min
285
The legal doctrine that protects brutal policing
Cato's Clark Neily joins Jane to discuss Qualified Immunity - where is came from, why it exists, and what's being done to eliminate it.
42 min
286
Fixing the police
Jane, Dara, and Matt on what we know about police reform and its limits.
67 min
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America gives up on Covid-19
Ezra and Matt on the return of a virus that never went away.
50 min
288
After George Floyd
Jane, Dara, and Matt on America's dual reckonings with racism and police impunity
62 min
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Defund the police?
Ezra and Matt on reformism vs radicalism and reimagining law enforcement
49 min
290
The global class war
Barron's economics commentary Matt Klein explains what's really behind international trade conflicts
69 min
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Tweeting through it
Ezra and Matt on Trump's war on social media, plus Joe Biden's policy agenda.
54 min
292
Joe Biden ain't black
Jane, Dara, and Matt on gaffes and the racial politics of 2020
55 min
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The stimulus failure
Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.
48 min
294
Actual enumeration
Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census.
48 min
295
The psychology of opening up
Ezra and Matt on the deep roots (or not) of the lockdown debate.
52 min
296
Will the economy bounce back?
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression.
61 min
297
Reopening without a plan
Ezra and Matt on America's lost month and what happens next.
48 min
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How to win elections
Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the great mobilization vs persuasion debate.
63 min
299
Are Democrats getting rolled?
Ezra and Matt on congressional bargaining strategy and the China blame game
49 min
300
A faster Covid-19 vaccine
Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the possibility of "human challenge trials" to speed vaccine development.
48 min