Explain It to Me
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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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The stimulus standoff
Jane, Dara, and Matt on the congressional deadlock over economic aid.
53 min
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The Great Awokening
John McWhorter joins Matt to discuss the changing way we talk about racism in America.
67 min
328
Trafficking, and trafficking panics
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Wayfair, massage parlors, and reality.
47 min
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The evidence on crime and policing
Texas A&M's Jennifer Doleac joins Matt to explain what we know (and don't know) about criminal justice.
53 min
330
Bad for the Jews?
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Nick Cannon, Louis Farrakhan, and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
56 min
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Biden reloaded
Ezra and Matt on Joe Biden’s unification strategy with the left.
62 min
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School’s out for Covid
Jane, Dara, and Matt on the school reopening debate and the political consequences of HIV/AIDS.
55 min
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The Covid resurgence
Ezra and Matt on how America failed while the world made progress on the pandemic
48 min
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Contagious enthusiasm
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Biden’s excitement gap.
58 min
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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
336
The war on bad statues
Jane, Dara, and Matt on Confederate Memorials, Woodrow Wilson, and the battle for historical memory.
60 min
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The Veepstakes
Ezra and Matt on Warren, Abrams, Harris, and the Tammies, and the links between racial and economic justice.
50 min
338
Talking about talking
Jane, Dara, and Matt explain “intersectional,” “structural” and the new language of identity discourse.
42 min
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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
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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
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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
344
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
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Joe Biden ain't black
Jane, Dara, and Matt on gaffes and the racial politics of 2020
55 min
347
The stimulus failure
Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.
48 min
348
Actual enumeration
Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census.
48 min
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The psychology of opening up
Ezra and Matt on the deep roots (or not) of the lockdown debate.
52 min
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Will the economy bounce back?
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression.
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