Explain It to Me
Should I buy a house? Why do I say “like” so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement?
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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Introducing Explain It to Me
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Our next chapter
There are some big changes coming to this feed, and we need your help with them!
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How we Got Milk
And why the government wants you to drink it.
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Those pesky delivery fees
Nobody is happy with delivery apps right now
36 min
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Panic! At The Drugstore
The panic about the crime rate really is just a panic.
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A new era of cannabis research
What rescheduling cannabis could mean for science.
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Are baby bonds a good investment?
A unique policy program that could help close the racial wealth gap
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Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?
Antitrust is back, baby!
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Is homelessness a crime?
The Supreme Court weighs in on the homelessness crisis.
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Abortion and the erosion of privacy
Do Americans still have a right to privacy?
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What is “fetal personhood”?
The legal definition tearing the anti-abortion movement apart.
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A safety net’s poverty trap
What would you do if you could only save $2,000?
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Let’s fix child care together
The real issue blocking universal child care? Politics.
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Bringing back the SAT
Four years after a pandemic pause, some colleges and universities are again requiring applicants to submit standardized test scores.
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The AI election
Will we be able to spot the deepfakes this election season?
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The case for banning...millionaires?
Sean talks with political philosopher Ingrid Robeyns, whose new book Limitarianism makes the case for imposing limits on personal wealth.
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How racism ages Black people
Racism and the long-term health effects of weathering
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Skipping the broom
Why the marriage rate for Black women is falling
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Eviction: the scarlet E
What we can learn about eviction from Black women and children
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Let’s fix retirement together
An economist’s take on policy fanfiction
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How to be a (realistic) climate optimist
A data scientist who’s cautiously optimistic about the climate
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How celebrity fandom explains Trump
When “stanning” goes mainstream.
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Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard
What’s really going on in higher ed.
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Are unions making a comeback?
The labor movement’s big year.
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Why are so many kids missing school?
Chronic absenteeism, from the barriers to the solutions.
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