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 Republican plot to defund public libraries
Move over book bans — why not just get rid of libraries?
44 min
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A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Gre...
Taped live from TruCon 2023
31 min
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We need to rethink discipline in schools
Discipline, segregation, and the achievement gap
48 min
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The kids suing their state for climate change
The first constitutional climate lawsuit is going to trial
38 min
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The fate of affirmative action
What you need to know about the upcoming SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action
55 min
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Why is child labor making a comeback?
America’s history with child labor, explained
49 min
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The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, expla...
Live from the Crosscut Ideas Festival
42 min
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Policymaking on the high seas
Getting into the (sea) weeds of the high seas treaty
40 min
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How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s...
Transportation policy is cool now. Thanks, Pete.
49 min
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Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval ...
The fight over the abortion pill and the future of the FDA
33 min
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How corporations got all your data
The history of how corporations and governments became so interested in collecting our personal data — and how they got away with it
49 min
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Do assault weapons bans work?
Revisiting the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
40 min
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Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”
Medicaid’s continuous enrollment, discontinued.
42 min
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Why Illinois wants to end cash bail
A look at the cost of pretrial justice and what it means for public safety.
48 min
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The debt ceiling drama
Build back … budget?
38 min
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What East Palestine can tell us about the rail ...
Railroad regulation, explained
40 min
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How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everyt...
The most consequential immigration policy you’ve probably never heard of.
46 min
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Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?
The algorithm goes to court.
43 min
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The Ukraine war: past, present, and future
Where Ukraine goes from here.
50 min
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$14 trillion and no mules
A framework for paying reparations.
51 min
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The Biden policy that could change your neighbo...
How Biden wants to revamp the Fair Housing Act.
47 min
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Insulin is for the world
What some states are trying to do to lower the cost of insulin.
41 min
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Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act
The legislative and judicial history of the VRA, explained.
50 min
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Reintroducing The Weeds
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The great American gerrymander
Our messy history with election maps, explained.
27 min