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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How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s...
Transportation policy is cool now. Thanks, Pete.
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Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval ...
The fight over the abortion pill and the future of the FDA
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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
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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.
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The debt ceiling drama
Build back … budget?
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What East Palestine can tell us about the rail ...
Railroad regulation, explained
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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.
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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.
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The scourge of the “time tax”
The miserable sludge of applying for government aid.
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Climate optimism in 2023
Finally, some good climate news.
40 min
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Our mental health doom loop
The revolving door of mental health care in the US.
42 min
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The bipartisan bill that could protect elections
Why lawmakers are trying to reform a 135-year-old law.
41 min
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The rebirth of industrial policy
Supply-side economics, explained.
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It’s time to regulate crypto
The FTX crash, explained.
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The Weeds’ weed episode
Let’s be blunt: Weed policy is complicated.
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How to call an election
Hint: Let the math people do the work.
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