Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy it’s so hard to move in America
Dylan Matthews and Jerusalem Demsas are joined by Nick Buttrick (@NickButtrick), a psychologist at Princeton, to talk about interstate mobility in th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Russia's terrible invasion
Dylan Matthews and Jerusalem Demsas are joined by Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp to talk about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They discuss Uk…
4 years, 3 months ago
A quick update
We’re hitting snooze on Friday episodes, but they’re not going away forever. We’re just slowing things down while we work on some special projects. W…
4 years, 3 months ago
Why San Francisco’s school board got booted
Dylan Matthews, Jerusalem Demsas, and Dara Lind discuss the recent school board recall election in San Francisco and also whether the Great Resignati…
4 years, 4 months ago
Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
Vox Senior Correspondent Zack Beauchamp talks with political scientist Lee Drutman, author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop. They discuss the hist…
4 years, 4 months ago
The curse of the midterms
Dylan Matthews and Jerusalem Demsas are joined by Vox’s Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) to talk about the midterm elections. More specifically, why the pre…
4 years, 4 months ago
Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics
Dylan Matthews talks with Victor Cha (@VictorDCha) about the international politics surrounding the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The US and several other c…
4 years, 4 months ago
Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?
Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind, and Jerusalem Demsas talk about affirmative action. They dig into the current Supreme Court case about Harvard’s admission…
4 years, 4 months ago
It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.
Dylan Matthews talks with Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti), director of Mayak Intelligence, about what’s going on in Ukraine. They discuss in depth the …
4 years, 4 months ago
Think of the children
Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind, and Vox policy editor Libby Nelson discuss the findings of two recent studies on early childhood development. One study fo…
4 years, 4 months ago