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Dara Lind talks with professor Gabriel Winant of the University of Chicago about the new Bureau of Labor Statistics report that showed a topline decl…
4 years, 4 months ago
What happens to voting rights now?
Dylan Matthews and Jerusalem Demsas talk with Emily Rong Zhang, a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford and a former Skadden Fellow at the A…
4 years, 4 months ago
Are corporations winning at inflation?
Jerusalem Demsas and Dylan Matthews talk with Joey Politano (@JosephPolitano), economics blogger and self-described "mid-tier take-haver," to go over…
4 years, 5 months ago
What BBB means for climate policy
Weeds co-hosts Jerusalem Demsas and Dara Lind talk with Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob), staff writer at the Atlantic, about the climate provisions in Pr…
4 years, 5 months ago
What the deadliest pandemic in history can tell us about Covid-19
Dylan talks to John M. Barry, distinguished scholar at Tulane University and author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in Hi…
4 years, 5 months ago
The case for more babies
Dylan, Jerusalem, and special guest Bryan Walsh discuss the slowing population growth in America, and what a smaller-than-expected America could mean…
4 years, 5 months ago
The building blocks of radicalization
How does someone get radicalized? What do political scientists see as the building blocks of political violence? Is there anything we can do to stop …
4 years, 5 months ago
Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?
Dylan and Dara are joined by Vox’s Libby Nelson to talk about the policy merits and political implications of plans to cancel some or all student loa…
4 years, 5 months ago
Best Of: The coming climate exodus
Vox senior reporter Rebecca Leber (@rbleber) joins The Weeds to explain the problem of migration caused by climate change, such as that due to wildfi…
4 years, 5 months ago
America’s Public Health Experiment: Federal failures
In the final episode of our series, America’s Public Health Experiment, Dylan, Dara, and Jerusalem discuss how the CDC and the FDA failed the America…
4 years, 6 months ago