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Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web
Episode 203
Senior politics reporter Jane Coaston joins Dara and Matt to debate the “identity politics” backlash and the prospects for pluralism. Refere…
8 years, 1 month ago
Drugs! (But not the fun kind)
Episode 202
Sarah, Dara and Matt discuss the the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs and a white paper that looks at the correlation between counties …
8 years, 1 month ago
The many scandals of Michael Cohen
Episode 201
Vox.com senior political reporter Andrew Prokop joins Dara and Matt to explain the strange tale of Donald Trump’s lawyer and fixer, Michael …
8 years, 1 month ago
Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?
Episode 200
Sarah, Dara, and Matt analyze Trump’s drastic rollback of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Haiti an…
8 years, 1 month ago
Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?
Episode 199
Vox's science reporter Brian Resnick joins Dara and Sarah to talk about psychiatry's Goldwater Rule, which has never met a test like Donald …
8 years, 1 month ago
What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?
Episode 198
Vox's Dylan Matthews joins Sarah and Matt to break down the jobs guarantee debate and discuss research on a promising school desegregation i…
8 years, 1 month ago
Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained
Episode 197
Congressional reporter Ella Nilsen makes her Weeds debut joining Sarah and Matt to break down the botched nomination at the Veterans’ Admini…
8 years, 1 month ago
Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)
Episode 196
Sarah, Dara and Matt discuss a Republican farm bill that would impose work requirements on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) …
8 years, 1 month ago
Boiling the frogs of war
Episode 195
Zack Beauchamp joins Dara and Matt to explain the ever-expanding 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Trump's even more expa…
8 years, 2 months ago
Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military
Episode 194
Matt, Sarah and Dara work backward from James Comey through FBI history and discover an 18th-century demon hidden in the Constitution. No, r…
8 years, 2 months ago