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Nickname fights and wildcat strikes
Episode 183
Vox Politics & Policy reporter Alexia Fernandez-Campbell joins Dara and Matt to talk about the West Virginia teachers strike. References: A…
8 years, 3 months ago
Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks
Episode 182
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about a bipartisan bank deregulation bill, Medicaid work requirements, and constitutional hardball. References: M…
8 years, 3 months ago
Guns, Weeds, and Steel
Episode 181
Vox senior politics reporter Jane Coaston joins Dara and Matt to talk about a week of extremely erratic policymaking from an increasingly ch…
8 years, 3 months ago
Medicare for Many More
Episode 180
Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to talk about a new universal health care plan — plus some exciting administrative data from the good-old U…
8 years, 3 months ago
The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard
Episode 179
There are also some good ideas discussed. All of them are about guns. German Lopez joins Dara and Matt to talk about gun control in the wake…
8 years, 3 months ago
It's finally infrastructure week
Episode 178
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about what’s really wrong with American infrastructure, the massacre in Parkland, FL, and new research on legisla…
8 years, 4 months ago
DACApocalypse in the Senate
Episode 177
Matt, Dara, and Andrew Prokop talk about the Senate's failed immigration push, and they parse through the many-layered Rob Porter scandal. D…
8 years, 4 months ago
The gender pay gap is mostly about children
Episode 176
Matt, Ezra, Sarah, and Dylan Matthews try to explain Trump’s budget and Disability Insurance. For today's white paper: Move over Swedish adm…
8 years, 4 months ago
The six-hour shutdown, explained
Episode 175
Matt, Dara, and Tara Golshan, all weary from lack of sleep, try to make sense of the few hours on Thursday night/Friday morning when the gov…
8 years, 4 months ago
What's up with Amazon's health venture — and the stock market
Episode 174
Matt, Ezra, and Sarah talk about the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan announcement about their joint healthcare venture, as well as…
8 years, 4 months ago