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The Weeds Podcast

The Weeds is a semiweekly policy podcast hosted by Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff, and Matthew Yglesias. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here or join the Weeds Facebook community for conversation around each episode.

11 podcast episodes to broaden your mind over Labor Day weekend

By Julie Bogen August 31

6 things to read, listen to, and watch to understand family separation

By Julie Bogen June 22

The policy implications of the Harvey Weinstein scandal

By Kelly Swanson October 17

We need to change the way we think about the opioid crisis

By Kelly Swanson October 14

The Supreme Court really might deal a huge blow to gerrymandering

By Kelly Swanson October 11

Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?

By Ella Nilsen October 3

Graham-Cassidy is dead, but budget reconciliation could bring back Obamacare repeal in 2018

By Kelly Swanson September 26

The Weeds debates Graham-Cassidy longer than senators will be allowed to

By Kelly Swanson September 20

Trump, Schumer, Pelosi, and the DACA “deal”

By Kelly Swanson September 15

Hillary Clinton’s realism vs. Bernie Sanders’s idealism

By Kelly Swanson September 13

“We started it”: Atul Gawande on doctors’ role in the opioid epidemic

By Sarah Kliff September 8

Trump seems to think sabotaging DACA will make it work better

By Kelly Swanson September 7

The problem with the national flood insurance program

By Kelly Swanson August 31

The Weeds: Where Trump’s feud with congressional Republicans could lead

By Kelly Swanson August 25

The Weeds: the US economy is not as great as Trump thinks it is

By Kelly Swanson August 24

The Weeds: what's really driving anti-immigration politics?

By Carly Sitrin August 17

The Weeds: solving the enigma that is John Kelly

By Carly Sitrin August 11

The Weeds: one reason women really don't want to work at Google

By Carly Sitrin August 10

The Weeds: the quiet comeback of school segregation

By Carly Sitrin August 2

The Weeds on weed: what a Dutch study tells us about legalization

By Carly Sitrin July 20

The Weeds: a controversial new study raises even more questions about the minimum wage

By Carly Sitrin July 14

The Weeds: how video games could be influencing young men to quit the workforce

By Kelly Swanson July 13

The Weeds: how America became addicted to opioids

By Garet Williams July 12

The Weeds: The Republican stealth care plan

By Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna June 16

Why insurers are quitting Obamacare, explained

By Byrd Pinkerton and Sarah Kliff May 30

What a Kenyan village can teach us about a universal basic income

By Byrd Pinkerton May 12

The fundamental problem with Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

By Jacob Gardenswartz April 17

The Weeds Live is happening in April in Washington, DC

By Jacob Gardenswartz April 17

How to prevent teen pregnancies? Start with a robotic pelvis.

By Byrd Pinkerton and Sarah Kliff April 14

Mitch McConnell says the legislative filibuster is safe. Should we trust him?

By Jacob Gardenswartz April 12

The new Republican health care push has the same problems as the old one

By Jacob Gardenswartz April 6

Trump’s Twitter foreign policy does not square with his Cabinet’s actions

By Jacob Gardenswartz March 29

Podcast: how American immigration policy led to workplace raids, and what they do to communities

By Byrd Pinkerton March 24

The Weeds: where does the Republican health plan go from here?

By Jacob Gardenswartz March 16

The Weeds: AHCApalooza

By Jacob Gardenswartz March 14

The Weeds: Trump’s speech to Congress suggests a game of “talking points telephone”

By Jacob Gardenswartz March 3

The Weeds: Trump and Russia. What happens next?

By Jacob Gardenswartz February 20

Podcast: why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump

By Byrd Pinkerton February 17

The Weeds: Donald Trump’s immigration order, explained (out loud)

By Jeff Stein February 4

Trump is rejecting conservatism because Republicans are letting him

By Jeff Stein January 24

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