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The Weeds

The Weeds is Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions. Every Tuesday, Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind, and other voices dig into the weeds on important national issues, including healthcare immigration, and housing. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here or join the Weeds Facebook community for conversation around each episode.

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The nerdiest article you’ll read about the baseball lockout

By Dara Lind

The hidden lesson in the new free Covid-19 tests

By Dara Lind

Wanted: Clear goals to end the pandemic

By German Lopez

Democracy is losing

By German Lopez

Why Biden has disappointed on immigration

By German Lopez

The world’s progress on climate change

By German Lopez

The Covid-19 vaccines are still working

By German Lopez

The recent rise in inflation, explained in 600 words

By German Lopez

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By German Lopez

The Next Four Years: A Weeds series

By Lauren Katz

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How the Supreme Court revived Jim Crow voter suppression tactics

By Ian Millhiser

Understand the unfolding coronavirus pandemic with these Vox podcast episodes

By Lauren Katz

The coronavirus election

By Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein

An expert explains how America got stuck playing catch-up on coronavirus

By Matthew Yglesias

An expert’s case for nuclear power

By Matthew Yglesias

An expert’s 7 principles for solving America’s housing crisis

By Matthew Yglesias

See The Weeds live at SXSW on March 8 and 10

By Lauren Katz

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By Julie Bogen

11 podcast episodes to broaden your mind over Labor Day weekend

By Julie Bogen

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

By Julie Bogen

The policy implications of the Harvey Weinstein scandal

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

The Supreme Court really might deal a huge blow to gerrymandering

By Kelly Swanson

Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?

By Ella Nilsen

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Sarah Kliff

Trump seems to think sabotaging DACA will make it work better

By Kelly Swanson

The problem with the national flood insurance program

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Kelly Swanson

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

By Carly Sitrin

The Weeds: solving the enigma that is John Kelly

By Carly Sitrin

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

By Carly Sitrin

The Weeds: the quiet comeback of school segregation

By Carly Sitrin

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

By Carly Sitrin

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

By Carly Sitrin

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

By Kelly Swanson