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The Weeds

The Weeds is Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions. Every Tuesday, Jonquilyn Hill and guests take a deep dive into the policies shaping our world — from immigration to climate change to crypto and more. 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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Vox’s podcast for politics and policy discussions

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By Matthew Yglesias

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

The Weeds: how America became addicted to opioids

By Garet Williams

The Weeds: The Republican stealth care plan

By Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna

Why insurers are quitting Obamacare, explained

By Byrd Pinkerton and Sarah Kliff

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

By Byrd Pinkerton

The fundamental problem with Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

By Jacob Gardenswartz

The Weeds Live is happening in April in Washington, DC

By Jacob Gardenswartz

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

By Byrd Pinkerton and Sarah Kliff

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

By Jacob Gardenswartz

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

By Jacob Gardenswartz

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

By Jacob Gardenswartz

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

By Byrd Pinkerton

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

By Jacob Gardenswartz

The Weeds: AHCApalooza

By Jacob Gardenswartz

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

By Jacob Gardenswartz

The Weeds: Trump and Russia. What happens next?

By Jacob Gardenswartz

Podcast: why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump

By Byrd Pinkerton

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

By Jeff Stein

Trump is rejecting conservatism because Republicans are letting him

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: Democrats can't derail Trump's Cabinet. That might not be a bad thing for them.

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: Vox writers share the biggest lessons they learned from 2016

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: the Trump ideological realignment that wasn’t

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: What should we do about Obamacare?

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: what we learned at the third debate

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: how big of an impact will the Supreme Court abortion decision really have?

By Caleb Lewis

The Weeds: Obamacare will cost trillions less. Maybe that's not a good thing.

By Caleb Lewis

The Weeds: when the Supreme Court split, who won? Hillary Clinton.

By Katie Hicks

The Weeds: Welfare policy is hard. Welfare politics may be even harder.

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: mass shootings are awful. How we respond to them makes them even worse.

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: is it harder to run for president as a woman?

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: the economic recovery has been concentrated in big cities. That's a big problem.

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: examining some exciting Swedish administrative data

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: what would Trumpism look like without Donald Trump?

By Jeff Stein

The Weeds: the land value tax, explained (out loud)

By Jeff Stein