Ezra and Matt look back on what’s surprised them. Resources: " Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?" by Ezra Klein, Vox "Republicans are sowing the seeds of the next financial crisis" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters But Gaining Among Black And Hispanic Americans" by Geoffrey Skelley and Anna Wiederkehr, FiveThirtyEight "Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016" Ezra Klein Show Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox E...
Oct 30, 2020•51 min•Ep. 475
Dara, Jane, and Matt on the big immigration questions that will face a new administration. Resources: " Would Biden 'rebuild the old program' to reduce Northern Triangle migration?" by Teresa Welsh, Devex "Inside the Refugee Camp on America's Doorstep" by Caitlin Dickerson, NYT White paper Hosts : Matt Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind ( @DLind ), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld , ( @j...
Oct 27, 2020•50 min•Ep. 474
Ezra and Matt on the final presidential debate. Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us...
Oct 23, 2020•54 min•Ep. 473
Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the policy stakes in 2020. Hosts : Matt Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind ( @DLind ), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld , ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut thro...
Oct 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 472
Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31ovruD Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34WWNZI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 17, 2020•40 min
Ezra and Matt discuss Hunter Biden’s laptop, social media regulation, and the ongoing stimulus standoff. Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand wha...
Oct 16, 2020•54 min•Ep. 471
Ian Haney Lopez joins Jane to discuss critical race theory: what it is and what it isn't. Resources: "Which Party Represents the Racial Future?" by Ross Douthat Guest: Ian Haney Lopez ( @IanHaneyLopez ), Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Host : Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior Politics Reporter, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts A...
Oct 13, 2020•53 min•Ep. 470
In this last episode of the By The People mini-series, host Ian Millhiser talks with legal scholar Pam Karlan about how the Supreme Court has harmed our democracy in the recent past, and what it's likely to do to voting rights in the future. Then he speaks with Supreme Court journalist Mark Joseph Stern about court-packing and other possible ways to reform the Court. Featuring : Pam Karlan , Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School Mark Joseph Stern , Staff Writer at Slate Host : ...
Oct 10, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 469
Ezra and Matt on the deadlock in congress and the VP debate. Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Erick Gomez, Schuyler Swenson ( @SchuylerSwenson ), and Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Producers The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and u...
Oct 09, 2020•56 min•Ep. 468
Jane and Thomas Chatterton Williams talk about mixed-race identity, race and racism, and what being biracial means now. Resources: "My Family's Life Inside and Outside America's Racial Categories" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, NYT "A Detailed Look at the Downside of California’s Ban on Affirmative Action" by Kevin Carey, NYT "Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”" by Isaac Chotiner, NYT "The Great Escape From Slavery of Ellen and William Craft" by Marian Smith Holme...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 466
Host Ian Millhiser talks with political scientist Norm Ornstein and Vox’s Matt Yglesias about the structural factors — many of them written into the Constitution itself — that impede a democratic majority from electing their preferred leaders and several ideas about how these hurdles can be overcome. Relevant resources: Confirm you are registered to vote Featuring : Norman Ornstein , Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Matthew Yglesias , Senior Correspondent at Vox Host : Ian M...
Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 464
On this special episode, we give you a preview of season 3 of the Future Perfect podcast. Vox's Dylan Matthews comes on to talk about meat and environmental justice. Subscribe to Future Perfect on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week. Further listening and reading: ProPublica’s Talia Buford has done in-depth reporting on the problems of overflowing pig waste lagoons in North Carolina , and you can see images of t...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 463
Ezra and Matt on the disturbing presidential showdown. Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Buy Matt's book! Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 464
Host Ian Millhiser talks with voting rights lawyer Sophia Lin Lakin and vote-by-mail advocate Amber McReynolds about voting, COVID-19, and what steps you can take to ensure that your vote is counted this election. Relevant resources: Confirm you are registered to vote How to vote at home ACLU’s Voting Rights Project ACLU’s Voter Education Tool Featuring : Sophia Lin Lakin , Deputy Director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU Amber McReynolds , CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute Host...
Sep 26, 2020•59 min•Ep. 461
Ezra and Matt discuss the past and future of the US Senate. Resources: "How Mitch McConnell is changing the Democratic Party" by Ezra Klein, Vox "America needs a democratic revolution" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Buy Matt's book! Want to support The Weeds? Please consider maki...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 462
Vox’s judiciary expert Ian Milhiser joins the panel to explain Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy and the future of American jurisprudence Resources: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy, and the future of the Supreme Court, explained" by Ian Millhiser, Vox " The Surprising Conservatism of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Kimberly Wehle, Politico "Social conservatives feel betrayed by the Supreme Court — and the GOP that appointed it" by Jane Coaston, Vox "As Trump rushes to fill a court seat, conservative groups fea...
Sep 22, 2020•56 min•Ep. 459
Introducing By The People? , a new podcast miniseries on voting rights in the 2020 election, hosted by Ian Millhiser. Each episode will examine a specific obstacle facing voters in the upcoming election, and lay out various policy proposals and practical ways to overcome that obstacle. Our first episode takes a deep dive into intentional efforts to suppress the vote with historian Carol Anderson and voting rights lawyer Janai Nelson. Relevant resources: Confirm you are registered to vote Legal D...
Sep 19, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 458
In this crossover episode from the Ezra Klein Show - Ezra and Matt discuss the early days of blogging, Twitter, climate change, and Matt's case for having 1 billion Americans. Buy Matt's book! Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/g...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 457
Rep. Veronica Escobar joins Jane, Dara, and Matt to talk about Texas politics and the use of the pandemic as a pretext to clamp down on asylum. Guest: Rep. Veronica Escobar ( @RepEscobar ) US Congresswoman from Texas' 16th Congressional District Hosts : Matt Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Meredith Haggerty ( @manymanywords ), Deputy Editor, The Goods Credits: Jeff Geld , ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The W...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 456
Ezra joins Matt to workshop his latest article — and save American democracy. Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really drivi...
Sep 11, 2020•53 min•Ep. 455
Meredith Haggerty joins Jane and Matt to debate looting and corporate cooptation of social justice. Resources: "One Author's Controversial View: 'In Defense Of Looting'" by Natalie Escobar, NPR "Examining Vicky Osterweil’s Case for Looting" by Isaac Chotiner Baby, I'm an Anarchist by Against Me! Hosts : Matt Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Meredith Haggerty ( @manymanywords ), Deputy Editor, The Goods Credits: Je...
Sep 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 454
Matt and Ezra discuss why crime is rising in certain American cities, and the country's growing housing crisis. Resources: " Trump claims crime is up in US cities. The truth is more complicated." by German Lopez, Vox Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime by Roland Fryer Jr. & Tanaya Devi The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago by Roman Rivera & Bocar A. Ba Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattygles...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 453
Dara, Jane, and Matt discuss Jane’s argument that the GOP establishment changed Trump more than he changed the party. Resources: "Trump was supposed to change the GOP. But the GOP changed him." by Jane Coaston, Vox "Trump's approval rating among black voters jumps nine points during GOP convention: Poll" by Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner White paper Hosts : Matt Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 452
Ezra and Matt on the GOP convention and the politics of "law and order". Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving th...
Aug 28, 2020•55 min•Ep. 451
Introducing The Cut, a new podcast from our friends at New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network that dives deep into the cultural conversations that matter most in our current moment. Led by host Avery Trufelman, alumna of the podcasts 99% Invisible, Articles of Interest and Nice Try!, the Cut aims to answer questions before listeners know they have them, with a generous wit and an expansive idea of what is possible. Subscribe to the Cut for new episodes every Wednesday. Learn more ab...
Aug 26, 2020•31 min•Ep. 450
Jane, Dara, and Matt on convalescent plasma, FDA reform, and the politics of science. Resources: "Trump used a rare disease survivor to take a shot at the FDA" by Julia Belluz, Vox "Making American Great Again–The FDA" by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution "Reopening schools safely is going to take much more federal leadership" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Straight talk on the FDA’s tumultuous weekend — and new questions about its independence" by Adam Feuerstein & Matthew Herper, Stat News One...
Aug 25, 2020•50 min•Ep. 450
Ezra and Matt stay up late to review Joe Biden's big speech and the Democrats' big week. Resources: "Obama’s Convention Speech Is the First Time I Have Seen Him Scared" by Jonathan Chait, NY Mag "The tragedy of Hillary Clinton" by Ezra Klein, Vox Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? ...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 449
Jane, Dara, and Matt on the health and history of the postal service, the political games being played, and what it means for November's election. Resources: " The Post Office Mess Is Meant to Exhaust You. Don’t Let It." by Charlie Warzel, New York Times "On the Post Office 'sabotage'" by Jay Caruso, The Monday Notice "Why We Should Love The Post Office" by Addison Del Mastro, The American Conservative "USPS badly needs an overhaul, but not smack in the middle of the Trump-Biden campaign" by Pau...
Aug 18, 2020•53 min•Ep. 448
Ezra and Matt on Republican policy nihilism and the Kamala Harris pick. Resources: "Kamala Harris Is Biden’s Choice for Vice President" by Alexander Burns and Katie Glueck, NYT "How inequality and white identity politics feed each other" with Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker, Ezra Klein Show podcast Hosts : Matthew Yglesias ( @mattyglesias ), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein ( @ezraklein ), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Pod...
Aug 14, 2020•58 min•Ep. 447
Vox's Emily Stewart joins Dara and Jane to discuss the relationship between "the market" and the "real economy." Resources: "The Stock Market Is an Engine of Civic Destruction" by Libby Watson, New Republic "Who gets to be reckless on Wall Street?" by Emily Stewart, Vox Hosts : Dara Lind ( @DLind ), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Jane Coaston ( @cjane87 ), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Emily Stewart ( @EmilyStewartM ), Reporter, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld , ( @jeff_geld ), Editor and Producer...
Aug 11, 2020•42 min•Ep. 446
