Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews join Ezra to talk about the updated travel ban, how Trumpism has translated into policy, and the impact that increasingly awesome video games have had on young men's work habits. Links! White Paper: Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men Peter Suderman's piece about young men playing video games instead of getting jobs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Jim Tankersley and Tara Golshan join Matt to talk about House Republicans' struggles to write a budget resolution and get their tax reform agenda on track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 30, 2017•45 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast A new CBO score on the latest Obamacare repeal bill pushes Sarah to the breaking point!Links:Follow along as Matt, Ezra, and Sarah read through the CBO reportGraphs comparing silver insurance plan costs under different health care bills for different income brackets White Paper: Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast The Senate health care bill is out — and Sarah, Ezra, and Matt are back in the studio to dive into the details of what it means for the marketplaces, Medicaid, and very rich people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about Tuesday's special elections and the soon-to-be-released Senate health care bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 21, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Foreign editors Yochi Dreazen and Jennifer Williams join Matt to talk about the diplomatic crisis in Qatar and the never-ending war in Afghanistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16, 2017•52 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt take the deepest look they can at Senate Republicans' secret health care bill, plus a quick look at Jeff Sessions’s non-answers on Russia and new research on the long-term impact of lead exposure.Links!White paper of the week from the Brookings Institution: New evidence that lead exposure increases crimeCaitlin Owens in Axios on the Senate GOP not releasing their healthcare billDylan Scott on what it would look like it Senate Republicans voted to repeal ObamacareDavid Leonh...
Jun 14, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Dara Lind and Yochi Dreazen join Matt to talk about Comey's testimony and the larger consequences of the Russia investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 09, 2017•53 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about competing single-payer bills in Nevada and California, plus research on the value of access to the Obama White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 08, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Dylan Matthews and politics reporter Andrew Prokop join Matt to talk about the Paris Accords and the mysterious role of the First Son-in-Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 02, 2017•59 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about the real causes of mass incarceration, Trump's move to roll back contraceptive coverage, and the mysterious world of high-end credit cards.Links!German Lopez’s piece about John Pfaff’s “Locked in” Mark A.R. Kleiman, Angela Hawken, and Ross Halperin on graduated reentry as prison reform.Today’s white paper, "Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards" Our Weeds in the Wild Episode about birth control Ezra Klein’s conversation with Chris Hayes a...
May 31, 2017•58 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Kliff travels to Tennessee to see what it looks like when Obamacare explodes.Links!Sarah's piece about her trip to Tennessee More details about the Missouri bald spotAn interactive map of the counties most at risk of losing all their insurers Our lovely Weeds Facebook groupEmail us at weeds@vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 29, 2017•19 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about the new CBO score of Trumpcare and the results of this week's special election in Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2017•54 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast A tanned and rested Ezra joins Matt and Sarah to talk budget, auto-enrollment in health care, and some eye-popping research on zoning.Links:Sarah's piece on auto-enrollmentJeff Stein's piece on reactions to Paul Ryan's agenda The wonderful Weeds Facebook group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 24, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Yochi Dreazen and Jennifer Williams join Matt to talk about the new Trump/Russia special counsel and the latest scandal swirling around Michael Flynn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 19, 2017•49 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Dylan Matthews joins Sarah and Matt to talk about Trump's latest problems, his reporting on basic income in Kenya, and new research on fracking's impact on marriage and childbearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast One of the world’s first universal basic income experiments is happening right now in a small Kenyan village. Dylan Matthews went there to investigate.Links!Dylan Matthew's piece about his Kenya tripTwo economists make the case for and against an American UBIA longer UBI explainerPlease send us feedback! Post your thoughts in our Facebook group or email us at weeds@vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2017•15 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Vox's Dara Lind joins Sarah and Matt to talk about James Comey's firing, the border wall, and whether incomes have really been as stagnant as they seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 10, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to discuss the surprisingly swift passage of a revised and reanimated version of Paul Ryan's repeal bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 05, 2017•59 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about Congress's big spending deal, Republicans' newest Obamacare repeal idea, and research on what happens when abortion providers shut down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 03, 2017•1 hr•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast Live at Vox Conversations, Sarah, Ezra, and Matt discuss the GOP's doomed effort to reboot Obamacare repeal and the White House's "new" tax reform "plan." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2017•59 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Libby Nelson and Dylan Matthews join Matt to talk about the global nationalist tide, forcing integration across class and ethnic lines, and research on gender and foreign policy dynamics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 26, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast In front of their first-ever live audience, Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about Trump surprises, Singapore's health care system, and the impact of longevity inequality on retirement programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 19, 2017•2 hr 31 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah and Byrd take a look at some policy experiments working to drive down teen pregnancy and abortion rates. They're showing promising results — but they're also under threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 14, 2017•23 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah and Matt are joined by Dara Lind for a discussion of the United fiasco, Trump-era immigration enforcement, and pre-K's surprising health benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 12, 2017•55 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Jim Tankersley joins Sarah and Matt to talk tax reform, senate procedure, and the most exciting Swedish administrative data yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 05, 2017•57 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Ezra, Sarah, and Matt pick apart Trump's next executive order on climate, exhume the AHCA's corpse, and read a white paper about death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 31, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast It was the biggest workplace immigration raid the U.S. had seen to date. 389 workers, almost all of them Hispanic, were detained at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa on May 12, 2008.On this episode of Weeds in the Wild, we look at the effects that this raid had across the state of Iowa, and then take a step back to understand how our immigration policies made this kind of raid possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 24, 2017•27 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast Ezra and Matt are joined by Yochi Dreazen to talk about national security policy in the Trump era, the latest on ACA repeal, and research indicating the internet's not to blame for political polarization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 21, 2017•1 hr 20 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about Donald Trump's taxes, the disastrous CBO score of the GOP health care bill, and a study on how Chinese imports reduce Americans' marriage rates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 15, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast