Why everyone is sick right now

Why everyone is sick right now

How this season’s flu got supercharged — and why viruses may make you healthier. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Melissa Hirsch, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill. Photo by Elisa Schu/picture alliance via Getty Images. If you have a question, give us a call on 1-800-618-8545 or send us a note here. Listen to Explain It to Me ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed stand-off in between

Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed stand-off in between

America's immigration debate is peppered with terms like "path to citizenship" and "amnesty." Those catch phrases can mean vastly different things to different people — and on this week's episode of t...

8 Tammi 20161h 17min

Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts

Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts

In a very merry Christmas day episode of the Weeds, Ezra and Matt talk to Sarah about how why teen birth rate fell in half since the mid-2000s — and whether MTV's 16 and Pregnant might have anything t...

25 Joulu 20151h 3min

Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

Matt, Sarah, and Ezra lay out what is and isn't troubling about gentrification, break down congress' latest fiscal deal, and discuss a paper that explores why swing voting has become rare. Lear...

18 Joulu 20151h 16min

Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke

Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke

In this special episode of The Weeds, Ezra interviews former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about what it's like to manage the most powerful economic policymaking institution in the world durin...

15 Joulu 201540min

Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate

Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate

Ezra, Sarah, and Matt are reunited at last for a deep dive into why patients in and out of Obamacare are paying more for health insurance, the rising tide of Islamophobia in the presidential campaign,...

11 Joulu 20151h 16min

Dietary fat and climate change

Dietary fat and climate change

Matt is joined by special guest stars Julia Belluz and Brad Plumer to discuss the science of eating fat, the Paris climate conference, and the public health implications of climate change. The Weeds i...

4 Joulu 201557min

Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between

Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between

This week, Ezra, Sarah, and Matt discuss the flaws in the DC elite's favorite idea: raising the retirement age, consider how to respond to terrorist attacks (with a bonus digression about 19th century...

20 Marras 20151h 14min

We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?

We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?

On this week's episode of the Weeds, fellow Vox editor Dylan Matthews joins Sarah and Matt for what is certainly the most in-depth discussion of basic income ever broadcast. Would it really just work ...

13 Marras 20151h 6min

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