Weeds Live!
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
19 Apr 20171h 30min
Weeds in the Wild: Meet Joan, the Robotic Pelvis
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
14 Apr 201723min
The World's Worst Club
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
12 Apr 201755min
Nuclear Winter
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
5 Apr 201757min
A cheery discussion of global warming, Obamacare repeal, and death
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
31 Mar 20171h 12min
Weeds in the Wild: Postville
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
24 Mar 201727min
Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers
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
21 Mar 20171h 20min
CB-uh oh!
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
15 Mar 20171h 10min
