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Should I buy a house? Why do I say “like” so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement?Explain It to Me is the hotline for the issues that matter to your life. Send us your questions about health, personal finance, relationships, and anything else that matters to you. Host Jonquilyn Hill will take you on a journey to find the answers, whether it's to the halls of Congress or the local bar. You’ll get the answers you were looking for, and sometimes ones you didn't expect — and always with a dose of humor. New episodes every Sunday...

Can Black churches lead the way on teen mental health?

45 mins; December 06, 2023

The Devil wears fast fashion

41 mins; November 29, 2023

Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet

49 mins; November 22, 2023

Why everything is (still) so expensive

42 mins; November 15, 2023

BDS and the history of the boycott

47 mins; November 08, 2023

Will school choice change the future of education?

46 mins; November 01, 2023

The sandwich generation: Caring for kids and seniors

38 mins; October 25, 2023

Why your health insurance is tied to work

45 mins; October 18, 2023

Conservative socialism?

56 mins; October 11, 2023

How (not) to budget

45 mins; October 04, 2023

NYC’s not-so-sudden migrant surge

51 mins; September 27, 2023

What’s up, doc(ket)?

43 mins; September 20, 2023

Who protects workers from extreme heat?

46 mins; September 13, 2023

Why isn’t school lunch free?

38 mins; August 30, 2023

Trump’s RICO problem

47 mins; August 23, 2023

Biden messed with Texas

43 mins; August 16, 2023

Biden wants YOU (to go to therapy)

40 mins; August 09, 2023

A new era for birth control

51 mins; August 02, 2023

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52 mins; July 26, 2023

Expecting: Weed and Pregnancy

42 mins; July 19, 2023

It's an HOA world; you're just living in it

51 mins; July 12, 2023

The Republican plot to defund public libraries

47 mins; June 28, 2023

A conversation with Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

34 mins; June 21, 2023

We need to rethink discipline in schools

51 mins; June 14, 2023

The kids suing their state for climate change

41 mins; June 07, 2023

The fate of affirmative action

58 mins; May 24, 2023

Why is child labor making a comeback?

53 mins; May 17, 2023

The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained

45 mins; May 10, 2023

Policymaking on the high seas

44 mins; May 03, 2023

How Secretary Buttigieg wants to make America’s roads safer

52 mins; April 26, 2023

Mifepristone and the FDA’s exhaustive approval process, explained

37 mins; April 18, 2023

How corporations got all your data

53 mins; April 11, 2023

Do assault weapons bans work?

43 mins; April 04, 2023

Medicaid’s “Great Unwinding”

46 mins; March 28, 2023

Why Illinois wants to end cash bail

52 mins; March 21, 2023

The debt ceiling drama

42 mins; March 14, 2023

What East Palestine can tell us about the rail industry

44 mins; March 07, 2023

The most consequential immigration policy you’ve probably never heard of.

50 mins; February 28, 2023

Will the Supreme Court ruin the internet?

47 mins; February 21, 2023

The Ukraine war: past, present, and future

53 mins; February 14, 2023

$14 trillion and no mules

54 mins; February 07, 2023

The Biden policy that could change your neighborhood

50 mins; January 31, 2023

Insulin is for the world

45 mins; January 24, 2023

Weeds Time Machine: The Voting Rights Act

53 mins; January 17, 2023

Reintroducing The Weeds

1 min; January 16, 2023

The great American gerrymander

30 mins; January 10, 2023

The scourge of the “time tax”

49 mins; December 27, 2022

Climate optimism in 2023

43 mins; December 20, 2022

Our mental health doom loop

45 mins; December 13, 2022

The bipartisan bill that could protect elections

44 mins; December 06, 2022

The rebirth of industrial policy

40 mins; November 29, 2022

It’s time to regulate crypto

55 mins; November 22, 2022

The Weeds’ weed episode

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How to call an election

53 mins; November 08, 2022

How to fix inflation

58 mins; November 01, 2022

Why scaring voters works

48 mins; October 25, 2022

The most interesting issues on the ballot

44 mins; October 18, 2022

The candidates haunting the GOP

44 mins; October 11, 2022

AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM

54 mins; October 04, 2022

Abbott and DeSantis: Stunt queens or policy makers?

47 mins; September 27, 2022

The fastest growing voting bloc in America

57 mins; September 20, 2022

Who decides how we’ll save the future?

64 hours 9 mins; September 13, 2022

Vitamin X

34 mins; September 06, 2022

It’s a policy team takeover!

41 mins; August 30, 2022

The rebirth of industrial policy

50 mins; August 23, 2022

Could the war on terror be over?

62 hours 30 mins; August 16, 2022

The new politics of abortion

44 mins; August 09, 2022

Maybe we’re not doomed?

59 mins; August 02, 2022

Weeds Time Machine: The ADA

62 hours 26 mins; July 26, 2022

What the hell is up with SCOTUS?

62 hours 2 mins; July 19, 2022

The legal limbo of abortion rights

62 hours 46 mins; July 12, 2022

Pregnancy in a post-Roe America

46 mins; June 28, 2022

ConGRADulations, fellow kids

26 mins; June 21, 2022

How the world became rich

61 hours 11 mins; June 14, 2022

Does the US need a National Guard of nurses?

44 mins; June 07, 2022

The gun control stalemate, explained

46 mins; May 31, 2022

The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia

66 hours 52 mins; May 27, 2022

Immigration, democracy, and the rise of the Western far right

74 hours 1 min; May 24, 2022

The scourge of the “time tax”

51 mins; May 17, 2022

Ukraine and the global food supply crisis

45 mins; May 10, 2022

What the Alito leak means for Roe — and everything else

58 mins; May 05, 2022

The Most Dangerous Branch: Roe v. Wade

71 hours 41 mins; May 03, 2022

Why do we go to war?

48 mins; April 26, 2022

Weeds Time Machine: The Clean Air Act

46 mins; April 19, 2022

Tax time at the culture wars

53 mins; April 12, 2022

Taxes! Let’s get right Intuit.

50 mins; April 05, 2022

The Great Expiration

53 mins; March 29, 2022

The art of the gerrymander

53 mins; March 22, 2022

The myth of US energy independence

51 mins; March 15, 2022

Why it’s so hard to move in America

43 mins; March 08, 2022

Russia's terrible invasion

67 hours 49 mins; March 01, 2022

A quick update

1 min; February 25, 2022

Why San Francisco’s school board got booted

51 mins; February 22, 2022

Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem

57 mins; February 18, 2022

The curse of the midterms

58 mins; February 15, 2022

Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics

35 mins; February 11, 2022

Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?

40 mins; February 08, 2022

It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.

51 mins; February 04, 2022

Think of the children

45 mins; February 01, 2022

Unions!

53 mins; January 28, 2022

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