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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...

Coronavirus 101

44 mins; March 03, 2020

Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate

57 mins; February 28, 2020

Going nuclear

62 hours 24 mins; February 27, 2020

Black voters take the stage

55 mins; February 25, 2020

The year of housing reform

57 mins; February 20, 2020

Mike can get what done?

62 hours 50 mins; February 18, 2020

Private equity, explained

51 mins; February 14, 2020

After asylum

47 mins; February 11, 2020

How we pick a president

87 hours 53 mins; February 07, 2020

Iowapocalypse Now

68 hours 24 mins; February 04, 2020

Fix recessions by giving people money

74 hours 43 mins; January 31, 2020

A conversation about anti-Semitism

50 mins; January 28, 2020

The road to polarization

81 hours 38 mins; January 24, 2020

Green New Germany

29 mins; January 21, 2020

Three roads to universal coverage

69 hours 47 mins; January 21, 2020

The way forward on family leave

56 mins; January 17, 2020

Ezra and Matt debate the debaters

57 mins; January 15, 2020

Mission Accomplished?

55 mins; January 14, 2020

Why are we fighting Iran?

61 hours 23 mins; January 10, 2020

Midichlorian chili

77 hours 37 mins; January 07, 2020

Neighborhood Defenders

60 hours 42 mins; January 03, 2020

2019 in review

49 mins; December 31, 2019

The next abortion debate

47 mins; December 26, 2019

No room at the inn (live!)

86 hours 58 mins; December 23, 2019

Wine cave cage match

53 mins; December 20, 2019

Primary mooples

46 mins; December 17, 2019

Policy by other means

68 hours 1 min; December 13, 2019

The free college debate

53 mins; December 10, 2019

Movement building in the Trump era

54 mins; December 06, 2019

You say "usmca," I say "U-S-M-C-A"

57 mins; December 03, 2019

Build housing near transit

38 mins; November 29, 2019

Impeachment's policy roots

73 hours 44 mins; November 26, 2019

Single-payer federalism

47 mins; November 22, 2019

Groypers vs. Conservatism Inc.

59 mins; November 19, 2019

The case for subsidized jobs

60 hours 57 mins; November 14, 2019

Introducing Reset

46 mins; November 12, 2019

The billionaire backlash

55 mins; November 12, 2019

The internet we lost

58 mins; November 08, 2019

Paying for single-payer

54 mins; November 05, 2019

Beyond the leaky bucket

56 mins; November 01, 2019

The fall of Katie Hill

45 mins; October 29, 2019

The scary truth about air pollution

60 hours 34 mins; October 25, 2019

The electability debate

52 mins; October 22, 2019

The four words that will decide impeachment

52 mins; October 18, 2019

Debating the robot takeover

60 hours 22 mins; October 16, 2019

Understanding the student debt crisis

57 mins; October 15, 2019

Progressives' Supreme Court problem

62 hours 48 mins; October 11, 2019

Mayor Pete explains his prescription drug plan

27 mins; October 09, 2019

What to expect when you’re impeaching

52 mins; October 08, 2019

Homelessness and how to fix it

54 mins; October 04, 2019

Trump's war on the homeless

61 hours 58 mins; October 01, 2019

America's missing babies

61 hours 37 mins; September 27, 2019

The Kiev Caper

60 hours 29 mins; September 24, 2019

Did economists break America?

53 mins; September 20, 2019

Out of sight, out of mind

51 mins; September 17, 2019

ABCDebate

28 mins; September 13, 2019

50 shades of Green New Deal

86 hours 35 mins; September 13, 2019

A plan to revive American unions

56 mins; September 10, 2019

The left’s path to power

62 hours 0 mins; September 06, 2019

Trump's primary challengers

55 mins; September 03, 2019

The case for foreign policy restraint

58 mins; August 30, 2019

Trump's latest trade war

57 mins; August 27, 2019

Does America need trade deals?

56 mins; August 23, 2019

Slavery and its legacy

53 mins; August 20, 2019

Trump's war on Medicaid

53 mins; August 16, 2019

Epstein conspiracy time

49 mins; August 13, 2019

The case for a Green New Deal

61 hours 33 mins; August 09, 2019

Domestic terrorism after El Paso

50 mins; August 06, 2019

The second Democratic debate

65 hours 12 mins; August 02, 2019

The many mysteries of Jeffrey Epstein

54 mins; July 30, 2019

Dysfunctional federalism

67 hours 55 mins; July 26, 2019

Go back to Cincinnati

49 mins; July 23, 2019

Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel

59 mins; July 19, 2019

Space Force all the way!

46 mins; July 16, 2019

School’s out for summer

41 mins; July 12, 2019

Ask Weeds Anything

91 hours 57 mins; July 09, 2019

A progressive case for globalism

60 hours 17 mins; July 05, 2019

Democracy's week in court

48 mins; July 02, 2019

Debate Weeds: Ezra and Matt on the long-awaited Democratic presidential debate

63 hours 42 mins; June 28, 2019

What’s really going on with child detention?

49 mins; June 25, 2019

What’s really happening in Central America

54 mins; June 21, 2019

Jamestown: Utopia for Whom

11 mins; June 19, 2019

The “illiberal” right

68 hours 5 mins; June 18, 2019

5 big ideas to use tax credits to fight poverty

57 mins; June 14, 2019

Into the weeds with Elizabeth Warren

49 mins; June 11, 2019

A user's guide to antitrust

67 hours 24 mins; June 07, 2019

Trump’s tariff triple option

56 mins; June 04, 2019

Monetary mysteries revealed

69 hours 11 mins; May 31, 2019

Building the Trump state

60 hours 4 mins; May 28, 2019

Rethinking education reform

56 mins; May 24, 2019

The loneliness of Justin Amash

57 mins; May 21, 2019

America's two housing crises

63 hours 31 mins; May 17, 2019

Make America 2015 Again

57 mins; May 14, 2019

Green New Weeds

84 hours 11 mins; May 10, 2019

Sarah's Last Stand

62 hours 6 mins; May 07, 2019

Mexico: America's waiting room

59 mins; May 03, 2019

Incels and bullshitters

53 mins; April 30, 2019

Was The Weeds on the wrong side of history?

35 mins; April 26, 2019

What to obstruct when you’re obstructing

70 hours 24 mins; April 23, 2019

Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]

37 mins; April 18, 2019

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