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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...

CB--Oh, this bill stinks

53 mins; May 26, 2017

Trump's budget has landed, and it's terrible

64 hours 5 mins; May 24, 2017

All the Trump scandal drama you've been craving

48 mins; May 19, 2017

Trump chaos, UBI, and the fracking baby boom

76 hours 55 mins; May 17, 2017

Weeds in the Wild: Free Money... For Everyone!

15 mins; May 12, 2017

The wall in our hearts

63 hours 29 mins; May 10, 2017

AHCApocalypse III

58 mins; May 05, 2017

High-Risk Podcasting

59 mins; May 03, 2017

AHCApocalypse II

59 mins; April 28, 2017

French elections, national service, and Queens at war

68 hours 30 mins; April 26, 2017

Weeds Live!

90 hours 43 mins; April 19, 2017

Weeds in the Wild: Meet Joan, the Robotic Pelvis

23 mins; April 14, 2017

The World's Worst Club

55 mins; April 12, 2017

Nuclear Winter

57 mins; April 05, 2017

A cheery discussion of global warming, Obamacare repeal, and death

72 hours 26 mins; March 31, 2017

Weeds in the Wild: Postville

27 mins; March 24, 2017

Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers

80 hours 15 mins; March 21, 2017

CB-uh oh!

70 hours 16 mins; March 15, 2017

AHCApalooza

69 hours 27 mins; March 08, 2017

Don't Call It a State of the Union

64 hours 28 mins; March 01, 2017

Death Panel If You Do, Death Panel If You Don't

75 hours 6 mins; February 22, 2017

Weeds in the Wild: Sarah Goes to Kentucky

14 mins; February 17, 2017

Privet, Amerika!

67 hours 19 mins; February 15, 2017

The Time Traveling Emanuel Brothers

81 hours 42 mins; February 09, 2017

SCOTUS, DBCFT, and Hitler's Highways

72 hours 38 mins; February 01, 2017

The Don't-Call-It-A-Muslim-Ban

41 mins; January 30, 2017

Gag Order and Infrastructure

60 hours 23 mins; January 25, 2017

Inauguration Special

43 mins; January 20, 2017

DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

63 hours 50 mins; January 18, 2017

Trump Cabinet, Obamacare Update, and Heroin

59 mins; January 10, 2017

Sarah and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare

73 hours 3 mins; January 06, 2017

Happy New Year

50 mins; January 04, 2017

Year-End Spectacular

62 hours 46 mins; December 28, 2016

Kentucky, the Rust Belt, and the Big Picture on Trade

52 mins; December 21, 2016

Russia and the American Dream

57 mins; December 14, 2016

Trump's Surprisingly Ambitious Education Agenda

76 hours 8 mins; December 07, 2016

Assessing the Trump Cabinet — and Exploring How Recessions Affect Health

54 mins; November 30, 2016

Conflicts of Interest, Trump and the Media, and Rethinking Teen Pregnancy

70 hours 26 mins; November 22, 2016

Sneak peak: a new Vox podcast, about how policy effects real people

22 mins; November 21, 2016

The Trump Agenda

55 mins; November 16, 2016

Trumpocalypse Now

53 mins; November 09, 2016

The Massive Policy Stakes of 2016

50 mins; November 04, 2016

Is Obamacare Failing?

64 hours 51 mins; October 26, 2016

Final Debate Special

55 mins; October 20, 2016

Second Presidential Debate Special

61 hours 52 mins; October 10, 2016

Veep Debate and Cranky Judges

52 mins; October 05, 2016

The First Debate and Pet Health Care

66 hours 37 mins; September 29, 2016

An Interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell

45 mins; September 21, 2016

Best Census Ever, the Trump Foundation, and Class Discrimination

69 hours 13 mins; September 14, 2016

Gender Wage Gap and the Mystery of State Legislatures

54 mins; September 07, 2016

EpiPen Prices, the Clinton Foundation, and Lead Exposure

55 mins; August 31, 2016

Obamacare Update and Aging America

56 mins; August 24, 2016

Think Tanks, Transition, and What Drives Trumpkins

66 hours 33 mins; August 18, 2016

Trump's tax plan, democratic legitimacy, and the Freakonomics of decisionmaking

61 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2016

Interview with Atul Gawande

95 hours 21 mins; August 03, 2016

DNC-Palooza

58 mins; July 27, 2016

Republican Convention Special

54 mins; July 22, 2016

Basic Income and Police Shootings

58 mins; July 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.

43 mins; July 14, 2016

Free College, Email Extravaganza, and the China Shock

60 hours 38 mins; July 08, 2016

Brexit 2, SCOTUS on abortion, and the missing male workers

63 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2016

Welfare reform, SCOTUS deadlock, and health care jerk

65 hours 17 mins; June 25, 2016

Guns, Brexit, and Free Condoms

57 mins; June 17, 2016

5uper Tue5day

55 mins; June 10, 2016

Accountable Care Organizations, more Swedish administrative data, and the big city recovery

57 mins; June 03, 2016

Health care innovation, did Dems rig the primary, and fetal stress

68 hours 30 mins; May 27, 2016

90s nostalgia, Obamacare lawsuits, and the truth about abortion

55 mins; May 20, 2016

Competition in Obamacare marketplaces and how low-income housing can boost poor neighborhoods

49 mins; May 13, 2016

Trump is the Republican nominee. What happens next?

60 hours 43 mins; May 06, 2016

Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter

47 mins; May 02, 2016

Land value taxes, soda taxes, and carbon taxes — oh my!

69 hours 0 mins; April 29, 2016

Our undemocratic primaries, Obama's new fiduciary rule, and the challenge of information polarization

64 hours 24 mins; April 22, 2016

Interview with Jason Furman

30 mins; April 18, 2016

Why inequality matters, Trump's delegate problem, and the geography of life expectancy

72 hours 29 mins; April 15, 2016

What the hell is going on with tax havens, explained

59 mins; April 08, 2016

A medical struggle to digitize, a tax calculator, and a paper that explains Trump

78 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2016

Replacing No Child Left Behind, wonky March Madness, and Uber's productivity

65 hours 14 mins; March 25, 2016

Super(b) Tuesday special

51 mins; March 16, 2016

The productivity slowdown, TrumpCare, and better textbooks

84 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2016

Super Tuesday/Exhausted Wednesday special!

83 hours 47 mins; March 02, 2016

TPP, the Nevada Caucus, and the Great Texas Abortion clinic shutdown.

69 hours 9 mins; February 26, 2016

The Supreme Court vacancy and the possible collapse of American democracy

66 hours 9 mins; February 19, 2016

Could more corruption fix American politics?

72 hours 35 mins; February 11, 2016

The Iowa Caucuses

73 hours 22 mins; February 01, 2016

Will taxing the rich hurt growth – and will third parties save politics?

84 hours 55 mins; January 28, 2016

Ross Douthat on campus conservatism, being thankful for Donald Trump, and how to write so liberals will read you

73 hours 20 mins; January 25, 2016

Campaign finance and global inequality — with lead poisoning in between

72 hours 52 mins; January 21, 2016

Obama's Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare's jobs impact

79 hours 36 mins; January 14, 2016

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

77 hours 46 mins; January 08, 2016

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

63 hours 1 min; December 25, 2015

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

76 hours 18 mins; December 18, 2015

Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke

40 mins; December 15, 2015

Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate

76 hours 57 mins; December 11, 2015

Dietary fat and climate change

57 mins; December 04, 2015

Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between

74 hours 4 mins; November 20, 2015

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

66 hours 45 mins; November 13, 2015

How politics is making us stupid

68 hours 13 mins; November 06, 2015

Are we counting poverty all wrong?

73 hours 10 mins; October 30, 2015

Want to fix inequality by taxing the rich? Good luck.

51 mins; October 23, 2015

The Weeds: Can the government trick you into dieting?

81 hours 51 mins; October 16, 2015

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