Explain It to Me

Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.Resources:"Nancy Pelosi says Democrats opted against putting federal aid on autopilot in their $3 trillion coronavirus spending package to avoid amplifying sticker shock" by Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ "Federalism Is an Asset" by Danielle Allen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Josh Simons, & Carmel Shachar, HarvardReferences:Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy, The Hamilton ProjectFix recessions by giving people money - The Weeds, featuring Claudia SahmThe case for subsidized jobs - The Weeds, featuring Indi Dutta-GuptaHosts:Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, VoxEzra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, VoxCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerThe Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network productionWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census.Resources:"The pandemic may leave communities of color undercounted in the census — and cost them billions" by Donna M. Owens, Vox"Trump is still trying to collect citizenship data for redistricting" by Nicole Narea, Vox"A once-in-a-century pandemic collides with a once-in-a-decade census" by Andrew Whitby, Brookings"Over a million Hispanics turned white between the 2000 and 2010 Census" by Matthew Yglesias, VoxWhite paper Hosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, VoxJane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublicaCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerThe Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network productionWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ezra and Matt on the deep roots (or not) of the lockdown debate.Resources:"Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox"This drawing explains a surprising amount about your political views" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox"America’s coronavirus testing numbers are really improving — finally" by German Lopez"The Density Divide" by Will Wilkinson, Niskanen Center"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ"Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel &Paul M. RomerBooks referenced:Prius or Pickup? by Jonathan Weiler & Marc HetheringtonOpen versus Closed by Christopher M. Federico, Howard G. Lavine, & Christopher D. JohnstonHosts:Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, VoxEzra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, VoxCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerThe Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network productionWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression.Resources:"As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal" by Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post"Get ready for a second wave of economic pain" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox"The economy is in free fall. So why isn’t the stock market?" by Emily Stewart, VoxWhite paper Hosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, VoxJane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublicaCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerThe Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network productionWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ezra and Matt on America's lost month and what happens next.Resources:"April was another lost month for Trump’s coronavirus response" by German Lopez, Vox"Flattening the curve isn’t good enough" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox"COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint" by Peter M. Sandman & Jody Lanard, Cidrap"Canada succeeded on coronavirus where America failed. Why?" by Zack Beauchamp, Vox"US coronavirus data is at odds with Trump’s push to get the economy back up and running" by Aaron Rupar, VoxHosts:Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, VoxEzra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, VoxCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerThe Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network productionWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the great mobilization vs persuasion debate.Resources:"What Happened in the Georgia Gubernatorial Election?" Catalist Analytics, Medium"The case for taking Trump’s black outreach seriously" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox"Michelle Obama Is Mad at ‘Our Folks,’ Not Trump Voters: ‘That’s My Trauma’" by Kevin Fallon, Daily BeastWhite paperHosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, VoxJane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublicaCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ezra and Matt on congressional bargaining strategy and the China blame game.Resources:"Congressional Democrats are governing from the minority" by Ezra Klein, Vox"Many world leaders have seen double-digit polling surges amid coronavirus. Trump isn’t one of them." by Roge Karma, VoxHosts:Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, VoxEzra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, VoxCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the possibility of "human challenge trials" to speed vaccine development.Resources:"How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor" by Michael Specter, The New Yorker"What Each Side of the COVID-19 Debate Should Understand About the Other" by Brian Doherty, Reason"Special Report: Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade" by Gabriel Stargardter, Drazen Jorgic, ReutersWhite paperHosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, VoxJane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublicaCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerWant to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcastsAbout VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ezra and Matt on the failures of some popular epidemiological forecasts and a viral Silicon Valley essay urging America to build again.Resources:"The US has a national service for predicting the weather. It needs one for predicting disease." by Brian Resnick, Vox"What happens next in the coronavirus outbreak? We mapped 8 scenarios." by Julia Belluz, Vox"It's time to build" by Marc Andreessen, a16z"Why we can’t build" by Ezra Klein, VoxHosts:Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, VoxEzra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, VoxCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerOpen courtesy of StatQuestMore to explore:Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week.About VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dara, Jane, and Matt on conservatives’ desire for a rapid reopening of American businesses, and a 'feel good' white paper about air pollution.Resources:"This is where all 50 states stand on reopening" by Alaa Eslassar, CNNThe Heritage Foundation's plan.The American Enterprise's plan.The Center for American Progress's plan"The legal scholar who shaped Trump’s coronavirus response defends his theory" by Jane Coaston, Vox"Inclined to Putrefaction" by Erin Maglaque, London Review of BooksThe United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy TheoryCOVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020, CDCWhite paperHosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, VoxJane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublicaCredits:Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and ProducerMore to explore:Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week.About VoxVox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.Follow Us: Vox.comFacebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices