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Explain It to Me

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Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about the real causes of mass incarceration, Trump's move to roll back contraceptive coverage, and the mysterious world of high-end credit cards.Links!German Lopez’s piece about John Pfaff’s “Locked in” Mark A.R. Kleiman, Angela Hawken, and Ross Halperin on graduated reentry as prison reform.Today’s white paper, "Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards" Our Weeds in the Wild Episode about birth control Ezra Klein’s conversation with Chris Hayes about “A Colony in a Nation” Jon Bois excellent video, The Dumbest Boy in the WorldBooks!"Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration" by John Pfaff"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander"A Colony in a Nation" by Chris Hayes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.5	MUSIC
0:34.5	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds
0:36.4	on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:38.4	Madaglaceus here with Sarah Cliff, and Ezra Klein.
0:41.0	It's great to have the whole gang here in studio.
0:43.8	Third episode in one week.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:46.0	It's lots of weeds.
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