Fighting coronavirus with corporate conscription

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt on the Defense Production Act, wartime mobilization, and pandemic-induced autarky. Resources: "Trump’s excuses for not using the Defense Production Act are wrong — and dangerous" by Alex Ward, Vox "“We are desperate”: Trump’s inaction has created a crisis with protective medical gear" by Caroline Hopkins, Vox "The Defense Production Act, the law Trump is using to boost coronavirus supplies, briefly explained" by Alex Ward, Vox "How Ford's Willow Run Assembly Plant Helped Win World War II" by Tim Trainor, Assembly Magazine Willow Run White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica More 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 Vox Vox 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.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.4	I think what it all looks like.
0:31.4	All right.
0:45.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:48.5	I'm Matthew Glacias, here with Jane Kostin, ProPublica's Darryl Lind.
0:53.1	We are here today talking again about the coronavirus that has forced us into our
0:59.2	perspective, MakeShiftHome Studios.
1:02.2	We wanted to take a look today at some of the stuff on the production side, right?
1:09.2	And what does it kind of mean to mobilize a country to make, I don't know, the things
1:16.6	that we need.
1:17.6	There's been this kind of back and forth for days where the president has said he was invoking
1:24.3	the Defense Production Act, that not actually invoking it and, you know, progressives calling
1:30.2	on him to do it.
1:31.2	And this is a law from the Korean War era that essentially in an emergency allows the
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