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Hello. Welcome to another episode of The Weeds.

Box is a policy podcast on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias.

Join in the studio two special guests, Ezra and Sarah are off at the second Vox conversations.

Conference. So I've got my colleagues Dylan Matthews and Libby Nelson here with me.

We are in the middle of a crazy week of American domestic politics and policy news.

As Donald Trump tries to round out the 96th and 97th days of his presidency.

So we're going to ignore that in in solid weeds fashion and delve into a topic that no one is

discussing and is going nowhere in Congress. We're going to look at a white paper about gender,

monarchy and war. But first I wanted to talk about this election that played out in France

earlier this week because I don't know politics, political dynamics have been getting sort of

more globalized more internationalized lately. And we saw a real trend toward people looking

at the Brexit vote in the UK and then Donald Trump's election in the United States and then saying,

okay, populous nationalists are they're surging everywhere. And Morin Le Pen certainly seemed to

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