How politics is making us stupid

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Facts rarely seem to win any political debate — and on this episode of the Weeds, Matt, Ezra, and Sarah use political science research to explain why. Also: the case for softball debate questions and a troubling new study on rising death rates among white, middle-aged men. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Start building your website today at Squarespace.com. Enter offer code WEEDS at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace: Build it Beautiful. This episode is also brought to you by Audible, with over 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free audiobook of your choice at www.audible.com/weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's episode of the weeds is sponsored by Squarespace.
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0:13.6	Audible is offering our listeners a free audiobook of your choice
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0:18.8	Download a title for free and start listening.
0:21.0	It's that easy.
0:22.0	Go to audible.com slash weeds and get started today.
0:25.6	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:30.0	If you really want to understand what the cold war was about.
0:42.6	Hello. Welcome to another episode of the weeds.
0:44.8	Vox.com's policy podcast on the Panplane Network.
0:48.2	I'm Matthew Iglesias.
0:49.5	Here with me as always are my colleagues at the Sarah Cliff.
0:51.7	Then as a client.
0:52.8	Hey Matt.
0:53.4	Hey.
0:53.9	We've got a great episode ready to go for you.
0:57.3	We talk a lot about policy, but obviously
1:00.4	that's inextricably bound with politics.
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