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Explain It to Me

Why 12-step programs work — and family separation doesn’t

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Education, Society & Culture, Politics

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

While Sarah and Matt are away Dara is joined by Vox.com congressional reporters Tara Golshan and Ella Nilsen to talk about immigration and family separation. Then she's joined by Vox.com criminal justice reporter German Lopez to talk about a white paper that looks at the effectiveness of 12- step programs. References and further reading: Ella's piece on Democrats trying to stop family separation at the border Tara's piece on the chaos in the House over immigration Sarah's piece on the missing children and family separation Miriam Jordan's NYT piece on transitional foster care placements for migrant children White paper on the effectiveness of 12-step programs German's piece on Alcoholics Anonymous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

History may judge us quite harshly for how we treat animals on factory farms.

0:03.9

And one easy step makes a huge difference.

0:05.7

If you just do not eat chickens, you want almost all of our support for the

0:09.6

horrors of factory farm.

0:11.1

It's hard to believe, but the math is really simple.

0:13.3

Not eating chickens cuts out almost all the cruelty from our diets, no matter what

0:17.1

you eat instead.

0:18.1

So please take this one step of replacing chickens on your plate.

0:21.2

Visit onestepmatters.com to learn how easy it is to get on the right side of

0:25.0

history.

0:26.2

I don't think you should ever have me if you expect an optimistic ending.

0:44.0

Hello and welcome to the weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

0:47.0

I'm Darryl Lind.

0:48.0

We have a bit of an odd host situation this week because Matt is on vacation.

0:54.6

Ezra is still on book leave and Sarah while she was still hanging around the

0:58.6

office as of yesterday, certainly shouldn't be here.

1:01.2

She should be having her baby.

1:02.8

So in the hopes of encouraging that we have given her dispensation on Friday.

1:07.4

We're going to have another ask weeds anything episode.

1:10.5

The one we asked you guys for questions about a few weeks ago.

1:13.0

That's going to be up.

1:13.8

But for today, I am kind of bringing some of Fox's best and brightest in to

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