The Impact
In Washington, DC, the story often ends when Congress passes a law. For us, that’s where the story begins. We examine the consequences of what happens when powerful people act — or fail to act. This season, Jillian Weinberger explores the big ideas from the 2020 presidential candidates: how their ideas worked, or didn’t work, in other places or at other times. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2022
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
What good are piecemeal reparations? From Georgetown University, where school leadership once sold enslaved people, to Evanston, Illinois, where redlining kept Black residents out of homeownership, i…
00:28:50 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
Why slavery? Marxist scholar Adolph Reed argues that Jim Crow — not enslavement — is the defining experience for Black Americans today. Reed recounts his childhood in the segregation-era South in his…
00:42:49 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
Paying the price. One of the typical questions asked during conversations about reparations is how to pay for them. Fabiola talks with economist William “Sandy” Darity and folklorist Kirsten Mullen a…
00:44:37 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
40 Acres: The original promise
Fabiola Cineas talks with Nkechi Taifa, the founder and director of the Reparation Education Project, about the history of the fight for reparations in America. Though they came to the forefront duri…
00:49:22 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
The Toll
In this bonus, chat episode of The Impact, Jillian is joined by Vox's Matt Yglesias and Course Correction's Nelufar Hedayat to talk about how the data collected on Covid-19 deaths will help shape our…
00:25:46 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Where the US already has a border wall
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are known as “Ambos Nogales” — “both Nogaleses.” The city straddles the border of Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. For a long time, a hole-riddled chain-link fence r…
00:32:16 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Free tuition is not enough
Free college tuition seems like a solution to so many problems. After all, the price of tuition is the No. 1 reason students give for leaving school. And when students don’t finish, they can’t access…
00:25:58 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
Family Dollar(s)
Natasha Razouk wants to give her 7-year-old the best possible life. She buys big boxes of fresh tomatoes at Costco, and she gets her daughter warm boots, a good coat, and school supplies each year.
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00:19:53 |
Wed 05 Feb 2020
Saving Private Health Care
Janet Feldman has been paying for private insurance for years. She does so even though Australia has a robust public insurance option. But when she was diagnosed with a serious illness, her doctor to…
00:28:25 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
How Taiwan got Medicare-for-All
In the early 1990s, the government of Taiwan decided to try an experiment. In just nine months, they completely revolutionized their health care system, covering every Taiwanese citizen through a sin…
00:30:39 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
Green New Germany
Two decades ago, Hans-Josef Fell quietly started a revolution in his home country, with a law that looks a lot like part of the Green New Deal endorsed by many Democratic candidates. That law transfo…
00:23:01 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
After conviction, a second chance
President Gerald Ford took office during one of the most difficult times in the country’s history. In August 1974, the US had just lived through Watergate, President Richard Nixon’s resignation, and …
00:28:39 |
Wed 15 Jan 2020
How to stop an epidemic
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president with a plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Her legislation would dramatically expand access to addiction treatment and overdose prevention, and it would …
00:30:41 |
Wed 08 Jan 2020
The Impact of 2020
In this season preview, Vox’s Jillian Weinberger calls a fellow native Ohioan to discuss the perils of Swing State pride during presidential elections, and their frustration with the way election cov…
00:03:56 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
New season, new host
Sarah Kliff returns for a farewell and a handoff to The Impact's new host, Jillian Weinberger, who has a preview of what's to come in our next season.
If you're not already, subscribe to The Impact …
00:03:10 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Denmark’s paternity leave problem
Denmark gives new parents nearly a year off work after they have a baby. Most of that time can be taken by either parent — but dads take barely any time at all. That has consequences for Danish men …
00:34:38 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
The incredible shrinking city
For decades, Memphis grew by bringing its suburbs into the city limits. City officials thought this suburb-gobbling policy would be an economic boon-- that it would bring in tax revenue. Instead, the…
00:31:50 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Leaving Baltimore behind
Baltimore is running a unique housing experiment that gives longtime residents vouchers to leave the city’s poorest, most violent neighborhoods for new homes in more affluent suburbs nearby. In this …
00:44:48 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
What schools look like when we fund them fairly
All across the country, it seems like a given: places with more expensive houses have nicer schools because they can pay higher taxes. That’s just how education seems to work. Except in Vermont. Two …
00:33:16 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Food fight!
22% of New Yorkers are obese. In Chicago it is more than a quarter of the city. Obesity puts people at risk of diabetes, heart disease, even certain kinds of cancer. A couple of years ago, both citie…
00:33:28 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
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