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Videos Archive

Archives for March 2014

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Nine questions about VoxNine questions about Vox
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Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell and Matt Yglesias answer nine questions about their new site Vox.com. Question #2: What happened to Project X?

By Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias
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Why the national debt isn’t that scaryWhy the national debt isn’t that scary
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Why the national debt isn’t as scary as you think in under two minutes.

By Matthew Yglesias
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How Obamacare’s individual mandate worksHow Obamacare’s individual mandate works
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How does the individual mandate work and why is the Obama administration so confident in it? Watch the video to find out.

By Ezra Klein
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How is the world getting better?How is the world getting better?
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What if I told you the last 50 years had been the best in the history of the world? Now what if I showed you the data to back it up?

By Ezra Klein
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Author Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth exinctionAuthor Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth exinction
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There have been five moments in the history of the planet defined as mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth plummets. Author Elizabeth Kolbert thinks we may be headed for another.

By Ezra Klein