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Seven-Minute Explainers
The Week
80 episodes
9 months ago
Your audio guide to everything you need to know about compelling and complex topics, from a variety of The Week's smart and witty writers, editors, and thinkers. Concise and entertaining, Seven-Minute Explainers packs a lot of information in a short amount of time.
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Your audio guide to everything you need to know about compelling and complex topics, from a variety of The Week's smart and witty writers, editors, and thinkers. Concise and entertaining, Seven-Minute Explainers packs a lot of information in a short amount of time.
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Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 79: Almost every language has a word for 'Christmas.' Few reference Christ.
How’s that for a war on Christmas?
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7 years ago
5 minutes 44 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 78: Why so strangely Yoda speaks?
Hear something odd in his syntax, you do
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7 years ago
4 minutes 40 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 77: A brief timeline of tax reform
How previous reforms led to the system we have today
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7 years ago
7 minutes 13 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 76: Did God have a wife?
The history and mystery of Asherah
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7 years ago
5 minutes 33 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 75: 6 unique Thanksgiving celebrations from around the world
The Macy's Day Parade, football, and Black Friday deals may be uniquely American, but giving thanks for a good harvest is a tradition that crosses cultures
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7 years ago
6 minutes 55 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 74: The secret history of cowboy socialism
The American West may fly the flag of individualism, but it was built on a bedrock of Big Government
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7 years ago
7 minutes 18 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 73: Why Puerto Rico never had a path to statehood
Even as other territories became states, the U.S. kept Puerto Rico's legal status vague
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8 years ago
9 minutes 21 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 72: The strange, circuitous history of Daylight Saving Time
How war, the golf industry, and Big Candy got (most) us an extra hour of sleep this weekend
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8 years ago
7 minutes 6 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 71: Why cheap horror flicks are Hollywood gold
From 'Night of the Living Dead' to 'Paranormal Activity,' low-budget horror movies continue to def Hollywood's box-office expectations
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8 years ago
7 minutes 23 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 70: The lessons of the Russian revolution, 100 years later
Is Marxism just a turn-crank formula for purges and dictatorship or was something else to blame?
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8 years ago
7 minutes 12 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 69: The self-aware legacy of 'Friends'
Dissecting the end of an era
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8 years ago
7 minutes 8 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 68: Why Ronald Reagan enthusiastically signed America's first real gun control law
A lifelong member of the NRA, Reagan might be the most consequential president for gun control legislation in the past century
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8 years ago
6 minutes 38 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 67: Why severe flooding is becoming increasingly common — and more destructive
Flooding in America is an epidemic
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8 years ago
7 minutes 5 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 66: The burglars who broke into the FBI and brought down J. Edgar Hoover
In 1971, a group of activists stole thousands of incriminating documents that proved the bureau was spying on Americans. They got away scot-free.
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8 years ago
31 minutes 45 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 65: Why do we have a debt ceiling anyway?
How a legislative fluke turned into a political weapon
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8 years ago
6 minutes 17 seconds

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Ep. 64: Congressional censure, explained
When elected officials break the rules, this congressional tool puts them in check
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8 years ago
7 minutes 6 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep.63: How to put your savings on autopilot
Save money without even thinking about it
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8 years ago
6 minutes 53 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 62: Multivitamins are useless. Here's why.
Those daily pills aren't doing you any favors
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8 years ago
6 minutes 45 seconds

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Ep. 61: America's eclipse craze, explained
On Aug. 21, the moon's shadow will roll across the U.S. as tens of millions of Americans witness a total solar eclipse
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8 years ago
7 minutes

Seven-Minute Explainers
Ep. 60: The new monopolies
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and our second Gilded Age
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8 years ago
6 minutes 33 seconds

Seven-Minute Explainers
Your audio guide to everything you need to know about compelling and complex topics, from a variety of The Week's smart and witty writers, editors, and thinkers. Concise and entertaining, Seven-Minute Explainers packs a lot of information in a short amount of time.