Bad Takes
A podcast by Grid - Wednesdays
34 Episodes
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How Joe Rogan bullied Matt into losing weight redux
Published: 3/29/2023 -
The lesson elites should have learned from Iraq
Published: 3/22/2023 -
Stop blaming DEI for bank failures like SVB
Published: 3/15/2023 -
Wokeness isn’t worse than covid
Published: 3/8/2023 -
Traffic enforcement isn’t regressive
Published: 3/1/2023 -
The real reason liberal intellectuals don’t want Joe Biden to run again
Published: 2/22/2023 -
Is all of our stuff actually getting worse?
Published: 2/15/2023 -
When did curing blindness become a bad thing?
Published: 2/8/2023 -
Obesity is a real health problem
Published: 2/1/2023 -
The left vs. Zients, Biden’s new chief of staff
Published: 1/25/2023 -
What Mindy Kaling’s ‘Velma’ tells us about cancel culture
Published: 1/18/2023 -
Matt Schlapp and the limits of #MeToo
Published: 1/11/2023 -
George Santos lied. Now what?
Published: 1/4/2023 -
Little Women is about women — or is it?
Published: 12/28/2022 -
Liberals have won more than they think
Published: 12/21/2022 -
The enigma of Kyrsten Sinema
Published: 12/14/2022 -
Fossil fuel ads are fine!
Published: 12/7/2022 -
Nate Silver’s ‘both sidesism’
Published: 11/30/2022 -
SBF was not for real
Published: 11/23/2022 -
2024 predictions are irresistible
Published: 11/16/2022
Grid contributor Matthew Yglesias and his longtime editor, Laura McGann, Grid’s executive editor, discuss a take each week that’s gotten under their skin. They peel back the layers of the "bad take” to figure out what it tells us about American politics and policy.