Today, Explained

Today, Explained is Vox's daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will guide you through the most important stories of the day. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Trump's judge grudge

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

Judges, including one of his own Supreme Court appointees, are trying to rein President Trump in. In return, Trump is threatening to impeach judges....

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Gen Sex

Episode Date: March 23, 2025

Gen X women are freeing themselves from the hangups of the '90s, and having the best sex of their lives. Media portrayals of middle-aged women are sta...

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No kids on the block

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

The pro-natalism movement argues that people need to have more babies. Some want to prevent economic implosion, others want to protect traditional fam...

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The autocrat's prison

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

The US is deporting alleged members of the gang Trén de Aragua and paying El Salvador to house them in a mega-prison. But we don’t know if the deporte...

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An America First trap

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

This isn’t the first time we’ve tried to go America First. The last time helped blow up the economy and our relationships with our allies. This episod...

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What if we stopped shopping?

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

Fed up with consumerism, Mia Westrap went a whole year without buying unnecessary stuff. She went viral, and so did her goal. Now, the Buy Nothing mov...

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The man who helped kill DEI

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

Policy in the second Trump administration is being driven by a small group of thinkers from the online right. We talk to one of them about how he got...

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Deporting Mahmoud Khalil

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

The Trump administration has fallen short of its promise to deport millions. The White House now seems focused on attention-grabbing arrests, includin...

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Teslump

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Protests against Tesla embody the outrage against Elon Musk’s DOGE-e behavior. But Musk doesn't seem to care. And given his position in the federal go...

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A Walz to Remember

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with Sean Rameswaram over the weekend at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to talk about 2024, 2025, and what might help his par...

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Whey too much protein

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Added protein really seems to be in all the food lately. Reporter Chris Gayomali says to thank environmental regulations, GLP-1s, and Arnold Schwarzen...

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The Zizian "death cult"

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Journalist Max Read explains how a bunch of Silicon Valley computer scientists spun into a cult accused of killings. This episode was produced by Aman...

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Breaking up with Ukraine

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

Why the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a twisted appeal for Trump's core supporters. And what Europe plans to do about it. This episode was...