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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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Florida man indicted (again) (again) (again)
Episode Date: August 16, 2023Oft-indicted former President Donald Trump is at it again. Stephen Fowler, host of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, exp...
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Why Maui burned
Episode Date: August 15, 2023Hawaii’s landscape has been rapidly changing for the last 200 years thanks to plantations, tourism, and climate change. A reporter and climatologist e...
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A postpartum pill
Episode Date: August 14, 2023The FDA’s approval of a new pill that treats postpartum depression could be yet another signal that we are living in a golden age of medicine. This ep...
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Suing big food
Episode Date: August 11, 2023Tostitos chips without real lime. Root beer made with fake vanilla. Instant mac and cheese that isn’t so instant. These products are among the hundred...
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The Rikers takeover
Episode Date: August 10, 2023Today a federal judge hears arguments on whether New York City Mayor Eric Adams should be stripped of control of the jails on Rikers Island. Gothamist...
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Shein trouble
Episode Date: August 9, 2023The Chinese apparel company Shein is a favorite of Gen Z shoppers and the latest frontier in US-China tensions. Vogue Business editor Hilary Milnes ex...
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ESPN 4 SALE
Episode Date: August 8, 2023Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is looking for a “strategic partner” to invest in the massive sports network, which has been struggling in an era...
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The air-istocracy
Episode Date: August 4, 2023Private jets aren’t what they used to be. AOC is calling out Hollywood executives for having too many, and European nations are trying to ban them. Pe...
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Battlechips
Episode Date: August 3, 2023Semiconductors are used in just about every piece of technology. The US wants to limit what China can do with them. Alex W. Palmer explains the latest...
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Florida man indicted (again) (again)
Episode Date: August 2, 2023The latest unprecedented is about January 6, but does the American public still care about January 6? This episode was produced by Siona Peterous with...
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Where did the recession go?
Episode Date: August 1, 2023A much-dreaded recession doesn’t actually seem to be materializing. We called up some experts — economics reporters Tracy Alloway and Greg Ip, plus ou...
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Will “parental rights” mobilize Muslims?
Episode Date: July 31, 2023Some Muslim parents wanted their kids to opt out of reading schoolbooks with LGBTQ characters and themes. Today, Explained reporter Haleema Shah expla...
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Music’s nostalgia-industrial complex
Episode Date: July 28, 2023A lot of our new hit music sounds just like our parents’ old hit music. Pitchfork’s Jayson Greene says you should blame publishing companies. This epi...
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Sound of Freedom
Episode Date: July 27, 2023The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen explains how Sound of Freedom, an action-drama about fighting child sex trafficking, beat Tom Cruise and Indi...
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A third nuclear superpower
Episode Date: July 26, 2023For decades, a delicate strategy of deterrence kept Russia and the US from nuclear war. With China upping its nuclear ambitions, things are about to g...
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Inside the AI factory
Episode Date: July 25, 2023We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast netw...
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I want you! (to fight the culture war)
Episode Date: July 24, 2023The defense bill is the latest piece of legislation to be weaponized by the far-right Freedom Caucus. It’s also the latest test for House Speaker Kevi...
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Barbie Dreampodcast
Episode Date: July 21, 2023Is Barbie a toy commercial doubling as the first installment of an inevitable Mattel Cinematic Universe? Or does it have something important to say? B...