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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The New Right’s pay pal

Episode Date: August 11, 2022

From politicians to podcasters, one man’s money unites the New Right. Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin explains how Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is s...

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Meet the New Right

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

The newest conservative dissidents want to radically reshape the Republican party and American democracy. Journalist James Pogue explains the confound...

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Raid-a-Lago

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

Florida man's beach house searched by FBI. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Avishay Artsy with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Co...

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Authoritarianism, baby!

Episode Date: August 5, 2022

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight population decline by paying some citizens to have mor...

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Monkeypox is a queer emergency

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

Gay men, queer people, and their partners represent an overwhelming majority of monkeypox cases. But even though the WHO just declared the disease a g...

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Pelosi in Taiwan

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

China didn’t want Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan. Neither did the White House. Politico’s Alex Ward explains why she went anyway. This episode w...

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Fighting climate despair

Episode Date: July 29, 2022

Climate change has driven some environmental activists to extremes. We talk about overcoming despair with Terry Kaelber, whose husband David Buckel to...

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Are we in a recession?

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

The US economy has shrunk for two consecutive quarters. That’s technically a recession. But economists aren’t so sure we’re actually in one. Madeleine...

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Riding in Cars with Robots

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

The data is in on autonomous cars: They are crashing, but they're still doing a lot better than regular cars driven by humans. The Verge’s Andrew Hawk...

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Replacing Boris Johnson

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

Britain’s Conservative party is spending the summer choosing its next prime minister. The Atlantic’s Tom McTague introduces the candidates vying to re...

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McMoscow

Episode Date: July 25, 2022

The 1990 opening of a McDonald's in Russia heralded not just burgers and fries but, get this, a new era of peace and prosperity. The Economist’s Patri...

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Wrestling with Vince McMahon

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

The CEO who turned World Wrestling Entertainment into a global brand has retired after nearly 40 years, amid allegations of sexual assault and infidel...

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Dry Hot American Summer

Episode Date: July 21, 2022

As the world heats up, the American West is drier than at any period in the past 1,200 years. But don’t expect people to stop watering their lawns. Th...