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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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Why America needs a national pandemic memorial
Episode Date: March 19, 2021People want to move on from Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean forgetting its victims. Historian Paul Farber and Vox reporter Alissa Wilkinson explain wh...
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Racism, misogyny, and the shootings in Georgia
Episode Date: March 18, 2021Eight people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area spas. Most of the victims were women. Six were Asian American. Georgia state Sen. Michelle...
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Why are more children crossing the border?
Episode Date: March 17, 2021A growing number of unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border is highlighting President Biden’s struggle to fulfill his campaign promises on immigr...
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Who gets to vote?
Episode Date: March 16, 2021It’s a question the US has struggled with since its founding. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...
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Vaccines4Kids
Episode Date: March 15, 2021President Biden says all adults will be eligible for a vaccine by May 1. But for the world to truly return to normal, young people will need shots, to...
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No one nose
Episode Date: March 12, 2021Believe it or not, scientists still don’t know how the sense of smell works. But that isn’t stopping one guy at MIT from trying to reverse-engineer it...
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It’s been a year
Episode Date: March 11, 2021The year in revue. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Biden’s Big F***ing Deal
Episode Date: March 10, 2021President Biden’s American Rescue Plan has been approved by Congress. It’s a revolution in American welfare disguised as stimulus. Transcript at vox.c...
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You’re vaccinated. Now what?
Episode Date: March 9, 2021New guidelines from the CDC for fully vaccinated people suggest it’s finally time to hug your grandparents. Dr. Kavita Patel explains the do’s and don...
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Alabama shakes up Amazon
Episode Date: March 8, 2021Darryl Richardson, a worker at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, explains why he helped initiate a unionization effort that now has President...
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The Bachelor meets reality
Episode Date: March 5, 2021Beset by controversy, The Bachelor’s latest season is winding down with an identity crisis. It’s a rare case of reality TV reflecting our cultural rea...
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The surge of anti-Asian violence
Episode Date: March 5, 2021The United States is stumbling through two racial reckonings at once. Author Jeff Chang says it’s an inflection point centuries in the making. Transcr...
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Manchin in the middle
Episode Date: March 3, 2021Joe Biden won the presidency, but it’s Joe Manchin from West Virginia who seems to be the decider. The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Joe Severino shadowed...
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The $15 dream
Episode Date: March 2, 2021Washington’s hottest policy fight is over raising the minimum wage to $15. Emily Stewart explains the Democrats’ effort to get it through Congress, an...
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How acid trips led to better policing
Episode Date: March 1, 2021Thirty years ago, Eugene, Oregon, figured out an alternative to the police. They called it CAHOOTS. Seriously. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. L...
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Canceling Keystone XL
Episode Date: February 27, 2021President Biden finally wants to put the Keystone XL pipeline to bed. But if the last 12 years of environmental fights are any indication, it won’t be...
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The case for Covid-19 optimism
Episode Date: February 25, 2021Vox’s German Lopez explains why he feels optimistic about the end of the pandemic even though 500,000 Americans have died, the virus is mutating, and...
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A tale of two governors
Episode Date: February 24, 2021Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom were hailed for their leadership early on in the pandemic. Now, the former is mired in scandal and the latter is facing...
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Stimu-less
Episode Date: February 23, 2021What’s taking so long? What’s happening with those $1,400 checks? Are the Democrats betraying the people who voted for them? Vox’s Li Zhou and Andrew...