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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We can't trust photos anymore

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

This week Apple announced its first AI iPhone with features that will make it even easier to edit your photos. But manipulating reality worries photoj...

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Stop the steel

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

Once the world's largest corporation, the now-struggling US Steel wants to sell itself to Japan's Nippon Steel. The United Steelworkers oppose the dea...

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Who took debait?

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

A conservative and a liberal wrangle over how the Harris-Trump debate should have gone. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Amanda Lewellyn...

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The Pope’s big bet on China

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

One of the most significant parts of Pope Francis’s Asia tour might be a country he isn’t visiting: China, home to 10 million Catholics, with whom the...

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Revenge of the regulators

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov by French authorities is part of a broader shift away from the free speech absolutism long championed by Big Te...

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Antibiotics for coral reefs

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

Vox’s Benji Jones takes us diving in a coral reef to learn how scientists are trying to save them. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited...

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How sanctions backfire

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

American sanctions can destroy a country’s economy. The unintended consequences are massive in places like Venezuela and Syria. Jeff Stein of the Wash...

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How Trump wins

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

Donald Trump hasn’t yet figured out how to run a disciplined campaign against Kamala Harris. In the meantime, he’s leaning into the weird. This episod...

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The silent war

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

The story of Army specialist Austin Valley highlights a crisis the US military can’t seem to solve: More service members die by suicide than in combat...

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Equal-opportunity murderball

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

For the first time, a woman is playing on the US wheelchair rugby team at the Paralympics. It’s a sign of progress in the complicated arena of co-ed s...

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Israel vs. Hezbollah

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

The two are on the brink of starting a regional war. An analyst and a negotiator say without a ceasefire in Gaza, the Middle East could spin out of co...

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Minion Jesus

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

A meme of a Minion being crucified went viral on TikTok in a very unusual way. Today, Explained’s Laura Bullard investigated and connected the dots al...

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Stuck in space

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

Bloomberg’s Loren Grush explains how two astronauts got stuck on the International Space Station and astronaut Cady Coleman tells us why she is jealou...

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How Kamala wins

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

Noel closes out her week in Chicago with a recap of Kamala Harris’s speech. Political strategist Mike Podhorzer looks ahead. This episode was produced...

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Kamala's party

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

The Democrats call Black women the "backbone" of their party. We ask three Black women delegates in Chicago about making history, Gaza, and Black men...

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Dating sucks right now

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

But it doesn't have to. Myisha Battle, a sexologist and host of KCRW’s How's Your Sex Life?, tells us how to move beyond the apps. This episode was pr...