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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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The United States vs. California
Episode Date: March 12, 2018Donald Trump takes his first trip to California as president tomorrow. Making matters awkward, his administration sued the Golden State last week over...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Episode Date: March 9, 2018After months of name calling and test missiles, Donald Trump will be the first sitting United States president to meet with a North Korean leader. Vox...
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The Disability Belt
Episode Date: March 8, 2018Out of the ten counties with the most adults on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), nine voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. But in the pr...
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That'll Teach 'Em
Episode Date: March 7, 2018An historic walkout in West Virginia ended yesterday. Teachers managed to shut down every single public school in the state for nine days to demand hi...
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What's the Deal with Steel?
Episode Date: March 6, 2018President Trump announced that he's okay with a trade war late last week and he's got the tariff proposals to prove it: 25% for steel, 10% for aluminu...
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Inclusion Riders, Explained
Episode Date: March 5, 2018Quick bonus episode! Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Actress last night for her performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Miss...
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President for Life
Episode Date: March 5, 2018China's National People's Congress opened its annual two-week meeting today. The country’s parliament is expected to change China’s constitution to al...
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The Gun Problem No One Wants to Talk About
Episode Date: March 2, 2018It was a week of whiplash in the national fight over gun control. First, major retailers like Dick’s and Walmart raised the gun-buying age from 18 to...
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The Deep Fake
Episode Date: March 1, 2018There’s a new kind of algorithm that allows you to take a video of one person and map the face of another person onto his or her body. Not surprisingl...
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The Quiet War on Obamacare
Episode Date: February 28, 2018A coalition of 20 states filed a lawsuit claiming Obamacare is unconstitutional yesterday. Vox’s Sarah Kliff says that’s just the latest pushback on t...
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Mueller 101
Episode Date: February 27, 2018Today, special counsel Robert Mueller dropped over 20 criminal counts against former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, just days after Gates agreed...
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Give Us Your No One
Episode Date: February 26, 2018Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a decision on DACA. This keeps the Deferred Action f...
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This Time Could Be Different
Episode Date: February 23, 2018Something changed this week. Teenagers managed to break the deadlock over gun control. Marches, walkouts, and serious policy debates are on the way. T...
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Countdown to Day Zero
Episode Date: February 22, 2018Cape Town is just a few months away from being the first major city to shut off its taps in the history of the modern world. Day Zero - the day Capeto...
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Breaking the Ice with North Korea
Episode Date: February 21, 2018North and South Korea are on opposite sides of a demilitarized zone, separated by barbed wire, tank traps, and guard towers. But in the 2018 Winter Ol...
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Black Panther Is the Most Important Movie of 2018
Episode Date: February 20, 2018"Black Panther" is the biggest movie in the world, but what makes this comic book adaptation more important than the nearly 20 Marvel movies that came...
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Six Easy Steps to Nuclear War
Episode Date: February 19, 2018Today we launch our show, but it turns out it's a lot easier to launch a nuclear weapon. Vox's Alex Ward walks us through the six easy steps and tells...