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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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Don't drink the water
Episode Date: April 25, 2018Four years ago today, Flint, Michigan switched water supplies to save a few million dollars. To date, that decision has cost over $400 million. Govern...
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SEE YOU IN COURT
Episode Date: April 24, 2018The Supreme Court wraps up its term with a bang tomorrow: Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban case. The Court will hear arguments on whether the ban excee...
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Too little, too latte?
Episode Date: April 23, 2018On May 29th, Starbucks will shut 8,000 locations and lose millions of dollars to provide racial bias training for employees. The training comes after...
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Yes we cannabis
Episode Date: April 20, 2018Today Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana federally. But the debate over legalization rages on at the loc...
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"I don't get confused"
Episode Date: April 19, 2018Nikki Haley has had a rough week. On Sunday, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations announced sanctions against Russia. On Monday, the White House...
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Congress just broke the Internet
Episode Date: April 18, 2018Donald Trump signed FOSTA into law a week ago today. The “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” looks good on paper, but Vox’s Aja Romano says it alters f...
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The $43,000 phone booth
Episode Date: April 17, 2018Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is facing a host of new scandals: a $43,000 soundproof phone booth, a securit...
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Why did the U.S. just bomb Syria?
Episode Date: April 16, 2018President Trump and United States allies bombed chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Friday. The attacks came in response to President Bashar al-As...
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Mile-high mutiny
Episode Date: April 13, 2018When its corporate owner introduced new budget cuts and layoffs, journalists at The Denver Post decided to fight back. They ran a front-page editorial...
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He said, she said, she said, she said....
Episode Date: April 12, 2018Today is Day 4 of Bill Cosby’s retrial. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but this time things are different. Five new women are testifying, accus...
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What's my wage again?
Episode Date: April 10, 2018Today is Equal Pay Day. Vox’s Sarah Kliff reveals the real reason why working women earn about 82% as much as men. Then Valerie Wilson of the Economic...
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1, 2, 3, 4... I declare a trade war
Episode Date: April 9, 2018President Trump said he would “always be friends” with China’s leader, but the two countries have been acting anything but these past few days. First,...
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It’s never too late to understand the war in Syria
Episode Date: April 6, 2018President Trump announced this week he wants to withdraw US troops from Syria over the next six months. The country’s civil war has killed an estimate...
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They're not gonna take it
Episode Date: April 5, 2018The West Virginia teacher strike has ended, but walkouts are just getting started in Kentucky and Oklahoma, where lawmakers are scrambling to pass bil...
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20 shots and a cell phone
Episode Date: April 4, 2018289. That’s the number of people who have been shot and killed by police in 2018 alone. One of them was Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old black man from Sa...
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Mark Zuckerberg Explains Himself
Episode Date: April 3, 2018Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seldom gives interviews, but in the wake of the massive Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, he made an exception to speak...
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Gerrymandering 101
Episode Date: April 2, 2018The Supreme Court is currently deliberating two cases that could reshape the entire country’s political maps. At issue is partisan gerrymandering—the...
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Quitting the Border Patrol
Episode Date: March 30, 2018Mexican-American Francisco Cantú never expected to become a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. But for nearly four years, Cantú both detained and rescued migra...