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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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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...
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Chief Wahoo Strikes Out
Episode Date: March 29, 2018It’s Opening Day — peanuts, cracker jack, and for some, racism. Sundance, a Native American activist, has been protesting the Cleveland Indians mascot...
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The New Abortion Wars
Episode Date: March 28, 2018Kentucky just joined a wave of states attempting to severely limit when a woman can terminate her pregnancy. Vox’s Anna North surveys the growing rest...
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Bolton's Back
Episode Date: March 27, 2018President Trump announced John Bolton will be his new National Security Advisor just as the White House prepares for historic talks with North Korea....
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The Survivors
Episode Date: March 26, 2018Dantrell Blake traveled from Chicago to Washington, D.C., to join hundreds of thousands for the March of Our Lives on Saturday. Sean Rameswaram spent...
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Flagrant Foul
Episode Date: March 23, 2018The FBI is investigating over twenty colleges for paying athletes under the table, reigniting the age-old debate: Should college athletes be formally...
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Me Too, Mr. Trump
Episode Date: March 22, 2018A judge gave the green light this week for a woman to sue President Trump for defamation. Summer Zervos claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her; he...
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Cambridge Analytica
Episode Date: March 21, 2018Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted the social media giant “made mistakes” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and vowed to fix them. The UK-ba...
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It's Been Six Months
Episode Date: March 20, 2018Today is the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural disasters in American history. But Puerto Rico remains without fully-r...
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One Man vs. InfoWars
Episode Date: March 19, 2018The white nationalist rally in Charlottesville sparked outrage when a driver barreled through the crowd, killing one woman and injuring more than 30....
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Lady and the Trump
Episode Date: March 16, 2018A president. A porn star. A lawyer with a $130,000 payoff. The allegation is Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels and his lawyer paid her to...
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The Colder War
Episode Date: March 15, 2018There’s a new Cold War being fought in the North Pole between the United States and Russia (but also China, Finland, Norway, Canada, Greenland and mor...