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.


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News
Daily News
Politics
101
Going to Mars
23 min
102
TEXAS HOLD DEMS
23 min
103
Can China save our climate?
23 min
104
The deal with Trump's deals
23 min
105
Schooling kids at PragerU
23 min
106
America’s high-speed rail fail
26 min
107
This is your brain off books
23 min
108
The Trumpiest judge yet
23 min
109
AI is killing the internet
23 min
110
Gaza's breaking point
23 min
111
The mother of all conspiracies
23 min
112
Is tipping fair?
From raising the tipped minimum wage to "no tax on tips," we look at the challenges of remaking tipped work.
27 min
113
Crashing out
23 min
114
Revoking US citizenship
23 min
115
America’s miraculous murder decline
23 min
116
Stop the press!
23 min
117
We’re setting fire to food aid
23 min
118
The summer I turned into a bookworm
Summer. Time for pools, BBQs, and the beach read. But why do we read "summer books"?
27 min
119
Super mad about Superman
23 min
120
How the YIMBYs won
23 min
121
Trump's Epstein problem
23 min
122
Trump’s dork philosopher
23 min
123
Elon's party in the USA
23 min
124
Chat BFF
More and more of us are interacting with chatbots. Can we have real relationships with AI, and can AI teach humans to be better people?
27 min
125
Plastic rain
23 min