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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Daily News
Politics
101
What Trump really wants from colleges
23 min
102
Drilling for clean energy
23 min
103
What wellness costs us
Americans are investing billions in their health and wellness. What good do all these green powders and costly club memberships actually do?
26 min
104
Going to Mars
23 min
105
TEXAS HOLD DEMS
23 min
106
Can China save our climate?
23 min
107
The deal with Trump's deals
23 min
108
Schooling kids at PragerU
23 min
109
America’s high-speed rail fail
26 min
110
This is your brain off books
23 min
111
The Trumpiest judge yet
23 min
112
AI is killing the internet
23 min
113
Gaza's breaking point
23 min
114
The mother of all conspiracies
23 min
115
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
116
Crashing out
23 min
117
Revoking US citizenship
23 min
118
America’s miraculous murder decline
23 min
119
Stop the press!
23 min
120
We’re setting fire to food aid
23 min
121
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
122
Super mad about Superman
23 min
123
How the YIMBYs won
23 min
124
Trump's Epstein problem
23 min
125
Trump’s dork philosopher
23 min