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
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Crashing out
23 min
102
Revoking US citizenship
23 min
103
America’s miraculous murder decline
23 min
104
Stop the press!
23 min
105
We’re setting fire to food aid
23 min
106
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
107
Super mad about Superman
23 min
108
How the YIMBYs won
23 min
109
Trump's Epstein problem
23 min
110
Trump’s dork philosopher
23 min
111
Elon's party in the USA
23 min
112
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
113
Plastic rain
23 min
114
From Alligator Alcatraz to South Sudan
24 min
115
I was told there would be deals
23 min
116
Trump's Nobel Peace Prize
23 min
117
Texas blame game
23 min
118
Our complicated relationship with the flag
Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar openly celebrate the American flag. But a lot of Black Americans feel differently. What does that tell us about identity today?
27 min
119
Disney's America
23 min
120
Make America Uninsured Again
23 min
121
Unmasking ICE
23 min
122
Porn on the docket
The Supreme Court has a long history of taking on cases about porn, including one they decided on Friday. Vox's Ian Millhiser explains how that history of First Amendment rulings once meant the justices had to watch porn in a basement.
23 min
123
Can we ever know our dogs?
So many of us believe we understand what our pets are feeling. Are we fooling ourselves?
27 min
124
Swole Girl Summer
Weightlifting is the fastest growing sport among women. It's challenging how we think about who is allowed to be strong and what fitness really means.
23 min
125
Wars have rules
The legal architecture that would define and prosecute what’s happening in Gaza is failing. Reporter Suzy Hansen explains how 80 years of international humanitarian law is being tested. And professor Omer Bartov thought calling Israel's offensive in Gaza a genocide immediately after the October 7 attacks was inaccurate. He’s changed his mind.
23 min