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
2001
Why is voting optional?
22 min
2002
Everything you need to know about tomorrow’s mi...
25 min
2003
Can I hack it? (Yes, you can.)
21 min
2004
$$ FREE MONEY FREE MONEY $$
21 min
2005
What the frack is up with Colorado
23 min
2006
One week to midterms, 5000 troops to border
22 min
2007
Tree of Life
24 min
2008
The Purge
23 min
2009
Bombs in the mail
17 min
2010
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Kill the Treaty
22 min
2011
What the transgender memo means
20 min
2012
We're gonna need a bigger vote
19 min
2013
FW: FW: FW: SECRETS TO BOOST YOUR METABOLISM
17 min
2014
Consequences
21 min
2015
Affirmative reaction
21 min
2016
Beto and Ted's Excellent Adventure
20 min
2017
Remember, remember the 6th of November
24 min
2018
The $629 Band-Aid
23 min
2019
Disappeared
21 min
2020
Earth is cancelled due to weather
20 min
2021
Nikki out
11 min
2022
The death penalty and the gopher frog
22 min
2023
All my friends are robocalls
23 min
2024
The Kavanaugh report is here and no, you can't ...
17 min
2025
How to run for president from a hospital bed
22 min