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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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
202
Going to Mars
23 min
203
TEXAS HOLD DEMS
23 min
204
Can China save our climate?
23 min
205
The deal with Trump's deals
23 min
206
Schooling kids at PragerU
23 min
207
America’s high-speed rail fail
26 min
208
This is your brain off books
23 min
209
The Trumpiest judge yet
23 min
210
AI is killing the internet
23 min
211
Gaza's breaking point
23 min
212
The mother of all conspiracies
23 min
213
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
214
Crashing out
23 min
215
Revoking US citizenship
23 min
216
America’s miraculous murder decline
23 min
217
Stop the press!
23 min
218
We’re setting fire to food aid
23 min
219
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
220
Super mad about Superman
23 min
221
How the YIMBYs won
23 min
222
Trump's Epstein problem
23 min
223
Trump’s dork philosopher
23 min
224
Elon's party in the USA
23 min
225
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