Vox Quick Hits
Vox Quick Hits cover the big, complex, important topics in news, politics and pop culture in just a fraction of the time. Check in daily to hear short updates from your favorite journalists and podcasts in the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Stacey Abrams on voting rights | The Ezra Klein...
The changing face of voter suppression in the 21st century.
11 min
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How Nextdoor became a political battleground | ...
From mask mandates to political lawn signs, politics have come to Nextdoor. Not everyone is happy about it.
5 min
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Books to read when you feel purposeless | Ask ...
We live in a strange time, and it's easy to feel like we don’t know our place in the world anymore. Vox’s book critic Constance Grady has recommendations to help with that feeling.
3 min
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Mandatory voting | Today, Explained
It’s the only way to get to 95% percent voter turnout
6 min
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The suburban women voting bloc | Tell Me More
Vox's Ella Nilsen explains
6 min
131
Contraband cell phones in prison | Recode Daily
How and why they are a lifeline for incarcerated people
9 min
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What to expect when you’re electing | Today, Ex...
The path to 270 electoral votes is long and filled with swing states.
10 min
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The most important election of our lives? | Tel...
Vox's Ezra Klein explains
7 min
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The mail-in election | Recode Daily
An unprecedented number of Americans have cast their ballot by mail. Not all of them will arrive on time.
5 min
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Why does everybody hate Chris (Pratt)? | What's...
And more importantly, why should anyone care?
10 min
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The Trump Years: State of our union | Today, Ex...
The Women's March. The March for Our Lives. #MeToo. BLM. In the final episode of our series, Rebecca Traister explains the progressive awakening of the last four years and whether it will last.
10 min
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France, Islam, and free speech | Worldly
Jenn and Alex discuss the recent terror attacks in France that have occurred amid a national and international uproar about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed and President Emmanuel Macron’s stance toward Islam in the country.
7 min
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How Twitter has shaped the Trump campaign | Rec...
Bruce Ohr, Section 230, Hunter Biden’s emails: all catnip for conservative Twitter. But does most of the American public care?
5 min
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Scary movies for Halloween weekend | What to Watch
Check out these scary (and arguably underseen) movies this weekend.
7 min
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The Trump Years: Health of the nation | Today, ...
The president treated the pandemic as a problem of politics, not public health.
9 min
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Biden and Trump's health care plans | The Ezra ...
Sarah Kliff and I wonk out on the 2020 healthcare stakes
9 min
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The eerie familiarity of the dot-com bubble of ...
How Silicon Valley in the 90s paved the way for today’s Big Tech culture
8 min
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A $2.75 ferry ride | The Best Money I Ever Spent
Reason No. 1 to take the ferry: It’s not the subway.
6 min
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The Voters | Today, Explained
Election turnout is on track to be the highest in a century. Farmers, essential workers, prisoners, and two ladies named Ruth explain their 2020 presidential pick.
8 min
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SCOTUS' ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots | T...
Vox's Ian Millhiser explains SCOTUS' decision and how it could impact the upcoming election.
8 min
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What we can learn from Quibi calling it quits |...
The rise and fall of the video startup
6 min
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How do Ouija boards work? | One Good Answer
If ghosts aren’t real, something else has to explain how Ouija boards work. That something is called the “ideomotor effect.”
6 min
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What we can learn from the latest polls | The W...
Joe Biden has a significant lead but there’s still enough time left that the outcome is anything but a sure thing. Vox’s Jane Coaston and Matt Yglesias and Pro Publica’s Dara Lind explain.
4 min
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#EndSARS | Today, Explained
Nigerian activists inspired by Black Lives Matter took the streets to demand police reform.
9 min
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The battle over ballot drop-off in Texas | Tell...
Vox's Jen Kirby explains
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