Today, Explained podcast
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. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here. Today, Explained is now available on public radio stations across the US. For more daily news offerings, check out Vox’s weekday newsletter.
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The Today, Explained team includes Miranda Kennedy, Jolie Myers, Amina Al-Sadi, Avishay Artsy, Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Danielle Hewitt, Kelli Wessinger, Ariana Aspuru, Laura Bullard, and Patrick Boyd. The show is a production of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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What NWS and FEMA cuts could mean for future disasters, explained.
Disney tried to a build a theme park that tackled slavery. It didn’t go well.
Burritos on a payment plan, explained.
Musk had big dreams. DOGE ran into reality. Here’s what will and won’t stick from the initiative.
David French on Donald Trump’s breakup with the Federalist Society.
Tuskegee University’s president explains how he’s approaching this Trump administration.
One of the first women to graduate from the Army Ranger School says yes.
Is flying into Newark safe?
Criticism of Israel is ramping up. What does that mean for the war in Gaza?
How women took over literary fiction.
Why has “baby Botox” become so popular?
Why the GOP put SALT on the table.
Presidential emergency declarations mean emergency powers — and a way around Congress.
The “American institution” of prepping, explained.
His views on immigration may point to an early clash with the Trump administration.
Marco Rubio’s four jobs, explained the best we can.
Two cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism.
Fascism, Bolton told Vox, is “too far above Trump’s capabilities.”
A conversation with Sen. Chris Van Hollen about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention — and where America goes from here.
Yale professor David W. Blight explains why Trump is far from the first to try to rewrite the record.
As Trump wages war against Harvard, something unprecedented is happening on Florida’s college campuses.
Ted Kaczynski’s apocalyptic vision still has a following, 30 years later.
The authors of Project 2025 are at it again with Project Esther, a plan that’s supposedly about fighting antisemitism.
“You couldn’t have drafted these conditions better if you were a Chinese diplomat.”
The online personality has millions of young fans. Now prominent Democrats are seeking out his advice.
A guide to text etiquette so simple, even a government official could use it.
The administration’s war on the judiciary, explained by a law professor.
The lack of romantic partnerships is an underrated factor causing fertility decline, says researcher Alice Evans.
How the shuttering of a small US-funded news outlet explains Trump’s governing philosophy.
We talk to Richard Hanania, an influential thinker on the online right, about how he got DEI dismantled and why he’s fallen out of love with MAGA.
In a Vox interview, the candidate reflects on what he — and Harris — should have done differently.
Recent plane crashes have people afraid, just as DOGE lays off workers at the agency that keeps people safe in the air.
How to make sense of the German elections.
The Trump administration is purging some government websites. The director of the Wayback Machine explains what we can do about it.
How a veteran with very little experience in foreign intelligence ended up overseeing the nation’s spy agencies.
Russell Vought and his radical philosophy, explained.
The anti-trust battle between diners and Big French Fry, briefly explained.
What’s making Americans sick, according to a top RFK Jr. adviser.
Journalist and author Nick Bilton explains the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.
Greenland: not for sale, but open for business.