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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. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Can corruption drive voter turnout?

06 Jun 2026
27m
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The Ferrari of electric vehicles

05 Jun 2026
25m
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Why Israel won’t stop

04 Jun 2026
25m
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Trump enters his flop era

03 Jun 2026
25m
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AI goes IPO

02 Jun 2026
25m
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Ebola conspiracies

01 Jun 2026
25m
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Why people cheat

31 May 2026
30m
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Infidelity triggers intense emotional responses, often rooted in a desire to protect relationship boundaries and identify clear villains. While reasons for cheating range from boredom to insecurity, the act represents a fundamental fracture in trust that requires intentional work to repair. Modern technology has compli...

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You voted. Does it matter?

30 May 2026
27m
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The steroid olympics

29 May 2026
25m
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The fall of Ben Shapiro

28 May 2026
25m
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Ben Shapiro’s media empire, The Daily Wire, faces a significant decline marked by plummeting web traffic, staff layoffs, and a loss of cultural relevance. This downturn stems from a combination of poor business decisions—such as investing millions into failed entertainment ventures like The Pendragon Cycle—and a fundam...

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Raw milk is having a mooment

27 May 2026
26m
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Cuba, too

26 May 2026
25m
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Dating my AI

25 May 2026
25m
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Ew, are we post-literate?

22 May 2026
25m
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Late night’s long goodbye

21 May 2026
25m
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Stephen Colbert’s departure from late-night television signals a broader decline in the traditional broadcast format, driven by plummeting advertising revenue and shifting audience habits. Networks are increasingly replacing expensive, long-running talk shows with cheaper, leased programming, such as Byron Allen’s come...

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Everything is clips now

20 May 2026
27m
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The modern internet experience is increasingly defined by the "TLDR-ification" of content, where short-form video clips dominate social media feeds to drive discovery. This shift has birthed "clipping farms"—industrialized operations that pay thousands of workers to generate viral clips for brands, political candidates...

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The Great American Road Trip?

19 May 2026
26m
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How the right embraced psychedelics

18 May 2026
25m
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Prepping for doomsday (or Tuesday)

17 May 2026
30m
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Disaster preparedness, or "prepping," extends beyond the stereotypical image of isolated survivalists in bunkers to include a diverse range of individuals focused on community resilience and practical readiness. Dr. Chris Ellis categorizes preppers into five distinct groups—homesteaders, sentinels, interdependents, Noa...

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The data center war

16 May 2026
24m
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