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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8 billion humans
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China’s biggest protests since Tiananmen Square
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Disney’s boomerang CEO
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Nancy podcast
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Can you spare some climate change?
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NASA wants to live in space
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Little influencers, big business
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Gen Z in the House
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Ticketmaster (Taylor’s Version)
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World Cup: How 2 B a legend
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Pushing the Russians back
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An inconvenient glacier
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The FTX cryptocalypse
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The tech boom is over
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World Cup: They built this city
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A vaccine for RSV
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No red wave
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What if you HAD to vote?
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Kari Lake is MAGA’s rising star
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World Cup: Welcome to Qatar!
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Elon’s Twitter hell
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How does the war in Ukraine end?
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The teen’s gambit
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A win for Lula (and democracy) in Brazil
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Our annual Halloween hysteria
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Supermarket supermerger
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Teflon Ron
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A police sketch based on DNA
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Investigating women’s soccer
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On with Kara Swisher (and Stacey Abrams)
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Nikola (not Tesla)
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Truss fall
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The devil’s bargain on inflation
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The Los Angeles city council meltdown
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Legal weed’s half-baked promise
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Made in China
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A new law to “save the animals”
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#MahsaAmini was just the beginning
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If Republicans win the midterms
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Fettermania
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Small nukes
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Student loan forgiveMESS
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Puerto Rico’s power crisis
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The Supreme Court is back and “even more consequential”
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Brett Favre and the Mississippi welfare fraud
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The ’90s throwback no one wants
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Europe’s looming energy crisis
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Can Beto flip Texas?
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Putin’s fake elections
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I wish I was a little bit taller
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