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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The Olympics on thin ice
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Weapons of cash destruction
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Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde
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All-American divorce
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What the truck is happening in Canada?
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Sarah Palin v. The New York Times
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The best and worst of Tom Brady
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How Brett Kavanaugh views time
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Why America loves a Jackass
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How this Syria raid was different
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RIP SAT
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Is everything trauma now?
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The case against masks
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Throwing money at the migrant crisis
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Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem
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Honey, I shrunk the kids’ tax credit
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Ukraine’s pipeline problem
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Breyer to Reteyer
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Joe Biden, r u ok?
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A Syrian war criminal is actually going to prison
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China’s Winter Olympics (feat. Covid-19)
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10 Downer Street
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The man with a pig heart
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The James Webb Time Machine
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The James Webb Space Telescope
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Chile’s millennial president
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Why Russia sent its janky version of NATO to Kazakhstan
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"Break the Senate"
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Novax Djokovic
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No substitutes for the substitutes
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The high cost of cheap clothes
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Life on the Russia-Ukraine border
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Theranope
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Will omicron speed up the pandemic’s end?
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America still can’t agree on its insurrection
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2021
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Giannis Antetokounmpo’s American dream
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Taylor’s version
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The spike in gun violence
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Four days of work?
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Good news
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Vanessa Nakate’s climate optimism
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We scored Biden’s first year
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Who killed Malcolm X?
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The blood diamond of batteries
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(Some) omicron answers
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Operation Flex
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Why we still can't predict tornadoes
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