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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Unraveling Roe
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Space trash
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Omicron
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Kyle Rittenhouse and the “self-defense” defense
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The Future of Work: Retirement should be fun
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Why it's hard to find rapid tests in the US
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Is Zillow really buying all the houses?
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Belarus manufactures a migrant crisis
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Inflation nation
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The Future of Work: The gig is up
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China’s pursuit of ‘Zero Covid’
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So I elected an Oath Keeper
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Astroworld
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Trillion-dollar Biden
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The Future of Work: OOO
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The case for climate reparations
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Sudan’s coup
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School board brawl
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For whom the door bells
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The Future of Work: “I quit!”
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Facebook’s Meta-morphosis
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Chappelle's Show(down with the trans community)
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The Alec Baldwin shooting
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Ruthless County, Tennessee
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The Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis
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Steve Bannon in contempt
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Out of stock
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What does Kyrsten Sinema want?
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Iran’s hostage industrial complex
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How the iPhone changed everything
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How Squid Game won Netflix
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Covid little pill
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Why body cameras don’t work
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The Fyre Festival of vaccine rollouts
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A vaccine for malaria
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Drill, baby, drill
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The Facebook whistleblower
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How do you do, fellow kids?
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The $5,000 butt
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The humanitarian crisis at Rikers Island
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Are boosters good science — or just good politics?
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