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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👁 Pete Hegseth preaches “maximum lethality.” What has that meant in Iran?
How Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are waging war in Iran.
Houston, we have a plumbing problem.
A reporter who covered the Iraq War explains what it can tell us about Iran.
👁 How one Democratic senator is tackling Trump’s corruption
Sen. Chris Murphy explains how blatant corruption is undermining faith in democracy.
👁 Why Trump betrayed MAGA, according to Tucker Carlson
One of Trump’s longtime allies makes the case against the Iran war.
👁 The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC
Donald Trump’s makeover of the nation’s capital, explained.
👁 Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir
The book has left many readers feeling baffled and disappointed.
He’s wanted regime change for 20 years. But not like this.
Can OpenAI serve humanity — and investors?
Why the Trump administration is gamifying war.
The drone math giving Iran an edge, explained.
Vibe coding and what it means for the future of programming, explained.
Why new allegations against a high-profile chef are prompting a reckoning in the world of haute cuisine.
The former House speaker on the midterms, Trump, and democracy.
👁 The rage-bait candidate who wants to govern Florida
James Fishback espouses openly racist and antisemitic views. Young GOP voters are paying attention.
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are testing the moral and ethical limits of betting.
👁 The man behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Is David Ellison Hollywood’s nepo baby king?
👁 Bernie Sanders explains his proposed billionaire tax
It would give $3,000 to every American in a household earning less than $150,000.
👁 How Trump’s pick to lead Homeland Security could be different from Kristi Noem
Trump’s new leader for DHS, briefly explained.
It won’t stop at the gas pump.
After Venezuela and Iran, Trump has a new target on his mind.
Tyra Banks is not the only villain.
👁 The influencer circus around Nancy Guthrie’s home
Are they harming the investigation — or just doing the same thing as CNN?
Are Claude and ChatGPT helping the US fight a war?
Can Trump bomb his way to regime change in Iran?
Why Rep. Ro Khanna isn’t done talking about the Epstein files.
The 3 big lessons we’ve learned since “Liberation Day.”
👁 Meet the toymaker who helped take down Trump’s tariffs
Learning Resources, an Illinois toy company, says it paid more than $10 million in tariffs.
👁 How exorbitant concert ticket prices became so normal
Going to a show? In this economy?
What the United States can learn from Poland’s experience with autocracy.
👁 Mogging, -maxxing, and Clavicular, briefly explained
What an online drama tells us about the attention economy.
The drama at the Department of Homeland Security, explained.
Today, Explained explores the fall of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and what it proves about Trump-style authoritarians.
👁 The mysterious symptom popping up in some GLP-1 users
What if you lost weight and didn’t care — about anything?
👁 The Democratic governor building a playbook to resist ICE
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump, immigration, and fighting back.
👁 They backed Trump. Then Border Patrol arrested their neighbor. What now?
When “mass deportation” gets to Trump country.
How election officials are thinking about Trump’s threat to the midterms.
Why it’s so hard to know whether the president is okay.
Millions of files, zero accountability?
👁 If Jasmine Crockett wins, she wants to do it her way
The US Senate candidate from Texas on why she believes voters — and nonvoters — are hungry for politicians like her.