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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. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here. Today, Explained is now available on public radio stations across the US.

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The Today, Explained team includes Miranda Kennedy, Amina Al-Sadi, Matt Collette, Haleema Shah, Victoria Chamberlin, Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, Patrick Boyd, Michael Raphael, Avishay Artsy, Amanda Lewellyn, Siona Peterous, Laura Bullard, and Serena Solin. The show is a production of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Transcripts of the show are available here. Download learning exercises to go along with our Today, Explained to Kids episodes.

5 new books (and one very old one) to read in order to understand capitalism

By Noel King

How radical should you be when you’re trying to save the planet?

By Avishay Artsy

A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial

By Avishay Artsy

Why do so many new songs sound familiar?

By Hady Mawajdeh

What to know about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 

By Amanda Lewellyn

How Jordan Neely’s subway killing has divided New York City

By Avishay Artsy

The real reason prices aren’t coming down

By Miles Bryan

Why fear of crime more than crime itself is holding back America’s downtowns

By Miles Bryan

How the March for Our Lives activists see the country now

By Siona Peterous

Why DC is stuck as America’s continental colony

By Miles Bryan

Mexico’s top cop is on trial along with the war on drugs

By Haleema Shah

Compost yourself

By Avishay Artsy

How Andrew Tate sells men on toxic masculinity

By Avishay Artsy

Can art destruction save us from climate destruction?

By Haleema Shah

Sen. Tammy Baldwin reflects on why the Respect for Marriage Act is necessary

By Siona Peterous

Elon Musk’s tunnels to nowhere

By Avishay Artsy

China’s protests are testing the surveillance state

By Amanda Lewellyn

“I’ve always been the youngest person in the room”

By Siona Peterous

Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t just a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset.

By Amanda Lewellyn

Welcome to the crypto ice age

By Miles Bryan

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How Kari Lake became a MAGA star, and possibly Arizona’s next governor

By Vox Staff

The backlash against Ron DeSantis’s puzzling voter fraud arrests

By Siona Peterous

Why fighting inflation will disproportionately hurt Black workers

By Miles Bryan

How The Woman King confronts Africa’s role in the slave trade

By Avishay Artsy

What election deniers want to do when they’re running elections

By Victoria Chamberlin

Even Putin allies are starting to speak out about the war

By Amanda Lewellyn

Delia Owens wrote the thriller Where the Crawdads Sing. Was she also involved in a murder?

By Victoria Dominguez

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff

Are rap lyrics artistic expressions or confessions? Young Thug and Gunna will soon find out.

By Hady Mawajdeh

The power of listening, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff

Trading Brittney Griner for the “Merchant of Death”

By Hady Mawajdeh and Sean Rameswaram

Plant-based diets, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff

The case of the missing fireflies

By Vox Staff

We just got the most comprehensive study of pandemic learning loss

By Sean Rameswaram and Miles Bryan

Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia, briefly explained

By Sean Rameswaram and Hady Mawajdeh

How one lawyer engineered the right’s (likely) successful crusade against Roe v. Wade

By Noel King and Jillian Weinberger

The isolation of Vladimir Putin

By Noel King and Victoria Chamberlin

How to listen to Today, Explained on the radio

By Vox Staff

The real and imagined history of Ukraine

By Noel King, Miles Bryan, and 1 more

How history made this Atlanta neighborhood a secession battleground

By Miles Bryan

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