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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 Amina Al-Sadi, Matt Collette, Haleema Shah, Efim Shapiro, Victoria Chamberlin, Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, Paul Robert Mounsey, Avishay Artsy, Amanda Lewellyn, Siona Peterous, and Laura Bullard. 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.

Can art destruction save us from climate destruction?

By Haleema Shah December 22

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

By Siona Peterous December 10

Elon Musk’s tunnels to nowhere

By Avishay Artsy December 8

China’s protests are testing the surveillance state

By Amanda Lewellyn December 5

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

By Siona Peterous November 29

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

By Amanda Lewellyn November 17

Welcome to the crypto ice age

By Miles Bryan November 16

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

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

By Vox Staff November 8

The backlash against Ron DeSantis’s puzzling voter fraud arrests

By Siona Peterous October 28

Why fighting inflation will disproportionately hurt Black workers

By Miles Bryan October 22

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

By Avishay Artsy September 19

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

By Victoria Chamberlin September 18

Even Putin allies are starting to speak out about the war

By Amanda Lewellyn September 16

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

By Victoria Dominguez September 3

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff August 27

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

By Hady Mawajdeh August 25

The power of listening, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff August 13

Trading Brittney Griner for the “Merchant of Death”

By Hady Mawajdeh and Sean Rameswaram August 9

Plant-based diets, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff July 30

The case of the missing fireflies

By Vox Staff July 16

We just got the most comprehensive study of pandemic learning loss

By Sean Rameswaram and Miles Bryan June 10

Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia, briefly explained

By Sean Rameswaram and Hady Mawajdeh May 12

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

By Noel King and Jillian Weinberger May 4

The isolation of Vladimir Putin

By Noel King and Victoria Chamberlin April 6

How to listen to Today, Explained on the radio

By Vox Staff April 4

The real and imagined history of Ukraine

By Noel King, Miles Bryan, and 1 more February 25

How history made this Atlanta neighborhood a secession battleground

By Miles Bryan February 16

Amanda Knox, in her own words

By Matt Collette and Lauren Katz August 5, 2021

The Great Regression

By Jillian Weinberger, Miles Bryan, and 1 more July 30, 2021

YouTube’s kids app has a rabbit hole problem

By Rebecca Heilweil May 12, 2021

Today, Explained looks at how the coronavirus pandemic reshaped the world

By Lauren Katz December 29, 2020

Your biggest Covid-19 vaccine questions, answered

By Lauren Katz and Sean Rameswaram December 15, 2020

RSVP now: Dr. Fauci joins Today, Explained for a live conversation

By Lauren Katz December 14, 2020

A guide to the Trump administration’s biggest scandals, accomplishments, and policies

By Sean Rameswaram and Lauren Katz October 30, 2020

“It isn’t a question of politics”: Fauci on calling out Sen. Rand Paul’s misinformation

By Sean Rameswaram September 24, 2020

Next time someone sends you fake news, share these essential tips

By Lauren Katz and Sean Rameswaram September 11, 2020

Systemic racism, explained (to kids)

By Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton August 29, 2020

Why boredom can be good for you

By Byrd Pinkerton and Noam Hassenfeld August 15, 2020

Elections, explained (to kids)

By Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton July 31, 2020

How a vaccine gets made, explained (to kids)

By Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton July 17, 2020