Eric Levitz
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Today, Explained
The “Joe Rogan of the left”
The big picture headline takeaways are that voters who say they don't care much about politics, who don't follow the news closely, who don't always vote in elections, that group moved really strongly towards Donald Trump. This was a group that was split about evenly between Biden and Trump in 2020, and this time it was overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
I think that what is most striking, perhaps, in his data is the movements among younger voters for the entire time that i've been covering politics there was a basic narrative where the republican party was essentially facing a ticking time bomb where they were going to have to fundamentally make more peace with social liberalism and with the welfare state
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
The reason why we're still looking back is that it takes a while after an election to get all of the most high quality data on what exactly happened. So the full picture is starting to just come into view now.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
because the rising generations in the United States, millennials and Zoomers, just weren't buying what they were selling. And yeah, they can cobble together these electoral college majorities for a little while, but this is just a matter of time before we get to the progressive majority.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
What happened in 2024 completely upends that sense of demographic destiny. Voters under 30 were narrowly pro-Trump, even after going for Biden by huge margins in 2020. Every demographic group under the age of 25 is more Republican than the millennial generation was.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
Yeah, so I think that the data we have is better at telling us what happened than why, but we do have some informed guesses. I think that one factor here is that it's part of this broader phenomenon of politically disengaged voters moving to the right, that younger people are often a bit less tuned into the news.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
They've got their own sort of coming of age and lives and romantic lives in college and whatever else occupying a lot of their attention. But there's also just the fact that politically disengaged voters tend to have weaker partisan identities, ideological identities. And it's also true of younger voters who also often have not fully formed their political identities.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
Another factor that might explain this divergence between young voters today and the millennial generation are that the two just had different formative experiences. And so the millennial generation, a lot of us, came of age under the second term of the George W. Bush administration when you saw the Iraq War coming apart. Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
Hurricane Katrina destroying New Orleans and the response really being pretty incompetent.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And then, of course, above all, the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And this is followed by a two-term presidency from a really exceptionally charismatic figure, Barack Obama.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And so this arguably cements the millennial generation's lean towards the Democrats, whereas Zoomers, maybe a lot of these younger ones, came of age with a Democratic president presiding over COVID. We need everyone to keep washing their hands. And then rising inflation.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
and get this sense that it's a, you know, 80-year-old with negative charisma who doesn't really speak to them, doesn't really know their references. Jason Kelsey or Travis Kelsey?
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
Yeah, so this was my interview with David Shore of Blue Rose Research. He's one of the biggest sort of democratic data gurus in the party. And basically, the big picture headline takeaways are... Coming up on Today Explained.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And so maybe this creates kind of an alienation from the Democratic Party and more of an openness to the GOP. So that's one factor. Another explanation is that maybe this cohort of young people was just always going to be a bit more conservative because of who their parents were. Who are their parents? Well, so in some survey data, the baby boom generation is more left wing than Gen X was.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And the baby boomers were millennials' parents, and Gen Xers are the parents of these young Zoomers. And so in some surveys, these young Zoomers are more likely to say that their parents were Republican than millennials were. And it's possible that these people had more conservative parents, and so they're a bit more conservative.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
Trying to find the Reality Bites joke here, but I'm not sure I'm going to get it.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
This is a story about younger voters. As I said, even women under 25 were more Republican than millennial women under 25 were in earlier elections. But this is kind of primarily a story about young men. So the gender gap among 18-year-olds in 2024 was well over 20 points. That's more than double the gender gap among senior voters. It's the largest we've ever seen in American politics.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
I mean, so that just raises the question of why. Why are young men moving to the right? And I think it's a difficult question to fully answer. There is some evidence, though, that this is not a U.S.-specific phenomenon, that we're seeing this same trend.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
In several other countries, in Norway, there's a running poll of high school students where in recent years, the fraction of young men who agree with the statement gender equality has gone too far has spiked. And so, you know, what's common between all these different countries? It's tempting to say social media and that there's some dynamic going on in social media.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
where content that is critical of liberal assumptions on gender has a bigger platform than it did maybe in previous eras. You know, on the other hand, there is this global trend where a lot of young men have been given the impression that fundamentally left of center politics and parties cares less about men than about women.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
And then there's also this sense that there are dysfunctions in the dating market for young people that are breeding resentments that are then politicized by influencers in the manosphere that it's because of progressive political culture that you can't find a girlfriend.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
These cultural trends are concerning and they could be persistent, but there is also this opportunity to reach this constituency. Different young male voters are responding to different things, and bottom line is not presiding over large price increases is... increasing the salience of issues like health care, where Democrats have a bit more credibility.
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The “Joe Rogan of the left”
These things should help with all voters, including young male voters. Whether after that there's still a persistent problem because of cultural trends remains to be seen.
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The nostalgia economy
But that's not what Trump is doing. He's putting tariffs on absolutely everything, you know, clothing from Vietnam and Bangladesh, coffee, which we can't even grow at scale in the United States, from South America. He's putting them on everything, and especially industrial goods, including low-value industrial goods like T-shirts, kitchen mitts, etc.,
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The nostalgia economy
That is not a policy vision aimed at America thriving in the industries of the future. It's a policy vision aimed at bringing America decades backwards in our economic development. The explanation for this can't be a rational economic one, but more of an emotional one, a nostalgic longing for an America that no longer exists.
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The nostalgia economy
The Nationalist Right has this narrative in which we used to have these really tight-knit communities anchored by stable families in which the male breadwinner worked in a factory. And this not only allowed for
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The nostalgia economy
working class wage growth and upward mobility and the achievement of the american dream but also for these really healthy family arrangements stable two-parent homes and generally a form of communitarian life that the religious right really values and then there also is this gender element to it
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The nostalgia economy
where a manufacturing economy puts a premium on brute physical strength, or at least the manufacturing economy of the mid-20th century. These were predominantly male jobs.
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The nostalgia economy
And, you know, this connection between the nostalgia for manufacturing and the nostalgia for a kind of different set of gender relations was made really explicit by a speech from Republican Senator Josh Hawley in 2021, where he said...
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The nostalgia economy
And so they tell this story that you hear in a lot of Trump's speeches, in the speeches of other right-wing nationalists, in which deindustrialization, the closing of factories, is synonymous with both economic devastation and decline and moral rot.
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The nostalgia economy
So I think that there actually is some evidence that there is a link there. I think that there's even stronger evidence that there is something to be nostalgic about in the economics here because during the time in the 1950s when America had kind of its peak of manufacturing as a share of the labor force, you also did really see high rates of wage growth, high rates of social mobility.
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The nostalgia economy
People born into the bottom of the American class hierarchy were more likely to move up than they are today. And you also saw just a lot of opportunity for blue collar workers. In absolute terms, Americans are much better off materially today than they are in the 1950s. But in terms of the level of progress, the pace of moving up, this was better back in that era.
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The nostalgia economy
There is some research from the economists David Autour, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson who looked at localities that suffered trade shocks
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The nostalgia economy
that resulted in massive manufacturing job losses, and they found that those trade shocks do reduce the earnings of young men relative to young women, and that those places then see a drop in marriage and fertility rates that similar places without those shocks did not see. So there's some evidence that there is some truth to this, you know.
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The nostalgia economy
Which doesn't mean that we should value high marriage and birth rates over women's autonomy, but it just reinforces why the right is so fixated about this.
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The nostalgia economy
No, and there's two levels on which it's not going to work. First, Trump's tariffs are unlikely to even increase at the margin manufacturing in the United States, at least in the near term. The immediate response to Trump's tariffs among businesses and investors has been panic and a slowing down of investment.
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The nostalgia economy
It's generated massive uncertainty. You don't know what the tariffs are going to be a few weeks from now, let alone a few years. This is not a situation in which you are going to put in the money and time to put up a new factory in the United States that only makes economic sense if the tariffs stay in place for another five years. So one, it's just not working on its own terms.
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The nostalgia economy
But two, even if Trump had the most perfectly designed tariffs, was the most trustworthy steward of the American economy so everyone knew that he was going to stick by whatever he said, you would not be able to return the United States to an economy in which 30% of the workforce is working in manufacturing instead of closer to 10% as it is today.
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The nostalgia economy
The reason for that is that as countries get richer, people spend... a larger share of their money on services and a smaller share of their money on manufactured goods. The human appetite for appliances and cars is more limited than the human appetite for better health and higher investment returns. You know, you only need so many dishwashers. And so, fundamentally, we need an economic model
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The nostalgia economy
that is able to get us some of the good parts of the mid-century economy, the economic mobility, the wage growth for people who are not, you know, at the top of the class hierarchy. But we need to find a way to do that in a world where we have a services-dominated economy. And nostalgia is just not a good guide for getting us to that place.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
Yeah, well, the American right responded as it responds to most things that Donald Trump does very positively. In fact, I think it wasn't just the fact that Trump personally did this, but that substantively on the MAGA right, on the nationalist American right, there's a real appetite to see the United States stand up to Ukraine and Zelensky and project the kind of line that Trump did. So
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Breaking up with Ukraine
You saw the American Conservative magazine hailed Trump's performance as a great clarifying moment in which a U.S. president finally stood up to the warmongering Washington foreign policy blob. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon lauded the administration as giving a masterclass in how to deal with an entitled punk.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
And you sort of saw similar sentiments from other conservative influencers and social media users and Republican politicians.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
So I think they don't or a significant segment doesn't. And I think that there's really two really distinct reasons for that, depending on what part of the right you sit on. Among hardline American social conservatives, there is just outright fondness for Putin's Russia that's been this presence within the movement since about 2013, when Putin enacted what he called an anti-propaganda law.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
It was also simultaneous with a broader crackdown on LGBT rights within Russia. American social conservatives, who at the time were dealing with an Obama-era advance in gay rights and social liberalism, really took inspiration from this, and Putin in the years after really started casting himself as a defender of traditional Christian morality against an increasingly decadent West.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
And so there's a part of the American right that simply likes and supports Vladimir Putin, sees him
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Breaking up with Ukraine
as kind of representing god's side in this new cultural cold war in which ukraine is kind of the front for this decadent european pro-gay cultural movement and that putin is essentially pushing back against this and so that informs their views of the ukraine russia conflict and thus their views of zelensky
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Breaking up with Ukraine
Yeah, so I think that this is a very marginal force on the level of the American population as a whole. I think about 8% of Americans have expressed a positive view of how Vladimir Putin handles world affairs. I think that it's overrepresented, though, an oversubscribed view among Republican elites. And, you know, particularly, I think those... in the general orbit of J.D. Vance.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
And so to this segment, Zelensky is a sinister figure who maybe some of them will allow that he's doing the right thing for Ukraine because Ukraine needs America to intervene, although not all of them would say that, but they pretty much uniformly see him as fundamentally irresponsible and potentially inviting a nuclear war.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
Yeah, like I said, I think it's a little bit that, and then there are, you know, for the purposes of telling a compelling narrative, I think, but also maybe it's felt, you know, figures like Joe Rogan have actually really had a strong emotional and negative reaction to Zelensky. So Rogan has implied that he's addicted to cocaine and said that, you know, Zelensky is basically...
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Breaking up with Ukraine
I think that there's a broader... group of conservatives who don't have any particular ill will to Zelensky, but just fundamentally oppose the goal of fighting for Ukrainian democracy. And then there are others who actually specifically have animus towards him. Notably, the Russian government has also at times implied that Zelensky is addicted to cocaine.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
So I think that there's some specific narrative here that I'm not fully versed in. But yeah, this seems to be a meme.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
Yeah, I think that there is definitely mixed feelings and there is declining American support for involvement in the Ukraine war, particularly as Republicans move more against it.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
I don't think it does. I think that there is a reasonable argument that as part of a comprehensive strategy for forcing an end to the conflict, the United States should encourage Ukraine to prepare itself for making some territorial concessions in the interests of peace. Because Russia has some advantages in a long-term war of attrition, it has a lot more people. It has a lot more resources.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
And so there's an argument that Ukraine should be interested in the kind of deal that Trump sometimes expresses fondness for.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
But an effective version of that strategy, in my view, would require the United States to credibly threaten to fund Ukraine's war effort indefinitely. So that Russia actually has an incentive to come to the table.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
If Ukraine is going to be starting to draw down the military supplies it received from America, then six months from now, Russia might be in a position to conquer a lot more territory than they are today. Giving them that impression is not a recipe for a near-term peace. So what is? If I had a really good answer to that, I think that I would be potentially making more money at a different employer.
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Breaking up with Ukraine
I think it is a very difficult situation. I mean, on the Ukrainian side, in order to get Ukraine comfortable with signing a peace agreement, I think you really need to have some kind of assurance that its security is going to be protected if it does make concessions. I think that Zelensky is in a position where he really does not...
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Breaking up with Ukraine
have a good choice beyond trying to win back the Trump administration's favor, because the path for Ukraine to really get decent settlement of this conflict is much narrower if the United States is not in its corner.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
Well, I love that. It's just nobody's living that way. The thing that I loved is when I saw that the president's executive order was named ending illegal discrimination. I was like, what?
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
If the president, in fact, seeks to end illegal discrimination, you can't just focus on the discrimination that happens to the dominant culture. You've got to also make sure that you're putting mechanisms in place to end illegal discrimination against all of those protected classes as well.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
Let's look at what was taking place during the civil rights legislation when you had white drinking fountains and colored drinking fountains. And so we eliminated that. And so then we started with this thing that says that we want people to not be discriminated against based upon their protected class.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
What happened is that when people saw that even when a company had some affirmative action responsibilities and obligations, they still weren't hiring women or they still weren't hiring people of color. And so they started naming things. And I think that's one of the weaknesses in DEI initiatives is that they are named. women, people of color, LGBTQ, neurodiversity.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
So it's easy to go into an organization and say, hey, that's wrong, that's wrong, because it's got a name, it's got a label, and it's leaving other people out.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
Not sure, but I know that the government has said that they are going to be keeping a keen eye out for that. So I think if you're just trying to do a rebrand, that's probably not the right thing to do. What I see them doing most is that they're maintaining their messages internally, they're changing what they do externally.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
If a company is big enough, then it sometimes will stay the course, or if they have customers that are widely diverse, where it would harm them to move away. It would harm their brand. It would harm their reputation. Then companies would stay in the course with some of the DEI work.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
So I just think people have to kind of do right now what they feel is in their best interest and the best interest of their customers and their brand.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
I would say to you that training alone is insufficient to bring about change. Ultimately, you have to engage in structural change. I think one of the things that the Supreme Court's decision around affirmative action sort of brought to the surface was that oftentimes organizations are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
They don't want to admit to structural inequities, but they then want to implement DEI initiatives. I don't think you can have it both ways. And then when you do that, it should be based upon our work, fairness, equity around the work, not simply identity politics.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
So we're working with a client right now, Louisville Water. They're an outstanding company in Louisville, Kentucky. So we work organizations through a four-phase process. So we start off sort of light by educating the executives around what inclusion is. Then we educate the workforce so that we can create this top-down, bottom-up kind of strategy.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
So there are a number of organizations like NASDAQ and the NFL, McKinsey, that are doubling down their commitments around DEI. What it looks like when they get it right is that they really are studying this and making this a business imperative.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
Well, I would start with this statement, a bold statement. And I would say that meritocracy in many ways has been a myth. In other words, we were hiring and promoting the right people all along, and then diversity came along and sort of made us dump down our standards.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
So when I do focus groups in organizations that I work with, oftentimes when I meet with women, when they describe inequity that they experience, oftentimes it's sexism. When I talk to people of color about the inequity that they face, they often use the language of racism. When I talk to white males about the inequity they face, it's favoritism. In other words, we're all white.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
If we're all white guys, I ask, how many of you have seen people get promoted who were not the most qualified to do the job? Raise your hand. All hands go up. because favoritism has been at play. In other words, too often people are making decisions about who they hire and who they promote based upon subjective judgment. And that's the real culprit in the workplace.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
White people are the largest group of people that believe that they're discriminated against.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
When I started doing this work in the 90s, I thought my job was to be a diversity ghostbuster. Just going to organizations that gunned down the racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobes. And I had a formula. I was going to lose a third of the class because I was going to be calling them a name. So I felt like God called me into the principal's office and said, Eric, what are you doing?
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
Why are you losing so many people? And so I changed my style from one of blaming and shaming to one of becoming more transparent around my own biases because I believe that bias is a human condition. And then secondly, creating an environment that was safe enough that people could be honest.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
People are afraid. And I would say there are three categories of organizations that I've worked with and that I see. There are some that are closing up the tent and they're saying, hey, we're done. We're out of here. There are some that are pausing or pivoting. And then there's some that are staying the course and doubling down.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
And I would say that organizations have to do what they believe is in their best interest. One of the things that I don't think that we should do is force organizations to do DEI when it's against their own values. If they don't believe in this, then they ought to walk away.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
For organizations that are just afraid and concerned and don't want to get run over by that political big megaphone of the president, then I understand people pivoting, and I don't have a problem with that.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
I believe that bias is a human condition, that all people have bias and we have to really work on that. The largest group of people that I've trained over the last three decades have been white men. And that means I've not only trained them, but I've learned from them. And many times, many of the things that they said to me, Eric, this doesn't feel fair. I said, I agree.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
You know, they would say to me, Eric, why are only the biases of white guys? People are only concerned about those. Everybody else has got prejudices and nobody ever talks about that. I said, you're right.
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Did diversity ever work ... at work?
And so I started making sure that we were meaningfully including the voices of white men and understanding some of the challenges that they were facing and standing alongside them when that was appropriate.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
It's Election Day in Canada, which is nothing new for reporter Stephanie Levitz.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
So what did you do as a country? It's not like Justin Trudeau sent troops to the border, is it?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Okay, so there's some real practical reactions there. What about the cultural reaction?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Which was actually encouraged by the Prime Minister of Canada, if I recall correctly.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
There was even this great instructional video, right? Also, you know, comedic, but telling Canadians how to go about boycotting U.S. products, right? Yeah.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
You know, I asked him if he should just step aside and he said, no, I still have something to offer the Canadian people. But it turned out the Canadian people weren't buying when he was selling.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
And we'd be remiss to talk about the culture of the backlash in Canada without talking about elbows up. Could you explain that for people who didn't know what Mike Myers was saying on SNL?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Do you think it dissipates after the election? No. Or does that more so depend on Trump's threats that follow the election?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Eh, go Leafs, go. David Moskrop is working on a book about Canadian nationalism, and he's got a sub-stack. You can find it at davidmoskrop.com. That's M-O-S-C-R-O-P. Avishai Artsy produced our show today. That's A-R-T-S-Y. Amina Alsadi edited. Andrea Christen's daughter and Patrick Boyd mixed. Gabrielle Burbey and Laura Bullard checked the facts. And wait! My spidey sense is tingling.
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And so as this campaign sort of drags on, Trudeau has to finally face the music and he announces that he will be stepping aside. But it seems like right as he's in the process of stepping aside, all of a sudden the liberals do get a boost from a very unlikely source. Is that accurate?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Mark Carney, different from Trudeau, in some ways maybe similar to Trudeau, but tell us how he contrasts with Justin Trudeau, especially for the Canadian voters right now.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
And let's talk about Carney in relation to his opposition. Tell people who Pierre Polyev is and what his appeal is in this election right now.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
How Trump's 51st state talk may have saved Canada's libs. Coming up on Today Explained.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Yeah. I mean, I've heard Polyev referred to as a Canadian Trump. Now, how does a Canadian Trump compete in an election where Trump has become such a boogeyman for Canadians?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
OK. And then either way, whoever wins, how do they stand up to Trump differently than, say, Trudeau and Carney have done so far?
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Rumors swirling that Melania crushes on Justin. I don't know.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
When we sat down with Stephanie Levitz from The Globe and Mail, we started talking about how it was just about a year ago that we sat down with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was eager to talk about his ambitious plans to invest in housing construction, affordable health care and child care, raising capital gains taxes.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
Sean Ramos from Today Explained here with David Moskrop, Canadian.
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How Trump saved Canada’s libs
David's also a political columnist and podcast host. And he says, perhaps unlike most Americans, Canadians are taking Trump's 51st state comments pretty seriously.
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The Silk Road pardon
I'm Eric Finman. I'm known for being the youngest Bitcoin millionaire in the world. I really support the Free Ross petition because he has been very unfairly treated by the justice system and the world around him. This is the greatest violation of the Eighth Amendment that I'm aware of in the United States today.