Today, Explained

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

Added protein really seems to be in all the food lately. Reporter Chris Gayomali says to thank envir...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

Journalist Max Read explains how a bunch of Silicon Valley computer scientists spun into a cult accu...

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

Sam Rodriguez is on active duty in the US Navy. They are also trans. Now, the Trump administration w...

Tue, 04 Mar 2025

Why the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a twisted appeal for Trump's core supporters. And w...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

What started as a liberal joke is now a MAGA reality. Just check your map app. But it’s not just G...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

The Seed of the Sacred Fig was (secretly) shot in Iran with Iranian actors and an Iranian director. ...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Recent airplane crashes and near misses have everyone freaked out, just as DOGE is laying off worker...

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

At least if we want to stop the next pandemic. Vox's Kenny Torrella explains. This episode was produ...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

First, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump struck up an unlikely friendship. T...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party won its best ever results this weekend. We hear wh...

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Boomers are the wealthiest generation ever. And they're funneling trillions to their adult children ...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Kremlin defender Tulsi Gabbard is the US’s new spy chief, while the US and Russia are holding peac...

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

The Trump administration’s effort to purge government websites is accelerating digital decay. It’...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

Russell Vought is the architect and legal scholar behind the Trump administration’s attempt to res...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

Funding cuts and research censorship have shaken the foundations of America’s health and science a...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

Sephora revolutionized high-end beauty and turned tiny brands into household names. Now, comes the r...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

President Trump is offering to resettle white South Africans in the US, and his white South African ...

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

The prices of all kinds of things have stayed stubbornly high even as inflation has cooled. And a sp...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

Elon Musk promised to feed "USAID into the wood chipper." The way he's dismantling the agency provid...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has begun detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay. For more than 40 years, the...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

Kendrick Lamar is celebrating his latest album, GNX, on the biggest stage in American music. But eve...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is at war. Again. Sixty-five years of mismanagement began with ...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) try to explain if the Democrats are, like,...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025

The first battles have now been fought in the new North American trade war. President Donald Trump c...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

LA Times reporter Liam Dillon assesses the damage now that the fires are fully contained. Torched ed...

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

Turkey has become the hair transplant capital of the world. And it's part of a global boom in medica...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

The emergence of DeepSeek — a Chinese AI model that was developed for a fraction of the cost of le...

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means explains why so many Americans are suspicious of food and pharma compan...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

Trump is remaking the federal government in his name, says Vox’s Andrew Prokop. Efforts at a more ...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht and launched his own memecoin, signa...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

TikTok's uncertain future has driven a flood of users to a fully Chinese social media app full of op...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

Donald Trump says he wants Greenland for America. Greenlandic government minister Naaja Nathanielsen...

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

RFK Jr. is the latest in a long line of reformers who have tried to clean up school lunch. The histo...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

Trump kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions. Vox’s Andrew Prokop and Nicol...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser says Donald Trump’s second inauguration is very different from...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Many millennials are pushing back against traditional parenting styles used by their boomer parents....

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

Meta is going MAGA. New York magazine’s John Herrman explains Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover. Writer...

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

Americans were told “diet and exercise” was the key to better health, but lifestyle changes were...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

Wildfires overtook Los Angeles, firefighters ran out of water, and the political finger-pointing beg...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Biden’s lack of leadership and priorities means he will leave office without any real lasting poli...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

Two Amazon influencers are in a legal battle over whether or not one has appropriated the other’s ...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

The TikTok ban lands at the Supreme Court on Friday. Turns out ByteDance is far from the only Chines...

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

South Korean lawmakers impeached not only their martial-law-declaring president but also the guy who...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

MAGA is fighting over immigration. Vox’s Andrew Prokop tells us what happened, and the Wall Street...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

January 6 is always a big day in the DC jail where many alleged insurrectionists are awaiting trial ...

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

More Americans are now daily weed smokers than daily drinkers. To better understand this public heal...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

The world's richest man is developing a company town outside Austin, Texas. Like the industrialists ...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

In 1979, Jimmy Carter delivered his “Crisis of Confidence” speech, a tirade against American ind...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

The appeal of "Country Roads" extends far beyond West Virginia or even the United States. We're revi...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

Christmas is over and now comes the financial hangover. In an episode from earlier this year, guest ...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Sports betting is a costly mistake, says addiction researcher Charles Fain Lehman. He and NBA great ...

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

The Las Vegas Sphere was supposed to be the future of live entertainment. But just over a year into ...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

Name and likeness rights are fundamentally changing college sports at a rapid pace. SB Nation’s JP...

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

He'd love to take credit for a deal, although Israel and Hamas are still deadlocked. But Amir Tibon ...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

A growing number of countries are legalizing assisted suicide, mostly for terminally ill patients. T...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

President-elect Trump says he can see Justin Trudeau becoming governor of “the great state of Cana...

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

Trad wives are having a moment. A new conservative women’s magazine promising to be the anti-Cosmo...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

Syrian refugees are celebrating the end of the Assad regime. But for Omar Alshogre and millions like...

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

The US saw a significant drop in the number of drug overdose deaths. The Trump administration has a ...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

Gothamist’s Brittany Kriegstein explains who police just arrested. STAT News’s Bob Herman explai...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

As Target struggles to retain its customers, rivals like Walmart are making gains. The Wall Street J...

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

Kyle Mooney dreams up a New Year’s Eve 1999 apocalypse. Historian Zachary Loeb explains why the re...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

A rebel group changed the course of Syria's long civil war when it seized Aleppo this past weekend. ...

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

Elon, Vivek, and the Department of Government Efficiency want to cut $2 trillion from the federal bu...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

On Saturday, future President Donald Trump announced Kash Patel would lead the FBI. On Sunday, curre...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Trump has named wrestling tycoon Linda McMahon to be his secretary of education. She’ll be tasked ...

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

Fast Company’s senior fashion writer Elizabeth Segran explains how the company overcame a problema...

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

Many of us think our individual actions can’t combat systemic problems. Vox's Rachel Cohen and Bow...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

Two American presidents are trying to shape the future of the war in Ukraine at the same time. This ...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

US Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was one of the few Democrats to win a swing district in the 2024 ele...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Writer Emi Nietfeld says she felt relief when she cut her mom out of her life. Clinical psychologist...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

If RFK Jr. leads the Department of Health and Human Services, he could radically reshape public heal...

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

College students in 2024 are less willing and able to read full books. Today, Explained asks whether...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations. "Operation Wetback" from the Eisenhower...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated some unconventional people to his Cabinet, including Fox ...

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Prince is the subject of a new film from one of the greatest living documentarians, but it might nev...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Trump’s tariffs could remake world trade. The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip explains the preside...

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

An air of musky manliness settled over the 2024 presidential campaign and brought the bros to the po...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

The quest to live forever has taken us from diet fads to geographic fantasies like Blue Zones. But n...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

It looks like Donald Trump will arrive in Washington without much of a movement in place to challeng...

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Vox’s Joshua Keating explains how Trump’s foreign policy will influence some of the world’s bi...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

Democrats lost big on Election Day: the presidency, the Senate, and maybe the House too. Vox's Eric ...

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

Donald Trump won. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains how and Semafor’s Shelby Talcott explains what co...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

It seems as though every election is “the most important election of our lifetime." Historian Jeff...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

The key battleground state of Michigan could be decided by Arab American voters disappointed with De...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

Marathon participation is surging, fueled in large part by 20-somethings who’ve embraced distance ...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

Dodger Blue Dream podcast host Richard Parks III looks back on a cinematic season. The Wall Street J...

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Florida is looking to turn one of its last apolitical offices into yet another partisan job. It's th...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

Donald Trump doesn't want to let losing the election stop him from taking the White House. Politico'...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Economic concerns are shaping this year’s election, especially in Nevada. As candidates promise no...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024

In this special feed drop of the new Vox podcast Explain It to Me, we answer some of the questions y...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Dr Pepper has overtaken Pepsi as the second-bestselling soda in the US. Its rise helps explain dirty...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Elon Musk has become Trump’s most important fundraiser and his hands-on approach is breaking polit...

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Latinos and other groups that typically vote for Democrats are showing weaker support for Kamala Har...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Republicans are projected to take the Senate in November, but Democrats have a fighting chance to wi...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

WFAE’s Steve Harrison explains how North Carolina is readying itself for Election Day after Hurric...

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

A new documentary and a Ryan Murphy drama have Lyle and Erik Menendez back in the news. Vox's Aja Ro...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Donald Trump talked over the weekend about deploying the military against an "enemy from within." Th...

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Vox's Andrew Prokop and Zack Beauchamp explain the right-wing thinkers whose ideas could dominate Tr...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Wisconsin wasn’t always a battleground state, but following Trump’s victory there in 2016, Democ...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Pennies cost more than a cent to make — and no one spends them. The New York Times Magazine’s Ca...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Lies about disaster relief are spreading like never before this hurricane season, and it’s making ...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

Book critic Martin Pengelly read MELANIA so you don’t have to. Intelligencer’s Margaret Hartmann...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

Ten states have an initiative on the ballot that would protect access to abortion. KJZZ’s Camryn S...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

It's been one year since Hamas attacked Israel and started a war in Gaza. Israelis and Palestinians ...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

Kids are going through puberty earlier, and scientists think they have found another reason why. Ped...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro landed himself on the naughty list for stealing an election. He...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

Vox's Andrew Prokop says the vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance was about policy...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

Tanks, rockets, missiles, and the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Israel is asserting itself as the most ...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Vox’s Christian Paz and Miles Bryan head to Philadelphia and Lancaster to see what the Harris and ...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Amazon is the latest high-profile company to mandate in-person work five days a week. Today, Explain...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Today, Explained flies to Portugal to find out how the dust has settled on the pandemic-era quest fo...

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Microsoft needs so much energy for its AI data centers that it’s helping to reboot Three Mile Isla...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

It looks a lot like all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. Semafor’s Sarah Dadouch has the late...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

A partisan election board in Georgia has been trying to change the rules around voting and election ...

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Country music is cool again!!!!! Billboard's Melinda Newman explains. This episode was reported and ...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

Conservatives have started claiming hot girls as a culture war victory. Vox's Constance Grady explai...

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

Educators and politicians across the nation are banning cellphones in classrooms. Today, Explained’...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

The Federal Reserve is set to make its first interest rate cut since the pandemic ended. Marketplace...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

No, Haitian immigrants aren’t eating anyone’s pets. USA Today-Ohio’s Erin Glynn and the Verge’...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

This week Apple announced its first AI iPhone with features that will make it even easier to edit yo...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Once the world's largest corporation, the now-struggling US Steel wants to sell itself to Japan's Ni...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

A conservative and a liberal wrangle over how the Harris-Trump debate should have gone. This episode...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

One of the most significant parts of Pope Francis’s Asia tour might be a country he isn’t visiti...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov by French authorities is part of a broader shift away from th...

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

Vox’s Benji Jones takes us diving in a coral reef to learn how scientists are trying to save them....

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

American sanctions can destroy a country’s economy. The unintended consequences are massive in pla...

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

Donald Trump hasn’t yet figured out how to run a disciplined campaign against Kamala Harris. In th...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

The story of Army specialist Austin Valley highlights a crisis the US military can’t seem to solve...

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

For the first time, a woman is playing on the US wheelchair rugby team at the Paralympics. It’s a ...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

The two are on the brink of starting a regional war. An analyst and a negotiator say without a cease...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

A meme of a Minion being crucified went viral on TikTok in a very unusual way. Today, Explained’s ...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Vox’s Adam Clark Estes explains why that might be a good thing. This episode was produced by Miles...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Bloomberg’s Loren Grush explains how two astronauts got stuck on the International Space Station a...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Noel closes out her week in Chicago with a recap of Kamala Harris’s speech. Political strategist M...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Around 50,000 migrants have poured into Chicago in the last two years. Some Chicagoans are furious. ...

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

The Democrats call Black women the "backbone" of their party. We ask three Black women delegates in ...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

The last two Democratic presidents took distinct approaches toward leading their party and the natio...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

When Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1968, it descended into riots in the stree...

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

But it doesn't have to. Myisha Battle, a sexologist and host of KCRW’s How's Your Sex Life?, tells...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Donald Trump keeps referencing the infamous fictional cannibal in his speeches. Intelligencer’s Ma...

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Bangladeshis are about to find out if a Nobel laureate can run their government better than a nepo b...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are vying for Silicon Valley's support. Democrats typically get it. B...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

Students are returning to college campuses this month armed with generative AI tools. One professor ...

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Paris wanted this to be the greenest Olympics ever. We assess. This episode was produced by Denise G...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

A clinical trial for MDMA-assisted therapy showed promising results. But participants who say they s...

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

Disinformation after a knife attack in the UK transformed a local tragedy into nationwide upheaval. ...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

The governor of Minnesota is Kamala Harris’s running mate. Minnesota Public Radio’s Dana Ferguso...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

Project 2025 and J.D. Vance have brought fringe policies to the presidential campaign. Democrats are...

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

Military veterans are unlikely collaborators with the psychedelic counterculture. The two groups’ ...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

In 1980s Berkeley, an eccentric chemist and his wife, a self-taught therapist, experimented with MDM...

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

2008 was the last time the US men’s gymnastics won a team medal at the Olympics. Justin Spring was...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Kamala Harris all want to distance themselves from the inflation and b...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Fridges are our go-to way of storing food, but they’re not good for the planet or even good for a ...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Breaking will dance its way into the Olympics this summer. B-boy historian Alien Ness says this is d...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Kamala Harris memes have taken over the internet. Now she needs to figure out how to capitalize on t...

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Fast Company’s senior fashion writer Elizabeth Segran explains how the company overcame a problema...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

More than 10 million people worldwide have contracted dengue from mosquitos this year. Now experts a...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

All bets are off as President Biden exits the 2024 race. Vox’s Andrew Prokop and Democratic strate...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

Hulk Hogan delivered at the final night of the RNC, but did Donald Trump? We hear from two conservat...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

The US cracked down on Juul after an uptick in teen vaping and a flurry of health concerns. Podcaste...

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

A federal judge has thrown out Trump's classified documents case. Wall Street Journal Justice Depart...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Donald Trump’s running mate is Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. Politico’s Ian Ward describes Vance’s tra...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is part of a steady uptick in political — and increasing...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

Long live the song of the summer. But wait! Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding disagrees. And Rolli...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Donald Trump is trying to distance himself from it. Joe Biden wants you to Google it. Semafor’s Sh...

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

The Supreme Court just fundamentally changed how the federal government works. Vox’s Ian Millhiser...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024

Prosecutors ain’t nothing but tired of New Jersey’s political corruption. WNYC’s Nancy Solomon...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

President Biden says only the “Lord Almighty” can get him to end his re-election campaign, thoug...

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

John Denver’s ode to West Virginia might be more popular abroad than it is in the United States. T...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

The Supreme Court has weighed in on homelessness for the first time in decades. The Economist's Stev...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

The Supreme Court sent the question of Donald Trump’s presidential immunity back to the lower cour...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Joe Biden needed to win the debate. He didn’t. Vox’s Christian Paz explains if Democrats can fin...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

No, Sabrina Carpenter probably isn’t paying the streamer to play “Espresso” every time you’r...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

President Biden recently raised Trump-era tariffs, which could lead to even higher prices on Chinese...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents are on the rise. Author Moustafa Bayoumi and Vox’s Abdallah...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

Elon Musk has had inappropriate relationships with SpaceX employees. Tesla shareholders knew that, a...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

The Ultimate Fighting Championship went from niche bloodsport to multibillion-dollar league. Donald ...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Fighting climate change is not a very common Republican position. Climate activist Benji Backer argu...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

President Macron has called snap elections in France that could lead to him sharing power with the f...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

A bloody civil war is spreading famine and fear through Sudan. It’s a near-repeat of a crisis from...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

How do you talk about colonialism and slavery at a birthday party? New York City is trying to tackle...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

The LGBTQ+ voting bloc has traditionally favored Democrats, but as Vox's Christian Paz explains, thi...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

Americans owe more than $1 trillion to credit card companies, a record sum that’s likely to keep g...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Since October 7 there has been a lot of debate over what is and isn’t antisemitic. Rabbi Jill Jaco...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Some therapists are turning to TikTok as a way to make more money and avoid burnout, but is a nightl...

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Remember when the only thing anybody could talk about was white and gold versus blue and black? NatG...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

India's prime minister suffered a humiliating win this week. Vox's Zack Beauchamp explains a shockin...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

When it comes to immigration solutions, the federal government is handing out lemons. Denver Mayor M...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

Americans hold contradictory views on immigration: They’re more supportive of it than ever before,...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

The murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed looked like a turning point in the fight a...

Fri, 31 May 2024

Former President Donald Trump is now also convicted felon Donald Trump. It didn’t have to be this ...

Thu, 30 May 2024

The AP’s Megan Janetsky and Falko Ernst of the International Crisis Group explain how Mexico’s f...

Wed, 29 May 2024

Aaron Rigsby has built a career out of documenting tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather ...

Tue, 28 May 2024

Seven months in, Israel has not “eliminated” Hamas leadership. Newsweek’s Tom O’Connor intro...

Mon, 27 May 2024

Americans consume more shrimp than salmon and tuna combined. But where’s it all coming from? Liste...

Fri, 24 May 2024

The billionaire owner of the Oakland A’s is trying to move his team to Vegas, and he wants public ...

Thu, 23 May 2024

The seafood chain found itself deep in the red after a disastrous unlimited shrimp promotion. Wall S...

Wed, 22 May 2024

Big Tech companies have rolled out a new batch of AI-powered products, improving upon what came befo...

Tue, 21 May 2024

The federal government has moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous controlled substance. P...

Mon, 20 May 2024

It sure seems like it. The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Luxmoore reports from Ukraine on why $60 ...

Fri, 17 May 2024

Vox senior correspondent Constance Grady went inside the seedy underbelly of online self-publishing ...

Thu, 16 May 2024

The last time these exact cicada broods emerged from the ground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson w...

Wed, 15 May 2024

The hush money trial has exposed the ecosystem that once protected former president Donald Trump. Jo...

Tue, 14 May 2024

It's gotten so bad in America, people are crowdfunding their doctor bills. Vox's Dylan Scott and ass...

Mon, 13 May 2024

Leaders of the United Methodist Church, one of the largest Christian denominations in the US, gather...

Fri, 10 May 2024

The Netflix show Baby Reindeer is a hit. It's been viewed 56 million times. The writer claims it's ...

Thu, 09 May 2024

President Joe Biden says the US won’t supply further weapons if Israel is going to use them in Raf...

Wed, 08 May 2024

The best rapper in the world is beefing with the biggest rapper in the world. The Ringer’s Charles...

Tue, 07 May 2024

The pop music competition is facing boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s...

Mon, 06 May 2024

Yes, but it’s hard. Inside Higher Ed’s Josh Moody and UC Merced’s Charlie Eaton explain. This ...

Fri, 03 May 2024

Venice is drowning in tourists. A new fee for day-trippers is the latest tool aimed at keeping overt...

Thu, 02 May 2024

Media behemoth Paramount Global is struggling. Stock prices are down. The CEO was just ousted. And t...

Wed, 01 May 2024

Avian flu, which recently leapt from chickens to cows, has now been detected in milk. Vox’s Keren ...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

Officials say “Day Zero” is imminent in Mexico City. A walk through the city reveals the histori...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Egg freezing was once hailed as a reproductive game changer, but as Vox's Anna North reports, it mig...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Millions of bees died because of colony collapse disorder over the past few decades, but America’s...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would ban the app unless it’s sold to an American ...

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Daily Spectator news editor Sarah Huddleston reports on the protests at her university. AAUP Preside...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too. Vox’s Ian Millhiser previews the Donald Trump i...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Canadian-American podcast host Sean Rameswaram goes one-on-one with Canadian Prime Minister Justin T...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

Bluey delights children and reduces their grown-ups to tears. But the latest episode has fans young ...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

Politicians and conservative news outlets say there’s an epidemic of people moving into a stranger...

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

Drivers are increasingly paying sticker price or more for a new car. Then there are sky-high insuran...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

The first of former President Donald Trump's four criminal trials began this week. Vox's Andrew Prok...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom explains. Jerusalem-based journalist Noga Tarnopolsky explores whe...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

The new movie Civil War delivers a sensational story about political polarization spilling into mass...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

Congress is back in session and the House speakership is once again on the line. The New Yorker’s ...

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

The Oxford, Michigan, school shooter's parents will serve up to 15 years in prison. Jennifer and Jam...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

A pig’s kidney was just transplanted into a human. But Vox’s Dylan Matthews says we shouldn't ne...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

More and more Americans feel like college isn’t a good deal anymore. One state thinks it’s found...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

Tweens are shopping for trendy, expensive skincare products. Gen Z worries it’s “aging like milk...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Kalin explains what happened, and Refugees International Preside...

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

Donald Trump arrived at the White House in 2017 without a lot of plans to actually govern. The conse...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

CEO Bob Iger is fighting off activist investor Nelson Peltz, who argues the company spends too much ...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

The IRS finally has a brand-new, totally free tax-filing software for you. But not everyone’s exci...

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

Living with your parents is so hot right now, with more adults doing it now than at any other time i...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

Home affordability hasn’t been this bad in decades. Wall Street Journal housing reporter Nicole Fr...

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

The Key Bridge disaster is yet another reminder of the vulnerability of global shipping. This episod...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

The Moscow terror attack could mark the beginning of an even more brutal phase in Russia’s war in ...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Robert Kennedy Jr. is set to announce his running mate this week. To mark the occasion, Semafor’s ...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Beyoncé has a new country album. The first single has already broken records and drawn criticism fr...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

The biggest star of this year’s March Madness basketball tournament isn’t one of the male player...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

Probably not. Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio and Kate Ruane from the Center for Democracy and Techno...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

Haiti’s latest crisis is being driven by something new: The country’s gangs have united, and the...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Desperately low on troops for its protracted war with Ukraine, the Russian military is relying on me...

Sun, 17 Mar 2024

In this no-holds-barred interview from the SXSW stage, Vox's Noel King asks comedian and radio host ...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Covid and last year’s strikes delivered a one-two punch that the entertainment industry still hasn...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Soon you can buy them all at your local drugstore. The FDA approved an over-the-counter birth contro...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

Two grainy paparazzi shots and an edited Mother’s Day photo are the only “sightings” of the Pr...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

Americans are eating more meat than ever, and it’s wreaking havoc on the environment. Vox’s Kenn...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

A recent poll shows almost a quarter of registered Black voters would vote for Donald Trump. We ask ...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

Four years after a pandemic pause, some colleges and universities are again requiring applicants to ...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

It’s the first major social media IPO since 2017. CNN’s Clare Duffy breaks down what is at stake...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

One state (cough, cough Florida) is leading the US in measles cases. The contagious disease was once...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

Super Tuesday is the biggest day of the presidential primary campaign, but the biggest race in the b...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

When it’s time to Stop & Shop, the American Publix is finding it costs more than ever to fill a Ma...

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

Shohei Ohtani made his Dodger debut this week. His record-setting contract solidifies an internation...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

A theologian explains why he agrees with Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children....

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

US inflation feels bad until you look at Argentina’s, which is breaking 200 percent. Today, Explai...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

Michigan’s primary today will test President Biden’s viability with Muslim voters amid the war i...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Fat women make less money than thin women and get fewer raises and promotions. It’s going to take ...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The weight loss drug is so profitable that its parent company, Danish health care giant Novo Nordisk...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

New federal regulations are forcing museums across the United States to take down, cover up, or clos...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Former President Donald Trump has now lost back-to-back civil trials in New York. Reporter Andrea Be...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

A drought has dramatically reduced the Panama Canal’s capacity, leading to higher costs and big de...

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in an Arctic prison. The Guardian’s Luke Ha...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

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Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Romantasy is the most popular literary genre in America right now. Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk a...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity are center stage after a Justice Department prosecutor described...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Residents of Philadelphia’s Chinatown have mobilized against plans for a new arena in their backya...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

Her label, Universal Media Group, pulled its entire catalog off TikTok. The Verge’s Nilay Patel ex...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Missing bolts, door panels flying off in midair — and that’s not even on the planes that crashed...

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Congress has failed to pass an immigration bill. The House is attempting to impeach Biden’s secret...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

That’s how El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele describes himself. Silvia Viñas from the news podcast El ...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait wants Joe Biden to win. He explains how his coalition has falle...

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

A promising gene therapy can help kids born without the ability to hear. A Deaf bioethicist wants yo...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

As president, Donald Trump presided over a good — sometimes great — economy. But his proposals a...

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

Iran-backed militias use drones, missiles, and even TikTok dances to antagonize the United States an...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accidentally started a culture war over Zyn. Semafor’s Dave W...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

South Africa took Israel to court over claims of genocide. Courthouse News reporter Molly Quell and ...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Pitchfork’s parent company is folding the influential music site into GQ. Vulture’s Craig Jenkin...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin drew flak after trying to keep his prostate cancer surgery a secret. ...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

Nikki Haley pinned her presidential hopes on a powerful showing in New Hampshire but still wound up ...

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple in the once-sleepy city of Ayodhya on...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

New electric vehicle owners have been finding out the hard way that extreme cold weather and their c...

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

NASA has long relied on private companies to build its rockets, but now it’s turning to private co...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

Israel's war against Hamas has now been raging for over 100 days. According to Ian Lustick, professo...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Growing cocaine demand and booming coca leaf cultivation is fueling unrest in Ecuador. The Economist...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

Trump won big. DeSantis came in second, but Vox’s Zack Beauchamp says that won’t be enough to ke...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

The studios promoting Mean Girls, Wonka, and The Color Purple are hiding something from you. The Rin...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

This weekend, Taiwan goes to the polls, kicking off the biggest election year in history. The Guardi...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Nikki Haley is gunning for second place in the Iowa Republican caucuses. In New Hampshire polls, she...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

Last year’s counteroffensive failed and Ukraine needs American aid to win. Republicans in Congress...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

The Houthis, a rebel group from Yemen, are seizing cargo ships in retaliation for the war in Gaza. V...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

Your aunt mailed you a sweater for Christmas that’s three sizes too small. Armed with a gift recei...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

As states decide whether Donald Trump is eligible to be on their primary ballots based on his action...

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces trouble at home and abroad. AP correspondent Tia Gol...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

The potential of rooftop solar is being squandered. Time’s economic correspondent Alana Semuels re...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

The start of a new year is increasingly a time when people choose to abstain from drinking for a mon...

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

A group of evangelical Christians raised their children to become influential in the White House, on...

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Doctor and journalist Chris van Tulleken wanted to know how ultra-processed foods affect us, so for ...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

The Chinese apparel company Shein, a favorite of Gen Z shoppers and the latest frontier in US-China ...

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

FBI data shows police departments have been solving fewer violent crimes since 2020. Data analyst Je...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023

The bookseller has gone from big-box villain to company on the brink of bankruptcy to bright spot in...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

The EU has advanced first-of-its-kind AI regulation. The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed tells us whether ...

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

American policy failures and bad PR have made millennials dread motherhood. Vox’s Rachel Cohen and...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

Semafor’s Tim McDonnell says what made COP28 successful was the same thing that made climate activ...

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

A drug that aims to increase life expectancy for dogs is getting closer to market. But pet ethicists...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

Three elite university presidents walk into Congress for a hearing on antisemitism. Only two still h...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Concrete is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions. Tech companies, including a st...

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

No, movies aren’t getting longer. Even though, yes, it definitely does feel like they are. Slate’...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

The Biden administration wants all lead pipes ripped up. It’ll take billions of dollars and rarely...

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Earlier this year the FDA approved a game-changing drug to treat hot flashes, a symptom of menopause...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

In our quest to accommodate parked cars, we’ve paved over downtowns, polluted the planet, and made...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

People with no direct connection to the Middle East have taken to seeing the Palestinian cause as an...

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

72-year-old Gerry Turner has handed out his final rose on ABC’s The Golden Bachelor. In a season f...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Noted American diplomat and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is revered by few, reviled by ...

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

The Israel-Hamas war is dividing the previously united Democrats and uniting the recently fractured ...

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

Package theft is on the rise, and it affects everyone, from the retailer, to shippers, to consumers....

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

After 50 days of the Israel-Hamas war, both sides took a breather to save lives. And it couldn’t h...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

It’s been a wild few days at OpenAI, whose board fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday only to rehire him...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

Sean "Diddy" Combs is the latest high-profile figure to be accused of sexual assault under New York’...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

With the world focused on Gaza, Israeli settlers and soldiers are increasing attacks on Palestinians...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Formula 1 spent half a billion dollars to return to Las Vegas. Jalopnik’s Elizabeth Blackstock exp...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, infamous election denier, moved to the middle to make a budget de...

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

That’s what voters are trying to figure out as they prepare for this weekend’s runoff election b...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

People are desperately trying to escape Gaza as the siege on the strip continues. Mohammed Ghalaieny...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Panda diplomacy couldn’t fix the US and China’s tense relationship. Perhaps a meeting between Pr...

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Writer Devin Friedman has wanted a pool since he was a kid. As an adult, he saved tens of thousands ...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Tipping’s getting even more complicated thanks to a DoorDash change that will prioritize diners wh...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

Protesters, politicians, and the pope are calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, but the U...

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

On his way out of the United States Senate, Mitt Romney gave one reporter unprecedented access to hi...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

The Supreme Court will decide if Zackey Rahimi, a man accused of domestic violence and involved in a...

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

The lawyer behind the Supreme Court case that overturned affirmative action in university admissions...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

Israelis overwhelmingly disapprove of their government’s handling of the October 7 attacks, but th...

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

Supporters of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act pledged it wouldn’t radically change immigr...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

The Pope, his bishops, and some women walk into the Vatican. The National Catholic Reporter’s Josh...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Cut off from water and power and recovering from a communications blackout, Gaza is plunged deeper i...

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

The primary care physician shortage is ruining health care in America. Dollar General, Best Buy, and...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

Silicon Valley billionaires are battling local residents over plans to build a whole new city in Cal...

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

This was the top question we got from Today, Explained listeners. Joel Beinin, Middle East history p...

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

The most indicted president in history has judges grappling with how to balance the right to free sp...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over social media faster than...

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

To Airbnb, or not to Airbnb, that is the question. Wired’s Amanda Hoover and the Atlantic’s Kate...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

Republicans made history when they ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and they continue to make history ...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

It’s been 11 days since Hamas attacked Israel, killing civilians and taking hostages. Israel’s r...

Tue, 17 Oct 2023

The outcome of Poland’s election surprised the world. Vox's Jen Kirby explains what happened, and ...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

The US along with Israel and many of its allies have long considered Hamas a terrorist group. Khaled...

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

And the ecological crisis that threatens everything. Today, Explained’s Miles Bryan heads to Salt ...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ditching his family’s party. David Freedlander explains how the candidate...

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Across the country, traffic deaths are spiking. Vox’s Marin Cogan tells the tragic story of one gr...

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

This Israel-Hamas war is unlike the ones that came before it, says Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer...

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

For 27 years there was no arrest in the shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur. Slate’s Joel Anders...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

A bill outlawing caste-based discrimination in California could become the first law of its kind in ...

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

As House speaker, Kevin McCarthy worked with Democrats to keep the government open. Then Matt Gaetz ...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial begins today; a guilty verdict could represent the final nai...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

The US government is open for business at the cost of Ukraine aid. Semafor’s Jordan Weissmann expl...

Sat, 30 Sep 2023

So much of the coverage of hip-hop’s 50th birthday has been congratulatory, in spite of its record...

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Capitalism isn’t natural, was never inevitable, and endless growth is killing Earth. The final epi...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says his government will ban a type of dog called the American Bully X...

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has brought a landmark antitrust suit against Amazon. The Verge’s Mak...

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

Climate activists have tried marching and lobbying. Now, a growing flank of movement radicals want t...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Canada’s unprecedented decision to publicly accuse India of assassinating a Canadian citizen in Ca...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Two wildly different political movements — Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party — emerged from t...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

It’s climate week. To mark the occasion we’re talking to scientist Michael E. Mann about six D-w...

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

New York City wants to be the first in the nation to implement congestion pricing to charge people f...

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

We’re not just talking snowbirds. The Sunshine State is the fastest growing in the nation despite,...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

The United Auto Workers union is on strike at three different factories. We ask the Wall Street Jour...

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

Economist Milton Friedman published an essay in 1970 arguing that the job of a corporation was solel...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Kim Jong Un took a bulletproof train to visit Vladimir Putin in Russia this week. Jenny Town at the ...

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

Seems like everyone’s got Covid again. Vox’s in-house epidemiologist, Dr. Keren Landman, deliver...

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

Google is headed to court over allegations its search engine violates federal antitrust law. The Ver...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Hunter Biden is set to be indicted this month. The WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha goes over the evidence w...

Fri, 08 Sep 2023

Capitalism has entered its villain era. In a new series running Fridays this month, we look at how A...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

The Pac-12 college football conference has lost nearly all its teams now that schools like USC and C...

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

Better sunscreen exists, you just can’t get it in the US. Amanda Mull and Elise Hu explain why. Th...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

The Cold War started earlier than we think — and maybe never ended at all. Historian Calder Walton...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

Tech companies are racing to make new, transformative AI tools, with little to no safeguards in plac...

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

The researchers who create and study tech like ChatGPT don’t understand exactly how it’s doing w...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Saying “it’s over,” Spain’s World Cup-winning women are using an unwelcome kiss to try to en...

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Taking cues from striking actors and writers, reality TV stars are lobbying for better treatment fro...

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

Long-shot presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said he would send US forces into Mexico “on day one...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

China’s ambitious youth planned to cash in on their country’s meteoric rise on the world stage. ...

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

With Lionel Messi, footy may have finally arrived in the United States. The Athletic’s Tom Bogert ...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, the caterer-turned-warlord who recently attempted to overthr...

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

Fox News desperately wants you to watch tonight’s Republican presidential debate. The Washington P...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

President Biden can’t stop, won’t stop trying to forgive student debt, even as borrowers are sho...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Putin's war is hurting Russians, too. Writer Masha Gessen and researcher Jade McGlynn explain why pu...

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

Adelanto, California, was broke. Could legalizing marijuana cultivation offer a fix? Reporter David ...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

The San Francisco Standard’s Liz Lindqwister reports from San Francisco, where people are flipping...

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

Oft-indicted former President Donald Trump is at it again. Stephen Fowler, host of Georgia Public Br...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

Hawaii’s landscape has been rapidly changing for the last 200 years thanks to plantations, tourism...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

The FDA’s approval of a new pill that treats postpartum depression could be yet another signal tha...

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

Tostitos chips without real lime. Root beer made with fake vanilla. Instant mac and cheese that isn’...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Today a federal judge hears arguments on whether New York City Mayor Eric Adams should be stripped o...

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

The Chinese apparel company Shein is a favorite of Gen Z shoppers and the latest frontier in US-Chin...

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is looking for a “strategic partner” to invest in the massi...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

When it comes to climate policy, President Biden has accomplished more than any of his predecessors....

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

Private jets aren’t what they used to be. AOC is calling out Hollywood executives for having too m...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

Semiconductors are used in just about every piece of technology. The US wants to limit what China ca...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

The latest unprecedented is about January 6, but does the American public still care about January 6...

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

A much-dreaded recession doesn’t actually seem to be materializing. We called up some experts — ...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Some Muslim parents wanted their kids to opt out of reading schoolbooks with LGBTQ characters and th...

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

A lot of our new hit music sounds just like our parents’ old hit music. Pitchfork’s Jayson Green...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen explains how Sound of Freedom, an action-drama about figh...

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

For decades, a delicate strategy of deterrence kept Russia and the US from nuclear war. With China u...

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

The defense bill is the latest piece of legislation to be weaponized by the far-right Freedom Caucus...

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

Is Barbie a toy commercial doubling as the first installment of an inevitable Mattel Cinematic Unive...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

A lot of Americans are still feeling iffy about the economy, but Joe Biden’s so proud of how thing...

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

Republican presidential candidates have a bone to pick with ESG investments. So does James Surowieck...

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

The actors are officially on strike. Vox senior correspondent and critic Alissa Wilkinson breaks dow...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

🎵 Now that I’m away, I wish I had stayed. 🎵 Vox’s Allie Volpe explains why travel feels li...

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

A group of evangelical Christians raised their children to become influential in the White House, on...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

Vermont just got slammed with flash floods, road closures, and evacuations. Harvard’s Juliette Kay...

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

As Meta launches its Twitter competitor, The Verge’s David Pierce says that we are watching the en...

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

President Biden and other world leaders say it’s too dangerous to admit Ukraine into NATO while it...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Everyone is fighting about “equity.” If only they could define it. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explain...

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

A rancher in the Pacific Northwest scammed two companies out of $244 million. In this episode we fir...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

Inflation happens for a lot of reasons that can be hard for even economists to fully grasp. But — ...

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

The chemical manufacturer 3M will pay $10 billion to settle claims it contaminated drinking water wi...

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

For the second time this month, huge sections of the US are blanketed by wildfire smoke. Vox’s Reb...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

The Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard and UNC. The ruling is...

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

The three biggest private employers in North America are Walmart, Amazon, and a security firm you’...

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

How “woke” went from Marcus Garvey to Childish Gambino to Ron DeSantis. This episode was produce...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from hot dog seller to top chef to Russia’s leading mercenary. Journalist P...

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

Deep-sea explorer G. Michael Harris has been down to the wreck of the Titanic 14 times. He begged hi...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Despite US concerns over the decline of Indian democracy and human rights, Prime Minister Narendra M...

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

A group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will pay remote workers $10,000 to move there. Vox’s Rani Molla explai...

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

States want to restrict kids’ access to harmful content online via age verification systems. New Y...

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

For decades, American schools have taught reading with an approach that doesn’t work very well. Em...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

The PGA Tour wanted nothing to do with a rival Saudi-funded golf tour, but like Silicon Valley and t...

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

Held v. Montana, a first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit, pits young people — and their constitutional...

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

The entrepreneur is running a longshot campaign for the GOP nomination on an “American nationalist...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Bad visual effects in movies may have less to do with technology and more to do with workers being u...

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

For the first time in American history, a former president faces federal charges. Vox’s Andrew Pro...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

The state of Texas took over Houston’s Independent School District and replaced the superintendent...

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

Two insurance giants will stop issuing new policies for California homes. CalMatters reporter Ben Ch...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

Apple’s launch of a new mixed reality headset shows that, for Apple, the metaverse isn’t dead. T...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

A new Florida law will restrict where Chinese citizens can buy homes, and other states may follow su...

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

Comedian Hannah Gadsby railed against Pablo Picasso in “Nanette.” So why are they curating an ex...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

Ukraine vowed to mount a counteroffensive against Russia. Drone attacks on Moscow might signal it ha...

Wed, 31 May 2023

Companies have been leaning into Pride month for years. So why are brands like Target and Bud Light ...

Tue, 30 May 2023

Turns out Kias and Hyundais are easy to steal. Teens are taking advantage, and putting it all on Tik...

Fri, 26 May 2023

The FDA approved a game-changing drug to treat hot flashes, a symptom of menopause. Health writer Ja...

Thu, 25 May 2023

NBC’s Matt Dixon explains how Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to Make America Florida. Vox’s Andrew Prok...

Wed, 24 May 2023

Dr. Vinod Balachandran explains how he and his colleagues successfully treated pancreatic cancer wit...

Tue, 23 May 2023

The diet company is shutting down. Bloomberg’s Emma Court explains how Jenny Craig’s strategy —...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad became a regional pariah after brutal crackdowns on his own citizen...

Fri, 19 May 2023

In our quest to accommodate parked cars, we’ve paved over downtowns, polluted the planet, and made...

Thu, 18 May 2023

With the debt ceiling deadline approaching, Republicans want to expand rules that require welfare re...

Wed, 17 May 2023

After 21 years of leading Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a global political giant. But a crumbling ...

Tue, 16 May 2023

Title 42, a Covid-era policy that included strict limits on migration into the US from Mexico, has e...

Mon, 15 May 2023

The EPA has just announced new rules for power plants to clean up their act. But to get to those low...

Fri, 12 May 2023

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this podcast. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edite...

Thu, 11 May 2023

Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Ke...

Wed, 10 May 2023

A New York jury awarded $5 million to journalist E. Jean Carroll, whose civil suit against the forme...

Tue, 09 May 2023

Ed Sheeran just won a big copyright trial. But he might not have even been in court if not for Robin...

Mon, 08 May 2023

A subway rider choked to death Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man known to New Yorkers for his...

Fri, 05 May 2023

King Charles is struggling to get his subjects to care about the historic coronation this weekend. P...

Thu, 04 May 2023

The Federal Reserve has once again raised interest rates, which means borrowing money for your mortg...

Wed, 03 May 2023

Once upon a time, a Magic Kingdom took issue with a ruler’s law and, well, everyone ended up suing...

Tue, 02 May 2023

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics stan...

Mon, 01 May 2023

Congress has yet to pass legislation regulating social media companies, so parents are taking matter...

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

The Verge’s Nilay Patel explains how a spurious collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd started...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

President Biden hopes so. His administration is preparing to roll out new rules that would counter s...

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

Foreign powers are arming and funding opposing military leaders in Sudan, who are now battling for c...

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

The oldest president in the history of the United States wants a second term. Vox’s Andrew Prokop ...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

There is a nationwide shortage of medications to treat ADHD. One culprit: the DEA. Vox’s Dylan Sco...

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

The descendants of Pablo Escobar’s pet hippopotami are wreaking havoc in Colombia. They can teach ...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

The Colorado River is disappearing and the government is now spending millions on one wild idea to e...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

$787.5 million. (To Dominion Voting Systems, averting a defamation trial that could have been disast...

Tue, 18 Apr 2023

TV and film writers just voted to authorize a strike, which could leave studios without fresh script...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

The Biden administration has new plans to reduce the amount of PFAS or “forever chemicals” in Am...

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

Federal officials have charged a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard with pos...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

The chandelier crashes for a final time as Broadway’s longest-running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber...

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

The traditional explanation of inflation is simple: too much money chasing too few goods. But some e...

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

A federal judge in Texas invalidated the FDA’s decades-old approval of the abortion drug mifeprist...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Evan Gershkovich’s detention is a callback to the last time a US journalist was accused of espiona...

Fri, 07 Apr 2023

Feeding the world’s growing population is an increasingly difficult challenge, and climate change ...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

The US military faces its worst recruiting crisis since the draft ended in 1973. Secretary of the Ar...

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

The drug that brings people overdosing on opioids back from the brink of death in minutes just got a...

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

Chicagoans feel unsafe, and many blame Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two Democrats on the ballot to repl...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

Americans aren’t going downtown like they used to, and a lot of them say it’s because they don’...

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

Donald Trump is the first US president to be indicted. Now what? Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains. Thi...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Newark officials rescinded a sister city agreement with the United States of Kailasa after finding o...

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

An AI-generated image of Cool Pope in immaculate drip went viral over the weekend and most everyone ...

Tue, 28 Mar 2023

Far-right judicial reforms have inspired what might be the largest protests in the history of Israel...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

The US has a child care crisis. But New Mexico just figured out a way to fix it (hint: they’re pay...

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

Transit agencies nationwide are facing an existential crisis. Washington, DC’s city council has a ...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

Five years after March for Our Lives, one of the historic protest’s organizers and his historic fr...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

When the Veterans Administration failed to build the homes it promised, unhoused vets built a tent c...

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

There’s rare bipartisan consensus in Washington: China is a threat to be countered. Cornell profes...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

The war in Iraq has been declared over by nearly every president since the one who started it 20 yea...

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

Pandemic restrictions are mostly over, but cities are still struggling to recover. Empty offices thr...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

Execs like YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki and Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg paved the way for women in tech. ...

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

The Fox News host aired a splashy exclusive this month about the January 6 insurrection. Some Republ...

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Two siblings in Utah are defying a court order to reunite with their father, who they allege abused ...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

SVB’s collapse is the biggest bank failure since 2008. Insider’s Ben Bergman explains why the ba...

Sun, 12 Mar 2023

Huge hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water got nominated alongside Tár. In this ...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

Melissa Brown, a state politics reporter for The Tennessean, spills the tea on Tennessee’s new dra...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

DC is baby. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura...

Wed, 08 Mar 2023

Congress wants more oversight of how the billions in US aid to Ukraine are being used. But our own m...

Tue, 07 Mar 2023

Should past trauma prevent a convicted killer from being executed? The Marshall Project’s Maurice ...

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

Insulin was the poster child of overpriced life saving drugs, but a manufacturer finally capped the ...

Fri, 03 Mar 2023

Gustavo Dudamel brought classical music to the masses in Los Angeles. Now he’s announced that he’...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Newspapers across the country pulled the long-running comic “Dilbert” after its creator uploaded...

Wed, 01 Mar 2023

Solar geoengineering — the idea of cooling the planet by deflecting the sun’s rays — is so ris...

Tue, 28 Feb 2023

President Biden promised a more humane approach to immigration when he entered office. After two ye...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

Bloomberg's Stephanie Baker and the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos explain the fight to seize (and mainta...

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

On the morning Russia invaded Ukraine, we called Yulya and Kurii. A year later, we’re calling them...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023

Pharrell Williams was happy to be named the new head of Louis Vuitton’s menswear, but his appointm...

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

The derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals has residents of East Palestine, Ohio fearing for...

Tue, 21 Feb 2023

Politicians across the United States are calling for an outright ban on the popular social media pla...

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

Humanity can’t survive without bees, which is why bees are big business for thieves. Today, Explai...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

Thousands of buildings collapsed after Turkey’s massive earthquakes. Now President Recep Tayyip Er...

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is running for president. Vox’s Andrew Prokop ...

Tue, 14 Feb 2023

“Zero-click spyware” is making it easier for governments to get their hands on individuals’ pe...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Attacks on vulnerable electrical infrastructure are surging. The tactic — embraced by everyone fro...

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

Cody Easterday was ranching royalty in Washington state until he was sentenced to 11 years in prison...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023

The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade is reshaping the way a lot of Americans think...

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

Turkey is digging itself out from the devastating earthquake that has killed thousands across the co...

Tue, 07 Feb 2023

The College Board piloted an AP course on African American Studies. Then, after conservative pushbac...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

The balloon crisis is blown up. Politico’s Alex Ward deflates it for us. This episode was produced...

Fri, 03 Feb 2023

Policymakers across the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on “violence interrup...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

Poultry farmers are in flock-down. The bird flu known as H5N1 is being called “the largest foreign...

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

New national health guidelines in Canada say any amount of alcohol consumption could lead to serious...

Tue, 31 Jan 2023

Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wen...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

The Department of Justice wants Google to break up its advertising business. The Wall Street Journal...

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Wealthy companies like Google and Microsoft are announcing unprecedented layoffs — all while the e...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Dozens have died in anti-government protests in Peru. Journalist Simeon Tegel reports from Lima on h...

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Chef René Redzepi said his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, deemed the best in the world, isn't sustain...

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

The US and Mexican governments trusted Genaro Garcia Luna to crack down on the drug trade. Now he’...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine desperately needs tanks to fight Russia. The US, which ha...

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

Most people watch RRR and see one of the greatest action epics in the history of cinema. But some se...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

House Republicans are refusing to raise the US debt ceiling without huge concessions. Vox’s Dylan ...

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

No, the government isn’t coming for your gas stove. Vox’s Rebecca Leber explains why you might w...

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Remember you are dirt and to dirt you shall return. Science journalist Eleanor Cummins and law profe...

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

What do a Delaware garage and a Florida palace have in common? We dig into Joe Biden’s classified ...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

Rain is good for California, but the state was not prepared for what might be a megastorm. KQED’s ...

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

When the Taliban took power, it promised a place for women in its new Afghanistan. Now, hardliners a...

Tue, 10 Jan 2023

Except it was on January 8. The Brazilian Report’s Gustavo Ribeiro explains from São Paulo. This ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Controversial manfluencer Andrew Tate is in a Romanian prison, accused of rape and human trafficking...

Fri, 06 Jan 2023

The 118th Congress has begun with a showdown over who will be elected House speaker. Vox’s Andrew ...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

Ray Osheroff was a successful doctor in the DC area until his depression became debilitating. The wa...

Wed, 04 Jan 2023

George Santos is supposed to become a member of Congress this week. We still have no idea who he is....

Tue, 03 Jan 2023

Happy New Year! Maybe you’re interested in trying new things? Sean and his mom are. In today’s e...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Before Roe v. Wade, Eleanor Oliver was a Jane: a member of a group in Chicago that helped women get ...

Wed, 28 Dec 2022

A lot of IRL violence starts with online radicalization. We revisit our conversation with writer and...

Tue, 27 Dec 2022

Vladimir Putin believes Ukraine belongs to Russia, and he used that a pretense to invade. In an epis...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

Pickleball is bringing America together. Pickleball is tearing America apart. Sports Illustrated’s...

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains. This episode ...

Tue, 20 Dec 2022

The January 6 committee sent the Justice Department four criminal referrals against the former presi...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Movie trailers are misleading audiences. Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson says you should stop watching them...

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

Maybe not, but you’re going to be hearing about them for a while anyway. Republicans are saying th...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Megan Thee Stallion is everywhere — including in court, testifying against the rapper Tory Lanez, ...

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Tensions are simmering in London as climate protesters turn up the heat on their soup-flinging activ...

Tue, 13 Dec 2022

Between chatbots and image generators, artificial intelligence has gotten scary good lately. The Ver...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Tostitos chips without real lime. Root beer made with fake vanilla. Instant mac and cheese that isn’...

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

Sen. Tammy Baldwin managed to rally bipartisan support for a marriage equality bill, but she’s the...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

US officials are sending the “Merchant of Death” — a notorious arms dealer named Viktor Bout —...

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

A growing number of county sheriffs believe they hold ultimate power in their jurisdictions. Some ha...

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

Investigators are still trying to solve the brutal November killings of four college students in Mos...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

Elon Musk created The Boring Company to fix traffic, but his fantasy of underground Tesla tunnels is...

Fri, 02 Dec 2022

The United Nations says humanity has reached 8 billion, but Western nations are worried about popula...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

The protests in China might force the government to back down from its extreme Covid restrictions an...

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

Disney’s board wished upon a star and brought back former CEO Bob Iger, who replaced his own repla...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Democrats vote on new leadership this week, meaning Nancy Pelosi is out. Time’s Molly Ball explain...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

In a UN-brokered agreement, more than 190 countries agreed to pay for “loss and damage” caused b...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022

NASA’s Artemis mission is the first step toward a long-term human settlement on the moon. Vox’s ...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

Parents are turning their kids into influencers on social media. What could go wrong? This episode w...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Florida’s Maxwell Frost, 25, is the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. He tells us ...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

It’s me, Ticketmaster. I’m the problem, it’s me. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn,...

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

Pelé. Maradona. Ronaldo. Soccer’s greats are so good, they’re typically known by one name. Men ...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

In its biggest victory yet, Ukraine retook its vital port city, Kherson. The Guardian’s Luke Hardi...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive T...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

With the collapse of one of its largest exchanges, crypto’s having its very own Lehman Brothers mo...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

Mark Zuckerberg fired 11,000 employees at Meta. Elon Musk axed half his staff at Twitter. Other tech...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

The people who built Qatar’s stadiums, hotels, and transit systems were employed under the country...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

A respiratory virus called RSV has a lot of kids in critical condition and hospitals overwhelmed. Vo...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

The midterms weren’t a clear victory for Republicans, and it’s still too early to know who’ll ...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022

Midterm elections are a tough sell in the United States. Half of eligible voters show up in a good y...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Perhaps the most consequential midterms in US history are this week. Arizona’s Kari Lake, a former...

Fri, 04 Nov 2022

Soccer is sometimes called “the second religion of the Arab World,” and Qatar is the region’s ...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

Twitter is about to suck for you. But it’s going to suck for self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” Elon...

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

The next Congress could be a whole lot less willing to keep spending billions on aid to Ukraine. It’...

Tue, 01 Nov 2022

The chess world is in chaos after its top player accused 19-year-old Hans Niemann of using AI to che...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro vowed he wouldn’t accept the results of the Brazilian election ...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

This year’s fear of rainbow fentanyl in kids’ trick-or-treat bags is just the latest unfounded H...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

Grocery story giants Kroger and Albertsons want to become one mega-company. The chains say merging w...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: pros...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022

Earlier this month, police in Edmonton, Canada, released a sketch of a suspect. The issue is, no one...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Allegations of misconduct have rocked US women’s soccer for the last year. The Athletic’s Steph ...

Sun, 23 Oct 2022

Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia, again … against Brian Kemp, again. The two last ...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

The bombastic founder of an electric truck startup (no, not Elon) has been convicted for his role in...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Liz Truss accomplished at least one thing in her 45 days as prime minister: She set a record for the...

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

The Federal Reserve knows raising interest rates disproportionately hurts Black people. It just does...

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

Leaked audio revealed elected officials, including City Council President Nury Martinez, making xeno...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Pro-pot Californians said legalizing marijuana would end the state’s black market for reefer. Inst...

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping is a product of Mao Zedong’s revolution. On Sunday, he'll become the ...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

The Endangered Species Act was transformative in protecting animals from extinction. Vox’s Benji J...

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

The 22-year-old Iranian died in police custody after being arrested for wearing her hijab improperly...

Tue, 11 Oct 2022

They’ve got a few legislative ideas and a LOT of investigative ones. Vox’s Rachel Cohen and Ben ...

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

John Fetterman, the 6-foot-8, hoodie and cargo shorts-wearing Democratic candidate for Senate in Pen...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

Vladimir Putin keeps threatening to use smaller nuclear weapons to win his war. Author J. Peter Scob...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

President Biden’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in student debt is both historic and controv...

Tue, 04 Oct 2022

Days after Ian, most Floridians now have their power back. Weeks after Fiona, more than 100,000 Puer...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

According to Vox’s Ian Millhiser (and no, he hasn’t forgotten they just overturned Roe). This ep...

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

An extraordinary case of fraud is unfolding in Mississippi, where a chummy cadre of nonprofit leader...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Elvedin Pasic lived through the Bosnian genocide in the early 1990s. So why is one of Bosnia’s lea...

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Pipelines are leaking, winter is coming, and concerns over an energy crisis in Europe are growing. V...

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

Republicans have firmly held the Texas governorship since 1995. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is both...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

The Russian president is calling on reservists and holding fake referenda to legitimize his war. Was...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

I wish I was a baller. I wish there was a doc who’d break my legs, I would call her. This episode ...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

Thousands of people say Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder gave them cancer. They’re suing — but ...

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

After catastrophic flooding, Pakistani people are demanding better disaster management from their go...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022

The billionaire founder of Patagonia is giving away his company to fight climate change. He’s also...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated just how dysfunctional the United Nations is. Uri Friedman, mana...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

The historical epic The Woman King, in theaters today, is set in the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th ...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupted business in the US, the government sent billions of dollars to...

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

A recent Ukrainian counteroffensive seems to have caught Russia on its back foot. That could have co...

Tue, 13 Sep 2022

A quartet of 2020 election deniers are running for secretary of state this year in key swing states,...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Texas and Arizona's governors are giving migrants bus tickets to the capital. The mayor of Washingto...

Fri, 09 Sep 2022

Long live the king. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Se...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

What’s happening in Jackson is hardly unique: Cities and states across the US are setting themselv...

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

Millions of people have long Covid; countless more could get it. Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez answe...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022

Prosecutor Fani Willis and a special grand jury have some questions for the man with the yellow hair...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

Delia Owens’s runaway bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of a killing in North C...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

As devastating heat waves like the recent one in China become more common, we’re going to need new...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

A new wave of philanthropists wants to make charity more effective. They’re focused not just on th...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

If you think Instagram sucks now, it’s by design. Vox's Rebecca Jennings and Platformer's Casey Ne...

Sat, 27 Aug 2022

A magical theme park ride on the Island of Explained demonstrates the damage done by fossil fuels an...

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

Six months into its escalation of war with Ukraine, the calls to declare Russia a state sponsor of t...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe has implications far beyond abortion; it complicates ...

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

A cable news network tailor-made for the former president is getting canceled. The Daily Beast’s J...

Tue, 23 Aug 2022

A car bomb killed Russian commentator Darya Dugina over the weekend. The bomb may have been meant fo...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Two of the biggest rappers in the world, Young Thug and Gunna, are behind bars. And their bars will ...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022

Noel and Sean join Sam Sanders to kick off the third episode of his new Vulture show, “Into It.”...

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

The Justice Department is investigating Donald Trump, but the ex-president's still-large base likely...

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

Was never about Salman Rushdie. Journalist Robin Wright explains. This episode was produced by Avish...

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

A meme that mocks President Biden has been transformed by supporters to celebrate his recent wins. B...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Russia is paying teachers big bucks to teach a pro-Kremlin curriculum in Ukraine. It’s part of a c...

Sat, 13 Aug 2022

Kiarra and Izii are having an argument when they are unexpectedly transported to the Island of Expla...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

The Wyoming Republican will likely lose her primary, but she’s winning over a lot of Democrats in ...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

From politicians to podcasters, one man’s money unites the New Right. Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin ex...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

The newest conservative dissidents want to radically reshape the Republican party and American democ...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022

Florida man's beach house searched by FBI. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Avishay Art...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

Viktor Bout might be the most successful arms dealer in history. The US could let him go free if Rus...

Fri, 05 Aug 2022

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight p...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

Gay men, queer people, and their partners represent an overwhelming majority of monkeypox cases. But...

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

Probably not, but he did finally compromise on the Inflation Reduction Act (née Build Back Better),...

Tue, 02 Aug 2022

China didn’t want Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan. Neither did the White House. Politico’s ...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

The US froze billions in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves when the Taliban took control. Now it...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022

An invitation to a vegan party sends producers Kiarra and Izii to the Island of Explained, where a g...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

Climate change has driven some environmental activists to extremes. We talk about overcoming despair...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

The US economy has shrunk for two consecutive quarters. That’s technically a recession. But econom...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

The data is in on autonomous cars: They are crashing, but they're still doing a lot better than regu...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

Britain’s Conservative party is spending the summer choosing its next prime minister. The Atlantic...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

The 1990 opening of a McDonald's in Russia heralded not just burgers and fries but, get this, a new ...

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

The CEO who turned World Wrestling Entertainment into a global brand has retired after nearly 40 yea...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

As the world heats up, the American West is drier than at any period in the past 1,200 years. But do...

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

But the images from the Webb Space Telescope still provide our best look yet at the formation of the...

Tue, 19 Jul 2022

Surging cases, Paxlovid rebounds, and apathy everywhere. Vox’s Dr. Keren Landman explains how to n...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

A congressional committee set out to offer the definitive story of the attack on the Capitol on Janu...

Sat, 16 Jul 2022

Luz the firefly is missing, and producers Izii and Sara want to know why. They take a trip to the Is...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Some conservative parents are trying to get books about race and sexuality banned from libraries and...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

The assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe may have given his agenda to militarize Japan ...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

Art crime is booming and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings (or at least some very realistic forgeri...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

Candidate Biden said he would make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” on the world stage. Now President B...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

No, President Biden didn’t cause the tampon shortage — or any of the recent shortages. But that ...

Fri, 08 Jul 2022

Congress just had its first hearings on UFOs in over 50 years. We revisit a 2021 episode where the N...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate en...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022

The US hoped sanctions would end Russia’s war in Ukraine quickly. We revisit our conversation with...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

Before Roe v. Wade, Eleanor Oliver was a Jane: a member of a group in Chicago that helped women get ...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

The past week/month/year/pandemic has taken a toll on a lot of people’s mental health. And the US ...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

A rabbi, a priest, and an imam walk into the abortion debate. The priest wins. This episode was prod...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

It’s safe and easy to end a pregnancy during the first trimester using a pair of FDA-approved pill...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court’s decision was most immediately felt in states that pegged abortion bans to the ...

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court overturned a 49-year-old precedent that secured the right to an abortion. Irin Car...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

The US is spending billions to arm Ukraine against Russian invaders. But without the proper training...

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

Venture capitalists spent years subsidizing the price of things like Uber rides and food delivery. T...

Tue, 21 Jun 2022

Oligarchs from Russia and beyond stash their cash in British banks, which play a central role in the...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

John Temple was the editor of Rocky Mountain News in April 1999, when two students committed mass mu...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

America’s gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis. After 24 years of blocked funding, Cong...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says tougher gun laws wouldn’t have stopped the Uvalde shooter. He’s wron...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

It wasn’t until 2008 that the US Supreme Court established what a confusing sentence in the Consti...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

You might look at school shootings and think “Yes, obviously.” But two people who have been stud...

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

Ten months ago the faculty of Cramer Hill Elementary set out to get their kids back on track after a...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

The mental health startup Cerebral benefited from pandemic-era changes to federal telehealth laws. B...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

Russia is weaponizing food by blockading Ukraine’s grain exports and withholding its own until oth...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022

The British government will deport UK-bound migrants to Rwanda. It’s part of a larger trend of ric...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court is going to let Arizona kill Barry Jones, a man whose rape and murder convictions ...

Fri, 03 Jun 2022

We opened up our hotline. You called and asked questions. We found answers. This episode was produce...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022

The stock market tumble and crypto crash are symptoms of a broader shift in the US economy. Jacob Go...

Wed, 01 Jun 2022

Does your immunity still last for months? We asked a researcher who has been studying omicron reinfe...

Tue, 31 May 2022

Police departments across the US are signing a pledge to increase the share of women in their ranks,...

Fri, 27 May 2022

Writer and parent Joanna Schroeder wrote a guide for parents about what to look out for and how to i...

Thu, 26 May 2022

Good news: Epidemiologists don’t think monkeypox will be as bad as Covid-19. Bad news: We stopped ...

Wed, 25 May 2022

Vox’s Marin Cogan, who lived through a school shooting herself, explains why she hasn’t given up...

Tue, 24 May 2022

It’s not just Johnny Depp’s fans — it’s Amber Heard’s anti-fans, too. The Atlantic's Kaitl...

Mon, 23 May 2022

Their admission to NATO would further isolate Russia, leaving it the only Arctic country outside the...

Fri, 20 May 2022

The Conservative Political Action Conference, which is like Republican Coachella, is usually held st...

Thu, 19 May 2022

Noel King traveled to Hungary to talk to people who voted for Viktor Orbán, people being persecuted...

Wed, 18 May 2022

The same man who helped usher in democracy in Hungary is the one who’s chipping away at it now. Am...

Tue, 17 May 2022

Millions of US parents are struggling to feed their infants due to a nationwide shortage of baby for...

Mon, 16 May 2022

This week Pennsylvania voters decide whether to give Dr. Oz a shot at the US Senate. To mark the occ...

Fri, 13 May 2022

Not explicitly, no. But neither is the right to travel from New York to New Jersey. NYU law professo...

Thu, 12 May 2022

Sri Lanka’s “Go home, Gota!” protesters want to throw President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of offi...

Wed, 11 May 2022

The son of repressive dictator Ferdinand Marcos was just elected president of the Philippines. All h...

Tue, 10 May 2022

A week before Russia invaded Ukraine, it detained WNBA superstar Brittney Griner. Now the United Sta...

Mon, 09 May 2022

Patriarch Kirill is the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. A former colleague describes him as a...

Fri, 06 May 2022

Scientists have developed a long-sought treatment — perhaps even a cure — for sickle cell anemia...

Thu, 05 May 2022

And how the seemingly endless wait in the US is affecting their development. This episode was produc...

Wed, 04 May 2022

Indiana lawyer Jim Bopp has spent most of his life chipping away at Roe v. Wade. His incremental app...

Tue, 03 May 2022

A largely unprecedented leak of a draft Supreme Court decision reveals the Court’s conservative ma...

Mon, 02 May 2022

For less than $20 plus shipping everyday people can turn their handguns into machine guns. The Trace...

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Liberals turned to J.D. Vance’s book to better understand Donald Trump’s victory. Now the “Hil...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

Elon Musk and Twitter have reached a deal. Recode’s Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary explain what i...

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Dianne Feinstein’s colleagues are concerned the 88-year-old senator is struggling with memory loss...

Tue, 26 Apr 2022

Accounts like “Libs of TikTok” are fueling right-wing media to label people who speak openly abo...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

By making bitcoin a national currency, El Salvador tried to transform its economy. Rest of World’s...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

A Florida judge ended the federal government’s mass transit mask mandate this week. Vox’s Dylan ...

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

The Wagner Group, a superviolent (and supersecretive) team of Kremlin-aligned mercenaries, is doing ...

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter, but is also making 420 jokes. Kara Swisher (who knows him) a...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

Last year, Vox correspondent Dylan Matthews didn’t think inflation would be a big deal. He wasn’...

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

Russia is ramping up attacks on Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. The US could be next. This episo...

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

Warner Bros. is censoring the newest Fantastic Beasts movie for Chinese audiences. It’s the latest...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has gathered an enormous amount o...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

Hunter Biden may not be the archcriminal that conservatives describe, but his actions present proble...

Tue, 12 Apr 2022

Pakistan’s prime minister was ousted. He blames the US. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah,...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Starting a union can be a tall order, but many baristas have found it’s an effective way to venti ...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022

Vladimir Putin says the West is trying to erase 1,000 years of culture. Arts organizations say they ...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

The Buffalo Bills are set to receive a record-breaking $850 million in public funds to build a new s...

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

A 2012 law tried to limit lawmakers' ability to make money on Wall Street. It hasn’t worked. This ...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022

The Russian president has come to rely on a skewed version of history and an increasingly small circ...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate en...

Fri, 01 Apr 2022

For thousands of years, there have been four basic tastes recognized across cultures. But thanks to ...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

There is growing support for psychedelics as performance enhancers, mood boosters, and a shortcut to...

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

The US southern border remains closed to asylum seekers on account of Covid-19, unless you happen to...

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

And in Texas, they’re trying to unionize. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, engine...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

The Oscars were bordering on irrelevancy until Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage. This episode ...

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

One month in, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t going according to plan. Historian and retired ...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

As Poland welcomes almost 2 million Ukrainians in, it’s spending $4 million on a wall to keep Syri...

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

The Russian military may have committed war crimes in its brutal attack on the Ukrainian city of Mar...

Tue, 22 Mar 2022

A bill to make daylight saving time permanent slipped through the Senate. Now, the real fight for ti...

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

President Biden insists he won’t send American troops to join Ukraine’s war with Russia. Veteran...

Fri, 18 Mar 2022

With its neighbor distracted by domestic culture wars, North Korea is making new moves. This episode...

Thu, 17 Mar 2022

The furor over Florida’s latest culture-war legislation has Disney, among the state’s largest em...

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

Millions of people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s war begin. We check back in with Kurii Vasyl, ...

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but certain corners of Congress don’t want to spend a penny...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

Americans bet more than $50 billion on sports last year, and that record will likely be broken in 20...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

The BBC is bringing back shortwave radio broadcasts to counter censorship and disinformation in Russ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

Russia has threatened to let the International Space Station plummet. The Verge’s Loren Grush expl...

Wed, 09 Mar 2022

The world watched in horror as tens of thousands fled Afghanistan last August. Today, Explained’s ...

Tue, 08 Mar 2022

Gas prices hit a record high in the United States today. Then the White House put an embargo on Russ...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

The US and EU are denying a handful of Russian banks access to SWIFT, a key tool in the global finan...

Fri, 04 Mar 2022

Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from a middling peacetime president to a heroic wartime president. Kyiv Ind...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

Gov. Greg Abbott has instructed child protection officials to investigate the parents of transgender...

Wed, 02 Mar 2022

And how the fight might end. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, en...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022

It depends a lot on where they get their news. Meduza’s Aleksey Kovalev reports from Moscow. This ...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee is historic but may have little impact on American law...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. He’s wrong. This episode was produced by Miles Brya...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

Kurii Vasyl and his niece Yulya try to make sense of Russia’s invasion of their country. And Kyiv ...

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

Vox’s Jonathan Guyer explains how a Russian invasion of Ukraine could affect me and you and everyo...

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

This year’s weird Winter Olympics were overshadowed by politics, Covid-19, and the threat of war. ...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

The US hopes the threat of sanctions will dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine. Historian Nicholas ...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

A tech investor and his rapper wife were busted for a multi-billion dollar bitcoin heist. They could...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

In her Today, Explained debut, co-host Noel King heads to Atlanta to find out why some people in one...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022

A convoy of truckers angry over Covid-19 mandates is disrupting life in Canada’s capital city. The...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

The New York Times published an editorial that made false claims about Sarah Palin. A lawsuit over t...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Quarterback Tom Brady will retire as the winningest football player in NFL history. ESPN's Seth Wick...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

When it comes to fixing discriminatory voting maps, nine months may not be enough for some justices....

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

The Oscar nominations are out, but the No. 1 movie in America features Johnny Knoxville and his frie...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022

President Biden gave strict orders to avoid collateral damage during a raid on an ISIS leader. Civil...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

Why are colleges ditching the test? A) The SAT is biased B) Colleges want to admit more diverse stud...

Fri, 04 Feb 2022

Psychologists are worried that "trauma" is losing its meaning. A trauma survivor says they shouldn't...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

At least in schools. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engi...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris just attended Honduras’s presidential inauguration. Her trip was real...

Tue, 01 Feb 2022

The podcast host built a massive audience by speaking to fringe figures in culture, business, and sc...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

The US government let the expanded child tax credit expire ... just as researchers produced a study ...

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

The US is negotiating to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, but a Germany-backed natural gas project...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

Vox’s Ian Millhiser says American politics shifted during Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, until...

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

Build Back Blunders, and other presidential misadventures. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan,...

Tue, 25 Jan 2022

Crimes against humanity are rarely prosecuted successfully, but a Syrian colonel got a life sentence...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

The Games don’t begin until February 4, but the drama around the pandemic, free speech, and diplom...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing political ruin because his aides partied while the UK...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do. Today's show was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, ...

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

To look into deep space is to look back in time. Ahead of the launch of the James Webb Space Telesco...

Tue, 18 Jan 2022

This Sunday, the greatest telescope in the history of humanity is scheduled to reach its destination...

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

The 35-year-old president-elect in Chile loves tattoos, Taylor Swift, and progressive policies. Gab...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

The speedy arrival of CSTO troops in Kazakhstan is unprecedented in the 30-year history of the Russi...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

President Joe Biden wants to change how the Senate works to pass voting reforms. Sen. Mitch McConnel...

Tue, 11 Jan 2022

How the best-ranked men’s tennis player in the world went to Australia to become the greatest of a...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

What happens when all the teachers get sick? Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan with help fr...

Fri, 07 Jan 2022

Fast fashion took over the apparel industry, but consumers are tiring of its poor labor and environm...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

Russia has kept its military at Ukraine’s doorstep for almost a decade. But a recent escalation on...

Wed, 05 Jan 2022

A tech startup said it could start a medical revolution with a little machine and a drop of blood. I...

Tue, 04 Jan 2022

The omicron variant is very transmissible, but it might make Covid-19 less miserable. Today’s show...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

One year later, the United States is still trying to wrap its head around what happened on January 6...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021

This song was written and performed by Sean Rameswaram and Noam Hassenfeld, produced by Noam, engine...

Wed, 29 Dec 2021

Giannis Antetokounmpo went from hawking watches and DVDs on the streets of Greece to winning an NBA ...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021

One of the biggest pop stars in the world is rerecording her first six albums at the artistic peak o...

Mon, 27 Dec 2021

America's homicide rate rose by almost 30 percent in 2020. It was the biggest spike in 60 years, and...

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

The pandemic changed how we think about work. In this repodcast, Vox’s Anna North says it might be...

Wed, 22 Dec 2021

2021 was better than 2020. Here's proof. Today’s show was produced by Matt Collette, edited by Jil...

Tue, 21 Dec 2021

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been ridiculed, erased, and let down by the world's most...

Mon, 20 Dec 2021

We scored Biden’s first year The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos evaluates President Biden’s first yea...

Fri, 17 Dec 2021

Nearly 60 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, some of the men wrongly put in prison for kill...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Cobalt is powering the electric vehicle revolution, but much of the world’s supply is mined under ...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

Thanks to South Africa, the world now has some data on omicron’s severity, transmissibility, and w...

Tue, 14 Dec 2021

A bodybuilder posing as a Muslim convert was welcomed into a California mosque. When he showed signs...

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

Most people get about eight minutes' advance warning of a tornado. This episode of Vox’s Unexplain...

Fri, 10 Dec 2021

While the nation’s attention has been focused on the opioid crisis, a new, more dangerous form of ...

Thu, 09 Dec 2021

That’s what the United Nations says is taking place in Afghanistan right now. Today’s show was p...

Wed, 08 Dec 2021

Today, Explained returns to Cramer Hill Elementary School to explore the challenges of vaccinating c...

Tue, 07 Dec 2021

The mass killing at Oxford High School in Michigan may seem comparable to those that preceded it, bu...

Tue, 07 Dec 2021

The world’s most illustrious museums are finally having to reckon with the stolen art in their col...

Fri, 03 Dec 2021

Big Bird got vaccinated, an Asian American Muppet moved in, and conservatives got really mad at Sesa...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021

A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her ca...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021

The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Vox’s Ian Millh...

Tue, 30 Nov 2021

Russia blew up a satellite and almost put the International Space Station in a precarious position. ...

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

AA-muh-kraan or OH-muh-kraan Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan and Will Reid, edited by Mat...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

A deadly salmonella strain is spreading through American poultry, and there’s not much the governm...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

After the Chicago Tribune’s Stacy St. Clair runs through the Rittenhouse trial and verdict, legal ...

Fri, 19 Nov 2021

But somehow it got very scary. Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Co...

Thu, 18 Nov 2021

And why they're easy to find in Europe (though they don't seem to be helping much at the moment). To...

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

No. Vox's Jerusalem Demsas disproves a popular internet conspiracy theory. Today’s show was produc...

Tue, 16 Nov 2021

Belarus is promising migrants passage to Europe knowing the EU will turn them away. Today’s show w...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Consumer prices are rising at their fastest rate in 30 years. Vox’s Emily Stewart explains why thi...

Fri, 12 Nov 2021

A third of American workers do gig work. In the third part of our series, The Future of Work, learn ...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

China’s 1.4 billion people are averaging fewer than 100 cases of Covid-19 a day. All it takes is t...

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

Extremists in the right-wing militant organization known as the Oath Keepers are present in law enfo...

Tue, 09 Nov 2021

How a music festival became a death trap, and what it would take for it never to happen again. Today...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

You win some and you lose some. Just ask President Biden, who started last week with electoral setba...

Fri, 05 Nov 2021

They said the office would never be the same. In part two of our series, The Future of Work, what ha...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the futu...

Wed, 03 Nov 2021

After a bloody fight for democracy, Sudan is sliding back into the hands of the military. CNN’s Ni...

Wed, 03 Nov 2021

It's Election Day in the USA. This time around, the nasty political fights and insurrections are goi...

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

While the doorbell recovers from Halloween, Nice Try explains how it’s an essential part of the Am...

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

There are millions of job openings in America, and millions of Americans are still not able to find ...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

From the company that brought you alternate facts comes an alternate reality! Today’s show was pro...

Wed, 27 Oct 2021

Vox's Aja Romano explains how Dave Chappelle's latest standup special led to a reckoning at Netflix....

Tue, 26 Oct 2021

Variety’s Brent Lang explains how cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on the Rust film set—and ...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

For 11 years, a Tennessee judge sent kids to jail for a crime that doesn’t exist. Nashville Public...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021

Since the Supreme Court’s "shadow docket" decision to allow the Texas abortion ban to go into effe...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

The House is holding Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena as part of...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

All I want for Christmas is a functional supply chain. Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan, e...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021

Tim Murphy from Mother Jones explains how Sen. Kyrsten Sinema went from a left-wing activist to a Bi...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

Iran is entering its fifth decade of taking hostages. One who made it out tells his story. Today’s...

Fri, 15 Oct 2021

In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced a product that would change our lives forever. The new season of Land...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

And whether the show’s message is being lost in the shuffle. Today’s show was produced by Miles ...

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

Vox’s Umair Irfan explains how a new pill that might soon be authorized by the FDA could fill majo...

Tue, 12 Oct 2021

Body cameras were supposed to bring greater transparency to law enforcement. The case of Ronald Gree...

Fri, 08 Oct 2021

The city of Philadelphia put an opportunistic 22-year-old in charge of its vaccine rollout. Nina Fel...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021

But also, should we kill all the mosquitoes? Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from...

Wed, 06 Oct 2021

An energy expert explains why offshore oil spills keep happening and whether they’ll ever stop. To...

Tue, 05 Oct 2021

Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifyi...

Mon, 04 Oct 2021

School’s been back for a month. Today, Explained spent a month checking in with Cramer Hill Elemen...

Fri, 01 Oct 2021

The Brazilian butt lift isn’t just a cosmetic surgery; it’s a lifestyle. Vox’s Rebecca Jennin...

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Twelve people at Rikers Island have died in custody so far this year. The pandemic is only part of t...

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

Former CDC Director Nancy Messonnier and former White House Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt join Sean ...

Tue, 28 Sep 2021

Moderates and progressives are threatening to vote down different parts of their own party’s agend...

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

A former Defense Department adviser says President Biden might succeed where President Obama failed,...

Fri, 24 Sep 2021

President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two o...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two o...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

Vox’s Aja Romano explains why the internet stopped what it was doing to find one particular missin...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021

Vox’s Nicole Narea explains the latest border crisis, and Ayibopost’s Widlore Mérancourt docum...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping has kicked off a "rectification" campaign that’s affecting every sect...

Fri, 17 Sep 2021

A US drone strike in Afghanistan was meant to take out an ISIS-K target. Reporting on the ground s...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

The US military is redoubling its efforts to figure out what’s behind reports of mysterious sonic ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021

A California judge weighed in on whether Apple has a monopoly. NPR’s Bobby Allyn unpacks the rulin...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021

President Joe Biden is taking a new approach to fight the pandemic. Former acting CDC director Richa...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for over two years, but his crimes and mysterious death still haunt hi...

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

A love story between a person who's alive and a person who is dead, told by the San Francisco Chroni...

Thu, 09 Sep 2021

NPR’s Anya Kamenetz explains how America is sending its kids back to school while delta surges. Po...

Wed, 08 Sep 2021

Neigh! Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collett...

Tue, 07 Sep 2021

The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead ...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

The pandemic has changed how we think about work. Vox’s Anna North says it might be time to change...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

Texas didn't just make it almost impossible to get an abortion, the state made it easy to sue somebo...

Tue, 31 Aug 2021

The United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan is officially over. Vox’s Nicole Narea explains wh...

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

California could elect a Republican governor in a few weeks. KPCC reporter Libby Denkmann explains h...

Fri, 27 Aug 2021

The attack outside the Kabul airport on Thursday was perpetrated by an extremist group that doesn't ...

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

I’ll take public scandal for $1000. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Ma...

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

The Afghan refugee crisis started long before the US withdrawal. Al Jazeera English correspondent Al...

Tue, 24 Aug 2021

Vox’s Umair Irfan explains why you might need one. The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang says the coronavir...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

The pandemic wiped out the slow but steady progress America had been making against another deadly d...

Fri, 20 Aug 2021

In this episode of Vox Conversations, the Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig shares forgiveness strategi...

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

The Taliban last controlled Afghanistan 20 years ago. They may be more pragmatic now, but their ideo...

Wed, 18 Aug 2021

Some recent analysis of America’s changing demographics is inaccurate and dangerous. NPR’s Hansi...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021

An assassination followed by an earthquake followed by a tropical storm strike a country where aid o...

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

And did it faster than the US ever imagined. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, E...

Fri, 13 Aug 2021

Covid-19 is surging so high in several states, you’d think we didn’t have a vaccine. A Mississip...

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

While the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban is surging, which is a likely death sentence fo...

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

A new UN report says humans are “unequivocally” causing climate change. Rich countries are to bl...

Tue, 10 Aug 2021

People said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would never resign. Then he did. New York magazine contributi...

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

The pandemic Olympics have come to an end. NPR’s Tom Goldman provides a highlight reel and an eval...

Sat, 07 Aug 2021

Giannis Antetokounmpo went from hawking watches and DVDs on the streets of Greece to winning an NBA ...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021

Democrats this week scrambled to extend a federal evictions moratorium amid the government's failure...

Wed, 04 Aug 2021

The new Matt Damon movie, Stillwater, is based on Amanda Knox’s story. She wishes someone had aske...

Tue, 03 Aug 2021

The Roth IRA was invented by Congress to incentivize middle-class retirement savings. ProPublica’s...

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

Vox’s Dylan Scott explains what an outbreak in a mostly vaccinated beach town taught the CDC about...

Fri, 30 Jul 2021

A Philadelphia election tested progressive ideas on how to reduce shootings in America. ProPublica’...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

The nation’s murder rate rose by almost 25 percent last year — the largest increase in at least ...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021

Capitol police officers testified on Tuesday in the building they defended on January 6. Seamus Hugh...

Tue, 27 Jul 2021

The 2020 Games were mired in scandal before they even started. Vox’s Jen Kirby explains how thin...

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Vox’s Umair Irfan explains why the United States is seeing another Covid-19 surge. Dr. Rhea Boyd s...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explains what he and his boss are calling a once-in-a-genera...

Fri, 23 Jul 2021

President Biden wants infrastructure spending to include child care, elder care, food assistance, ev...

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

America’s sewage system is total crap, but there’s a new plumber in town. Transcript at vox.com/...

Tue, 20 Jul 2021

And how it got so dam expensive to build things in America. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Su...

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

It’s a big week for President Biden’s infrastructure plans. Vox’s Li Zhou explains the obstacl...

Fri, 16 Jul 2021

Britney Spears returned to conservatorship court this week. Vox’s Constance Grady explains how Sp...

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

Cubans hit the streets for unprecedented protests against their communist government. CNN's Patrick ...

Wed, 14 Jul 2021

Republicans in Texas are legislating so far to the right the state’s Democrats up and fled to Wash...

Tue, 13 Jul 2021

The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse is the latest in a long line of setbacks for Haiti’s...

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

Travel around the globe to hear how disparately people are experiencing the pandemic in July 2021. T...

Fri, 09 Jul 2021

An estimated 143 million people will relocate to escape climate change in the next three decades. Qu...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021

Thirty years ago, Eugene, Oregon, figured out an alternative to the police. They called it CAHOOTS. ...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021

When people see Deeyah Khan's documentary about white supremacists, they tell her, "The real problem...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021

Documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan grew tired of receiving death threats from white supremacists so s...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021

Getting buzzed helped build civilization.. The Atlantic's Kate Julian explains. Transcript at vox.co...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

The Trump Organization and its top lieutenant have been indicted for tax fraud. Andrew Prokop says t...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

A housing watchdog says real estate companies often discriminate against low-income tenants who use ...

Tue, 29 Jun 2021

The discovery of mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada has led to reckonings on both sides of...

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

Doctors have suffered psychologically throughout the pandemic, but as Vox’s Julia Belluz reports, ...

Fri, 25 Jun 2021

Restaurant delivery apps have made it possible to order pretty much anything we want to eat with the...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

Catholic bishops want to deny President Biden communion, even though Pope Francis thinks that's a te...

Wed, 23 Jun 2021

Vox’s Emily Stewart explains how scared you should be of inflation. Transcript at vox.com/todayexp...

Tue, 22 Jun 2021

The fast-spreading coronavirus variant first detected in India is coming for the rest of the world. ...

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

After 20 years of waiting, there’s a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s. For some patients, it’s a ...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021

Cryptocurrency is everywhere! And now some people are saying it could be good for the environment?! ...

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

The Atlantic’s Tom McTague provides a halftime report on Brexit. It appears it’s going very well...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021

Benjamin Netanyahu is out. Israel has a new leader and a new coalition government. The question now ...

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

What to do when your mom is with Q. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained ...

Fri, 11 Jun 2021

Over 14 years and 20 seasons of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” the show rewrote the rules of...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

Senegal. Vox’s Jen Kirby flew there to find out how. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support...

Wed, 09 Jun 2021

New York City is picking a new mayor with a new election system. What could go wrong? Transcript at ...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021

Gangs and drug cartels killed dozens of candidates in Mexico’s midterm elections. Voters weren’t...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

Across the country, Republican lawmakers are pushing laws banning “critical race theory” in scho...

Fri, 04 Jun 2021

Texas isn’t the only state advancing legislation that would disenfranchise voters in Democratic st...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021

The idea that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese lab once sounded too fringe to take seriously. That’...