Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Who gets to vote?
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a question the US has struggled with since its founding. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained...
Vaccines4Kids
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden says all adults will be eligible for a vaccine by May 1. But for the world to truly ...
No one nose
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Believe it or not, scientists still don’t know how the sense of smell works. But that isn’t stop...
It’s been a year
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The year in revue. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...
Biden’s Big F***ing Deal
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden’s American Rescue Plan has been approved by Congress. It’s a revolution in Ameri...
You’re vaccinated. Now what?
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New guidelines from the CDC for fully vaccinated people suggest it’s finally time to hug your gran...
Alabama shakes up Amazon
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Darryl Richardson, a worker at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, explains why he helped ini...
The Bachelor meets reality
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beset by controversy, The Bachelor’s latest season is winding down with an identity crisis. It’s...
The surge of anti-Asian violence
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is stumbling through two racial reckonings at once. Author Jeff Chang says it’s ...
Manchin in the middle
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden won the presidency, but it’s Joe Manchin from West Virginia who seems to be the decider....
The $15 dream
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Washington’s hottest policy fight is over raising the minimum wage to $15. Emily Stewart explains ...
How acid trips led to better policing
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago, Eugene, Oregon, figured out an alternative to the police. They called it CAHOOTS. ...
Canceling Keystone XL
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden finally wants to put the Keystone XL pipeline to bed. But if the last 12 years of en...
The case for Covid-19 optimism
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s German Lopez explains why he feels optimistic about the end of the pandemic even though 500,...
A tale of two governors
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom were hailed for their leadership early on in the pandemic. Now, the fo...
Stimu-less
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s taking so long? What’s happening with those $1,400 checks? Are the Democrats betraying th...
Googliath
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia just reined in Google. Dozens of other countries want in on the action. The latest season ...
A tough week for Texas
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First it was brutal winter weather, power outages followed, and then came a poorly timed trip to Can...
Rush Limbaugh’s legacy
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Author Nicole Hemmer explains how Limbaugh helped pave the way for Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax. Trans...
Biden at the border
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden says he wants to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies, so why are some of t...
57-43
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats made a strong case against Donald Trump. Republicans are being punished for supporting it....
#FreeBritney
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The movement to liberate Britney Spears from her conservatorship may not succeed, but it’s reveali...
The Republican(!) plan to give parents money
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sen. Mitt Romney wants to throw money at parents, Andrew Yang-style. President Biden is into it, too...
Vaccine hoarding
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Poorer countries have received less than 1 percent of the Covid-19 vaccines distributed around the w...
26 Words
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A quarter-century after it was signed, Section 230, the law that made the modern internet, has done ...
Capitol punishment
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Andrew Prokop previews the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trum...
The Senate’s $1.9 trillion all-nighter
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate voted on more than 40 pieces of legislation overnight. Vox’s Li Zhou explains what the ...
The Arab Spring, 10 years later
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire and set off a revolution across the Middl...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “loony lies”
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Aaron Rupar explains why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has likened a fellow Republi...
The coup in Myanmar
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some would say the military has always been in control of Myanmar. On Monday morning, they made it o...
Introducing Chicano Squad
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the 1977 murder of a young Latino man, the Houston Police Department created a team of five yo...
Biden’s latest 13 actions (in 13 minutes)
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
And whether or not any of it will last beyond his presidency. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. ...
GameStock
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Emily Stewart explains how GameStop’s stock jumped by 1,700 percent this month. Bloomberg’...
The military’s far-right problem
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sen. Tammy Duckworth wants the military to do a better job of rooting out extremism in its ranks. A ...
Coronavirus, 365 days later
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One year after our first episode on the novel coronavirus, Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what we got...
Marianne Williamson on healing America’s soul
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marianne Williamson was applauded as well as ridiculed on the presidential debate stage when she war...
Second in command, first in history
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris has already broken barriers, but ahead lies the rare task of leading a polarized and e...
Biden’s first 17 actions (in 17 minutes)
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his first few minutes in office, President Biden hit CTRL+Z on former President Trump’s agenda....
46
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in today and got straight to work. Vox’s Laura McGann and D...
Abolish the lame-duck period?
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
America’s two-month lame-duck period gave supporters of the outgoing president ample time to plan ...
The first global vaccination
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Was distributed by 22 orphans. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choice...
Okay, Google: unionize!
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A very big tech company now has a very small union. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary explains why highly p...
The people behind the insurrection
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has been impeached for inciting an insurrection on the Capitol one week ago. CNN’s...
A step past impeachment
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Impeachment won’t stop the United States’ slide towards authoritarianism. Voter reform might. Tr...
Deplatforming Donald
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First he lost his Facebook. Then he lost his Twitter. As of today, President Trump had been limited ...
The flamethrowers and the fire extinguishers
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Infighting among Republican lawmakers reached a breaking point this week. The Atlantic’s McKay Cop...
How security at the Capitol failed
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Washington Post national security reporter Dan Lamothe explains how a number of agencies and politic...
The breach, explained by Rep. Maloney (locked in her office)
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York explains what it was like to live through today’s violent transfe...
The virus gets more contagious
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Viruses mutate, but this time it’s different. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more abo...
All eyes on Georgia
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday’s election will decide who controls the Senate, but the president is still hung up on the ...
The year in revue
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a year. It’s been a year And after all the news We’re still not in the clear It’s ...
How 2020 changed us
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our five-part series, “You, Me, and Covid-19,” people look back on a ver...
Animals catch Covid-19, too
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth of our five-part series, “You, Me, and Covid-19,” a reminder that we’re not the ...
Dr. Fauci’s nightmare before Christmas
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third of our five-part series, “You, Me, and Covid-19,” Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects back o...
The year live music died
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our five-part series, “You, Me, and Covid-19,” musicians explain how they got...
Moving home
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of our five-part series, “You, Me, and Covid-19,” millennials are moving back in wi...
A climate change of address
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An estimated 143 million people will relocate to escape climate change in the next three decades. Qu...
How Netscape created our tech world
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Go for Broke podcast, host Julia Furlan travels back to the mid-’90s to exp...
Pornhub just deleted 80% of its videos
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most popular porn sites on the internet just purged more than 10 million videos. Vice’s...
Your vaccine questions, answered
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Covid-19 vaccine is being distributed in the United States, and you have questions. Vox’s Umai...
India’s farmers strike
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s biggest democracy is contending with what might be the world’s biggest labor stoppag...
How movie theaters might survive
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Decoder podcast, host Nilay Patel speaks with Shelli Taylor, the CEO of Alamo...
The vaccine, explained by Martin (who got it)
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kenyon was one of the first people to get the Covid-19 vaccine this week. He talks about his ...
No coup for you!
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe won. And won. And won. Rudy can fail. And fail. And fail. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. ...
How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melbourne, Australia, had a first wave. Then it had a second wave. Then it decided it was done with ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like stimulus
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In an end-of-year plot twist, Congress is working on a fresh bipartisan stimulus bill. Transcript at...
A woman’s work is never done
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of women left the workforce as Covid-19 forced school closures, but that doesn’t mean the...
God-given right?
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court ruled that New York state can’t limit how many people gather in church, even dur...
America Offline
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Low-income students are dropping out of college because many don’t have a reliable way to get onli...
The key to the Cabinet
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Biden has started announcing his Cabinet nominees, but Matthew Yglesias says the mos...
What if developing a vaccine was the easy part?
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 vaccines are coming out faster than many thought possible. But distributing the vaccines co...
Unexplainable
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists all over the world are searching for dark matter: an invisible, untouchable substance tha...
Withdrawing won’t end the war
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With two months left in the Trump presidency, the US is reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan...
All the mall things
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Retail was struggling. Then came the virus. Recode’s Jason Del Rey explains how the American mall ...
The peacemaker’s civil war
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An ethnic conflict in Ethiopia has thrown the Horn of Africa into disarray and could upset order on ...
Badlands
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 is surging across the United States, just in time for cold weather and major holidays. Nort...
America said yes to drugs
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Oregon decriminalized all drugs. Red states and blue states are doing the same with weed. It’s the...
MAGAlomaniac
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A weekend of protests, violence, and enmity in DC revealed what Donald Trump has planned post-presid...
(Home)school is cool
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 is surging (again). Schools are closing (again). Kids are learning online (again). And more...
They fought the Lyft and the Lyft won
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
California tried to strengthen labor rights for gig workers. Uber, Lyft, and their food-delivering c...
Fox & Frenemies
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a fraught Election Week, cable news is finally cutting away from President Trump’s falsehood...
No concession!
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 45th president of the United States has thus far refused to acknowledge the 46th. Political scie...
Biden’s coronavirus plan
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And some big vaccine news, too. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choic...
Joe Biden wins
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
-And Kamala Harris, too. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
What happened to Congress?
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Ella Nilsen explains why Democrats are waving goodbye to the blue wave. Transcript at vox.co...
President Biden?
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains the latest election math, and Ezra Klein argues that, despite record-...
Today (should be a holiday), Explained
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Election Day, voter turnout is projected to break records in the United States, but it won’t ...
What to expect when you’re electing
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains how Joe Biden — or President Trump — could win 270 electoral vote...
The Trump Years: State of our union
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our five-part series, New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister and Vox’s Ezr...
The Trump Years: Health of the nation
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth of our five-part series, Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how a president with no plan on ...
The Voters
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Election turnout is on track to be the highest in a century. Farmers, essential workers, prisoners, ...
The Supreme Court may disenfranchise you now
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for mailed ball...
#EndSARS
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Akwagyiram, bureau chief for Reuters in Nigeria, explains how a protest to reform the country...
The Trump Years: Win at all costs
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third of our five-part series, Vox’s Andrew Prokop says there’s one key takeaway from the...
“Hey Google,” the United States is suing you
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Barr and Elizabeth Warren have found a common enemy. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Lear...
Will Covid-19 cancel the holidays?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last Christmas, I gave you my health. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad...
Block the vote?
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 election is well underway, as are efforts to prevent people from voting. Transcript at vox....
The parody-proof president
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Live from New York, impressions are trite! Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff explains why late-n...
The Trump Years: America First
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our five-part series, Vox’s Nicole Narea and Jenn Williams explain how President ...
Do you believe in magic?
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Los Angeles magician struck gold with a glorified Zoom meeting. Some are asking if he’s figured ...