Boeing 737 Max
14 Mar 2019
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on Sunday killing all 157 aboard. The response was unprecedent...
Becky with the bad grades
13 Mar 2019
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Remember Aunt Becky from Full House? She might be heading to the big house. Fifty grown-ups, includi...
For all eyes only
12 Mar 2019
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Can't pass an FBI background check? Not a problem. That's the Trump administration's approach to top...
Sailing a boat on an alien sea
11 Mar 2019
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SpaceX and Blue Origin have been driving much of the excitement around space travel for the past sev...
Trump's money man
08 Mar 2019
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Michael Cohen mentioned one name multiple times during his Congressional testimony: accountant Allen...
The Title X factor
07 Mar 2019
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The Trump administration got a lot closer to defunding Planned Parenthood this week — 21 states ar...
Uh-oh, Trudeau!
06 Mar 2019
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Canada’s prime minister is accused of pressuring his attorney general to go easy on a wealthy corp...
Outbreak
05 Mar 2019
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The United States officially eliminated measles in 2000. But the deadly disease is making a comeback...
Michael Jackson, allegedly
04 Mar 2019
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Two men accuse Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children in a new HBO documentary. Sean R...
Friends without benefits
01 Mar 2019
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Facebook moderators watch suicides, decapitations, and drone attacks so you don’t have to—and th...
Terrorism, airstrikes, tea
28 Feb 2019
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The long-simmering feud between nuclear powers India and Pakistan is boiling over. Ankit Panda from ...
Michael Cohen LIVE
27 Feb 2019
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After weeks of delays and drama, President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testif...
Your money is under arrest
26 Feb 2019
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Police can seize your property without ever charging you with a crime. And you probably won’t get ...
Aiding chaos
25 Feb 2019
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Venezuela's whole “two presidents” thing has turned lethal. Emiliana Duarte spent the weekend at...
Jussie Smollett's worst enemy
22 Feb 2019
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Jussie Smollett was the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime last month. Or at least that’s w...
Train takes a bullet
21 Feb 2019
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Californians were promised high-speed rail. Eleven years and billions of dollars later, all they hav...
HQ2-1
20 Feb 2019
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Amazon decided on two headquarters: one in New York and the other in Arlington, Virginia. One deal f...
A little privacy, please
19 Feb 2019
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The Verge's Casey Newton says a California privacy law to protect your online data might finally pus...
2020 vision
18 Feb 2019
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Nearly a dozen candidates have announced their run for the presidency and 2019 has only just begun. ...
Emergency podcast!
15 Feb 2019
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President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency today. It’s the latest installment i...
The 400% interest rate
14 Feb 2019
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Remember the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? It’s not doing so well. Enforcement is down by ...
Race runs through it
13 Feb 2019
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Virginia: birthplace of American democracy and American slavery, first state to elect a black govern...
Killing Sears
12 Feb 2019
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Sears was on its way to the graveyard of American icons when its former CEO, a reclusive billionaire...
Virginia is for scandals
11 Feb 2019
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First it was blackface. And maybe the KKK? Then there was an accusation of sexual assault. Then more...
Alexa, disable camera
08 Feb 2019
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Jeff Bezos. Donald Trump. The Washington Post. The National Enquirer. This dick pic is not like the ...
Inauguration investigation
07 Feb 2019
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President Trump’s inaugural committee this week received a sweeping subpoena. Federal prosecutors ...
Pushing opioids over lunch
06 Feb 2019
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Let's do lunch! And talk Oxy! A new study suggests a correlation between aggressive marketing and op...
The State of the World
05 Feb 2019
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President Trump delivers his second State of the Union tonight, but how’s the world doing? Believe...
The Shadow Rulers
04 Feb 2019
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Big changes are afoot at the second-biggest federal agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs. ProP...
Written in blood
01 Feb 2019
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For 31 years, Joe Bryan has been in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. He was convicted...
They're calling it a revolution
31 Jan 2019
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Historic protests threaten to topple Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. Reporter Reem Abbas speaks t...
All your data for $20
30 Jan 2019
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Facebook has been paying 13- to 35-year-olds $20 in exchange for access to their phones and Apple is...
Peace with the Taliban
29 Jan 2019
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The US and the Taliban are working out a deal to end America’s longest war. Afghanistan is nervous...
Grounding the shutdown
28 Jan 2019
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Air traffic controllers aren’t allowed to strike, but they may have found another way to end the g...
The Man with the Nixon Tattoo
25 Jan 2019
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It’s been quite a day for Roger Stone. Arrested before dawn. Released on $250,000 bond. Called Ale...
Venezuela's two presidents
24 Jan 2019
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In one corner, there’s Nicolás Maduro, the incumbent presiding over a failing economy. In the oth...
Ebola is back
23 Jan 2019
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The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history is spreading toward a major city. Vox’s Julia Belluz ...
SHUTDATE UPDOWN
22 Jan 2019
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President Donald Trump would very much like a deal to end his shutdown. The Republican-controlled Se...
28 Days Later
18 Jan 2019
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The partial government shutdown is now officially a record-breaking, trip-cancelling, State of the U...
When your power company is a felon
17 Jan 2019
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What if your utility were a felon filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy? You would be one of 16 million i...
The Roberts Court
16 Jan 2019
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The Supreme Court is back in session and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick says Chief Justice John Roberts i...
The $600 EpiPen
15 Jan 2019
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If there’s one thing pretty much everyone in the government can agree on, it’s this: prescriptio...
Chapo Big House
14 Jan 2019
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Brooklyn really does have everything: a basketball team, a laundromat-pinball bar, and now the drug ...
The shutdown gets very, very real
11 Jan 2019
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Come midnight, the government shutdown will be the longest in US history. Vox’s Li Zhou runs throu...
What can the president do during a national emergency?
10 Jan 2019
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This morning, the president doubled down on his threat to declare a national emergency to build a bo...
Let's talk about tax, baby. Let's talk about AOC.
09 Jan 2019
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Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has floated a marginal tax rate of 70% for top earners in Am...
The troop withdrawal withdrawal
08 Jan 2019
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National security advisor John Bolton traveled to Turkey to meet with President Erdogan, who cancell...
The nine lives of Obamacare
07 Jan 2019
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Obamacare’s back in the crosshairs. Vox’s Sarah Kliff breaks down a lawsuit that’s pitting sta...
You should not throw away your shot
04 Jan 2019
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Around 80,000 people died of the flu last season. Despite that, Sean doesn’t want to get the flu s...
Who is Paul Whelan and why does Russia think he’s a spy?
03 Jan 2019
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Paul Whelan went to Moscow for a wedding. The Russians arrested him, and today charged him with espi...
Shutdown
02 Jan 2019
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It’s Day 12 of the government shutdown. Vox’s Li Zhou explains what that means for the country a...
Let's Explain "Today, Explained"
01 Jan 2019
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If you like this trailer, then you're going to love this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
All my friends are robocalls (replay)
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why even answer the phone anymore? All your questions about all those pesky automated phone calls ar...
The Stanford Prison Correction (replay)
27 Dec 2018
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In 1971, a professor locked a bunch of young men in a basement to understand evil. The results were ...
Black Panther is (still) the most important movie of 2018
26 Dec 2018
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We called it! Sean Rameswaram attends a "Black Panther"-themed engagement party and speaks to Evan N...
"A horrible miscarriage of justice"
21 Dec 2018
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A Florida millionaire created a system to rape or abuse at least 80 young girls for years. The curre...
The most powerful woman in the world
20 Dec 2018
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is officially planning her exit from politics. The Guardian’s Kate...
Take a penny, take a penny (replay)
19 Dec 2018
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The Trump Foundation is shutting down. The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold shares a series of ...
The World in 2018
18 Dec 2018
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The North Korea summit. Brexit chaos. The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The hosts of Vox's World...
Tumblr's war on sex
17 Dec 2018
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Tumblr is removing adult content from its platform today. Vox’s Aja Romano says it's about much mo...
This episode is unrated
14 Dec 2018
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"The House That Jack Built" opens in select theaters across the country today, but it’s not the ve...
Paul Ryan vs. himself
13 Dec 2018
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After 20 years, Speaker Paul Ryan is set to leave the House of Representatives in early January. Ezr...
Fraud, actually
12 Dec 2018
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One man in North Carolina may have swung an election by defrauding voters. But North Carolina is int...
The Replacements
11 Dec 2018
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President Trump is looking to fill some key positions. One pick is a former attorney general, anothe...
"Totally clears the President. Thank you!"
10 Dec 2018
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Except it doesn't. Vox's Andrew Prokop explains why the latest pieces of Robert Mueller's puzzle are...
Wait, why did Canada arrest a Chinese CFO?
07 Dec 2018
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Canada arrested a Chinese executive at the request of the United States this week. It may set off a ...
Don Jr.
06 Dec 2018
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There used to be one Trump Tower controversy. Now there are two. Donald Trump Jr. is in the middle o...
Power, stripped
05 Dec 2018
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Wisconsin Republicans are scrambling to pass last-minute measures that would strip the incoming Demo...
Is it time to delete Facebook?
04 Dec 2018
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The Verge’s Casey Newton explains the pros and cons of staying on Facebook after the latest scanda...
One-term wonder
03 Dec 2018
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George H. W. Bush went from a record-breaking 89 percent approval rating after the Gulf War to losin...
Humans 2.0
30 Nov 2018
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A Chinese scientist says he has genetically engineered two human babies, with another on the way. Is...
Madam Speaker
29 Nov 2018
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Nancy Pelosi is now officially the nominee for Speaker of the House. Time's Molly Ball explains who'...
Mandatory minimums
28 Nov 2018
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President Trump and both parties actually agree on something: mandatory minimum sentences are too ha...
Battleship: Russia vs. Ukraine
27 Nov 2018
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Russia rammed one of its ships into a Ukrainian tug boat, further straining an already strung-out re...
From bad to worse at the border
26 Nov 2018
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U.S. Border Patrol tear-gassed asylum seekers who rushed the border yesterday. Maya Averbuch was the...
When dogs fly
21 Nov 2018
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Airlines are getting tough on emotional support animals. Some people think they're a scam. Science i...
Those weird Cuban attacks
20 Nov 2018
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The Trump administration is punishing Cuba in response to mysterious attacks on U.S. diplomats in Ha...
Still burning
19 Nov 2018
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The Camp Fire is the most destructive fire in California history, surpassing a record set just a few...
Do it for the gram
16 Nov 2018
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Massive news: Scientists in France voted to officially redefine the kilogram today. They’ve been w...
The simplest way to fix our gun laws
15 Nov 2018
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California has the strictest gun laws in the country, but they didn't prevent last week’s mass sho...
The citizenship question
14 Nov 2018
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The Trump administration would very much like to know if you’re a citizen come the 2020 census. NP...
Sit in a circle. Save your baby’s life.
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
South Carolina used to be one of the most dangerous places in America to have a baby. But now, it’...
Total Recount
12 Nov 2018
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Almost a week after the midterm elections, several key races remain undecided and recounts are comin...
Could one man’s death change the conflict in Yemen?
09 Nov 2018
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The journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has put the spotlight on an unlikely place: Yemen. Learn m...
thank u, next (Attorney General remix)
08 Nov 2018
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out. His replacement has criticized the Mueller probe. Is the inve...
What now?
07 Nov 2018
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The results are in! Vox’s Libby Nelson provides a rundown. Matthew Yglesias predicts the future. L...
Why is voting optional?
06 Nov 2018
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For answers, we head to Australia where it isn't. Turnout surpasses 90% and elections are celebrated...
Everything you need to know about tomorrow’s midterms
05 Nov 2018
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In case you’ve been living under a rock, the midterm elections are tomorrow. A pair of Vox’s con...
Can I hack it? (Yes, you can.)
02 Nov 2018
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Hacking our elections is so easy, a 7-year-old can do it. (Really.) How we got here and why the best...
$$ FREE MONEY FREE MONEY $$
01 Nov 2018
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What if the government just gave everyone money? No strings attached. Crazier things have happened. ...
What the frack is up with Colorado
31 Oct 2018
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Colorado's Proposition 112 is dividing the state. The ballot measure could severely limit oil and ga...
One week to midterms, 5000 troops to border
30 Oct 2018
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THE CARAVAN IS COMING! DISEASE! MUSLIMS! DANGER! LOCK THE BORDER! Or maybe just listen to this episo...
Tree of Life
29 Oct 2018
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A mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue has confirmed what many believed to be true: Anti-Semitism...
The Purge
26 Oct 2018
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More than 50,000 voters in Georgia have found themselves on a “pending list.” One candidate for ...
Bombs in the mail
25 Oct 2018
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America’s favorite Democrats are getting pipe bombs in the mail. Who even mails bombs anymore? Lea...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Kill the Treaty
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration announced it’s throwing out a decades-old arms treaty with Russia. Arms c...
What the transgender memo means
23 Oct 2018
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A leaked Health and Human Services memo has left transgender Americans feeling like the Trump admini...
We're gonna need a bigger vote
22 Oct 2018
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A ballot initiative on November 6 might re-enfranchise over a million Floridians. Demetrius Jifunza ...
FW: FW: FW: SECRETS TO BOOST YOUR METABOLISM
19 Oct 2018
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Metabolism is one of the greatest mysteries of the human body. Vox’s Julia Belluz spends a day in ...
Consequences
18 Oct 2018
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It is now almost certain that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered at the hands of the S...