Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
We've updated our privacy policy
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You know those privacy policy emails flooding your inbox lately? Turns out those are thanks to the E...
The poorest rich country in the world
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Venezuela has been crippled by poverty, starvation, five-figure inflation, and on Sunday, an electio...
We'll never have Singapore
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump cancelled his historic Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un today. ...
Kneecapped
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today the National Football League released a statement saying players will be fined if they kneel d...
Arbitration Nation
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court may have taken away your ability to file a class action lawsuit against your emplo...
Ireland's great divide
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This Friday, Ireland holds a historic vote that could overturn one of the strictest abortion policie...
A cynic's guide to the royal wedding
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you might have heard that there’s a royal wedding happen...
Go ahead. Legalize it.
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States fundamentally changed... sports. It struck down a ...
Hawaii versus the volcano
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Explosions are ramping up on Hawaii’s Big Island this week, as the Kilauea volcano continues to sp...
What you need to know about Gaza
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sixty Palestinians were killed at the Israel-Gaza border yesterday, the day the U.S. moved its embas...
Jordan Peterson explains himself
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Peterson has gone from being an obscure Canadian academic to a kind of political rock star fo...
#MeToo's big betrayal
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned Monday after four women accused him of physical...
Dial C for Cohen
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stormy D, AT&T, and nine Fabergé eggs. The investigation into the president’s personal lawyer kee...
No deal!
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Everyone else...
"We tortured some folks"
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow is the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead...
This is America
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The NRA announced a new president today: Fox News contributor and Iran-Contra alum Oliver North. The...
The $5,751 ice pack
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where a Band-Aid costs $629. Bad news: you live in that world. Vox’s Sarah Kliff e...
Too Juul for school
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to 13 companies that appear t...
Nowhere to go
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Forty-nine Central Americans seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border were granted entry today. They...
Golden State Killer opens Pandora's box
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After 40 years, police say they have finally caught the Golden State Killer, a man responsible for a...
There's something about Sean
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Hannity is curiously close to President Donald Trump — so close that some say he may as well ...
Just call us "Korea"
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in history, the leader of North Korea took a trip to South Korea today. Kim Jong ...
Oh, SNAP!
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Next up on the chopping block? Food stamps or SNAP as it’s now known. A new farm bill, fresh out o...
Don't drink the water
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Four years ago today, Flint, Michigan switched water supplies to save a few million dollars. To date...
SEE YOU IN COURT
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court wraps up its term with a bang tomorrow: Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban case. The ...
Too little, too latte?
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On May 29th, Starbucks will shut 8,000 locations and lose millions of dollars to provide racial bias...
Yes we cannabis
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana federally. Bu...
"I don't get confused"
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Haley has had a rough week. On Sunday, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations announced san...
Congress just broke the Internet
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump signed FOSTA into law a week ago today. The “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” look...
The $43,000 phone booth
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is facing a host of new sca...
Why did the U.S. just bomb Syria?
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump and United States allies bombed chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Friday. The ...
Mile-high mutiny
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When its corporate owner introduced new budget cuts and layoffs, journalists at The Denver Post deci...
He said, she said, she said, she said....
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Day 4 of Bill Cosby’s retrial. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but this time things...
The raid
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump today called the raid on the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen “unthinka...
What's my wage again?
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today is Equal Pay Day. Vox’s Sarah Kliff reveals the real reason why working women earn about 82%...
1, 2, 3, 4... I declare a trade war
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump said he would “always be friends” with China’s leader, but the two countries h...
It’s never too late to understand the war in Syria
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump announced this week he wants to withdraw US troops from Syria over the next six mont...
They're not gonna take it
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The West Virginia teacher strike has ended, but walkouts are just getting started in Kentucky and Ok...
20 shots and a cell phone
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
289. That’s the number of people who have been shot and killed by police in 2018 alone. One of the...
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Himself
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seldom gives interviews, but in the wake of the massive Cambridge Analy...
Gerrymandering 101
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is currently deliberating two cases that could reshape the entire country’s poli...
Quitting the Border Patrol
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mexican-American Francisco Cantú never expected to become a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. But for nearl...
Chief Wahoo Strikes Out
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Opening Day — peanuts, cracker jack, and for some, racism. Sundance, a Native American acti...
The New Abortion Wars
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kentucky just joined a wave of states attempting to severely limit when a woman can terminate her pr...
Bolton's Back
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump announced John Bolton will be his new National Security Advisor just as the White Ho...
The Survivors
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dantrell Blake traveled from Chicago to Washington, D.C., to join hundreds of thousands for the Marc...
Flagrant Foul
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI is investigating over twenty colleges for paying athletes under the table, reigniting the ag...
Me Too, Mr. Trump
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A judge gave the green light this week for a woman to sue President Trump for defamation. Summer Zer...
Cambridge Analytica
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted the social media giant “made mistakes” in the Cambri...
It's Been Six Months
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today is the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural disasters in America...
One Man vs. InfoWars
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The white nationalist rally in Charlottesville sparked outrage when a driver barreled through the cr...
Lady and the Trump
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A president. A porn star. A lawyer with a $130,000 payoff. The allegation is Donald Trump had an aff...
The Colder War
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new Cold War being fought in the North Pole between the United States and Russia (but al...
Default in Our Loans
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told states to back off regulating the nine private companies that l...
Rexit
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter. That’s how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found out he was fired today. The news came o...
The United States vs. California
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump takes his first trip to California as president tomorrow. Making matters awkward, his a...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After months of name calling and test missiles, Donald Trump will be the first sitting United States...
The Disability Belt
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Out of the ten counties with the most adults on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), nine vo...
That'll Teach 'Em
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An historic walkout in West Virginia ended yesterday. Teachers managed to shut down every single pub...
What's the Deal with Steel?
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump announced that he's okay with a trade war late last week and he's got the tariff pro...
Inclusion Riders, Explained
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Quick bonus episode! Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Actress last night for her per...
President for Life
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
China's National People's Congress opened its annual two-week meeting today. The country’s parliam...
The Gun Problem No One Wants to Talk About
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was a week of whiplash in the national fight over gun control. First, major retailers like Dick’...
The Deep Fake
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new kind of algorithm that allows you to take a video of one person and map the face of ...
The Quiet War on Obamacare
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A coalition of 20 states filed a lawsuit claiming Obamacare is unconstitutional yesterday. Vox’s S...
Mueller 101
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, special counsel Robert Mueller dropped over 20 criminal counts against former Trump campaign ...
Give Us Your No One
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a request from the Trump administration to expedite a ...
This Time Could Be Different
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Something changed this week. Teenagers managed to break the deadlock over gun control. Marches, walk...
Countdown to Day Zero
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cape Town is just a few months away from being the first major city to shut off its taps in the hist...
Breaking the Ice with North Korea
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
North and South Korea are on opposite sides of a demilitarized zone, separated by barbed wire, tank ...
Black Panther Is the Most Important Movie of 2018
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Black Panther" is the biggest movie in the world, but what makes this comic book adaptation more im...
Six Easy Steps to Nuclear War
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today we launch our show, but it turns out it's a lot easier to launch a nuclear weapon. Vox's Alex ...