The Zizian "death cult"
06 Mar 2025
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Journalist Max Read explains how a bunch of Silicon Valley computer scientists spun into a cult accu...
Serving your country while trans
05 Mar 2025
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Sam Rodriguez is on active duty in the US Navy. They are also trans. Now, the Trump administration w...
Breaking up with Ukraine
04 Mar 2025
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Why the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a twisted appeal for Trump's core supporters. And w...
The Gulf of America?
03 Mar 2025
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What started as a liberal joke is now a MAGA reality. Just check your map app. But it’s not just G...
The messiest Oscars category
28 Feb 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig was (secretly) shot in Iran with Iranian actors and an Iranian director. ...
Is flying still safe?
27 Feb 2025
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Recent airplane crashes and near misses have everyone freaked out, just as DOGE is laying off worker...
Eggs aren't expensive enough
26 Feb 2025
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At least if we want to stop the next pandemic. Vox's Kenny Torrella explains. This episode was produ...
Quid pro bros
25 Feb 2025
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First, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump struck up an unlikely friendship. T...
Germany's rightward march
24 Feb 2025
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party won its best ever results this weekend. We hear wh...
Sugar daddies and mommies
21 Feb 2025
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Boomers are the wealthiest generation ever. And they're funneling trillions to their adult children ...
Vatever you vant, Vladimir
20 Feb 2025
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Kremlin defender Tulsi Gabbard is the US’s new spy chief, while the US and Russia are holding peac...
Breaking the internet
19 Feb 2025
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The Trump administration’s effort to purge government websites is accelerating digital decay. It’...
Mr. Project 2025
18 Feb 2025
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Russell Vought is the architect and legal scholar behind the Trump administration’s attempt to res...
Is science in danger?
17 Feb 2025
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Funding cuts and research censorship have shaken the foundations of America’s health and science a...
The making of a beauty king
14 Feb 2025
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Sephora revolutionized high-end beauty and turned tiny brands into household names. Now, comes the r...
Elon's African roots
13 Feb 2025
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President Trump is offering to resettle white South Africans in the US, and his white South African ...
Tater bot
12 Feb 2025
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The prices of all kinds of things have stayed stubbornly high even as inflation has cooled. And a sp...
DOGE-y behavior
11 Feb 2025
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Elon Musk promised to feed "USAID into the wood chipper." The way he's dismantling the agency provid...
Guantanamo’s other history
10 Feb 2025
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The Trump administration has begun detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay. For more than 40 years, the...
Super Bowl GNX
07 Feb 2025
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Kendrick Lamar is celebrating his latest album, GNX, on the biggest stage in American music. But eve...
Chaos in Congo
06 Feb 2025
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is at war. Again. Sixty-five years of mismanagement began with ...
Democrats, where you at?
05 Feb 2025
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NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) try to explain if the Democrats are, like,...
Tariffied
04 Feb 2025
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The first battles have now been fought in the new North American trade war. President Donald Trump c...
Rebuilding Los Angeles
03 Feb 2025
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LA Times reporter Liam Dillon assesses the damage now that the fires are fully contained. Torched ed...
Turkey with the good hair
31 Jan 2025
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Turkey has become the hair transplant capital of the world. And it's part of a global boom in medica...
DeepSeek deepdive
30 Jan 2025
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The emergence of DeepSeek — a Chinese AI model that was developed for a fraction of the cost of le...
How America went MAHA
29 Jan 2025
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RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means explains why so many Americans are suspicious of food and pharma compan...
Trump’s government purge
28 Jan 2025
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Trump is remaking the federal government in his name, says Vox’s Andrew Prokop. Efforts at a more ...
The Silk Road pardon
27 Jan 2025
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President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht and launched his own memecoin, signa...
From TikTok to 小红书
24 Jan 2025
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TikTok's uncertain future has driven a flood of users to a fully Chinese social media app full of op...
It’s not easy being Greenland
23 Jan 2025
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Donald Trump says he wants Greenland for America. Greenlandic government minister Naaja Nathanielsen...
Cafeteria wars
22 Jan 2025
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RFK Jr. is the latest in a long line of reformers who have tried to clean up school lunch. The histo...
Back in (executive) action
21 Jan 2025
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Trump kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions. Vox’s Andrew Prokop and Nicol...
47
20 Jan 2025
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The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser says Donald Trump’s second inauguration is very different from...
Generation Gentle Parent
17 Jan 2025
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Many millennials are pushing back against traditional parenting styles used by their boomer parents....
Zuck your feelings
16 Jan 2025
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Meta is going MAGA. New York magazine’s John Herrman explains Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover. Writer...
Life after Ozempic
15 Jan 2025
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Americans were told “diet and exercise” was the key to better health, but lifestyle changes were...
The politics of fire
14 Jan 2025
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Wildfires overtook Los Angeles, firefighters ran out of water, and the political finger-pointing beg...
The Good, the Bad, and the Biden
13 Jan 2025
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Biden’s lack of leadership and priorities means he will leave office without any real lasting poli...
Beige, don't kill my vibe
10 Jan 2025
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Two Amazon influencers are in a legal battle over whether or not one has appropriated the other’s ...
TikTok on the dock(et)
09 Jan 2025
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The TikTok ban lands at the Supreme Court on Friday. Turns out ByteDance is far from the only Chines...
Seoul searching
08 Jan 2025
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South Korean lawmakers impeached not only their martial-law-declaring president but also the guy who...
MAGA meltdown
07 Jan 2025
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MAGA is fighting over immigration. Vox’s Andrew Prokop tells us what happened, and the Wall Street...
"Happy Sixthmas"
06 Jan 2025
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January 6 is always a big day in the DC jail where many alleged insurrectionists are awaiting trial ...
Canadian bakin’
03 Jan 2025
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More Americans are now daily weed smokers than daily drinkers. To better understand this public heal...
Elon's company town
02 Jan 2025
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The world's richest man is developing a company town outside Austin, Texas. Like the industrialists ...
When Carter called out America
30 Dec 2024
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In 1979, Jimmy Carter delivered his “Crisis of Confidence” speech, a tirade against American ind...
Almost Heaven
27 Dec 2024
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The appeal of "Country Roads" extends far beyond West Virginia or even the United States. We're revi...
Our trillion-dollar credit card bill
26 Dec 2024
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Christmas is over and now comes the financial hangover. In an episode from earlier this year, guest ...
The case against legal sports betting
23 Dec 2024
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Sports betting is a costly mistake, says addiction researcher Charles Fain Lehman. He and NBA great ...
One year of Sphere
20 Dec 2024
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The Las Vegas Sphere was supposed to be the future of live entertainment. But just over a year into ...
The price of paying college athletes
19 Dec 2024
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Name and likeness rights are fundamentally changing college sports at a rapid pace. SB Nation’s JP...
Can Trump get a Gaza ceasefire?
18 Dec 2024
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He'd love to take credit for a deal, although Israel and Hamas are still deadlocked. But Amir Tibon ...
The right to die
17 Dec 2024
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A growing number of countries are legalizing assisted suicide, mostly for terminally ill patients. T...
Trump trolls the neighbours
16 Dec 2024
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President-elect Trump says he can see Justin Trudeau becoming governor of “the great state of Cana...
Trad wife takeover
13 Dec 2024
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Trad wives are having a moment. A new conservative women’s magazine promising to be the anti-Cosmo...
Will Syrians return home?
12 Dec 2024
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Syrian refugees are celebrating the end of the Assad regime. But for Omar Alshogre and millions like...
A win in the opioid crisis
11 Dec 2024
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The US saw a significant drop in the number of drug overdose deaths. The Trump administration has a ...
The UnitedHealth CEO shooting
10 Dec 2024
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Gothamist’s Brittany Kriegstein explains who police just arrested. STAT News’s Bob Herman explai...
Target misses the mark
09 Dec 2024
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As Target struggles to retain its customers, rivals like Walmart are making gains. The Wall Street J...
The truth about Y2K
06 Dec 2024
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Kyle Mooney dreams up a New Year’s Eve 1999 apocalypse. Historian Zachary Loeb explains why the re...
Reigniting Syria's civil war
05 Dec 2024
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A rebel group changed the course of Syria's long civil war when it seized Aleppo this past weekend. ...
Can DOGE cut $2 trillion?
04 Dec 2024
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Elon, Vivek, and the Department of Government Efficiency want to cut $2 trillion from the federal bu...
The Hunter becomes the pardoned
03 Dec 2024
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On Saturday, future President Donald Trump announced Kash Patel would lead the FBI. On Sunday, curre...
Wrestling with the Education Department
02 Dec 2024
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Trump has named wrestling tycoon Linda McMahon to be his secretary of education. She’ll be tasked ...
How Abercrombie made a comeback
29 Nov 2024
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Fast Company’s senior fashion writer Elizabeth Segran explains how the company overcame a problema...
Why volunteering is worth it
27 Nov 2024
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Many of us think our individual actions can’t combat systemic problems. Vox's Rachel Cohen and Bow...
Handing off a war
26 Nov 2024
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Two American presidents are trying to shape the future of the war in Ukraine at the same time. This ...
The Democrat who won in Trump country
25 Nov 2024
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US Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was one of the few Democrats to win a swing district in the 2024 ele...
Breaking up with your parents
22 Nov 2024
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Writer Emi Nietfeld says she felt relief when she cut her mom out of her life. Clinical psychologist...
Robert Fluoride Kennedy Jr.
21 Nov 2024
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If RFK Jr. leads the Department of Health and Human Services, he could radically reshape public heal...
The kids aren't reading all right
20 Nov 2024
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College students in 2024 are less willing and able to read full books. Today, Explained asks whether...
Deportation nation
19 Nov 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations. "Operation Wetback" from the Eisenhower...
Team America
18 Nov 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated some unconventional people to his Cabinet, including Fox ...
When docs cry
15 Nov 2024
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Prince is the subject of a new film from one of the greatest living documentarians, but it might nev...
There's a new tariff in town
14 Nov 2024
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Trump’s tariffs could remake world trade. The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip explains the preside...
The Bro Brogan presidency
13 Nov 2024
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An air of musky manliness settled over the 2024 presidential campaign and brought the bros to the po...
A live-forever diet?
12 Nov 2024
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The quest to live forever has taken us from diet fads to geographic fantasies like Blue Zones. But n...
Does #Resist still exist?
11 Nov 2024
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It looks like Donald Trump will arrive in Washington without much of a movement in place to challeng...
The world Trump inherits
08 Nov 2024
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Vox’s Joshua Keating explains how Trump’s foreign policy will influence some of the world’s bi...
Pin the fail on the donkey
07 Nov 2024
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Democrats lost big on Election Day: the presidency, the Senate, and maybe the House too. Vox's Eric ...
Trump country
06 Nov 2024
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Donald Trump won. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains how and Semafor’s Shelby Talcott explains what co...
The most important “most important election”?
05 Nov 2024
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It seems as though every election is “the most important election of our lifetime." Historian Jeff...
How Gaza could decide the election
04 Nov 2024
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The key battleground state of Michigan could be decided by Arab American voters disappointed with De...
Why everybody's running marathons now
01 Nov 2024
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Marathon participation is surging, fueled in large part by 20-somethings who’ve embraced distance ...
Did the Dodgers save baseball?
31 Oct 2024
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Dodger Blue Dream podcast host Richard Parks III looks back on a cinematic season. The Wall Street J...
Polar opposites
30 Oct 2024
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Florida is looking to turn one of its last apolitical offices into yet another partisan job. It's th...
How Trump could steal the election
29 Oct 2024
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Donald Trump doesn't want to let losing the election stop him from taking the White House. Politico'...
It's the economy, stupid
28 Oct 2024
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Economic concerns are shaping this year’s election, especially in Nevada. As candidates promise no...
Why do I keep getting these weird fundraising texts?
27 Oct 2024
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In this special feed drop of the new Vox podcast Explain It to Me, we answer some of the questions y...
Is there a Dr Pepper in the house?
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Pepper has overtaken Pepsi as the second-bestselling soda in the US. Its rise helps explain dirty...
Musk’s million dollar giveaway
24 Oct 2024
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Elon Musk has become Trump’s most important fundraiser and his hands-on approach is breaking polit...
Demographics aren't destiny
23 Oct 2024
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Latinos and other groups that typically vote for Democrats are showing weaker support for Kamala Har...
The battle for Congress
22 Oct 2024
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Republicans are projected to take the Senate in November, but Democrats have a fighting chance to wi...
Category 2024
21 Oct 2024
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WFAE’s Steve Harrison explains how North Carolina is readying itself for Election Day after Hurric...
Reconsidering the Menendez brothers
18 Oct 2024
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A new documentary and a Ryan Murphy drama have Lyle and Erik Menendez back in the news. Vox's Aja Ro...
Is Trump for real?
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump talked over the weekend about deploying the military against an "enemy from within." Th...
The minds behind MAGA
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Andrew Prokop and Zack Beauchamp explain the right-wing thinkers whose ideas could dominate Tr...
Can Democrats win back rural voters?
15 Oct 2024
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Wisconsin wasn’t always a battleground state, but following Trump’s victory there in 2016, Democ...
Pennies don’t make cents
11 Oct 2024
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Pennies cost more than a cent to make — and no one spends them. The New York Times Magazine’s Ca...