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Today, Explained

Today, Explained is Vox's daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will gui

Episodes

Total: 1873

California has the strictest gun laws in the country, but they didn't prevent last week’s mass shoot

The citizenship question

2018/11/14

The Trump administration would very much like to know if you’re a citizen come the 2020 census. NPR’

South Carolina used to be one of the most dangerous places in America to have a baby. But now, it’s

Total Recount

2018/11/12

Almost a week after the midterm elections, several key races remain undecided and recounts are comin

The journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has put the spotlight on an unlikely place: Yemen. Learn mor

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out. His replacement has criticized the Mueller probe. Is the inve

What now?

2018/11/7

The results are in! Vox’s Libby Nelson provides a rundown. Matthew Yglesias predicts the future. Lea

Why is voting optional?

2018/11/6

For answers, we head to Australia where it isn't. Turnout surpasses 90% and elections are celebrated

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the midterm elections are tomorrow. A pair of Vox’s congres

Hacking our elections is so easy, a 7-year-old can do it. (Really.) How we got here and why the best

What if the government just gave everyone money? No strings attached. Crazier things have happened.

Colorado's Proposition 112 is dividing the state. The ballot measure could severely limit oil and ga

THE CARAVAN IS COMING! DISEASE! MUSLIMS! DANGER! LOCK THE BORDER! Or maybe just listen to this episo

Tree of Life

2018/10/29

A mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue has confirmed what many believed to be true: Anti-Semitism

The Purge

2018/10/26

More than 50,000 voters in Georgia have found themselves on a “pending list.” One candidate for gove

Bombs in the mail

2018/10/25

America’s favorite Democrats are getting pipe bombs in the mail. Who even mails bombs anymore? Learn

The Trump administration announced it’s throwing out a decades-old arms treaty with Russia. Arms con

A leaked Health and Human Services memo has left transgender Americans feeling like the Trump admini

A ballot initiative on November 6 might re-enfranchise over a million Floridians. Demetrius Jifunza

Metabolism is one of the greatest mysteries of the human body. Vox’s Julia Belluz spends a day in a