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The bonkers housing market
3 mei 2021 · 26 min
Is it a bubble? Is it going to pop? Do you need to bid over asking? Has it already sold? Are there any houses left? Will you ever find one? Vox’s Jerusalem Demsas explains.
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The enduring mystery of long Covid
30 april 2021 · 26 min
An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symptoms. Vox’s Julia Belluz joins the Unexplainable podcast to sort out what’s known and what remains mysterious about long Covid.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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We scored Biden's first 100 days
29 april 2021 · 28 min
Biden’s biographer, Evan Osnos, explains why the president is a weather vane for the Democratic Party.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Apple vs. Facebook (feat. Privacy)
28 april 2021 · 22 min
Apple updated its software and Facebook was very upset. Recode’s Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka explain. Roller derby is involved.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Biden vs. Putin (feat. Navalny)
28 april 2021 · 29 min
President Biden is cranking the pressure on President Putin, but it was Russian dissident Alexei Navalny who scored a victory by refusing his prison food.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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India’s SOS to the world
27 april 2021 · 25 min
The world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer ended up with the world’s worst Covid-19 surge. Neha Arora, New Delhi correspondent for Reuters, explains.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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A plan to protect the planet
24 april 2021 · 31 min
Or at least 30 percent of it.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Is nuclear energy good or bad?
23 april 2021 · 35 min
Listen to the Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer explain the arguments and then decide for yourself.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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It’s electric!
22 april 2021 · 29 min
Norway has lapped the world in adopting electric vehicles. Vox’s Umair Irfan explains how the US might catch up.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The case for climate optimism
21 april 2021 · 29 min
In 2019, David Wallace-Wells wrote a book called The Uninhabitable Earth. Just two years later, he’s feeling hopeful — thanks to the world’s biggest polluters.
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Peanut butter and jellyfish
20 april 2021 · 28 min
And other items from the lunch menu of 2050.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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America awaits a verdict
17 april 2021 · 28 min
Arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin have wrapped after a brutal week for policing in America. Minnesota Public Radio’s Jon Collins shares his reporting from Minneapolis.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The Echo Park eviction
16 april 2021 · 30 min
The recent police crackdown on a tent camp in Los Angeles has left the city divided. One thing everyone agrees on is the dire need for lasting solutions to the growing homelessness crisis in the United States.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Gaetzgate
14 april 2021 · 28 min
Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz’s sex scandal.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Johnson & Johnson & Problems
13 april 2021 · 26 min
The US government is calling for an immediate pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations after six recipients (out of millions) developed blood clots. ProPublica’s Caroline Chen explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Vaccine passport, please
13 april 2021 · 23 min
Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil explains how proving you got the shot became controversial. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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CICADAPOCALYPSE 2021
10 april 2021 · 27 min
Or maybe, after listening to this episode, it’ll be more like CICADAPALOOZA!
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Taylor Swift rewrites her story
9 april 2021 · 28 min
One of the biggest pop stars in the world is rerecording her first six albums at the artistic peak of her career. The Atlantic’s Shirley Li explains Swift’s gambit to reclaim her catalog.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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KKK High
7 april 2021 · 30 min
A group of students in Topeka, Kansas, discovered their high school was named after an exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Then they tried to change it.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Hot Senate procedural news
7 april 2021 · 19 min
On Monday night, the Senate parliamentarian gave Democrats an unprecedented blessing. Vox’s Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou explain what they might do with it.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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MLB to Georgia: You’re out!
6 april 2021 · 28 min
Major League Baseball, Delta, and Coke are calling out Georgia for its new voting reforms, but some of these corporations were involved in crafting the legislation. WABE’s Emma Hurt explains.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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“My friend” has a question about the vaccine
2 april 2021 · 29 min
We asked if you still had vaccine questions, and you did. We found answers. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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High crimes
2 april 2021 · 28 min
New York is the latest state to legalize recreational marijuana, but President Joe Biden won’t budge. This means that it’s possible to become a billionaire or a convicted felon for selling weed in the US.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan
1 april 2021 · 23 min
It’s infrastructure week in America. President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to spend trillions on bridges, roads, housing, and clean energy to prove it. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Making tennis a misdemeanor
30 maart 2021 · 32 min
More than half of US states are working to ban, or even criminalize, trans athletes playing sports. Vox contributor Katelyn Burns explains how conservative politicians came to care so much about women’s sports.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Ship happens
30 maart 2021 · 23 min
After six days, a very big boat is finally afloat. While stuck, it brought international trade through the Suez Canal to a halt and cost companies billions of dollars.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The original anti-vaxxer
26 maart 2021 · 41 min
When a Swedish American pastor refused to get a smallpox vaccine in 1902, he ended up in the United States Supreme Court. The Atlantic’s new podcast The Experiment tells the story of Pastor Henning Jacobson.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The end of minty cigarettes?
26 maart 2021 · 29 min
With Democrats in charge, there is a lot of talk about big ideas for the country, including … banning menthol cigarettes? Politico’s Sarah Owermohle explains why Black lawmakers are split over whether a ban would help or hurt Black communities.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Would NOT demanding gun control be more effective?
24 maart 2021 · 26 min
The Trace’s Jennifer Mascia explains why two gun reform bills the House recently passed are likely to fail in the Senate. Patrick Blanchfield from the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research argues the American gun control debate is a big part of the problem.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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WTF is an NFT?
23 maart 2021 · 24 min
On Monday, a tweet sold for $2.9 million. That followed a JPEG that went for $69 million. The Verge’s Liz Lopatto explains how internet ephemera turned to gold.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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AnchoRage
22 maart 2021 · 25 min
The United States and China met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday to air grievances, and the cameras were rolling. Vox’s Alex Ward explains how the meeting set the stage for one of the world’s biggest rivalries.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Why America needs a national pandemic memorial
19 maart 2021 · 23 min
People want to move on from Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean forgetting its victims. Historian Paul Farber and Vox reporter Alissa Wilkinson explain why a memorial could help us all heal and find accountability.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Racism, misogyny, and the shootings in Georgia
19 maart 2021 · 23 min
Eight people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area spas. Most of the victims were women. Six were Asian American. Georgia state Sen. Michelle Au explains how her community is coping, and author Kate Manne explores the intersection of racism and misogyny. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Why are more children crossing the border?
17 maart 2021 · 22 min
A growing number of unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border is highlighting President Biden’s struggle to fulfill his campaign promises on immigration — as well as the difficult path to comprehensive immigration reform.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Who gets to vote?
16 maart 2021 · 25 min
It’s a question the US has struggled with since its founding.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Vaccines4Kids
15 maart 2021 · 27 min
President Biden says all adults will be eligible for a vaccine by May 1. But for the world to truly return to normal, young people will need shots, too. ProPublica’s Caroline Chen explains how, and when, that might happen.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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No one nose
12 maart 2021 · 29 min
Believe it or not, scientists still don’t know how the sense of smell works. But that isn’t stopping one guy at MIT from trying to reverse-engineer it. Sounds like a job for Vox’s new podcast, Unexplainable.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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It’s been a year
11 maart 2021 · 21 min
The year in revue.
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Biden’s Big F***ing Deal
10 maart 2021 · 23 min
President Biden’s American Rescue Plan has been approved by Congress. It’s a revolution in American welfare disguised as stimulus.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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You’re vaccinated. Now what?
10 maart 2021 · 27 min
New guidelines from the CDC for fully vaccinated people suggest it’s finally time to hug your grandparents. Dr. Kavita Patel explains the do’s and don’ts as we inch back towards “normal” life.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Alabama shakes up Amazon
8 maart 2021 · 29 min
Darryl Richardson, a worker at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, explains why he helped initiate a unionization effort that now has President Biden’s support. Recode’s Jason Del Rey explains how the Bessemer vote could be a game changer for American labor.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The Bachelor meets reality
6 maart 2021 · 33 min
Beset by controversy, The Bachelor’s latest season is winding down with an identity crisis. It’s a rare case of reality TV reflecting our cultural reality.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The surge of anti-Asian violence
5 maart 2021 · 28 min
The United States is stumbling through two racial reckonings at once. Author Jeff Chang says it’s an inflection point centuries in the making.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Manchin in the middle
4 maart 2021 · 26 min
Joe Biden won the presidency, but it’s Joe Manchin from West Virginia who seems to be the decider. The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Joe Severino shadowed Senator Joe in the spotlight. Mountain State Spotlight’s Greg Moore explains why this is West Virginia’s moment.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The $15 dream
2 maart 2021 · 24 min
Washington’s hottest policy fight is over raising the minimum wage to $15. Emily Stewart explains the Democrats’ effort to get it through Congress, and Dylan Matthews explains whether it will cost the country jobs.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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How acid trips led to better policing
1 maart 2021 · 32 min
Thirty years ago, Eugene, Oregon, figured out an alternative to the police. They called it CAHOOTS. Seriously.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Canceling Keystone XL
27 februari 2021 · 28 min
President Biden finally wants to put the Keystone XL pipeline to bed. But if the last 12 years of environmental fights are any indication, it won’t be easy.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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The case for Covid-19 optimism
26 februari 2021 · 24 min
Vox’s German Lopez explains why he feels optimistic about the end of the pandemic even though 500,000 Americans have died, the virus is mutating, and it’s going to take a long time to vaccinate the world.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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A tale of two governors
25 februari 2021 · 32 min
Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom were hailed for their leadership early on in the pandemic. Now, the former is mired in scandal and the latter is facing a recall campaign.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Stimu-less
23 februari 2021 · 28 min
What’s taking so long? What’s happening with those $1,400 checks? Are the Democrats betraying the people who voted for them? Vox’s Li Zhou and Andrew Prokop explain.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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