Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
One giant leap for SpaceX
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in almost a decade, an American rocket is launching people into space. The Verge’...
Today, Explained: Greatest Hits
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You asked. We answered. Sean and Noam break down all the original songs in Today, Explained's back c...
Blame WHO?
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump would like to. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choice...
The case for reopening parks
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reopening America’s parks could help fight the pandemic. It’s a good time to rethink streets, to...
Is this Trump's fault?
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ezra Klein has some thoughts. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices...
Elongate
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk fought the law and Elon won. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your...
The Class of 2020
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Graduate? In this economy!? The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey explains the economic reality new graduates ...
Facebook’s PTSD payout
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook has agreed to pay a $52 million settlement to its content moderators. Reporting by The Verg...
Covid, kids, and a mystery illness
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dozens of children have fallen ill with an inflammatory syndrome that may be linked to Covid-19. Har...
Will Ahmaud Arbery’s killing change Georgia law?
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two white men are accused of killing a black jogger. Georgia state Rep. Jasmine Clark wants to chang...
A few men in fishing boats try to take Venezuela
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While the world was distracted by a pandemic, a ragtag team of Americans and Venezuelans attempted t...
Quarantine dreams
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Think you’ve been having exceptionally strange dreams lately? Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett...
The Reopening States of America
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Richard Besser, former head of the Centers for Disease Control, explains how states can reopen w...
Why Sweden stayed open
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Kingdom of Sweden watched the world lock down and decided to do the opposite. Swedish journalist...
How to be happy
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The most popular course in Yale's 300-year history is all about achieving happiness. The pandemic ha...
Tara Reade alleges, Joe Biden denies
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Laura McGann explains the sexual assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden, a...
The Island of Explained
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Come with us to the magical Island of Explained, where we’ll climb trees and venture into caves to...
The Invisible Man
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Alex Ward explains what's going on with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. (Transcript here.) Learn mo...
Overflowing farms, desperate food banks
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
American farmers are destroying their crops while demand is mounting at food banks. Politico food an...
Inside the world's biggest lockdown
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered 1.4 billion Indians to stay home. The world had never seen anyt...
Oil is broke. Green New Deal with it?
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Oil just went negative for the first time in history. Vox's David Roberts says that creates an oppor...
Georgia on my mind
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the state reopens, Vox's Jillian Weinberger zooms to rural Georgia to hear how a Covid-19 outbrea...
Conspiracy-19
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s science editor, Eliza Barclay, arms you with the facts you need to fight your uncle’s favo...
This one's for Earth
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cryptic treehunters. Unknown apples. Flowers fighting back. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Vo...
One day, three healthcare workers
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A nurse, a paramedic, and a physician’s assistant record themselves throughout the course of a day...
The epicenter of the epicenter
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19's victims, and the people they leave behind. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad ch...
Long shot
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It could be a year or more before the vaccine is ready, but there’s a radical plan to speed up t...
Zeke Emanuel’s exit strategy
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump wants to reopen the country yesterday. Bioethicist Zeke Emanuel, who served as a hea...
Death Cab for The Postal Service?
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Postal Service is on the brink of collapse. Vox's Matthew Yglesias explains how an...
All praise, no pay
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Essential workers in the food, transportation, and retail industries are being called American heroe...
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show Ezra Klein speaks to Sen. Elizabeth Warren about several plans she has proposed t...
The loneliness pandemic
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coronavirus has led to another pandemic: social isolation. Vox’s Ezra Klein says this sickness has...
Six feet away from God
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While a few religious leaders flout shelter in place ordinances, Easter, Passover, and Ramadan are i...
Vote and die
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wisconsinites had to choose between catching Covid-19 and voting on Tuesday. Is the rest of the coun...
"The Great Equalizer"
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Madonna was wrong. Covid-19 isn't an equalizer. It's coming for America's most vulnerable population...
The immunity test
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A vaccine will take a while, but Vox’s Umair Irfan says the global effort to test for immunity and...
Mask on? Mask off?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In an about-face, the Centers for Disease Control would now like you to cover your mouth and nose wh...
6.6 million more unemployed
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's unemployment numbers shattered all records. This week, they doubled. Vox's Matthew Ygles...
Lockdown while locked up
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Longworth calls Sean from Washington State Reformatory to explain what it's like to serve a l...
The trouble with Trump’s daily briefings
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part rally, part media-bashing, part critical updates on the coronavirus crisis, President Trump's d...
How Covid-19 attacks your body
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Vox's Reset podcast Ed Yong from The Atlantic explains how a little spiky ball ca...
Your coronavirus questions, answered (Part II)
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, more listener questions: Why isn't everyone social distancing? Will I be immune aft...
The emergency room emergency
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Atlantic's James Hamblin explains why America has a critical shortage of medical supplies. New Y...
The two trillion dollar question
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Congress has settled on an historic stimulus package, but Ezra Klein is worried it might not be enou...
Asia's second wave
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore managed to contain Covid-19, but now things look less promising. (T...
Giving birth in a pandemic
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Julia Belluz went from covering the global coronavirus pandemic to giving birth in the middle ...
Your coronavirus questions, answered
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, we answer listener questions: Why is there no TP? Will we run out of food? Can I ge...
Six feet away
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Brian Resnick (safely) meets Sean in a Washington, D.C. park to deliver the Five Commandment...
TFW your dad gives you Covid-19
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sean speaks to a Brooklyn family that has Covid-19, and Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how the United ...
Can President Trump fix this?
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After dismissing coronavirus concerns for months, President Donald is pivoting to serious action to ...
School's out for Covid
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The country’s largest school district told a million kids to stay home during the coronavirus pand...
Living in lockdown
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Italy has quarantined the whole country in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. Vox’s Juli...
How to slow down coronavirus
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has banned most Europeans from traveling to the US. Vox’s Jen Kirby explains why t...
Old Country for Old Men
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After last night, Joe Biden is one step closer to the nomination, but no matter who wins, the next p...
Coronavirus hits the markets
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The stock market’s going haywire. Major companies are telling their employees to stay home. Austin...
James Carville thinks Trump will lose
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The veteran political strategist argues that Democrats are well-positioned to win back not only the ...
So you think you have Covid-19
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thus far, the United States hasn't been doing the best job of testing for the novel coronavirus. Pro...
Roe v. Wade v. Roberts
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's a new fight over abortion at the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts is in the swin...
Thanks, Obama
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Andrew Prokop runs through Super Tuesday results, before Laura McGann explains Vice President ...
Covid-19, explained by Carl (who has it)
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Goldman was on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and now he has Covid-19. He speaks to Sean Rame...
Tuesday, Explained
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Andrew Prokop explains what makes this Tuesday so super and performs some basic arithmetic to ...
Make America Doubt Again
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
McKay Coppins built a fake Facebook profile to fully experience President Trump's 2020 digital strat...
The last stronghold in Syria
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Idlib province in northwestern Syria is now the last stronghold of opposition to President Bashar al...
Pandemic?
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 may be on the brink of becoming a pandemic. Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what that p-word ...
Putin his thumb on the scale
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Russian interference in U.S. elections could go from Vlad to worse as President Trump sidelines U.S....
Weekend at Bernie’s
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bernie Sanders took Nevada with a landslide coalition so diverse it has left Joe Biden feeling nervo...
The sixth sense (the real one)
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A study at the National Institutes of Health offers a window into some of science’s biggest myster...
Ok, Bloomberg
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enter the Bloomberg! Exit the Bloomberg? (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Where Medicare-for-all is real
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic presidential candidates keep having the same argument over Medicare-for-all at the te...
The floating petri dish
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One coronavirus. Two cruise ships. Lots of mistakes. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad cho...
Love Me Tinder
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new investigation reveals what you may have suspected: dating apps can be very dangerous. But ther...
Between a Stone and a hard place
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this, the 500th episode of your favorite daily news podcast, Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains why t...
Bernie, bro.
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New Hampshire felt the Bern. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...
Old Hampshire vs. New Hampshire
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
House parties are key to picking a president in New Hampshire, but they’re quickly being replaced ...
President Trump's "Africa ban"
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Nicole Narea explains how new immigration restrictions that will hit a quarter of Africa's pop...
Why the wrong movies win Oscars
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson would like to blame the Academy. (Transcript here.) Learn more abou...
How will coronavirus end?
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Dr. Vineet Menachery said a SARS-like virus could spread to humans more easily than previou...
Acquitted
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate has acquitted President Trump. Vox’s Ezra Klein argues it’s time to change the Consti...
Iowhaaaaat?!
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Iowa caucuses? More like caucus chaos. Or a raucous caucus. Or an Iowasca trip. Somebody's got some ...
Whyowa?
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Iowa gets to take the first swing at nominating the Democratic presidential candidate today. But why...
The invisible border
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly four years of acrimony, Britain finally Brexits tonight. But it risks plunging Northern...
Let’s talk about how to talk about Kobe
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kobe Bryant’s death stunned the world. Then people started arguing. (Transcript here.) Learn more ...
From Nobel Peace Prize to denying genocide
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The International Court of Justice is ordering Myanmar to protect the Rohingya from genocide, but no...
The Bolton's back in town
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Andrew Prokop explains why John Bolton’s leaked manuscript has upended the GOP’s hopes to ...
Shaken like a polarized picture
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The political polarization of America didn’t start with Donald Trump and it won’t end in 2020 ei...
The Crown Prince and the Amazon King
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did Mohammed Bin Salman hack Jeff Bezos? Recode’s Peter Kafka returns with an update and Kara Swis...
Coronavirus
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A SARS-like virus has killed at least 17 people, quarantined millions in China, and made its way to ...
A George Washington Bridge too far
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is trying to settle the fight over the biggest traffic jam in the history of Ameri...
The Senate trial begins
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Andrew Prokop explains everything you need to know as President Trump's Senate impeachment tri...
The 100 year fight for equal rights
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment this week. Now, Congress is the ...
Ukraine International Flight 752
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canada now has the unfortunate job of dealing with the collateral damage from the conflict between I...
Booker blames the rules
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Cory Booker tells Sean Rameswaram why he never stood a chance and Vox's Ella Nilsen explains...
Elizabeth Warren needs a poster boy
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Warren’s best bet to fight the opioid epidemic might be stealing a page from the battle ...
One billion animals dead
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is suffering unprecedented damage from months of bush fires, but the country remains divid...
Megxit
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meghan Markle and her husband have announced their own personal Brexit. (Transcript here.) Learn mor...
The (first) trial of Harvey Weinstein
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Irin Carmon from New York magazine explains how #MeToo is on trial alongside Harvey Weinstein. (Tran...
What about Iraq?
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Iran fired back. The United States issued a statement. Iraq wishes its allies would fight somewhere ...
The view from Iran
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Iran analyst Dina Esfandiary explains why the killing of Qassem Soleimani was “the greatest gift t...
War with Iran?
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last week. Vox's Alex Ward explain...
Should we burn our recycling?
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of our plastic isn’t being recycled. It might be time to consider lighting it on...