VOX
Why the Carroll investigation is a sham
- Title
- Why the Carroll investigation is a sham
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- The DOJ is reportedly opening a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the woman who won $88 million in damages after a jury found Trump sexually abused her.
Vox's Zack Beauchamp breaks down why legal experts say the case is built on shaky ground and what it reveals about how Trump is using the Justice Department against his critics.
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- Gen Z’s retreat from dating and sex | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 43:57
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with writer Christine Emba about the strange and increasingly anti-social world young people are inheriting online. They discuss the rise of “looksmaxxing,” the manosphere, Gen Z’s retreat from dating and sex, and how the internet has transformed what might have been normal insecurities into a permanent state of anxiety and self-optimization. Along the way, they explore loneliness, intimacy, masculinity, social media, and what happens to a society when human connection starts to feel unbearable.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Christine Emba (@ChristineEmba)
00:00 Intro
01:47 The world of looksmaxxing: incels, bone smashing, and drugs
12:18 The digital doom loop: anxiety, optimization, and the death of dating
21:20 The growing gender divide of Gen Z
28:25 When digital substitutes replace real connections
38:27 Is the internet designed to des...
- Title
- Can there ever really be “one China?”
- Runtime
- 13:19
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- For decades, Taiwan’s passport didn’t say “Taiwan” at all. It said something else: the Republic of China. But if Taiwan has called itself China, who gets to be the “real” China?
This video traces the evolution of Taiwan’s identity through one simple object: its passport. From the booting of the Republic of China from the United Nations, to President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China in 1972, to the 2003 addition of the word “Taiwan” to the Republic of China passport, the story of “One China” is less about geography and more about history, power, and shifting global alliances.
As Beijing becomes more financially and politically powerful on today’s global stage, is it possible for Taiwan to hold onto its autonomy? And what is the US’s role in the triangulation between Beijing and Taipei, especially as Taiwan’s main weapons dealer?
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- Title
- A look inside the “steroid Olympics”
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Juiced-up athletes took part in the Enhanced Games last weekend, not breaking tons of records, but showing that the performance-enhancing drug industry is growing fast. Health and wellness reporter Chris Gayomali has been following this story for the past year and attended the games. Here’s why he called it the “kookiest thing I’ve ever been to.”
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- Title
- Can unclenching your jaw unlock your emotions?
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Have you seen videos like this on social media? A young woman lies face-up on a massage table while a practitioner manipulates her cheeks and jaw from inside her mouth. Often labeled “buccal massage,” “jaw release,” or “intraoral massage,” these treatments are marketed as a way to release stored trauma — with clients sometimes shown crying afterward.
While the mind and body are deeply connected, there’s little evidence that our jaws literally store trauma the way these practitioners claim.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/life/489815/jaw-trauma-tension-stress-tiktok
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- Title
- Stop being afraid to find moments of connection
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- What’s stopping you from picking up the phone to call a friend? Or talking to a stranger in line at a coffee shop? Our worry that other people don’t want to connect with us is stopping us from having meaningful conversations and connections that we all need.
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- Title
- Who is buried in NYC’s Greenwood Cemetery?
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- When a city grows too fast, it runs out of room in its cemeteries. That’s why New York City built Greenwood Cemetery in the 1830s. Today, it has 580,000 permanent “residents”, with some pretty fascinating stories. This is Pin Point, the series where Vox producer Nate Krieger throws a dart at a map and investigates the surprising history of whatever address he hits. In this episode, he uncovers the stories of a ship captain, a tourist with bad luck, and the owner of a rabid cow.
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- Title
- Why we’re bad at being social | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 48:37
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Sean talks with University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley about the strange gap between our need to be social and how social we choose to be. They explore why we underestimate how good conversations will feel, why awkwardness looms so large in our minds, and how small acts of connection can make us happier, less lonely, and more open to the people around us.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Nicholas Epley
00:00 Intro
00:59 The Paradox of Connection: Why We Avoid Being Social
11:03 The Fear of Awkwardness
19:31 Why We Get Cold Feet: The Approach-Avoidance Conflict
27:51 The Surprising Kindness of Honesty
38:21 Why We Should Skip Small Talk and Go Deep
46:17 Simple Social Experiment for connection
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- Title
- Is there still hope for the national parks?
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- America 250 is right around the corner, and President Donald Trump wants you to visit some of our national parks this summer. But there are a few problems: Gas prices and plane ticket costs are soaring, while the parks themselves have suffered an enormous hit from the administration itself. Despite all this, Outside Magazine contributing editor Stephanie Pearson still has hope.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/489070/national-parks-trump-administration-budget-cuts-science-yosemite-glacier-acadia
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- Everyone’s an expert now | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 43:56
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Almost a decade ago, Tom Nichols warned that Americans were losing respect for expertise. He didn’t expect things to get this bad.
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Sean talks with Nichols about his 2017 book “The Death of Expertise” and what’s happened since: why people don’t just distrust experts but actively push back against them, how the internet turns bad ideas into communities, and why a society that can’t agree on basic facts can’t function for long. They also dig into the deeper causes: loneliness, narcissism, and the weird psychology of living in a world where everything “just works.”
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom)
00:00 Intro
01:13 A Growing Contempt for Competence: Revisiting The Death of Expertise
08:14 Decadence and the collapse of respect for competence
18:07 How internet echo chambers destroys shared reality
21:59 Is the...
- Title
- Why was The Late Show with Stephen Colbert cut?
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Tonight, the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air on CBS. The talk show, which has been running since 1993, was previously hosted by David Letterman. The network cancelled the show in July. This came after Colbert criticized parent company Paramount for paying a $16 million settlement over an edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which President Trump claimed was unfair.
Despite this, CBS cited financial pressures as the reason for the cancellation. So why didn’t they just work to cut costs? Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram asks former late night host and comedian Larry Wilmore.
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- Title
- We don’t know where Ebola is going — or where it began
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The World Health Organization just declared its ninth-ever public health emergency over an Ebola outbreak in the Congo. More than 600 suspected cases. At least 139 deaths. No identified source.
Vox's Bryan Walsh explains why not knowing where Ebola comes from is not just unsettling — it's what guarantees the next outbreak.
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- The Republican party and psychedelics
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Trump is famously straight edge. He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. But he just signed an executive order opening the door to psychedelic research.
On the latest episode of Today, Explained, Vox’s Jonquilyn Hill looks into the rise of ibogaine, why the podcast world is obsessed with it, and what it could mean for treating PTSD in America.
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- Title
- The religious right is loud right now — that doesn't mean they're winning
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Christian nationalism had a big weekend on the National Mall. That doesn't mean it's winning.
Vox's Christian Paz breaks down the curious gap between the growing visibility of the religious right and what Americans actually want when it comes to the relationship between church and state. Read the full piece on Vox.com
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- Title
- See the weird 1,100 new sea creatures discovered by scientists
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Scientists discovered more than 1,100 new species of sea creatures, according to the Ocean Census. But are they legit? Some experts are skeptical because they are not all formally described — meaning they haven’t gone through the process to prove what they found is new to science.
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- Title
- How to be more creative | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 47:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Sean talks with writer David Epstein about why unlimited freedom and endless choice often make us less creative, less focused, and less fulfilled. They discuss the hidden power of constraints, the psychology of attention, why humans struggle with too many options, and how useful limits can help us do better work and live more meaningful lives.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: David Epstein (@DavidEpstein)
00:00 Intro
01:46 How restraints helped create the periodic table
03:41 The relationship between freedom and creativity
10:55 Is freedom the absence of limits?
16:50 Why does choice create anxiety?
22:20 How do we navigate a world with too many choices?
27:22 Making a decision vs ‘sliding’ into one
34:02 The value of ritual
37:55 Creative limits and Dr. Seuss
39:41 How David Epstein’s life changed after writing this book
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- Title
- Why are our bodies never good enough?
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- It can feel impossible to be comfortable in your own skin when the internet is constantly throwing your insecurities in your face — telling you to change everything about yourself through cosmetic surgeries and weight loss drugs. So how do you block out the noise and love the body you’re in right now? Vox’s Allie Volpe shares how to reframe your mindset.
Read Allie's full piece here: https://www.vox.com/life/488424/how-old-am-i-supposed-to-look-botox-fillers-ozempic-identity-crisis-aging
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- Americans oppose data centers. We went to find out why | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 21:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- There’s a growing disconnect between a local community that says it’s being treated as the "guinea pigs" in a new industrial revolution, and Washington politicians. Astead Herndon heads to Vineland, New Jersey, this week to check out one of the Northeast’s biggest data centers that neighbors say was rushed into construction without community buy-in.
00:00 Why data centers are the new political flashpoint
02:26 On-site at one of the Northeast’s biggest data centers
05:01 The jobs debate
07:45 The extractive reality of data centers
12:39 Residents speak out at a town hall
18:11 AI anxiety and government trust
America, Actually publishes video episodes every Saturday tackling key issues in politics, culture, and the economy. Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel to get them. Listen to episodes of America, Actually on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite app.
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- The surprising role of a giraffe's spots
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Scientists spent 8 years tracking hundreds of giraffes in Tanzania and discovered a link between their spot patterns and chance of survival under different climate conditions. Giraffe calves and adult males with larger spots had a higher survival probability in extremely cold temperatures, the study found, whereas individuals with smaller spots had a higher survival probability in extremely hot temperatures. That means future warming may pose a greater threat to giraffes with larger spots.
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- Title
- The data center war
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Politicians claim data centers are a “necessary evil.” These New Jersey residents don’t agree. Vox’s Astead Herndon traveled to Vineland, New Jersey, where locals are fighting back against a DataOne data center. What he found was an issue that will likely come up during the next election cycle.
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- Title
- The college dream is falling apart | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 45:09
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- College was supposed to be a ticket to a better life. A degree meant a good job, a decent salary, and a brighter future. That promise is breaking down. For many graduates, a college degree no longer guarantees economic security or upward mobility.
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In today’s episode, guest host Miles Bryan talks with reporter and author Noam Scheiber about his new book, Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, which argues that the economic prospects for college graduates have steadily eroded since the mid-2000s. The result is scrambling our politics. Miles and Noam discuss why college graduates are increasingly drawn to socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, why they’ve become some of the strongest supporters of organized labor, and how economic frustration among educated workers could transform the American political landscape.
Host: Miles Bryan, Vox reporter and senior ...
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- Why China and Iran’s history matters to the US
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- China buys 80% of Iran’s oil. So as the Strait of Hormuz crisis escalates, Trump may need Chinese President Xi Jinping more than he wants to admit.
But Beijing has leverage too — and Taiwan could quietly become part of the negotiation.
Here’s how China became one of Iran’s most important allies, why the US wants China’s help now, and what Xi Jinping could demand in return. #China #Trump #Iran #Taiwan
And read more from Vox's Joshua Keating here: https://www.vox.com/politics/488386/trumps-china-policy-is-nearly-the-exact-opposite-of-what-everyone-expected
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- Title
- Can you trust health experts to navigate the hantavirus?
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Is all the hantavirus news triggering COVID anxiety for you You’re not alone. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains why the pandemic made people skeptical of public health organizations, and how those feelings carried over to this recent outbreak. #Hantavirus #COVID #Pandemic #Disease
Read more: https://www.vox.com/health/488447/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-spread-response
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- Title
- Palantir’s Tolkien-inspired company lore #shorts
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Palantir Technologies may be one of Silicon Valley’s most secretive and influential companies — and its name comes straight from The Lord of the Rings. In Tolkien’s world, palantiri are magical “seeing stones” that let users communicate across distances and glimpse faraway events or possible futures, but they often mislead and corrupt the people who use them. So why would a real-world tech company embrace that symbolism? Vox producer Benjamin Stephen dug into the origins of Palantir’s name, what Tolkien’s lore reveals about the company’s culture and ambitions, and what Tolkien himself might think about it all. #palantir #lordoftherings #tolkien
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- Title
- Hantavirus and misinformation
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Not every public health emergency is a pandemic. As hantavirus news spreads, try to separate the science from the fear-mongering. Public health expert Laurel Bristow says "nuance" is actually the most important word in science communication. So real public health experts won’t tell you to panic.
Hear the full breakdown on the "Today, Explained" podcast. 🎧
#Shorts #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Hantavirus #NewsToday #Podcast #Science
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- What would J.R.R. Tolkien think of Palantir?
- Runtime
- 11:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir Technologies is one of the most powerful and mysterious tech companies in Silicon Valley. Its namesake is also one of the most powerful and mysterious magical objects in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings.
The palantiri of The Lord of the Rings are sort of like crystal balls or “seeing stones” that allow their users to communicate across vast distances, see events from afar, and sometimes even peer into the future. But just about everybody who tries to use a palantir in The Lord of the Rings is deceived by it, acting on the visions they’re receiving without the greater context or wisdom of what’s behind them. So why would the people behind Palantir want to name the company and build its culture around these powerful yet easily corruptible magical objects?
J.R.R. Tolkien was famously anti-tech and anti-government, expressing his fears of what would happen when those two forces...
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- The unfortunate history of 127 Columbus Ave
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- It turns out that 127 Columbus Ave., near Lincoln Center in New York City’s Upper West Side, has some really bad luck. This is Pin Point, the series where Vox producer Nate Krieger throws a dart at a map and investigates the surprising history of whatever address he hits. In this episode, he investigates a location that has been home to theft, fire, a murderer on the run, and an incredibly talented amateur billiards player.
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- Title
- Why progress is hard to see | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 44:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- If someone asked you to describe the state of the world right now, odds are you’d reach for the bad news first: political division, AI panic, war, ecological crisis, unraveling everywhere. And none of that is imaginary. But Rebecca Solnit thinks the pessimistic view is incomplete. We’re good at seeing catastrophe and reversal, and much worse at seeing the slower, more positive transformations that unfold over decades.
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Solnit’s new book, The Beginning Comes After the End, is an argument for noticing those changes without denying the darkness of the present. She joins Sean to talk about hope, backlash, political despair, and why fragile victories are still victories worth defending.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Rebecca Solnit
00:00 Intro
02:17 Why we struggle to recognize change
08:44 What is driving today’s political backlash?
15:25 How to find hope in ...
- Title
- Are box braids making us sick?
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A recent study found that many brands of braiding hair and hair extensions contain chemicals that could cause cancer and birth defects. On this week’s Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hill finds out why those chemicals are in these products and what you can do to avoid them. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Title
- Only 17% of Health Influencers Have Actual Medical Credentials
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Half of Americans under 50 get health information from social media influencers. A new Pew Research Center report found that most of those influencers have no real medical credentials.
Vox's Dylan Scott breaks down who is actually behind the accounts people trust with their health and why experts have struggled to compete.
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- Title
- Progressives have a new playbook. We tested it in Queens | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 22:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- "Progressive" and "affordability" are trendy political buzzwords today, but for most Americans, they feel more like abstract concepts rather than lived realities. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is trying to change that by launching a 10-point "Affordability Agenda."
Congressman Greg Casar (D-TX) joins America, Actually this week to discuss his caucus’s shift from focusing on identity politics and bills like the Green New Deal to kitchen table issues like banning AI surveillance pricing and capping childcare costs.
Later, we head to one of the country’s most Democratic congressional districts in the country to see if these Washington talking points resonate with voters.
00:00 Intro: New political buzzwords
00:33 Progressives roll out their “affordability agenda”
05:11 Shifting progressive priorities
06:22 Connecting the dots between climate and the economy
08:51 Redefining progressive for 2026
12:30 Recl...
- Title
- People don't trust progressives anymore
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Progressives have a trust problem with everyday Americans. Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) is willing to say why.
Casar joins Vox's Astead Herndon to make the self-critical case that the progressive movement cannot win on immigration, LGBT rights, or abortion until it rebuilds trust on the issues people face every single day: childcare, housing, wages, and labor rights.
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- Title
- Why sloganeering has harmed Democrats
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “Couldn’t you have said, ‘I don’t like the slogan?’”
Vox’s Astead Herndon talks to Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) about why sloganeering has been detrimental to the Democratic Party. Watch their whole America, Actually interview here on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts, on Saturday.
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- Title
- Is smoking cool again?
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- We all know smoking is bad for you — but pop culture seems to have decided it's cool again.
The “pop girlies” like Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, and Charli XCX are partially to blame for the smoking renaissance we’re seeing in pop culture. Newsweek reporter Marni Rose McFall talks about why Gen Z is so fascinated with the aesthetics of cigarettes on Today, Explained. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Title
- How Gen Z went MAHA | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 42:52
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Sean talks with Vox senior correspondent Anna North about the strange rise of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. They explore why MAHA resonates, especially with younger people, how legitimate concerns about food and public health blur into conspiracy thinking, and why social media has become such a powerful engine for both. They also discuss the collapse of trust in institutions, the emotional logic behind wellness movements, and what it would take to rebuild trust in science and public health.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Anna North (@annanorthtweets)
00:00 Intro
01:35 MAHA: Vaccines and Medical Distrust
08:49 MAHA's Subcultures
15:37 Gen Z Wellness Influencers
29:41 Gen Z Institutional Distrust
36:28 Tools For Rebuilding Public Trust
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- Title
- The wellness to conspiracy pipeline
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Are MAHA influencers creating a wellness-to-conspiracy pipeline?
Vox Correspondent Anna North details how diet and health-focused social media content sometimes funnels into conspiracist thinking and institutional distrust.
Listen to the full discussion with The Gray Area host Sean Illing wherever you get your podcasts.
#TheGrayArea #Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #WellnessPipeline #MahaWorldOnline #QAnon
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- Title
- How did this cruise ship get infected with hantavirus?
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Hantavirus is usually spread through rodents, but it infected at least eight people on the MV Hondius cruise ship, three of whom died. How did this happen? And what even is hantavirus? Vox’s Sydney Bergan explains what you need to know about the disease.
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- Title
- Why you can’t love all animals and still eat meat
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Was Billie Eilish right when she told Elle magazine that you can’t say you love all animals and eat meat? Vox’s Kenny Torrella breaks down her logic, and what the backlash from her statement reveals about the American left.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/487818/billie-eilish-animal-rights-vegan-political-leftists
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- Title
- What Hegseth’s tattoos tell us about the war in Iran
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Pete Hegseth’s obsession with the Crusades may seem like a personality quirk, like your uncle who is obsessed with World War 2 submarines. But when that worldview influences how a defense secretary thinks about modern conflicts, it stops just being about the past — and it starts shaping the future.
Vox producer Nate Krieger took a closer look at this “Holy War” to investigate the actual history of the Crusades and to understand how Pete Hegseth’s interest in medieval history might actually affect US foreign policy and the future of the war in Iran.
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- Title
- Why Lauren Sánchez Bezos’ Met Gala dress is a self-reflection
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Lauren Sánchez Bezos’ Met Gala dress was boring — but the painting that inspired it once scandalized all of Paris.
Vox’s Jonquilyn Hill breaks down the 1884 reference and why Sánchez Bezos wearing it was anything but an accident.
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- Title
- How to feel awe every day | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 51:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Sean talks with psychologist Dacher Keltner about the science of awe and why it might be one of the most important emotions we have. They explore how awe quiets the ego, shifts our attention away from ourselves, and reconnects us to other people, nature, and larger patterns of meaning. Along the way, they discuss why music, moral courage, and even grief can trigger awe, how modern life may be starving us of it, and what it reveals about the limits of reason, the power of the body, and the deeper ways we make sense of being human.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Dacher Keltner
00:00 Intro
02:39 Awe vs fear
08:14 Awe and human achievement
12:23 How awe quiets the self
20:17 How awe reconnects us to the world
29:29 Awe and moral beauty
37:56 Awe in unexpected places
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- Title
- How social media may be impacting your wedding planning
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Wedding planning is complicated enough without the external pressures of social media. But, for many brides and grooms, it’s hard not to fall into the trap of turning your special day into what you see on Pinterest. Vogue’s contributing weddings editor, Shelby Wax, explains why this can do more harm than good to Vox’s Jonquilyn Hill.
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- Title
- America 250: What does a “more perfect union” look like? | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 23:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Are we in a period of reinvention, or is the 250-year-old "American experiment" now hitting a wall?
This week on America, Actually, historian Heather Cox Richardson explains our current political climate and how the US is facing its biggest stress test since the Civil War. The substack author helps us write a new social contract for the next 250 years.
00:00 Intro: The state of the “American experiment”
01:00 Is the US reinventing itself every 80 years?
02:19 How art and history shape politics
04:09 Understanding the rise of Donald Trump
08:40 Reclaiming patriotism and our national narrative
14:52 Drafting a new social contract
15:45 Voting rights and protecting our environment
18:40 Supreme Court terms and universal healthcare
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- Title
- America: Progress Through Struggle
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Heather Cox Richardson, author of the newsletter Letters from an American, reflects on the country as an ongoing project: a story shaped by people who’ve fought to expand its promises to those once excluded.
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- Title
- The “gerrymandering wars” are about to get so much worse.
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act, and analysts say as many as a dozen Black Democratic members of Congress could lose their seats because of it.
Vox's Ian Millhiser breaks down what the Court's decision in Callais means for Southern politics, congressional power, and who ultimately controls Congress.
Read the full analysis at the links below.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/reporter-extra-157013287
https://www.vox.com/politics/487363/supreme-court-louisiana-callais-gerrymandering-alito-voting-rights-act
https://www.vox.com/politics/481401/supreme-court-mirabelli-bonta-sauron-wins
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- Title
- Was America Waiting for a “Trump?”
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Did problems in America’s political system pave the way for Donald Trump? Heather Cox Richardson, author of the newsletter Letters from an American, tells Vox’s Astead Herndon that the system isn’t inherently broken, but missed opportunities after the 1960s, creating fertile ground for the conservative right to reshape the national narrative.
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- Title
- Hegseth's holy war
- Runtime
- 8:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a longstanding fascination with the Crusades. That’s right, the Crusades: the series of late 11th to 13th century medieval wars in which Europeans fought to control the Holy Land. He has tattoos that reference the Crusades, something that actually came up in his confirmation hearing in 2025. And his 2020 book is titled American Crusade. The final chapter is titled “Make the Crusade Great Again.”
Hegseth paints the Crusades as a “defensive war” in which Christianity had to react or face being overrun by Islam. According to professor of medieval history Matthew Gabriele, this is an extreme oversimplification of the actual history. And viewing the past in this way could have possibly dangerous ramifications on the current war in Iran.
Pete Hegseth’s obsession with the Crusades may seem like a personality quirk, like your uncle who is obsessed with World War 2 submarines. But when that worldview influences how a ...
- Title
- The truth about fatherhood | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 34:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Everyone says having kids changes your life. That’s true. But it’s not the whole story.
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Sean talks with author Derek Thompson about fatherhood, how raising kids can shock you, and why parenting feels not so much “hard” as “nonstop.” They explore the weird psychology of loving something more than yourself, the loss of control over your own time, and the bittersweet realization that every moment with your child is already slipping away. Also: why two kids is not just twice the work, and why you might still want to get on the ride anyway.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Derek Thompson (@DKThomp)
00:00 Intro
01:19 Fatherhood isn’t hard. It’s relentless
06:27 A baby is a stranger
12:53 There's no such thing as a baby
19:47 Do we have a healthy conception of fatherhood?
24:37 Why you have to put yourself first
32:40 Instinctive v...
- Title
- They were promised $28 tickets to the LA 2028 Olympics. Here's what people actually paid.
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The first ticket drop for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics resulted in a “crashout” for many fans and locals hoping to get a seat at the summer Games. Why? Because the process was confusing and the tickets were way more expensive than the $28 seats they were promised.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/culture/486760/2028-los-angeles-olympics-ticket-prices-fail
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- Title
- Celebrities are becoming death doulas
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Nicole Kidman is becoming a death doula, and she’s not the first celebrity to do so. She's part of a larger cultural shift toward embracing death and a growing openness to talking about death in ways we never used to.
Vox's Anna North spoke with death professionals like thanatologist and author Cole Imperi, about why more people are drawn to this work and what it actually means to show up for someone at the end of their life.
Read Anna's article here: https://www.vox.com/culture/486985/death-doulas-nicole-kidman-chloe-zhoa-the-pitt
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