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China’s meeting with Taiwan’s opposition leader
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- China’s meeting with Taiwan’s opposition leader
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- China is quietly redefining its relationship with Taiwan as the US is embroiled in global conflicts. First: a historic meeting with Taiwan’s opposition leader, Cheng Li-wun, ahead of May’s planned meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
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- American democracy is breaking in a very predictable way
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Back in 2015, before President Donald Trump, before January 6, before all the craziness of the last decade, Matt Yglesias made a blunt prediction: American democracy is doomed.
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Guest host Zack Beauchamp talks with Matt about what that argument got right, what it missed, and why the real problem might not be any one politician but the structure of the system itself. They get into presidential power, partisan loyalty, why Congress keeps folding, and how the two-party system might be quietly making everything worse. They also discuss what it would actually take to fix it — or whether things have to completely break first.
Host: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp)
Guest: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias)
00:00 Intro
5:32 Executive authority in the US
7:05 Systemic issues in American democracy
9:44 Opposition strategies
18:29 Coalition building when democracy is on the ...
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- Top evangelical theologian on the Trump Jesus image #shorts
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- “Blasphemy is no good, no matter who does it,” says Pastor Doug Wilson.
The controversial evangelical theologian with ties to the White House spoke to Today, Explained co-host Noel King about his hopes for a Christian regime in the US that would repeal women’s right to vote and make being gay a crime.
He also reflected upon his relationship with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, why he’s comfortable being called a “Christian nationalist,” and more.
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- How credit cards came to be #shorts
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- When credit cards were created in 1950, they were just a simple restaurant payment method. But today, Americans are carrying more than $1.2 trillion in credit card debt, and for a lot of people, it’s not from splurging.
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- The credit card crisis
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Americans are carrying more than $1.2 trillion in credit card debt, and for a lot of people, it’s not from splurging. It’s everyday stuff: car repairs, medical bills, groceries. And if you only make the minimum payment, that debt can grow exponentially, sticking around for years.
The average credit card interest rate today is close to 20%, nearly doubling since 2010. So what’s driving these high rates?
Part of it is the broader economy. When the Federal Reserve raises rates to fight inflation, credit card APRs usually go up too. But that’s not the whole story.
Credit cards are unsecured loans, meaning there’s no house or car to repossess if you don’t pay. And Americans have become more and more reliant on credit cards as wages stagnate and health care costs continue to rise.
Read more about how credit card interest rates are impacting everyone:
Why did my interest rate go up on my credit card? | Bankrate https...
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- Why Democrats are fighting over Hasan Piker
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Vox’s Astead Herndon has been on Hasan Piker’s Twitch stream. He even interviewed him at a University of Chicago event in 2025. So what does he think about the latest Democratic uproar against the Twitch streamer? Herndon says it says more about a “Democratic organization who's wrangling with the question of how its voters are changing when it comes to Israel and Gaza” than Piker himself.
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- Why you have to be optimistic #shorts
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- When the world is on fire, it’s difficult to stay hopeful. But our future depends on it.
Host Jonquilyn Hill talks with experts about how we maintain optimism in the latest episode of the Explain It to Me podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Ozempic: $14 in India vs. $349 in the US #shorts
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- Ozempic is now significantly cheaper in India than in the US. Why? The patent on semaglutide expired in India, allowing drugmakers to start making their own version at a fraction of the cost. #ozempic #semaglutide #semaglutideforweightloss
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/484767/india-generic-semaglutide-ozempic
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- The contradictions of wokeness
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- What does it mean to be “woke”? It's become a catch-all term to smear or dismiss anything that has any vague association with progressive politics. So anytime you venture into an argument about “wokeness,” it becomes hopelessly entangled in a broader cultural battle.
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Today’s guest, journalist and professor Musa al-Gharbi, helps us untangle “wokeness” from its fraught political context. The author of the book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, al-Gharbi discusses what effects the movement is and isn’t having on our society.
This episode originally aired in November 2024.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Musa al-Gharbi (@Musa_alGharbi)
6:11 What is wokeness?
18:48 Why George Floyd only mattered to the public after his death
20:32 How elites navigate the tension between their status and their values
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- Donald Trump could have been a Bravo housewife #shorts
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- “I really do think that like Trump somehow like ended up in the White House and not like on a Bravo reality show,” Hunter Harris, host of Lemme Say This, tells Vox’s Astead Herndon.
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- What comes after Donald Trump? | America, Actually
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- What does US politics look like when Donald Trump is no longer at the center of it? In 2028, voters will get to decide.
For this first episode of America, Actually, host and editorial director Astead Herndon sits down with data scientist Nate Silver and culture critic Hunter Harris to explore the major policies, issues, groups, and people that will guide the United States into a post-Trump future. Is the country headed toward a return to civility or total fragmentation?
00:00 Intro
00:41 This is America, Actually
01:11 Can politics be Trump-free?
04:10 Who leads a post-Trump America?
11:47 Lessons from 2016
14:02 Affordability, foreign policy, and culture
16:21 Manosphere and loneliness
20:11 Kitchen table issues
24:41 The US and Israel
26:21 America’s global standing
27:21 What brings us hope
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- The Curious Case of Kanye West
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, was once one of the biggest artists of his generation. Then he broke bad by touting anti-Black rhetoric like “slavery was a choice” and wearing “White Lives Matter” T-shirts. It got worse when he turned to antisemitism and began selling swastika T-shirts, eventually releasing a song called "Heil Hitler."
Now, just before the release of his new, chart-topping album, he says he’s sorry. Ye or nay?
Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram talks with former Kanye West fan and Vanity Fair culture writer Chris Murphy about Ye’s missteps, his attempt at redemption, and whether he’s done enough to be loved by his former audience.
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- Iran's strongest weapon
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- In 2019, Vox produced an explainer video on the Strait of Hormuz that ended with this line: “Without the direct diplomatic contact between the US and Iran, each run-in has the risk of escalating into war one that could disrupt the jugular of the global economy in the process.”
That war is now here.
Since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in February, the Strait of Hormuz has become the flashpoint of the regional conflict in the Middle East. Thousands have been killed and millions of lives disrupted as violence has exploded across the region. Iran has responded by wielding the Strait of Hormuz as an economic weapon by restricting access to the Strait.
The result has been global inflation and supply disruption as scarcity drives up the price of oil, gas, and other products that the global economy desperately needs. Iran seems intent on continuing to use the Strait of Hormuz as a high-value bargaining chip, as the country sustains milit...
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- How to forgive yourself
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- It’s easy to forgive other people because you don’t have to live inside their head. Forgiving yourself is different and much, much harder.
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Sean Illing is joined by philosopher Myisha Cherry to talk about what it actually means to forgive yourself without letting yourself off the hook. They discuss the difference between guilt and shame (one can push you to repair, while the other just makes you want to hide), why even small screwups can leave a lingering moral aftertaste, and how regret can either trap you in self-reproach or become fuel for doing better.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Myisha Cherry (@myishacherry)
1:53 The value of forgiveness
5:18 The differences between forgiveness and self-forgiveness
7:32 What gives you the right to forgive yourself?
11:02 We're hard on ourselves because we have standards for ourselves
14:50 Guilt vs. shame
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- Democrats have a relatability issue #shorts
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Is the left too concerned with politeness? Hunter Harris, host of Lemme Say This, says yes. She tells Vox’s Astead Herndon it’s appealing to some voters that Republicans say whatever they want, especially while Democrats remain filtered.
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- Is the war in Iran over? #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- “It's also possible that what we're seeing now is that the US has ended its own war in the Middle East, leaving everyone else in the region behind to fight it out,” Vox senior correspondent Joshua Keating said about whether the war in Iran is actually over.
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- A look into the US’s history with the Strait of Hormuz #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The US and Iran have only been at war for over a month, but it has already severely affected global oil prices. We’ve resurfaced this 2019 Vox explainer to show you where the Strait of Hormuz sits in the global oil supply chain and what its history with the US has been since the 1980s, starting with the Tanker War.
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- Is America at risk of losing its exceptionalism? #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- America is drifting further from its former status as a global superpower. Nate Silver, pollster and author of Silver Bulletin, explains to Vox’s Astead Herndon how the US has damaged its international reputation.
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- Three things to know about donating blood #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Considering donating blood?🩸The need for it is constant, while the supply often waxes and wanes. Here’s what to know before you give: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470900/donate-blood-explained
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- How capitalism ate the culture
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Kalle Lasn has been trying to jam consumer culture for decades. Now he thinks that was only the beginning.
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Sean talks with the Adbusters founder about advertising, culture jamming, meme warfare, surveillance capitalism, and why he believes the old left-right political script is dead. Lasn argues that consumer culture is not just shallow or manipulative but part of a system pushing us toward collapse. His answer is bigger than protest and weirder than reform. He wants a cultural revolution that starts with new ideas, new language, and maybe an entirely new politics.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Kalle Lasn (@KalleLasn)
1:19 The Adbusters origin story
5:57 Advertising as a tool for change
14:29 Is consumerism broken?
30:34 Mimetic warfare
40:29 What would make the next Occupy movement work?
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- A sneak peek at the America, Actually podcast #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- What does American politics look like without Trump at the center? It’s been a one-man show for more than a decade, but now, we’re heading toward the first open presidential election since 2016. It will play out in a country that feels inherently different.
Vox’s Astead Herndon tackles these questions with experts, elected officials, and journalists in his new video-first podcast America, Actually, launching April 11 on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Why your gas is so expensive #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Feeling pain at the pump? You’re not alone. ⛽The average price for a gallon of gas is the highest it’s been in three years. So what’s sent prices sky high? Jonquilyn Hill finds out on the latest episode of Explain It to Me.
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- Sen. Murphy vs. Trump's corruption | Today, Explained
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- President Donald Trump’s blatant, sometimes open corruption can feel disorienting. While other White Houses have made a point to show their administration is not for sale, this one has seemingly done the opposite — making a big show of their transactional relationship with corporations, Silicon Valley, and other governments, given the right price.
This kind of pay-to-play politics was the focus of a recent forum in Washington, DC, hosted by the American Economic Liberties Project, a think tank focused on corporate consolidation, breaking up monopolies, and accountability for rogue businesses. It’s also an interest of Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who has made this anti-corruption a focus of his message and policy proposals since the 2024 election. Vox’s Astead Herndon interviewed Sen. Murphy at this live event. He asked about the effectiveness of this message, what role the Democratic Party also plays in Washington’s current culture of open corruption, and if there's...
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- Why Tucker Carlson thinks polling MAGA is useless #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- President Donald Trump promised voters in 2024 that his policies would be America First. But he went back on that promise with multiple foreign interventions, including the war in Iran. So why does polling of MAGA voters show overwhelming support for this conflict?
Today, Explained host Noel King asks Carlson about this and more on a new episode of the podcast.
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- How an A note became an A note
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Gray Area is taking a short break this week — but we’ve got something special for you.
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We’re dropping an episode from one of our favorite podcasts, Unexplainable. In it, host Emily Siner explores deceptively simple questions: What is a musical note? And how did something as fundamental as the note A become standardized across the world?
It’s a story about science, history, and the hidden complexity behind the sounds we listen to every day.
0:47 The note that the orchestra tunes to
3:05 What is the current standard for the note A?
6:57 Why would we standardize A?
15:16 The history of pitch standards
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- Tucker Carlson tried to talk Trump out of the Iran war #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- President Trump has not made a coherent case for the attacks on Iran.
Now, one of his most loyal allies is making a forceful argument against the war. Tucker Carlson tells Today, Explained host Noel King that he met with Trump several times in the weeks before the conflict began. But his warnings were not heeded.
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- Tucker Carlson on the conservatives’ Nazi problem #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Tucker Carlson invited conservative provocateur Nick Fuentes on his show last October. Fuentes is part of a growing number of young, conservative men sharing openly antisemitic, racist, and misogynistic ideas online. But Carlson’s critics say he went easy on Fuentes, which lent his ideas legitimacy.
Today, Explained host Noel King asked Carlson about this emerging type of young conservative, and Carlson points to discrimination against white people as the real problem.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/484709/iran-war-tucker-carlson-donald-trump-america-first
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- The end of birthright citizenship as we know it?
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Is the Supreme Court considering a radical reinterpretation of the 14th amendment?
President Donald Trump has been on a crusade to end birthright citizenship for years. Challenging the long-held legal consensus that anyone born in the United States is granted citizenship, he signed an executive order stripping that right away from the children of undocumented parents and temporary visa holders.
The executive order after returning to the White House set in motion a series of lawsuits challenging Trump’s ability to make sweeping changes to birthright citizenship. And now it’s headed to the Supreme Court in a case called Trump v. Barbara.
The 14th Amendment was passed to guarantee citizenship to freed enslaved people and their children, but was later clarified to apply to anybody born on US soil with a few very specific exceptions. For well over 100 years, birthright citizenship has been enshrined in the Constitution with that understanding.
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- Does eating tofu impact your masculinity? #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Despite what internet trolls might say, eating plant-based protein does not make you any less “manly.” Eating soy foods doesn’t change men’s hormonal makeup, and it’s well-established that soy products are not only safe to eat but also confer a number of health benefits, especially when replacing processed and red meats.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/484276/meat-tofu-masculinity-plant-based-carnivore-diet
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- Lindy West's memoir and why people are mad at polyamory #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Millennial feminist Lindy West's new memoir is about her path to polyamory. Cue the backlash — to West, her husband, and the idea of polyamory itself.
Today, Explained host Noel King speaks with Slate culture journalist Scaachi Koul about why so many people are so invested in West’s polyamorous relationship. #LindyWest #news
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- Why humans need to matter
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Why do humans have this deep need to feel like we matter?
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Sean Illing talks with the philosopher Rebecca Goldstein about why “mattering” is not the same thing as being important, how the hunger for validation can go really, really badly, and the different ways we try to justify our lives to ourselves. Love. God. Winning. Greatness. Service.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Rebecca Goldstein, author of The Mattering Instinct
Chapter Titles
1:13 Why do we want to matter?
8:39 How important are other people in our quest to matter?
14:48 Why are we so needy?
21:08 What are the different ways to matter?
31:18 What happens when a “mattering project” fails?
32:26 What does it mean to matter in politics?
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- Yes, we all have accents #shorts
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- 1 month ago
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- Whether or not you “pahk the cah in Harvahd Yahd” or refer to a group of people as y’all, you have an accent. In fact, we all do, and we can learn a lot about people from the way they talk.
Host Jonquilyn Hill talks with experts about how we get our accents in the latest episode of the Explain It to Me podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Will the stock market decide the outcome of the Iran war? #shorts
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- 1 month ago
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- John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, does not think the president has thought through the implications the war in Iran will have on the economy.
He told Vox’s Astead Herndon that the Trump administration seems to be “scrambling after the fact.” You can watch their full interview wherever you get your podcasts or here on YouTube.
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- Was there an imminent threat from Iran? #shorts
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- 1 month ago
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- “How soon could Iran get nuclear weapons? About 72 hours by sending a wire transfer to the central bank in Pyongyang, North Korea, and having North Korea deliver one of their warheads,” said John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser.
He spoke with Vox’s Astead Herndon about whether or not there was an imminent threat from Iran ahead of the war for this week’s Saturday episode of Today, Explained.
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- John Bolton says Trump has lost the Iran war hawks | Today, Explained
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- 1 month ago
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- Ambassador John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pushed for war with Iran for 20 years — but not like this. For years, even decades, John Bolton has argued for regime change in Iran and for America to take a proactive military role to make that happen. Bolton served as the US ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush and, later, as national security advisor to Donald Trump during his first term.
The partnership with Trump was fleeting, however. He did not leave the administration on good terms and has been a critic of Trump since. He’s even been indicted by Trump’s Department of Justice for the mishandling of classified documents. Despite that back story, it is still a bit confusing to hear one of America’s foremost Iran critics break with the Trump administration on this war. How did Trump lose the Republican party’s biggest Iran War Hawk? And why?
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- How Trump is mishandling the war in Iran #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has been advocating for military action to topple Iran’s regime for decades. But he didn’t want it to go like this.
Bolton sat down with Vox’s Astead Herndon to explain why he has become critical of Trump’s war with Iran, and what he wished the president had done differently.
You can watch their full interview on Saturday, here on YouTube.
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- Is moving in together overrated? #shorts
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- 1 month ago
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- Is moving in with your significant other overrated?
For generations, we’ve been taught that after you meet someone and fall in love, you eventually have to move in together. — because moving in is a signal that the relationship is serious.
But a growing number of couples are opting out of that last step. Meet Mike and Susan. They’ve been together for 23 years but have never lived together… and they don’t plan to.
This arrangement has a name: living apart together, or LAT, and it’s more common than you might think. Watch the full video here on YouTube to learn about Mike and Susan’s love story.
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- A brief update on the AI apocalypse
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- 1 month ago
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- Something is definitely happening in the AI world, but how seriously should we take it? Is this another hype cycle or a genuine inflection point?
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Sean Illing talks with journalist Kelsey Piper (formerly of Vox, now at The Argument) about what’s changed, why AI “agents” are a different beast than yesterday’s chatbots, and why the debate is stuck between two lazy positions: total panic or total shrug. They get into the incentives driving the labs, what “alignment” even means, and why the real fear isn’t Terminator-style robots, but powerful systems sliding into everything before we’re ready.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc)
2:39 Recent changes to AI
6:35 AI models and blackmail in a controlled setting
14:36 AI agents versus LLMs
19:33 Are we building machines that will surpass us?
23:30 Who’s responsible for re...
- Title
- Why some couples are happier living apart
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- For generations, we’ve been taught that if you want to move a relationship forward, you have to follow a specific set of steps: Meet someone, fall in love, and eventually, move in together. Because moving in is a signal that the relationship is serious.
But a growing number of couples are opting out of that last step. Mike and Susan have been together for 23 years, but they’ve never lived together…and they don’t plan to.
This arrangement has a name: “living apart together” (or LAT), and it’s more common than you might think. Between 2000 and 2019, the number of married couples living separately rose by more than 25 percent. And it’s particularly popular with couples later in life, generally people in their 50s or 60s who are retired.
So if sharing a home is the ultimate sign of love and commitment, why are some couples deciding not to do it at all? And is living together actually the best model for every relationship? Or is it jus...
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- Could AI actually be an antidote for social media misinformation? #shorts
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Social media has fractured the public discourse, shepherding us into our own bespoke streams of information, tailored to maximize our attention and reinforce our prejudices. Many think that AI will only accelerate these trends. But what if AI is, in some respects, the antidote to social media?
Eric Levitz discusses how LLMs could be an antidote to social media madness and give us a small push towards a shared, fact-based reality. Why? It’s not because Sam Altman and other AI CEOs are more ethical than social media moguls. Rather, it’s that AI companies have business incentives to facilitate the spread of accurate information, while social media platforms just don’t.
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- Robot umpires are here — so how long do human umpires have? #shorts
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- 1 month ago
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- MLB just introduced robot umpires. It looks like the perfect compromise, but tennis tried the same thing, and human line judges are already gone. Is baseball next? Bryan Walsh breaks it down in his Future Perfect newsletter: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/483730/major-league-baseball-umpires-ai-robot-work
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- The origins of the carrot vision myth actually lie in World War II #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- We all heard the myth while growing up: Carrots are good for your eyesight. Or maybe even: Carrots can make you see in the dark. But where did this myth come from? And is there any basis in science?
It turns out that carrots are chock-full of vitamin A, which is necessary for vision. But most people today get enough vitamin A in their normal diet, and eating an excess of the orange vegetable won’t boost your eyesight or grant you night vision. In fact, consuming more vitamin A than your body can handle (via supplements instead of natural fruits and vegetables) can be detrimental to your health.
The origins of this common myth actually lie in World War II.
Vox producer Nate Krieger spoke to an ophthalmologist and a World War II propaganda historian to uncover the surprising origins of the carrot vision myth.
This video is presented by @stonyfield . Stonyfield Organics doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but they make...
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- How we fell for carrot propaganda
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- We all heard the myth while growing up: Carrots are good for your eyesight. Or maybe even: Carrots can make you see in the dark. But where did this myth come from? And is there any basis in science?
It turns out that carrots are chock-full of vitamin A, which is necessary for vision. But most people today get enough vitamin A in their normal diet, and eating an excess of the orange vegetable won’t boost your eyesight or grant you night vision. In fact, consuming more vitamin A than your body can handle (via supplements instead of natural fruits and vegetables) can be detrimental to your health.
The origins of this common myth actually lie in World War II.
During the Blitz (the German Luftwaffe’s bombing campaign against London and other British cities), the British government had several important reasons to persuade both its citizens and the wider world that eating carrots improved eyesight. The Ministry of Information and Ministry of Food...
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- The biggest peach myth in America #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Peaches are one of America’s most recognizable fruits. In the US, hundreds of thousands of tons are produced each year, and the fruit is closely tied to one place in particular: Georgia.
The Georgia peach is on license plates, road signs, and even county names. But today, the state doesn’t grow the most peaches — not even close.
Head over to YouTube.com/Vox to watch the full video and learn about how peaches became a state symbol, how that reputation spread through active mythmaking, and why the Georgia peach identity has lasted even as the industry changed.
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- Why Rep. Nancy Pelosi opposes the Save Act
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi explains why she “absolutely, totally, completely” opposes the Save America Act.
In front of a live audience on stage at SXSW in Austin, Rep. Pelosi answers a Vox audience member’s question about whether or not she supports the Save America Act. She tells host Astead Herndon that the Save Act will make it more difficult for all Americans – including Republicans – to vote.
You can watch their full interview on Saturday at 8 am here on YouTube.
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- Nancy Pelosi explains her optimism | Today, Explained
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Nancy Pelosi's record of impact is undeniable. Over more than three decades in Congress, she is frequently cited among the effective legislative operators of her generation. Pelosi held together the votes for the Affordable Care Act, twice ascended to the speaker's chair, and built a fundraising machine that reshaped how her party competes.
Last week, at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Vox’s Astead Herndon spoke with Pelosi about that record. In front of a packed crowd of innovators at the Vox Media Podcast Stage, he asked Pelosi about key moments in her career, her unshakable faith in the American electorate, and the outlook for November's midterm elections.
Pelosi is preparing to leave Congress at the end of this term, and it comes at a time of profound uncertainty for the Democratic Party. Republicans control the White House. Her party's polling favorability has reached historic lows, and a once solid liberal majority seems to be fraying on lines of...
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- Why is Nancy Pelosi so optimistic?
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi maintains her optimism about America, even in times of political violence and chaos.
In front of a live audience on stage at SXSW in Austin, Rep. Pelosi (D-CA) spoke with Vox’s Astead Herndon about how the vision of America’s founders continues to drive her hope in the United States. Even after a mob came after her threatening to “put a bullet in my f-word head,” she said, she still continues to believe in the essential goodness of the American people.
You can watch their full interview on Saturday at 8am ET here on YouTube.
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- Title
- How joining a sports team later in life could be the secret to living longer #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- For more than 20 years, the Granny Basketball League has showcased the 1920s women's 6-on-6 game of basketball complete with the classic rules and “bloomer” uniforms.
From humble beginnings in Iowa, the league has gone national with over 50 teams and an annual tournament. It provides fierce competition and fun for players and fans, but it’s also redefining how retirees find purpose. Research shows it might even be helping them live longer.
Our lifestyles evolve as we get older, but we’re always seeking connection, better health, and forward momentum. For the ladies of the Granny Basketball League, being on a team checks all these boxes.
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- Are team sports the secret to living longer?
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- For more than 20 years, the Granny Basketball League has showcased the 1920s women's 6-on-6 game of basketball complete with the classic rules and “bloomer” uniforms.
From humble beginnings in Iowa, the league has gone national with over 50 teams and an annual tournament. It provides fierce competition and fun for players and fans, but it’s also redefining how retirees find purpose. Research shows it might even be helping them live longer.
Our lifestyles evolve as we get older, but we’re always seeking connection, better health, and forward momentum. For the ladies of the Granny Basketball League, being on a team checks all these boxes.
Read more about the Granny Basketball League and the health benefits of team sports:
Visit the official Granny Basketball League website: https://www.grannybasketball.com/
Read the US surgeon general’s 2023 Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community: htt...
- Title
- The biggest peach myth in America
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Peaches are one of America’s most recognizable fruits. In the US, hundreds of thousands of tons are produced each year, and the fruit is closely tied to one place in particular: Georgia.
The Georgia peach is on license plates, road signs, and even county names. But today, the state doesn’t grow the most peaches. Not even close.
This video explores how peaches became a state symbol, how that reputation spread through active mythmaking, and why the Georgia peach identity has lasted even as the industry changed.
Read more about the history of the Georgia peach:
The Georgia Peach Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South, William Thomas Okie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georgia-peach/714FA4E59376F142CD71F9E2742E6C61
“The Georgia Peach: A Labor History,” JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-georgia-peach-a-labor-history/
“The Un-Pretty History Of Georgia's Iconic Peach,” NPR htt...
