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NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on his political ambitions
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- NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on his political ambitions
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- 4 months ago
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- Vox’s Astead Herndon sits down with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani one-on-one at his transition headquarters. Is there a “Mamdani wing” of the Democratic Party? Is his goal to spread progressivism — and even socialism — across the US?
Herndon asks Mamdani those questions and much more. Vox’s Patreon supporters will get to see the full video interview first, on Sunday, December 28. Subscribe now to be alerted as soon as it publishes: patreon.com/vox
You can also catch the interview – including some exclusive reporting – on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast on Monday, December 29 wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Why Trump’s MAGA is experiencing so much infighting
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- 5 months ago
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- Just a year after Donald Trump’s return to power, cracks are forming inside MAGA. The movement that once felt unstoppable is now plagued by infighting, disillusionment, and growing criticism of Trump himself. In this Reporter Extra, Vox senior correspondent Andrew Prokop, who recently reported a story on the fractures within the MAGA movement, goes deeper and explores how the defeat of “wokeness” has left MAGA without a common enemy — and why that victory may be accelerating internal conflict and threatening the future of the coalition.
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- Politicians should be judged by whether or not they deliver, regardless of their party.
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- 5 months ago
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- Politicians should be judged by whether or not they deliver, regardless of their party. In this conversation with Today, Explained co-host Astead Herndon, Ezra Klein discusses his new book and the idea of “abundance,” and how leaders should be actually creating for their constituents. To hear the full conversation, listen to this episode on Today, Explained, wherever you get your podcasts.
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- This town has three nuclear plants. Now it wants another one
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- 5 months ago
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- The town of Oswego, New York, has three nuclear power plants within 10 miles — and it wants another one. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced a commitment to add a gigawatt of nuclear power to the New York state grid, partially to meet the electricity demands of the booming AI industry. And Oswego is vying to be chosen as a site for this new power plant.
To find out more about why Oswego is so eager for nuclear — and what would happen next if it’s chosen — Vox video producer Nate Krieger traveled there to meet with the mayor of Oswego and see the nuclear power plants up close.
There are a lot of benefits to adding more nuclear energy to the grid: The average US nuclear power station can provide enough electricity to support 1.4 million homes. Nuclear power operates 24/7 and doesn’t generate carbon emissions or traditional air pollution. Plus, these plants create hundreds of jobs.
But disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernoby...
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- How the Smoky Mountains show the link between land and identity #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- The Great Smoky Mountains are famous for their blue smoke, but to truly appreciate them, you have to take a look for yourself and go beyond the haze.
Vox traveled to the Smokies to explore how these mountains get their iconic blue, hazy effect and how the Cherokee people, whose presence in the region dates back thousands of years, are connected to one of the country’s most impressive national parks. #greatsmokymountains #smoky #smokies #usnps #nationalpark
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- What makes the Great Smoky Mountains smoky?
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- 5 months ago
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- The Great Smoky Mountains is the most visited national park in the United States. Located on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina and spanning more than 500,000 acres, the vast landscape is in the heart of historic Cherokee homeland.
But how did this iconic landscape get its name?
Vox traveled to the Smokies to explore how these mountains get their iconic blue, hazy effect and how the Cherokee people, whose presence in the region dates back thousands of years, are connected to one of the nation’s most impressive natural spaces.
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- 6 tips for giving back this holiday season #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- With everything going on in the world, and the endless number of people asking for help, how do you decide where to donate your money and your time? Future Perfect fellow Sara Herschander covers philanthropy and issues like global finance systems. She shares six tips on making the most meaningful donations this holiday season.
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- What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- It’s not always the most wonderful time of the year.
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Every December, we’re told to be merry and stay positive. But a lot of us don’t feel that way. And when we don’t, the pressure to be happy makes everything worse. Sadness feels like failure. Grief feels like a personal mistake. Depression becomes something to hide.
But what if dark moods aren’t problems to fix? What if they’re part of being human?
Today’s guest is philosopher Mariana Alessandri, author of Night Vision, a book about how to honor the emotions we usually try to outrun. It’s not a celebration of sadness, but Alessandri instead challenges the culture of toxic positivity and the idea that happiness is something we’re supposed to choose on command.
Sean and Mariana talk about why Americans are addicted to the light, why “cheering peo...
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- How Tennessee led the charge for statewide free college tuition programs #shorts
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- It’s no secret that student loan debt and the cost of attending college are national problems. In the last 30 years, the average price of four-year public and private college tuition has nearly doubled. Along with it, federal student loan debt has skyrocketed to $1.8 trillion. You’ve probably heard a buzzworthy solution: make college tuition free.
While voices pitching “free college” programs tend to be the loudest on the progressive left, it’s actually a red state that was the first to enact a statewide Promise Program.
Watch the full first episode of What’s Working, a video series that uncovers creative policy solutions at the state and local level that are improving the lives of Americans, exclusively on Vox’s Patreon. #freetuition #studentloans #collegetuition
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- A shocking observation from Trump’s inauguration #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Today, Explained host Noel King looks back with co-host Astead Herndon on what it was like to cover President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in our very first Patreon Q&A. Watch the entire video on Vox’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/astead-herndon-145142232?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share
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- Brains build mental bridges...and demolish them. #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Our brains do some wild things… 🧠Unexplainable host and senior correspondent Byrd Pinkerton explores how your brains form connections and then prunes them back over time. Learn more about this by listening to the “Diary of a Teenage Brain” series on the Unexplainable podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. #brain #neuroscience
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- Why you don’t have to forgive | The Gray Area
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- 5 months ago
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- You have to forgive people who wrong you…right?
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The world is filled with injustice and wrongdoing, and to live in the world — to not be consumed by anger — forgiveness is necessary. At least that’s what we’re told over and over again: By forgiving, we can set ourselves free.
But is there a cost to forgiveness? Are we forgiving too quickly and too often?
Today’s guest is philosopher Myisha Cherry, whose book Failures of Forgiveness critiques our cultural obsession with forgiving those who have done us wrong. She’s not against forgiveness — that would be weird — but she says we ought to be more intentional about why we do it, more aware that the expectation to practice forgiveness often lands on the most vulnerable people, and more concerned about what gets lost when we treat forgiveness as the only path to hea...
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- What if AI took over our jobs? #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- What would you do if you didn’t have to work anymore? That’s a future some AI optimists say is on the horizon.
Dazed magazine writer Thom Waite joined Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill to talk about the things AI should take over — and what it should leave to us. #AI #OptimusRobot #Robots
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- Why gooning is like freebasing content #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Daniel Kolitz, author of “The Goon Squad,” explains why gooning — an extreme form of masturbation — isn’t just about an emerging subculture’s choice of porn, but rather how all of us are consuming media and behaving toward each other in ways we might not like.
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- What Bogotá figured out about care work that the US still hasn’t #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Bogotá’s radical experiment — community centers designed to ease the burden of caregiving — could become a blueprint for cities around the world. Vox’s senior policy correspondent Rachel Cohen Booth travelled down there to see how. #childcare #careblocks #bogotá #colombia #communitycenters
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- Why the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be a cultural moment #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Astead Herndon shared his excitement for next year’s FIFA World Cup with co-host Noel King during a Patreon-exclusive Q&A. In 2026, the World Cup will be hosted in the US, Mexico, and Canada, and Trump already made a splash by receiving FIFA’s inaugural peace prize.
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- Is the US at war with Venezuela? #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Watching the US’s conflict with Venezuela unfold, many are left asking: Are we at war? While some Trump administration hawks have wanted the US to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro out of office for years, the ostensible justification for the military buildup in the Caribbean — and the related ongoing campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats — is that the US is under siege from deadly narcotics pushed by Venezuelan “narcoterrorists.” Senior correspondent Joshua Keating breaks down what you need to know. #venezuela #narco #narcoterrorists #war
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- Watch snippets of our first Patreon Q&A #shorts
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- 2025 recap Q&A: out of context edition 💛✨
Want to know what Today, Explained hosts Astead Herndon and Noel King were really talking about? Find out what they had to say about the past year (and the year ahead) exclusively on Vox’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/astead-herndon-145142232?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share
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- Who are the gooners? | The Gray Area
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- 5 months ago
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- Sean’s guest today is Daniel Kolitz, author of a remarkable Harper’s story on “gooning.”
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They talk about this emerging subculture and how it reflects back on the larger world, from the economics of attention to the rise of short-form everything. Kolitz explains why the Gooniverse isn’t just about porn, how hyperkinetic media rewires our sense of pleasure and patience, and why this is really a story about how society is changing in ways we might not like.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Daniel Kolitz, author of The Goon Squad
00:00 Intro
00:56 What in the world is gooning?
09:00 Gooners are distressingly normal
14:26 It scares the hell outta me
22:32 It's like freebasing content
24:36 Is this where the internet was always going?
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- People label themselves as introverts or extroverts. But they’re usually somewhere in the middle.
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- 5 months ago
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- You may think you’re definitely an introvert because you like to cozy up at home with a nice book. Or that you’re 100% an extrovert because you keep a busy social calendar. But, while people can be introverted or extroverted, they’re typically a mix of both.
Researcher Shannon Sauer-Zavala joined Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill to discuss the wide continuum of personalities and how you can change your traits if you want. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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- America’s vaccine playbook is being rewritten by people who don’t believe in them #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- The US government is ending its recommendation that every infant receive a hepatitis B vaccination at birth, the most substantive change to the childhood immunization schedule yet under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott breaks down how the decision was made and what the implications are for parents.
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- The dark reality behind Trump’s anti-immigrant rants #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- The Trump administration is now openly advancing a worldview built by alt-right white nationalists in the 2010s. At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump railed against Somali immigrants — saying “I don’t want them in our country” because America could “go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage.” This statement mirrors the alt-right idea that immigrants hailing from developing countries cannot under any circumstances adapt to America.
Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp breaks down the alt-right roots of the administration’s immigration policies.
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- Why we need so much lithium
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- 5 months ago
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- Lithium is being called the new “white gold.”
In 2022, the price of this metal soared to nearly $70,000 per metric ton. Fueled by the global rise in electric vehicles and the proliferation of lithium-ion batteries, we now use nearly 28 times more lithium per capita than in the 1990s. After China, the US is the world’s second-largest consumer of lithium, yet it mines less than one percent of the global supply.
To rectify this lack of domestic lithium, the US government approved a $2.26 billion loan in October 2025 to Lithium Americas, a Canadian company developing Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, the largest lithium deposit ever discovered in the United States. But this major investment may have come a little too late.
In this video, we’ll explore how lithium is fueling the “white gold rush” in Nevada, whether or not the government’s investment in Thacker Pass will pay off, and what the history of mining ghost towns can tell us about ...
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- Reporter Extra: What do the people behind ICE think about America?
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- 5 months ago
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- The Department of Homeland Security recently released a spree of ads recruiting for new hires at ICE. And those ads circle around one strange idea: that America is a damsel who needs strong, powerful men to protect her.
In this Reporter Extra, Vox senior culture correspondent Constance Grady unpacks the secret history behind ICE’s iconography. They’re pulling from some old and shameful American archetypes — and those archetypes come with racist and misogynistic baggage. To fully understand the story ICE is telling, we need to go all the way back to The Birth of a Nation, and all the way forward to the present-day trad wives on social media.
ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
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- AI data centers: Good, or bad? #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- The demand for AI infrastructure is driving a boom across the US for new data centers. Built out in converted industrial buildings or on former green space, these new real estate developments can be a mixed bag. On one hand, they create new jobs and bring in significant tax revenue. On the other, they can be unsightly and raise electricity prices. Across the US, including in suburban Philadelphia, locals are protesting these new data centers to bring awareness to how they can hurt their communities and the environment. Vox producer Miles Bryan interviewed locals in Conshohocken to learn more for this week’s episode of Today, Explained. #data #ai #protest #local
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- How is progress measured? | The Gray Area
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- 5 months ago
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- We’ve never had more wealth, more data, or more ways to be entertained. So why doesn’t it feel like progress?
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Sean’s guest today is Brad DeLong, an economic historian at UC Berkeley and author of Slouching Towards Utopia. They talk about the difference between getting richer and living well, and why the real hinge of the 21st century might be attention rather than growth. DeLong explains how AI could make life easier or simply make us more distracted, why the world’s progress continues even as American politics falters, and what smart policy could do for the people left behind by technological change.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: J. Bradford DeLong, economic historian and author of Slouching Towards Utopia
This episode was supported by a grant from Arnold Ventures. Vox had full discretion over the content of this reporting.
00:00 Intro
00:43 Wh...
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- Will the Voting Rights Act survive the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais? #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed America, marking the end of the Jim Crow era and effectively banning racial discrimination in elections.
This video explains how, 60 years later, a redistricting case out of Louisiana called Louisiana v. Callais has the potential to upend the Voting Rights Act and political representation for a generation.
Join our community on Patreon to watch the full episode. For every annual membership purchased between now and the end of the year, we’ll gift a free annual membership to someone who can’t afford one. #voting #scotus #elections #votingrightsact #politics #vox #patreon
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- Hypertension is a silent killer. Here’s how to look out for it. #shorts
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- 5 months ago
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- Mashed potatoes, turkey, mac and cheese… While these are all delicious Thanksgiving Day foods, they can also be instigators of one of the most prevalent silent killers in the US: hypertension. So, as you get ready to sit down and celebrate with your loved ones, check if you’re at risk and use these tips from Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott for keeping your blood pressure down. #hypertension #bloodpressure #thanksgiving #health #highbloodpressure
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- Reporter Extra: Chatbots Are Designed to Please You — Here’s Why That’s a Problem
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- 6 months ago
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- Vox senior technology correspondent Adam Clark Estes has a cautionary tale about chatbots.
What started as using AI for tedious chores — meal plans, grocery lists, quick research — quietly morphed into hours talking to a chatbot. And Adam isn’t alone. As chatbots get better at flattery, emotional support, and companionship, researchers are seeing more users (including teens) slip into dependency without realizing it.
Adam unpacks how chatbots are designed to keep us coming back, why young people are especially vulnerable, and what happens when adults can’t walk away — in some cases, leading to severe mental health crises.
This is the first episode of Reporter Extras, a new Patreon-exclusive Vox video series that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how our journalists create their work.
If you value this kind of in-depth journalism, join Vox on Patreon to unlock the full episode, get unlimited access to Vox.com, and suppor...
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- Call this hotline in case of a Thanksgiving turkey fail #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line has heard it all: from turkeys catching fire to entire garbage disposal lids being nuked in the oven.
On this week’s episode of our podcast Explain It to Me, Gwen Carlyle of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line tells host Jonquilyn Hill ways to avoid a chaotic holiday. They also get into how turkey became a Thanksgiving staple in the first place, and how to have a tasty dinner without feeling sick afterward. #thanksgiving #turkey #cooking #butterball
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- MAGA successfully bullied Trump into releasing the Epstein files #shorts
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- 6 months ago
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- The Epstein files have united the left and right, forcing President Donald Trump to reverse course and release the documents after months of calling the demands a hoax. Host and editorial director Astead Herndon cuts through the noise to make sense of what led to this U-turn from Trump. #MAGA #Trump #Epstein
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- Having mixed feelings? How to overcome relationship ambivalence. #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Having mixed feelings about your relationship is very common, and it can come and go in phases. You may move through periods where you feel confident your partner sees you, hears you, understands you, and other times where the connection is strained. Vox correspondent Allie Volpe breaks down how to get out of a period of ambivalence — or when to know it’s time to leave. #Relationships #Ambivalence #Partnership
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- How to make life’s toughest decisions #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- If you’re relying on a simple pro/con list to make some of the biggest decisions of your life, you’re selling yourself short. As the philosopher Ruth Chang points out, life-altering choices are rarely straightforward, and often neither option is superior. Instead of trying to quantify the unquantifiable, consider who you want to become — and how each path might shape your character, your values, and your future. #philosophy #proscons
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- Should salmon farming be our future? #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Is it possible to eat meat and still care about this planet? Many have argued that aquaculture — or fish farming — is one of the most sustainable ways we can consume animal protein, since it requires less land use. It’s currently the quickest-growing form of food production in the world. But how exactly does it work? And is it really the best path forward? To find out more, Vox video producer Nate Krieger did a deep dive on salmon aquaculture.
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- What is Friendsgiving? #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Thanksgiving is arguably one of the yummiest celebrations in the US and one where you’re expected to be home for the holidays. But, what are your options when going home isn’t one? In recent decades, Friendsgiving has emerged as the go-to choice as an additional event or complete alternative to Thanksgiving.
This video is presented by T-Mobile 5G Home Internet. T-Mobile doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but their support does make our reporting possible.
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- Astead Herndon joins Vox!
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Our Vox family just got bigger! 💛 Astead Herndon, the award-winning political journalist and former host of the New York Times’ podcast The Run-up has joined Vox as a host and editorial director. He will be a multi-platform journalist, contributing to Vox’s text, audio, and video journalism to help break down what’s going on in American politics, what the stakes are, and why it matters — all in his voice.
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- Keep your down payment — you may be better off renting #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- On this week’s episode of the Explain It to Me podcast, host Jonquilyn Hill talks to Jerusalem Demsas, founder of The Argument, who says that homeownership is overhyped, overrated, and that more people should consider renting instead. #americandream #renters #buyers #housingmarket
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- You’re not awkward — the world is | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- We all know what awkwardness feels like. It's that jolt of discomfort when the social script breaks down, and no one knows what to do next. But what if awkwardness isn’t a flaw to fix but a window into how we live together?
Sean’s guest today is Alexandra Plakias, associate professor of philosophy at Hamilton College and author of Awkwardness: A Theory. They talk about why awkwardness isn’t a personal problem but a social one, how power and privilege shape who gets to be awkward, and why our fear of discomfort often keeps us from saying what really matters.
This episode originally aired in November of 2024.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Alexandra Plakias, associate professor of philosophy and author of Awkwardness: A Theory
0:00 Intro
11:59 It's okay to be uncertain
14:07 What is the difference between awkward and cringey?
19:46 What are the most common awkward experiences?
22:40 Awkwardne...
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- Friendsgiving, explained
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Thanksgiving is arguably one of the yummiest celebrations in the US and one where you’re expected to be home for the holidays. But, what are your options when going home isn’t one? In recent decades, Friendsgiving has emerged as the go-to choice as an additional event or complete alternative to Thanksgiving.
It can be tough during the holidays with the pressures of trying to get everything just right to present yourself as a well-adjusted adult hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, or to be present with family that may think they know what’s best for you. Friendsgiving has opened the door to do things a little bit differently. The intention is to have a laid-back, low-pressure (or over-the-top, totally up to the host) potluck-style dinner with friends and other people in your chosen community — because as cheesy as it sounds, friends are the new family.
Friendsgiving was seemingly plucked from obscurity in the 2010s. While its exact origins are debated, it...
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- The case that could set us back 60 years (Preview of new exclusive series)
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- We’re excited to share with you a preview of the first episode of The Docket, a Patreon-exclusive Vox video series covering Supreme Court cases that could alter the fabric of American life. Head over to patreon.com/vox to subscribe and watch the first episode of The Docket, available now.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed America, marking the end of the Jim Crow era and effectively banning racial discrimination in elections. We’ll explain how, 60 years later, a redistricting case out of Louisiana called Louisiana v. Callais has the potential to upend the Voting Rights Act and political representation for a generation.
You’ll continue to find our work here on YouTube, but by supporting us on patreon.com/vox, you get more of the in-depth video storytelling we’re passionate about making.
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- There’s a way to listen to the sounds of space #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- “In space, no one can hear you scream.” At least according to the movie Alien from 1979.
But there actually is a way to listen to space. Astronomers use things called “sonifications,” where they translate data into sound. This visualization is a sonification made by scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the center of the Milky Way. The piano represents infrared light, the violin represents visible light, and the glockenspiel represents X-ray light. And scientists we spoke to say listening to things like this can sometimes be better than looking at images for noticing new phenomena in space. #sound #space #nasa #violin #piano #glockenspiel #unexplainable #podcast
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- How much effort is too much to keep your romance afloat?
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Relationships are always going to have rough patches that require some mending. But how much work is warranted, and when should you throw in the towel? Vox correspondent Allie Volpe breaks down the things to keep in mind as you evaluate your relationships. #relationships #healthyrelationships #romanticpartner #family #friends
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- Title
- The salmon dilemma
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Earth’s population is growing. We’re expected to have 2 billion more mouths to feed by 2050. But how can we feed all those people in a way that is still sustainable and ethical? Many have argued that aquaculture (or fish farming) is one of the most sustainable ways we can consume animal protein, since it requires less land use. It’s currently the quickest-growing form of food production in the world. But how exactly does it work? And is it really the best path forward?
To find out more, Vox video producer Nate Krieger went down the rabbit hole on salmon aquaculture. Salmon is currently the most popular fish in the US: The average American consumes 3.2 pounds of salmon annually. And over 70% of that salmon comes from farms, totalling 3 million tons of salmon a year.
To understand the impact that the salmon industry is having on our planet and our future, and on the salmon themselves, we spoke to industry insiders, marine biologists, and fish welfare exp...
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- Far-right "Groypers" are dividing America's conservatives
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Followers of the antisemitic, racist, misogynist influencer Nick Fuentes, known as Groypers, are dividing conservatives. On one hand, they're young — a demographic that conservatives wish to cultivate; on the other hand, they spread harmful rhetoric that tarnishes the movement’s reputation.
Jonah Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of conservative online publication The Dispatch, spoke with Today, Explained co-host Noel King to discuss conservatives’ Nazi problem.
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- That ringing sound in your ear might actually be a problem #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Ever come back from a concert and have a ringing sound in your ears…for days? That sound is often known as tinnitus, and sometimes, it doesn’t go away.
Tinnitus isn’t always detected in a hearing test. Recent studies have shown that it might be a problem called hidden hearing loss. We’re still learning a lot about how our brains process sound, which is why we went deep into this topic with a four-part series called “The Sound Barrier” over on the Unexplainable Podcast. #tinnitus #ears #hearing #hearingloss
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“The noise that isn’t there.”
https://megaphone.link/VMP3538229909
Read more about hidden hearing loss:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46741-5
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- Here’s how to protect your testicles
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- For Movember, a month when we try to put the focus on men’s health, because men are often reluctant to do that, we should talk frankly about testicular cancer.
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- What 'Orwellian' really means | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- We use “Orwellian” to describe everything from campus dust-ups to authoritarian crackdowns. But what did George Orwell actually stand for, what did he get wrong, and what can we learn from him about our age of surveillance capitalism and distraction?
Sean’s guest is Laura Beers, historian at American University and author of Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century. They dig into Orwell’s defense of truth over ideology, his crusade against euphemism, his experience with propaganda and persecution in Spain, and why 1984 and Animal Farm only capture part of his project.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Laura Beers, historian and author of Orwell’s Ghosts
00:00 Intro
05:52 Truth in political speech
11:01 Doublethink: holding two mutually contradictory ideas in your head
12:35 Orwell did not support the women's movement
17:27 Colonialism and Orwell's essay: Shooting an Elephant
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- Is there a solution for rising health care premiums?
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Open enrollment is here, which means people all over the US are picking and choosing their health care plans. And, with health insurance premiums getting more expensive, many Americans are struggling to choose the plan that protects them the most while costing their wallet the least. Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott spoke with Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill about some of his recent reporting on the rising cost of health care.
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- Why Trump’s environmental regulations are raising car prices
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- You don’t have to be in the market for a new vehicle to notice that both buying cars and owning them is getting more expensive. Trump is suddenly rolling back efficiency rules, making it harder for many industries to do business while raising costs for ordinary Americans. And no one knows this better than the US auto industry, which has switched back and forth between competing environmental regulations for over a decade.
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- The Long Game
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- How does the White House handle crises across the world? Former top national security advisers Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer are giving you the inside scoop in their new podcast.
The Long Game is a new show from the Vox Media Podcast Network that will break down how these consequential decisions get made and why they matter. We’re sharing the first few episodes from Vox’s YouTube channel starting this Friday. Check out the trailer below.
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