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The cost of PrEP
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Trump administration agree on one thing: the cost of HIV drugs is too high. Learn more ... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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23mins
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Plasmania
Covid’s hottest new treatment is plasma. Vox’s Umair Irfan explains why, and where the world stands on a vaccine.Transcr... Read more
25 Aug 2020
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23mins
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Can Congress reform the police?
The United States has a policing problem and Congress wants to fix it. Vox’s Li Zhou explains whether the Democrats’ new... Read more
10 Jun 2020
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25mins
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Elizabeth Warren needs a poster boy
Elizabeth Warren’s best bet to fight the opioid epidemic might be stealing a page from the battle against AIDS. Vox’s Ji... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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33mins
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Coronavirus, 365 days later
One year after our first episode on the novel coronavirus, Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what we got right, what we got wr... Read more
26 Jan 2021
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25mins
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A tribe called keto
Some say the Kardashian-endorsed keto diet craze that’s sweeping the nation could help fight epilepsy and cancer, too. V... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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21mins
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The Island of Explained: A Summer of Protest
All summer long, we have been explaining complex news stories to kids. In our final summer camp journey to the Island of... Read more
29 Aug 2020
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26mins
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The first impeachment vote
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31 Oct 2019
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21mins
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The Trump Years: Health of the nation
In the fourth of our five-part series, Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how a president with no plan on health care evolved in... Read more
29 Oct 2020
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35mins
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Pandemic?
Covid-19 may be on the brink of becoming a pandemic. Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what that p-word means and Brian Resnic... Read more
26 Feb 2020
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29mins
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The problem with police unions
Even after Derek Chauvin was captured on video killing George Floyd, he could still get his job back. BuzzFeed’s Melissa... Read more
3 Jun 2020
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23mins
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Is the stock market bull?
Vox’s Emily Stewart clears up the mystery of the market, and Ella Nilsen offers an update on the stimulus that has colla... Read more
3 Sep 2020
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22mins
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A step past impeachment
Impeachment won’t stop the United States’ slide towards authoritarianism. Voter reform might.Transcript at vox.com/today... Read more
12 Jan 2021
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26mins
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Covid-19, explained by Carl (who has it)
Carl Goldman was on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and now he has Covid-19. He speaks to Sean Rameswaram from a CDC qu... Read more
3 Mar 2020
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26mins
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Let’s talk about how to talk about Kobe
Kobe Bryant’s death stunned the world. Then people started arguing. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices.... Read more
30 Jan 2020
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23mins
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The view from Iran
Iran analyst Dina Esfandiary explains why the killing of Qassem Soleimani was “the greatest gift the Trump administratio... Read more
7 Jan 2020
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25mins
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All the mall things
Retail was struggling. Then came the virus. Recode’s Jason Del Rey explains how the American mall will never be the same... Read more
20 Nov 2020
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23mins
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"First Hong Kong, then the world"
While most of the world was distracted by the pandemic, China unveiled a law to strip Hong Kong of its autonomy, setting... Read more
27 May 2020
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18mins
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Today (should be a holiday), Explained
This Election Day, voter turnout is projected to break records in the United States, but it won’t get anywhere close to ... Read more
3 Nov 2020
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23mins
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#FreeBritney
The movement to liberate Britney Spears from her conservatorship may not succeed, but it’s revealing a lot about how we ... Read more
13 Feb 2021
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28mins