This Election Day, voter turnout is projected to break records in the United States, but it won’t get anywhere close to Australia’s. Professor Lisa Hill explains what happens when you make voting mandatory. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains how Joe Biden — or President Trump — could win 270 electoral votes. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the final episode of our five-part series, New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister and Vox’s Ezra Klein explain how four years of the Trump presidency have changed the American people and their politics. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the fourth of our five-part series, Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how a president with no plan on health care evolved into a president with no plan for the pandemic. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Election turnout is on track to be the highest in a century. Farmers, essential workers, prisoners, and two ladies named Ruth explain their 2020 presidential pick. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for mailed ballots. Good thing it’s not a swing state. Oh, wait ... Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alexis Akwagyiram, bureau chief for Reuters in Nigeria, explains how a protest to reform the country’s police made its way around the world. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the third of our five-part series, Vox’s Andrew Prokop says there’s one key takeaway from the Mueller investigation and impeachment: Trump will do anything to win an election. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bill Barr and Elizabeth Warren have found a common enemy. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Last Christmas, I gave you my health. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The 2020 election is well underway, as are efforts to prevent people from voting. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Live from New York, impressions are trite! Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff explains why late-night TV struggles to satirize President Trump, and argues the internet is doing a much better job. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the second of our five-part series, Vox’s Nicole Narea and Jenn Williams explain how President Trump has fundamentally changed the perception of the United States at home and abroad. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A Los Angeles magician struck gold with a glorified Zoom meeting. Some are asking if he’s figured out how to save theater. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The judge isn’t saying much in her confirmation hearing, but Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains how her legal theory will guide her on the Supreme Court. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Even if Democrats win the White House, take the Senate, and hold the House, most of their legislation could be doomed because of the filibuster. Vox’s Ezra Klein says it’s filibusted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the first of our five-part series, Vox’s Matthew Yglesias explains why President Donald Trump seldom boasts about his biggest accomplishment. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In June, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council stood onstage at a community rally and pledged to dismantle the police. Council member Alondra Cano returns to explain why it’s taking so long. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After months of downplaying the risks, the White House has come down with Covid-19. Vox’s Aaron Rupar gives the updates, and Future Perfect’s Sigal Samuel sifts through the moral complexities in the gleeful reactions. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump told a fringe group of misogynistic racists to “stand back and stand by” at the first presidential debate. Vox’s Jane Coaston explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump is battling Covid-19 and the vice-presidential debate is days away. McKay Coppins from the Atlantic explains the man waiting in the wings. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The president had a very busy week, then tested positive for the coronavirus. Vox’s Aaron Rupar traces his steps and Ella Nilsen explores the possible scenarios. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A forgotten protest movement in a seaside Florida town helped end legal segregation in the United States. Vox’s Ranjani Chakraborty explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
While it might feel as though nothing could be worse than last night’s presidential debate, Vox’s Ezra Klein explains what could happen if President Trump loses the election and refuses to leave office. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee first garnered attention after being questioned about her Catholic faith. Vox’s Ian Millhiser says that attention likely motivated her nomination. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
That's how much "billionaire" President Trump paid in federal income taxes his first year in office, according to reporting from the New York Times. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
One of the three officers who shot at Breonna Taylor’s apartment was indicted ... for endangering her neighbors. Tessa Duvall from the Louisville Courier-Journal explains. And Vox’s Fabiola Cineas says the ruling isn’t surprising. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With mounting concerns over the politicization of federal health agencies, Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why Americans should still trust the vaccine approval process. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What do a bus driver, a teacher, a McDonald’s employee, and a project manager with a conference on her calendar all have in common? Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Republicans appear ready to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the end of the year. Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains Democrats’ last defense. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
