Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson and critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff recommend Minari, starring Steven Yeun. It’s a beautiful drama about an immigrant family trying to start a vegetable farm in the Ozarks, based on the childhood recollections of writer and director Lee Isaac Chung. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zack, Jenn, and Alex break down one of the DC foreign policy world’s hottest new catchphrases: “great power competition.” It’s the idea that international politics in the 21st century will be dominated by a struggle for influence between the US, China, and (to a lesser extent) Russia. The gang talks about what the concept actually means and whether it’s a useful framework for understanding international politics today and in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...
Author Nicole Hemmer explains how Limbaugh transformed conservative politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vox's Sean Illing talks about the the little-known history of psychedelics and spirituality in the Western world with Brian Muraresku, author of The Immortality Key. What role did psychedelic drugs play in the rise and spread of Christianity — and could they save the church today? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
President Biden says he wants to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies? The El Paso Times’s Lauren Villagran explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Constance Grady suggests some reads that make you feel like you’re trapped in one of Hopper’s classic scenes: In Sunlight or in Shadow, Raymond Chandler books, and Play It as It Lays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Matt, Dara, and Vox's Emily Stewart ponder what will come next for the twice-impeached former president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Democrats made a strong impeachment case against Donald Trump. Republicans are being punished for supporting it. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Imagine waking up one day to find Google and all of its services gone. Gmail, search, Google Drive, YouTube, Google Home, Google Maps — all gone. In Australia, a world without Google might not be far off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When news broke of a possible Harry Potter TV series, not everyone seemed excited. Why J.K. Rowling’s transphobic statements are tarnishing the series’ legacy and making fans question the characters’ meaning and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 2020, the conversation around giving people money changed — namely, the federal government got much more on board with the idea. At the outset of the pandemic, the government sent out $1,200 checks, and then in December, Congress passed another round of $600 checks. Now, $1,400 checks are on the horizon. Vox senior correspondent Dylan Matthews explains the evolving politics around the government sending people money, how we got here, and whether these policies are likely to stick around. Lear...
The pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from dating, hooking up, or tying the knot. In fact, lockdown has been helping people get down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The movement to liberate Britney Spears from her conservatorship may not succeed, but it’s revealing a lot about how we treat young women. Vox’s Constance Grady explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the huge farmers’ protests in India. They explain the very real policy debate over new agricultural reform laws that sparked the protests, and how that debate has now been obscured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist politics, international celebrity activism, and online trolls. Oh, and they talk about Rihanna. Yes, that Rihanna. References: Vox’s Jariel Arvin explains the Indian farmers’ protest. And he also writes about why India’s government is mad...
A few weeks ago, Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff and film critic Alissa Wilkinson shared their favorite movies. This week they're back with their favorite shows: The Simpsons on Disney Plus (Emily) This classic has been on the air since 1989. Not all the jokes will fly today, but looking back on the comedy of the 1990s, The Simpsons seems to have aged the best. Since it's animated and the characters never age, it can continually comment on American life. And it will only take 258 days to w...
Sen. Mitt Romney wants to throw money at parents, Andrew Yang-style. President Biden is into it, too. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NPR journalist, memoirist, and host of the upcoming WBEZ podcast The Art of Power Aarti Shahani talks with Cecilia Muñoz, a former aide to Obama and part of Biden's transition team. It's a conversation about immigration policy reform and the challenges ahead for President Biden — and for a country wrestling with changing demographics, racism, and its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Picking up skating in your 30s and beyond, the trend stories tell us, signals some sort of desperation. You’re either going through a midlife crisis or trying to hide one if you think that awkwardly rolling around on a wooden toy, risking a hospital visit the entire time, is a good idea. Steve Rousseau considered all of this, and then decided not to worry about it. He bought a skateboard at the very start of the pandemic, and it’s the best money he’s ever spent. Learn more about your ad choices....
Poorer countries have received less than 1 percent of the Covid-19 vaccines distributed around the world. Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what the WHO is calling a “catastrophic moral failure.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vox culture writer Constance Grady explains why TV shows like Dragnet, Law & Order, Hawaii Five-0, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine always seem to feature police as heroes. She explains how police consultants became the go-to for procedurals, the police archetypes that saturate pop culture, and how cop shows are pivoting for 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vox's Ella Nilsen joins Matt and Dara to discuss the overlooked implications of Biden's rescue bill, and the debate surrounding it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Law professor Jeff Kosseff explains the long history of Section 230, the law that made the modern internet possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Now that Jeff Bezos is leaving his role as Amazon’s CEO, everyone’s wondering what the future holds for one of the wealthiest people in the world. Will he finally step up in the philanthropy world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nearly a year into the pandemic, the country still hasn’t quite figured out how to keep students and teachers safe at school. It’s largely been up to states, school districts, and teachers to figure out whether to keep schools open or switch to distance learning. Experts say measures like masks, ventilation, and testing can make schools safer — but those measures often require resources that schools don’t have. Vox’s Anna North explains what’s happening with schools during the pandemic, and whet...
Vox’s Andrew Prokop previews the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Welcome to the latest installment of Vox’s Ask a Book Critic, in which Vox book critic Constance Grady, provide book recommendations to suit your very specific mood: either how you’re feeling right now or how you’d like to be feeling instead. In today's episode, a caller from Colorado is searching for books that find joy in the daily minutiae. Constance recommends: Wintering by Catherine May Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelsohn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
The Redditors of WallStreetBets should maybe take a look at the 1990s before piling into their next trade. The GameStop saga has shed a light on the growing individual investing trend, brought about by commission-free trading, gamified apps, and a lot of down time during the pandemic. But like so many trends, this isn’t new: Day trading was super popular in the 1990s, when people were also looking on chat boards for stock tips and making speculative bets. Recode’s Peter Kafka puts the current da...
All Creatures Great and Small is PBS’s new adaptation of the book series about a young veterinarian in late 1930s rural England. It is comfort food TV right down to its bones, and it is comfort food TV that works. The seven-episode first season is full of heartwarming moments, camaraderie among townspeople, and adorable animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the recent coup in Myanmar, in which the Myanmarese military deposed the country’s quasi-democratic government and detained its civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, along with hundreds of members of her political party. References: Alex wrote an explainer on the Myanmar coup. Jen Kirby wrote about the laughable charges the military leveled against Aung Sang Suu Kyi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ten years ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire and set off a revolution across the Middle East. The Independent’s Borzou Daragahi says the Arab Spring never ended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
