Today, Explained

In this episode of the Go for Broke podcast, host Julia Furlan travels back to the mid-’90s to explain how a bygone web browser set the stage for modern tech.

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One of the most popular porn sites on the internet just purged more than 10 million videos. Vice’s Samantha Cole explains why.

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The Covid-19 vaccine is being distributed in the United States, and you have questions. Vox’s Umair Irfan has answers.

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The world’s biggest democracy is contending with what might be the world’s biggest labor stoppage.

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On this episode of the Decoder podcast, host Nilay Patel speaks with Shelli Taylor, the CEO of Alamo Drafthouse. Taylor argues the government has failed to manage the pandemic effectively for business owners and explains what the future of theaters could look like in the streaming age.

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Martin Kenyon was one of the first people to get the Covid-19 vaccine this week. He talks about his experience, and an epidemiologist explains how to talk to the “vaccine hesitant” people in your life.

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Joe won. And won. And won. Rudy can fail. And fail. And fail.

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Melbourne, Australia, had a first wave. Then it had a second wave. Then it decided it was done with Covid-19.

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In an end-of-year plot twist, Congress is working on a fresh bipartisan stimulus bill.

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Millions of women left the workforce as Covid-19 forced school closures, but that doesn’t mean they have less on their plates. Is government-funded child care the answer?

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