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Big Bird got vaccinated, an Asian American Muppet moved in, and conservatives got really mad at Sesame Street. Today’s show was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution… Play episode

What happened to Peng Shuai
Unraveling Roe
Space trash
Omicron
Salmonella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Kyle Rittenhouse and the “self-defense” defense
The Future of Work: Retirement should be fun
Why it's hard to find rapid tests in the US
Is Zillow really buying all the houses?
Belarus manufactures a migrant crisis
Inflation nation
The Future of Work: The gig is up
China’s pursuit of ‘Zero Covid’
So I elected an Oath Keeper
Astroworld
Trillion-dollar Biden
OOO
The case for climate reparations
Sudan’s coup
School board brawl
For whom the door bells
“I quit!”
Facebook’s Meta-morphosis
Chappelle's Show(down with the trans community)
The Alec Baldwin shooting
Ruthless County, Tennessee
The Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis
Steve Bannon in contempt
Out of stock
What does Kyrsten Sinema want?
Iran’s hostage industrial complex
How the iPhone changed everything
How Squid Game won Netflix
Covid little pill
Why body cameras don’t work
The Fyre Festival of vaccine rollouts
A vaccine for malaria
Drill, baby, drill
The Facebook whistleblower
How do you do, fellow kids?
The $5,000 butt
The humanitarian crisis at Rikers Island
Are boosters good science — or just good politics?
Democrats play chicken
Why is Guantanamo still open?
Free college for everyone!
The cost of free preschool
The disappearance of Gabby Petito
Haitians at the southern border
Xi Jinping cracks down on everything
Zemari Ahmadi
Havana syndrome
Another bite at the Apple
Biden’s second shot
The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein
The Jessica simulation
School’s back. Covid never left.
Horse paste?
The cost of 9/11
The four-day workweek
The Texas abortion law
After the Afghan evacuation
Recallifornia
ISIS-K
Jeopardy!
Fleeing Afghanistan
Booster shots
Addicted and alone
How to forgive
Taliban 2.0
Who counts as white on the census?
Back-to-back crises in Haiti
How the Taliban took back Afghanistan
Delta in the Delta

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