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September 2, 2026
The world is whiffing on its biggest climate goal
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. For more than a decade, 1.5 degrees Celsius ha...
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September 1, 2026
The plot to disrupt mail-in voting
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. It took the US government two years to roll ou...
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August 31, 2026
Can we afford Iran?
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again w...
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August 27, 2026
The weird coalition taking on Flock
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. I passed five Flock cameras on my drive to wor...
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August 26, 2026
Dolly Parton, secular saint
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. You’ve probably read a lot about Dolly Parton ...
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August 25, 2026
Can you read this study and still love football?
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Football season kicks off soon, and there’s an...
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August 24, 2026
The view from a very angry Canada
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump is putting the “war” in...
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August 20, 2026
The surprising way that America’s $40 trillion debt costs you
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. America’s national debt cleared $40 trillion f...
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August 19, 2026
The Florida primary from hell
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Name a disgraced former Congress member, not o...
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August 13, 2026
Karoline Leavitt and the trap of MAGA womanhood
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Karoline Leavitt, the 28-year-old firebrand wh...
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August 12, 2026
A messy lesson for the post-woke left
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Wisconsin won’t be the very first state to get...
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August 11, 2026
Trump’s catering truck caper
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. It’s not exactly the stuff of Netflix spy thri...
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August 10, 2026
Israel can afford to lose US aid
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump may have to settle for ...
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August 6, 2026
The flu shot finally gets an upgrade
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The Food and Drug Administration approved Mode...
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August 5, 2026
Can a different kind of Democrat win the Midwest?
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The progressive populist Abdul El-Sayed won Tu...
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August 4, 2026
Wildfires come for the suburbs
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The Spokane, Washington wildfires have destroy...
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August 3, 2026
Trump still really wants a slush fund
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. We always like a bit of good democracy news — ...
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July 30, 2026
Trump’s merely “okay” economy
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The American economy lost some steam this spri...
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July 29, 2026
The Covid debate that never ended
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Surely Anthony Fauci has earned the right to p...
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July 28, 2026
Why Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. An underappreciated surreality of climate chan...
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July 27, 2026
The worst year for measles in a generation
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. America formally eradicated measles in the yea...
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July 23, 2026
How Israel lost the Dems
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. During his campaign to become mayor of New Yor...
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July 22, 2026
The AI that went rogue
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. A yet-unreleased, cutting-edge AI model escape...
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July 21, 2026
Iran is showing it can still fight back
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump seemed visibly irked wh...
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July 20, 2026
“The King of the North” is Britain’s new PM
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The first thing you need to know about the UK’...
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July 16, 2026
The dirtiest air in the world
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Canadian wildfire smoke is pouring over the US...
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July 15, 2026
The next Strait of Hormuz
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. If I had a nickel for every time President Don...
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July 14, 2026
The ICE crackdown never ended
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Two fatalities, a surge in arrests, large prot...
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July 13, 2026
The real reason Congress keeps getting older
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Hi, friends, and good afternoon — I’m delighte...
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June 11, 2026
9 reasons to watch the 2026 World Cup
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. When I was 10, my dearest wish was to become M...
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