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October 14, 2026
Your flu shot can’t wait
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Flu season is starting earlier than usual this...
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October 13, 2026
Trump’s revenge campaign comes for Ilhan Omar
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 life gives you lemons, make it rain. Or…s...
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October 8, 2026
No one wants to be “Data Center Dave”
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. As far as political slurs go, this one is pret...
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October 7, 2026
How October 7 changed everything
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Jewish communities in Israel and around the wo...
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October 6, 2026
Movies may soon get more boring
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 Trumpy tech billionaire Larry Ellison has ...
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October 5, 2026
What you should know about the Russian “plague lab”
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 death of a 28-year-old lab tech halfway ar...
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October 1, 2026
How both parties have changed since 2024
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Depending on your political appetite and your ...
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September 30, 2026
America leaves Iraq, again
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 last US troops in Iraq formally withdrew t...
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September 29, 2026
A crisis that goes far beyond Cornell
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Today’s newsletter is a heavy one — so please ...
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September 28, 2026
Trump’s China reversal
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 have good news and bad news for the holiday ...
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September 24, 2026
Why Americans are warming to China
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 rolled out the literal ...
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September 23, 2026
Trump is bracing to lose his latest fight with the press
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 hearing on President Donald Trump’s White Ho...
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September 22, 2026
The uncomfortable truth about aquariums
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Four beluga whales have died in a month at one...
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September 21, 2026
The United Nations looks broken. Is it?
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 time for yet another United Nations Gener...
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September 17, 2026
The overlooked factor making everything more expensive
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Diesel hit a record $6.40 per gallon this morn...
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September 16, 2026
How Israel-Palestine broke up Sheeran-Macklemore
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 logged onto Slack this morning to find an in...
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September 15, 2026
6 other ways Trump is meddling in the midterms
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 recent history of mail voting in the Unite...
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September 14, 2026
What an AI “slowdown” could look like
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 you’d asked me yesterday what Steve Bannon ...
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September 10, 2026
The one problem Trump can’t afford
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Republicans promised their midterm convention ...
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September 9, 2026
A grim report card for the world’s schools
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 growing chorus of teachers, parents, and edu...
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September 8, 2026
The mystery at the heart of Trump’s trade war
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 spent Labor Day weekend in Montreal, and sig...
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September 3, 2026
The face of American feminism
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Gloria Steinem — the one-woman powerhouse who,...
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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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