Dustin DeSoto
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Dustin DeSoto is a member of the Today, Explained production team credited in the episode’s staff list.
Discussed alongside Dustin DeSoto
- Gabriel Donatov
Person · 14 episodes together · 1 show
- Amina El-Sadi
Person · 9 episodes together · 1 show
- David Tadishore
Person · 4 episodes together · 1 show
- Patrick Boyd
Person · 9 episodes together · 1 show
- Miranda Kennedy
Person · 10 episodes together · 1 show
- Danielle Hewitt
Person · 8 episodes together · 1 show
- David Tadeshore
Person · 6 episodes together · 1 show
- Avishai Artsy
Person · 7 episodes together · 1 show
16 episodes featuring Dustin DeSoto
Today, Explained
Gas stations become battlegrounds over opioid-like products
The episode examines whether concentrated 7-OH should be banned while kratom remains available as regulators weigh dependence, uncertain risks, and possible harm reduction.
Oct 2, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
A Texas Tech case tests America’s free-speech alliances
The episode asks whether speech protections can survive when universities, employers, social media, and government punish views across partisan lines.
Sep 30, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Gambling mechanics reshape shopping and games
The episode shows how auctions, randomized rewards, countdowns, and social pressure can turn ordinary entertainment and commerce into compulsive spending environments for adults and children.
Sep 25, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Trump turns the Kennedy Center into a monument to power
The fight over the Kennedy Center reveals how physical projects and naming rights can outlast laws, court rulings, and political control.
Sep 21, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Parties turn strangers into communities
As communal nightlife declines, the episode makes the case that gatherings are not frivolous but engines of belonging, experimentation, and friendship.
Sep 20, 2026 · 32 min
Today, Explained
Older women claim glamour, ambition and desire on screen
The episode examines how iconic, complicated women are reshaping assumptions about aging, sexuality and acceptable femininity.
Sep 18, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Trump’s voting attacks test election systems and candidates
The episode connects proposed mail-voting restrictions and election denialism to the administrators, courts, and close races that could shape 2026 and 2028.
Sep 10, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Farm costs test Republicans’ hold on rural America
Economic pain is forcing a test of whether conservative farmers will punish Republican policies or remain wary of Democrats.
Sep 3, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Food scares expose gaps in America’s safety net
The episode separates rising risk from rising attention while examining how cuts, backlogs, and opaque investigations shape public trust in the food system.
Aug 31, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Dolly Parton turns nonpartisanship into political influence
The episode examines whether meaningful social advocacy can retain broad appeal without becoming attached to parties, candidates, or partisan language.
Aug 28, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Why heartbreak became summer’s defining pop sound
The episode connects a country chart breakthrough and a wave of melancholy pop to the cultural meanings audiences attach to music.
Aug 21, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Cambridge’s Arday scandal tests academia’s DEI politics
The episode examines how disputed biography, institutional incentives, media scrutiny, and racial politics converged around one academic’s rise and death.
Aug 20, 2026 · 25 min
Morning Wire
Disney challenges FCC renewal pressure as fake polls distort politics
The episode connects a high-profile media lawsuit with a polling scandal that raises questions about political retaliation, narrative manipulation, and accountability.
Aug 19, 2026 · 25 min
Today, Explained
Creators chase meaning as the influencer economy tightens
The episode examines whether audiences’ hunger for education and offline life can offer creators an alternative to an increasingly commercial, saturated internet.
Aug 14, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Wisconsin primary tests Democrats’ retreat from “wokeness”
The episode examines whether Democrats can soften controversial rhetoric and positions without alienating voters who still support social-justice priorities.
Aug 13, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
A new Red Scare meets America’s fractured left
The episode tests whether communist organizing is genuinely returning or being inflated into a political threat by examining its history, ideology, and presence within the DSA.
Aug 5, 2026 · 27 min