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Miranda Kennedy

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26 episodes featuring Miranda Kennedy

Today, Explained
Algorithms turn fashion into an endless disposable feed
The episode connects algorithmic shopping, ready-to-wear history, and mainstream thrifting to a larger question about affordability, originality, and waste.
Oct 4, 2026 · 33 min
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
Manners turn shared spaces into workable social contracts
As public and workplace norms shift, the episode asks which expectations still help people coexist—and how to make disagreements legible.
Sep 27, 2026 · 33 min
Today, Explained
Michigan candidate makes data centers a test of political control
The episode connects AI infrastructure to local costs, democratic accountability, economic insecurity, and the fragile coalition shaping Michigan politics.
Sep 26, 2026 · 32 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
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
Latino voters test both parties’ assumptions
Latino voters are increasingly decisive and persuadable, but economic pressure and weak outreach are reshaping how campaigns must earn their support.
Sep 19, 2026 · 34 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
Midterm voters weigh Trump, affordability and election security
The episode maps the forces shaping 2026 voters while separating legitimate election concerns from the legal barriers to overturning results.
Sep 12, 2026 · 33 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
Private equity turns youth sports into a high-cost pipeline
The episode connects families’ rising sports bills and children’s mounting pressure to an investment model reshaping everyday institutions.
Sep 8, 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
Data centers turn from economic promise into political liability
The fight over data centers is reshaping both parties’ positions as communities confront their effects on land, water, power bills, and local control.
Sep 2, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
A flop can end a pop era—or start a better career
The episode reframes public failure as a volatile measure of expectations, reputation, timing, and creative purpose rather than a final verdict.
Aug 30, 2026 · 35 min
Today, Explained
Gen Z breaks with party labels as political divides deepen
Young voters could reshape American politics while distrusting the institutions, media, and party identities that traditionally organize it.
Aug 29, 2026 · 39 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
Trump ballroom project tests presidential power
The fight over the ballroom could determine how presidents fund construction, alter historic federal sites, and defend executive action in court.
Aug 26, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Personality science challenges the introvert label
The episode separates pandemic-era social rustiness from enduring traits and examines whether personality can change through deliberate practice.
Aug 23, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
MAGA faces a midterm test of electability
The episode examines whether Trump’s record, cultural appeal, and Republican messaging can overcome voter frustration over prices, foreign policy, scandals, and election denialism.
Aug 22, 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
Today, Explained
Babies learn before their memories disappear
The episode reframes infancy as a period that builds emotional, social, and cognitive foundations even without lasting autobiographical memories.
Aug 16, 2026 · 31 min
Today, Explained
Progressives challenge Democrats’ electability playbook
The Democratic Party’s fight over strategy turns on whether a bolder progressive agenda can win working-class voters without sacrificing general-election unity.
Aug 15, 2026 · 39 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
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
South Carolina voters debate a Harris comeback
The discussion tests whether Kamala Harris’s 2024 defeat reflects a missed opportunity or a need for Democrats to move on.
Aug 11, 2026 · 33 min
Today, Explained
Gas prices turn presidential accountability into a midterm test
The episode shows why voters punish presidents for visible economic pain even when wars and global markets limit their control.
Aug 8, 2026 · 29 min

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