Democrats made a strong case against Donald Trump. Republicans are being punished for supporting it. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Capitol punishment

Feb 9th, 2021 26m 5s

Vox’s Andrew Prokop previews the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Law professor Alan Rozenshtein explains what the Justice Department can and cannot do to prosecute insurrectionists.Transcript at vox.com/toda

A step past impeachment

Jan 12th, 2021 22m 51s

Impeachment won’t stop the United States’ slide towards authoritarianism. Voter reform might.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate

Feb 29th, 2020 55m 54s

Welcome to Weeds 2020! Every other Saturday Ezra and Matt will be exploring a wide range of topics related to the 2020 race. Since the Nevada caucuses, Bernie Sanders has become the clear frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic primary, spurring lo

Jill Lepore on what I get wrong

Feb 20th, 2020 1h 22m

Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on this show. But in this episode, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones

The impeachment trial convicted American politics

Feb 1st, 2020 22m 12s

This episode, likely the final episode of this podcast, is a bit different: It’s a look not just at what happened this week, but at the deep lessons of impeachment, and the unresolved conflicts and contradictions we’re left with.Put simply, th

The McConnell effect

Jan 25th, 2020 42m 8s

The Senate trial is officially underway. What’s happened so far? How will the trial proceed from here on out? And will any Republicans defect? Vox’s Li Zhou has the answers.Then Andrew Prokop and I talk Mitch McConnell: who he is, what motivat

"Constitutional decay" in the US Senate

Jan 18th, 2020 50m 1s

This week, Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in to preside over the third presidential impeachment trial in US history. What happens next? What’s Mitch McConnell’s game plan? And who the hell is Lev Parnas? Andrew Prokop breaks it all down.

Impeachment and Iran

Jan 11th, 2020 42m 14s

This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would finally send impeachment articles to the Senate. Why now? What is the Senate trial shaping up to look like? And how will things change if former National Security Advisor John Bolton tes

Impeachment in, and beyond, the Beltway

Dec 21st, 2019 1h 3m

This week, Donald Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached. What does that mean? Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waiting to send the articles of impeachment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell? And what should we e

Mr. Feldman goes to Washington

Dec 14th, 2019 49m 48s

This week, the House Judiciary Committee announced and approved two articles of impeachment. Why two instead of 10? Why is this process moving so quickly? And why are Democrats prioritizing trade deals the same week as impeachment? Vox’s Jen Ki

How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

Dec 7th, 2019 55m 8s

This week, the fact-finding phase of the Trump impeachment inquiry officially ended. Reports were released, hearings were held, articles of impeachment are being drafted. Andrew Prokop helps us break it all down.Then, the impeachment analogue

Was Rudy Giuliani always like this?

Nov 30th, 2019 57m 49s

Rudy Giuliani will prove to be the crucial character who pushed Donald Trump towards impeachable offenses. But how did Giuliani go from “America’s Mayor” and icon of the moderate Republican establishment to…whatever he is now? There’s an answer

What’s wrong with the Republican Party?

Nov 23rd, 2019 1h 13m

The core question this impeachment process is raising isn’t “what did Donald Trump do?” The hearings have filled in important details and added confirming witness, but the story is largely the one we’ve known since the White House released the

With obstruction of justice for all

Nov 16th, 2019 42m 15s

This week kicked off the public phase of the impeachment inquiry. On Wednesday, we heard the testimonies of State Department officials Bill Taylor and George Kent and on Friday the testimony of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

The biggest difference between Trump and Nixon is Fox News

Nov 9th, 2019 33m 43s

This is a helluva episode.First, we’ve been working with Ipsos and PerryUndem on a national survey exploring Americans' beliefs about what is impeachable. The results are back, and they’re both fascinating and chilling.Then, there was an amaz

A no-BS guide to how the House impeachment process really works

Nov 2nd, 2019 45m 28s

This week, the House passed an impeachment resolution laying out how the process will work from here. There were unusual and important decisions made that will shape what comes next, and Vox’s Andrew Prokop joins me to explain them.Then, Calif

The Ukraine story is a Russia story

Oct 26th, 2019 53m 33s

We talk about this as a Ukraine story. But it's also a Russia story. The leverage Trump had on Ukraine came from Russia's invasion of Crimea and continuing support for insurgents in Ukraine. The leverage Trump had on his own government came fro

The four words that will decide impeachment

Oct 19th, 2019 53m 42s

This was the week of confessions. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitted to a Trump administration quid quo pro with Ukraine, with cameras rolling. EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland confirmed that President Trump made Rudy Giulian

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We are living through history

Oct 12th, 2019 1m

This will, in all likelihood, be the fourth time a US president is impeached. But it’ll be a devilish story to follow. Already, there are more threads, places, names, and events than even full-time reporters can remember. What’s the role of the