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The US, explained

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Last updated on Apr 16, 2024
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Why US elections only give you two choices
9:47
How Michigan explains American politics
18:07
How Republicans conquered Florida
11:45
The US Supreme Court just made this map illegal
5:41
Why Texas judges have so much power right now
6:56
The Trump investigations you should actually care about
6:35
How Western weapons transformed the war in Ukraine
8:24
How America’s richest donate their money
8:34
A fact-checked debate about legal weed
11:32
Why so many "election deniers" lost in 2022
7:52
The 3 possible outcomes of the 2022 US election
7:42
Who's really using up the water in the American West?
5:55
The fall (and rise?) of unions in the US
10:23
This high-speed rail project is a warning for the US
8:25
Why US gun laws get looser after mass shootings
9:27
Why US schools are at the center of trans rights
8:58
4 ways Americans are still getting abortion pills
7:01
How abortion bans make inequality worse
10:47
The banned weapon Russia (and the US) won’t give up
9:48
How American conservatives turned against the vaccine
14:48
Why the US doesn’t have universal child care (anymore)
8:01
In defense of the "gentrification building"
9:16
Why is the Guantánamo Bay prison still open?
11:16
Why the US government is always shutting down
8:03
Why you don’t hear about the ozone layer anymore
8:35
Why the US is always hitting a "debt ceiling"
8:04
How the US made affordable homes illegal
9:42
The law that broke US immigration
5:40
How the rich avoid paying taxes
6:07
Why not everyone in the US likes stimulus checks
8:03
Texas's power disaster is a warning sign for the US
7:06
How highways make traffic worse
6:05
Tech platforms banned Trump. Now what?
3:56
The warning signs before the Capitol riot
6:14
Why the American West is fighting for water protections
7:57
Why a US election in Georgia matters so much
5:45
Why the US waits so long to swear in the new president
4:46
How '90s porn led to the internet's foundational law
9:13
Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election
5:29
Can Trump steal the election?
6:53
What Joe Biden won – and what he didn't
6:16
The US broke voting records in a pandemic
4:48
How the US counts votes
6:27
Millions of Americans can't pay rent | 2020 Election
6:39
The Electoral College, explained
8:09
Why American public transit is so bad | 2020 Election
9:40
How the next president could change policing | 2020 Election
8:02
How US schools punish Black kids | 2020 Election
10:48
How US abortion policy targets the poor | 2020 Election
8:21
What long voting lines in the US really mean | 2020 Election
8:13
How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart | 2020 Election
11:11
When voting rights didn't protect all women
8:29
Why face masks became political in the US
6:12
Help us cover the US election
3:03
The fight for America's 51st state, explained
7:22
A brief history of police impunity in Black deaths
7:45
What "defund the police" really means
10:47
Why America's police look like soldiers
8:06
Why it's so hard to get unemployment benefits
6:03
Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained
9:41
How voting by mail could save the US election
8:32
The case for Elizabeth Warren
7:37
The case for Joe Biden
6:07
The case for Bernie Sanders
7:31
The case for Pete Buttigieg
6:23
America's presidential primaries, explained
8:03
How a Bible prophecy shapes Trump's foreign policy
7:43
How to fix our unreliable power grid
3:40
The rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani, explained
9:43
Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?
5:51
How online ratings make good schools look bad
6:11
This goofy bird vs. the fossil fuel industry
6:31
America's wilderness is for sale
10:27
The man who rigged America's election maps
7:32
How American CEOs got so rich
10:08
The phone call that could get Trump impeached
6:41
The gun solution we're not talking about
6:28
The chart that predicts recessions
3:53
What the US gets wrong about minimum wage
5:06
All student debt in the US, visualized
5:17
How Trump took over America's courts
6:13
The problem with America's college entrance exam
8:50
The weird rule that broke American politics
5:58
The Green New Deal, explained
7:30
You’re watching Fox News. You just don’t know it.
8:55
Why drugs cost more in America
4:18
The traffic solution most cities haven't tried
5:34
This lake now has legal rights, just like you
8:09
Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites
8:38
What Mueller has already revealed about Trump and Russia
4:44
Why you still don't understand the Green New Deal
8:35
Why Republicans failed to fit taxes onto a postcard
2:55
A better way to tax the rich
3:46
American segregation, mapped at day and night
6:49
Fox News keeps forcing Trump into shutdowns
8:55
The 70% top tax rate, explained with potatoes
3:47
How Trump wins press conferences
12:37
How tax brackets actually work
2:48
The problem with video gambling machines
5:59
Why fixing the US bail system is tricky
6:22