The culture wars turn deadly

文化战争演变成了一场血腥冲突

Today, Explained

2026-07-31

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The US is intentionally losing a fight against HIV that could be won. This episode was produced by Kelli Wessinger, edited by Jolie Myers and Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Activists highlight the lives at stake if Congress fails to fund HIV services in the U.S. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Save HIV Funding Campaign. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • What's Elon been up to lately?

  • He says he's going to make a historically accurate version of the Odyssey by end of year.

  • That's a work of historical fiction, by the way.

  • He's suing Minnesota over a new law that protects people from having

  • naked images of themselves generated by AI, a thing his ex-AI loves to do.

  • And he's getting in fights with The Economist over who's hated more, Musk or the media.

  • Maybe some people do love me.

  • I don't care.

  • A quarter billion people follow me.

  • I think a lot more people actually like me than don't.

  • And I think a lot more people hate you and the media.

  • More than you realize.

  • He's got time to do all that because he's no longer slashing and burning the federal government.

  • On today's Explained from Box, we're going to take a look at one set of doge cuts,

  • those to HIV treatment and prevention.

  • Around the world, something like 1,700 clinics have shut down,

  • 16,000 health workers have been laid off, people are dying, but somehow there's reason to be hopeful.

  • Support for this show today comes from Anthropic, the team behind Claude.

  • Claude is the AI for minds that don't stop at good enough.

  • It's the collaborator that actually understands your entire workflow and thinks with you.