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How It Happened

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How it Happened is an Axios podcast docu-series featuring instant histories. Each season, Axios reporters bring you behind closed doors to hear the people and decisions shaping the biggest s...

Episodes

20 of 28 episodes

Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part V: Cracks in the Empire

How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part V: Cracks in the Empire explores whether Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has made his cross-i...

32:09Jan 18, 2023

Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part IV: Musk's Must-Do List

How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part IV: Musk's Must-Do List features reporting from Axios media reporter Sara Fischer about the chal...

34:23Oct 24, 2022

Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part III: Musk Offers To Buy Twitter (Again)

Just days before a trial to determine if Elon Musk would be forced to buy Twitter was scheduled to begin, Musk sent a letter offering once a...

17:12Oct 6, 2022

Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part II: Empire of Risk

How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part II: Empire of Risk explores how Musk's philosophy on risk brings people far beyond his consumers...

29:20Oct 4, 2022

Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part I: Not A Chill Normal Dude

How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part I: Not A Chill Normal Dude tells the story of Musk's meteoric rise to become the world's richest...

37:03Sep 16, 2022

Coming soon: Elon Musk vs. Twitter

How it Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter is a first-of-its-kind newsroom collaboration featuring exclusive reporting on the rise of Elon Musk...

1:35Aug 30, 2022

Putin’s Invasion Part V: The Fight for the Donbas

How It Happened: Putin’s Invasion Part V: The Fight for the Donbas goes straight to the frontlines of the war, seen through the eyes of a jo...

33:31May 19, 2022

Putin's Invasion Part IV: The View from Russia

In part four of How It Happened: Putin’s Invasion, Axios World editor Dave Lawler digs into polling indications that Russians are rallying a...

26:00Apr 11, 2022

Putin's Invasion Part III: How It Could End

In part three of How It Happened: Putin’s Invasion, Axios World editor Dave Lawler examines a difficult reality — that the only clear path t...

25:21Mar 28, 2022

Putin's Invasion Part II: The Consequences

In part two of How it Happened: Putin's Invasion, Axios world editor Dave Lawler explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to...

23:44Mar 11, 2022

Putin's Invasion Part I: How We Got Here

In part one of How it Happened: Putin's Invasion, Axios world editor Dave Lawler presents reporting and analysis from the Axios newsroom on...

33:31Mar 5, 2022

Coming Soon: Putin's Invasion

In How it Happened: Putin's Invasion, Axios World editor Dave Lawler curates the best of Axios' reporting and analysis on the Russian invasi...

1:14Mar 3, 2022

Trump’s Big Deal Part II: From Secret Alliance to the Abraham Accords

After Donald Trump’s peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians failed, there was a desperate attempt by the U.S. and the United Arab Em...

26:43Dec 13, 2021

Trump’s Big Deal Part I: May Your House Be Destroyed

Axios Middle East correspondent Barak Ravid and national political correspondent Jonathan Swan tell how Donald Trump’s grand plan to broker...

26:00Dec 13, 2021

Coming soon: Trump’s Big Deal

Axios’ Jonathan Swan is back with a sneak preview of How It Happened’s third season, coming later this month. With exclusive reporting, Swan...

1:37Dec 11, 2021

The Next Astronauts Part V: The Launch

Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer follows the Inspiration4 crew to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. to cover their launch a...

31:31Oct 5, 2021

The Next Astronauts Part IV: Risk

Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer learns how the Inspiration4 crew is grappling with risk, something every company in the space industry an...

25:48Sep 14, 2021

The Next Astronauts Part III: What It Takes

Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer goes inside SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, to see the factory floor, the Inspiration4 cr...

24:38Sep 7, 2021

The Next Astronauts Part II: The New Right Stuff

Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer unpacks who historically has been able to go to space and why the selection of Inspiration4 crew members...

24:46Sep 2, 2021

The Next Astronauts Part I: A Few Ordinary People

Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer traces how a multi-day orbital mission to space without professional astronauts came together in just a m...

24:46Aug 31, 2021