Amazon’s garbage book factory
17 May 2024
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Vox senior correspondent Constance Grady went inside the seedy underbelly of online self-publishing ...
Cicada time
16 May 2024
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The last time these exact cicada broods emerged from the ground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson w...
Florida man’s unhushed money
15 May 2024
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The hush money trial has exposed the ecosystem that once protected former president Donald Trump. Jo...
What fixes medical debt
14 May 2024
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It's gotten so bad in America, people are crowdfunding their doctor bills. Vox's Dylan Scott and ass...
Separation of church and church
13 May 2024
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Leaders of the United Methodist Church, one of the largest Christian denominations in the US, gather...
The real victims of Baby Reindeer
10 May 2024
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The Netflix show Baby Reindeer is a hit. It's been viewed 56 million times. The writer claims it's ...
Biden’s breaking point on Gaza
09 May 2024
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President Joe Biden says the US won’t supply further weapons if Israel is going to use them in Raf...
Kendrick, Drake, and the last great rap beef
08 May 2024
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The best rapper in the world is beefing with the biggest rapper in the world. The Ringer’s Charles...
Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision
07 May 2024
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The pop music competition is facing boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s...
Is divesting from Israel possible?
06 May 2024
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Yes, but it’s hard. Inside Higher Ed’s Josh Moody and UC Merced’s Charlie Eaton explain. This ...
The tourist tax
03 May 2024
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Venice is drowning in tourists. A new fee for day-trippers is the latest tool aimed at keeping overt...
Paramount’s looking for a deal they can’t refuse
02 May 2024
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Media behemoth Paramount Global is struggling. Stock prices are down. The CEO was just ousted. And t...
One Flu Over The Cowcow’s Nest
01 May 2024
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Avian flu, which recently leapt from chickens to cows, has now been detected in milk. Vox’s Keren ...
North America’s biggest city is running out of water
30 Apr 2024
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Officials say “Day Zero” is imminent in Mexico City. A walk through the city reveals the histori...
The failed promise of egg freezing
29 Apr 2024
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Egg freezing was once hailed as a reproductive game changer, but as Vox's Anna North reports, it mig...
Honey, We Saved the Bees
26 Apr 2024
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Millions of bees died because of colony collapse disorder over the past few decades, but America’s...
The TikTok “ban” is law
25 Apr 2024
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President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would ban the app unless it’s sold to an American ...
Columbia’s free-speech fight
24 Apr 2024
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Daily Spectator news editor Sarah Huddleston reports on the protests at her university. AAUP Preside...
Florida man wants immunity
23 Apr 2024
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You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too. Vox’s Ian Millhiser previews the Donald Trump i...
Just in: Trudeau’s plan to fight populism
22 Apr 2024
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Canadian-American podcast host Sean Rameswaram goes one-on-one with Canadian Prime Minister Justin T...
Feeling Bluey
19 Apr 2024
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Bluey delights children and reduces their grown-ups to tears. But the latest episode has fans young ...
The great American squatter panic
18 Apr 2024
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Politicians and conservative news outlets say there’s an epidemic of people moving into a stranger...
How car ownership got so expensive
17 Apr 2024
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Drivers are increasingly paying sticker price or more for a new car. Then there are sky-high insuran...
Florida man’s first criminal trial begins
16 Apr 2024
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The first of former President Donald Trump's four criminal trials began this week. Vox's Andrew Prok...
Why Iran attacked Israel
15 Apr 2024
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The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom explains. Jerusalem-based journalist Noga Tarnopolsky explores whe...
America at war, now in theaters
12 Apr 2024
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The new movie Civil War delivers a sensational story about political polarization spilling into mass...
Speaker Johnson's next test
11 Apr 2024
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Congress is back in session and the House speakership is once again on the line. The New Yorker’s ...
Prosecuting parents
10 Apr 2024
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The Oxford, Michigan, school shooter's parents will serve up to 15 years in prison. Jennifer and Jam...
The man with a pig kidney
09 Apr 2024
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A pig’s kidney was just transplanted into a human. But Vox’s Dylan Matthews says we shouldn't ne...
Is college still worth it?
08 Apr 2024
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More and more Americans feel like college isn’t a good deal anymore. One state thinks it’s found...
The Sephora kids
05 Apr 2024
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Tweens are shopping for trendy, expensive skincare products. Gen Z worries it’s “aging like milk...
Israel’s attack on World Central Kitchen
04 Apr 2024
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The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Kalin explains what happened, and Refugees International Preside...
Project 2025
03 Apr 2024
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Donald Trump arrived at the White House in 2017 without a lot of plans to actually govern. The conse...
The fight for control of Disney’s kingdom
02 Apr 2024
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CEO Bob Iger is fighting off activist investor Nelson Peltz, who argues the company spends too much ...
Making taxes less taxing
01 Apr 2024
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The IRS finally has a brand-new, totally free tax-filing software for you. But not everyone’s exci...
The kids are all home
29 Mar 2024
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Living with your parents is so hot right now, with more adults doing it now than at any other time i...
Buy a house? In this economy?
28 Mar 2024
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Home affordability hasn’t been this bad in decades. Wall Street Journal housing reporter Nicole Fr...
The Baltimore bridge collapse
27 Mar 2024
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The Key Bridge disaster is yet another reminder of the vulnerability of global shipping. This episod...
Why ISIS attacked Moscow
26 Mar 2024
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The Moscow terror attack could mark the beginning of an even more brutal phase in Russia’s war in ...
Spoiler alert: RFK’s VP
25 Mar 2024
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Robert Kennedy Jr. is set to announce his running mate this week. To mark the occasion, Semafor’s ...
Beyoncé country
22 Mar 2024
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Beyoncé has a new country album. The first single has already broken records and drawn criticism fr...
Can Caitlin Clark fix college sports?
21 Mar 2024
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The biggest star of this year’s March Madness basketball tournament isn’t one of the male player...
Can Congress ban TikTok?
20 Mar 2024
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Probably not. Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio and Kate Ruane from the Center for Democracy and Techno...
How gangs took over Haiti
19 Mar 2024
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Haiti’s latest crisis is being driven by something new: The country’s gangs have united, and the...
Conned into the Russian army
18 Mar 2024
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Desperately low on troops for its protracted war with Ukraine, the Russian military is relying on me...
Live from SXSW: Noel King interviews Charlamagne tha God and Angela Rye
17 Mar 2024
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In this no-holds-barred interview from the SXSW stage, Vox's Noel King asks comedian and radio host ...
Hollywood’s still not back
15 Mar 2024
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Covid and last year’s strikes delivered a one-two punch that the entertainment industry still hasn...
Lip gloss, gum, and the Pill
14 Mar 2024
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Soon you can buy them all at your local drugstore. The FDA approved an over-the-counter birth contro...
Where's Kate?!?
13 Mar 2024
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Two grainy paparazzi shots and an edited Mother’s Day photo are the only “sightings” of the Pr...
The real fight over fake meat
12 Mar 2024
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Americans are eating more meat than ever, and it’s wreaking havoc on the environment. Vox’s Kenn...
Charlamagne tha God on Biden v. Trump
11 Mar 2024
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A recent poll shows almost a quarter of registered Black voters would vote for Donald Trump. We ask ...
Bringing back the SAT
08 Mar 2024
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Four years after a pandemic pause, some colleges and universities are again requiring applicants to ...
Can Reddit survive going public?
07 Mar 2024
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It’s the first major social media IPO since 2017. CNN’s Clare Duffy breaks down what is at stake...
Why measles is back
06 Mar 2024
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One state (cough, cough Florida) is leading the US in measles cases. The contagious disease was once...
How Israel is upending Democratic races
05 Mar 2024
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Super Tuesday is the biggest day of the presidential primary campaign, but the biggest race in the b...
Why groceries are still so expensive
04 Mar 2024
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When it’s time to Stop & Shop, the American Publix is finding it costs more than ever to fill a Ma...
It’s Shotime!
01 Mar 2024
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Shohei Ohtani made his Dodger debut this week. His record-setting contract solidifies an internation...
The politics of IVF
29 Feb 2024
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A theologian explains why he agrees with Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children....
“Make Argentina Great Again!”
28 Feb 2024
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US inflation feels bad until you look at Argentina’s, which is breaking 200 percent. Today, Explai...
The protest vote against Biden
27 Feb 2024
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Michigan’s primary today will test President Biden’s viability with Muslim voters amid the war i...
What Ozempic can't fix
26 Feb 2024
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Fat women make less money than thin women and get fewer raises and promotions. It’s going to take ...
The Ozempic economy
23 Feb 2024
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The weight loss drug is so profitable that its parent company, Danish health care giant Novo Nordisk...
Fight at the Museum
22 Feb 2024
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New federal regulations are forcing museums across the United States to take down, cover up, or clos...
Florida man owes half a billion
21 Feb 2024
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Former President Donald Trump has now lost back-to-back civil trials in New York. Reporter Andrea Be...
The Panama Canal is drying up
20 Feb 2024
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A drought has dramatically reduced the Panama Canal’s capacity, leading to higher costs and big de...
What dies with Alexei Navalny?
16 Feb 2024
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in an Arctic prison. The Guardian’s Luke Ha...
Rafah, the last “safe” zone
15 Feb 2024
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Palestinians are trapped in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, where about 1.5 million people have s...
Why America loves faerie smut
14 Feb 2024
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Romantasy is the most popular literary genre in America right now. Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk a...
Forgetful old men
13 Feb 2024
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Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity are center stage after a Justice Department prosecutor described...
A Tale of Two Chinatowns
12 Feb 2024
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Residents of Philadelphia’s Chinatown have mobilized against plans for a new arena in their backya...
Why Taylor left TikTok
09 Feb 2024
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Her label, Universal Media Group, pulled its entire catalog off TikTok. The Verge’s Nilay Patel ex...
When one (airplane) door opens ...
08 Feb 2024
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Missing bolts, door panels flying off in midair — and that’s not even on the planes that crashed...
The border standoff in Eagle Pass
07 Feb 2024
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Congress has failed to pass an immigration bill. The House is attempting to impeach Biden’s secret...
“The world’s coolest dictator”
06 Feb 2024
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That’s how El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele describes himself. Silvia Viñas from the news podcast El ...
Build Back Biden
05 Feb 2024
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New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait wants Joe Biden to win. He explains how his coalition has falle...
A new treatment for deafness
02 Feb 2024
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A promising gene therapy can help kids born without the ability to hear. A Deaf bioethicist wants yo...
Make the economy Trump’s again?
01 Feb 2024
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As president, Donald Trump presided over a good — sometimes great — economy. But his proposals a...
Iran and the Axis of Resistance
31 Jan 2024
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Iran-backed militias use drones, missiles, and even TikTok dances to antagonize the United States an...
Living in Zyn
30 Jan 2024
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accidentally started a culture war over Zyn. Semafor’s Dave W...
Israel at the International Court of Justice
29 Jan 2024
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South Africa took Israel to court over claims of genocide. Courthouse News reporter Molly Quell and ...
Music’s Pitchfork in the road
26 Jan 2024
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Pitchfork’s parent company is folding the influential music site into GQ. Vulture’s Craig Jenkin...
Prostate of the union
25 Jan 2024
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin drew flak after trying to keep his prostate cancer surgery a secret. ...
Is the Republican primary already over?
24 Jan 2024
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Nikki Haley pinned her presidential hopes on a powerful showing in New Hampshire but still wound up ...
Modi’s temple grandstanding
23 Jan 2024
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple in the once-sleepy city of Ayodhya on...
Frosty the Tesla
22 Jan 2024
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New electric vehicle owners have been finding out the hard way that extreme cold weather and their c...
Buy me to the moon
19 Jan 2024
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NASA has long relied on private companies to build its rockets, but now it’s turning to private co...
How the war in Gaza ends
18 Jan 2024
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Israel's war against Hamas has now been raging for over 100 days. According to Ian Lustick, professo...
Cocaine problems
17 Jan 2024
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Growing cocaine demand and booming coca leaf cultivation is fueling unrest in Ecuador. The Economist...
Iowa caucused
16 Jan 2024
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Trump won big. DeSantis came in second, but Vox’s Zack Beauchamp says that won’t be enough to ke...
Hollywood’s secret musicals
12 Jan 2024
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The studios promoting Mean Girls, Wonka, and The Color Purple are hiding something from you. The Rin...
Elections everywhere all at once
11 Jan 2024
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This weekend, Taiwan goes to the polls, kicking off the biggest election year in history. The Guardi...
Nikki Haley, maybe?
10 Jan 2024
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Nikki Haley is gunning for second place in the Iowa Republican caucuses. In New Hampshire polls, she...
Is the US ghosting Ukraine?
09 Jan 2024
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Last year’s counteroffensive failed and Ukraine needs American aid to win. Republicans in Congress...
Pirates of the Red Sea
08 Jan 2024
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The Houthis, a rebel group from Yemen, are seizing cargo ships in retaliation for the war in Gaza. V...
Many unhappy returns
05 Jan 2024
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Your aunt mailed you a sweater for Christmas that’s three sizes too small. Armed with a gift recei...
Will Trump be on your ballot?
04 Jan 2024
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As states decide whether Donald Trump is eligible to be on their primary ballots based on his action...
Israel’s next move
03 Jan 2024
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces trouble at home and abroad. AP correspondent Tia Gol...
When solar power leaves you feeling burned
02 Jan 2024
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The potential of rooftop solar is being squandered. Time’s economic correspondent Alana Semuels re...
Dry January
28 Dec 2023
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The start of a new year is increasingly a time when people choose to abstain from drinking for a mon...
The Joshua Generation grows up
27 Dec 2023
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A group of evangelical Christians raised their children to become influential in the White House, on...