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The real danger of Trump’s Greenland gambit

It is an era of superpower conflict and competition for natural resources. Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political...

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Joshua Keating

Wildfires impact wildlife and pets, too. Here’s how you can help them.

In just four days, blazing wildfires across Los Angeles neighborhoods have put 150,000 residents under evacuation orders, burned over 30,000 acres,...

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Sam Delgado

Have the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last November, Matthew Yglesias published a manifesto imploring the Democratic Party to reembrace “common...

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Eric Levitz

Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?

As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate,...

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Benji Jones

Onscreen age gaps have never been more pathetic 

Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because...

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Alex Abad-Santos

Why gossip is just so irresistible

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Angie Wang

Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?

For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media app that had become central to their...

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Rebecca Jennings

What to know about TikTok’s fate in the US

TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form...

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Vox Staff

TikTok: the most exciting, and controversial, social media app on the planet

TikTok has only been around in the US since August of 2018, but it’s already become the defining social media app of Gen Z. The app once known as...

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Vox Staff

NYC’s congestion pricing is unpopular — for now

After a last-minute about-face, pushback, and compromise, congestion pricing officially went into effect this week in New York City.  The...

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Abdallah Fayyad

The Supreme Court doesn’t seem likely to save TikTok

On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the popular social media app TikTok can still exist in the United...

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Ian Millhiser

Should fluoride be in our water?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put the decades-old debate over water fluoridation back on the table. As President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Health...

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Laura Bult

The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday...

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Ian Millhiser

The madman theory of Trump and tariffs

Is Donald Trump going to risk throwing the global economy into crisis by enacting the gargantuan tariffs he’s proposed? Or is he just pretending...

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Andrew Prokop

What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?

Multiple major wildfires, fanned by unusually strong seasonal winds, are currently burning through the Los Angeles area, leaving devastation in...

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Li Zhou

Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put down their phones. Worries about kids’ screen time are...

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Anna North

An explosive Fox Sports lawsuit has turned into a salacious, sexist mess

Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports, marquee commentator Skip Bayless, and...

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Kyndall Cunningham

How long should you meditate?

A scientific narrative about what meditation does can offer a helpful lens on what is happening when you take your seat on the cushion. But no...

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Oshan Jarow

California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa...

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Jake Bittle

How factory farming took over America — and why it isn’t going away anytime soon

A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale...

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Kenny Torrella

I visited our tech future. It’s not actually a terrible place.

When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade show in the world, earlier this week, I felt a sense of...

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Adam Clark Estes

The unusually strong force behind the apocalyptic fires in Los Angeles

Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes,...

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Umair Irfan

The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes

With less than two weeks before the new Trump administration takes office, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced a sweeping set of policy changes...

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Li Zhou

9 predictions for Trump’s second term

The biggest question in politics right now is what the second Trump administration will actually look like. The most honest answer is that nobody...

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Zack Beauchamp

What we learned from Apple’s $95 million eavesdropping lawsuit

$95 million is a headline-making number, especially when it comes as a result of a proposed class action lawsuit settlement in which claimants...

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Aja Romano

Yes, even most unexpected landscapes in the US can and will burn

In February 2024, a heat wave persisted for days in the Chilean coastal city of Viña del Mar. The landscape, already affected by an El Niño-...

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Kylie Mohr

How meditation deconstructs your mind

We’re laying out the latest science of what meditation does to your mind. The better we understand the common mechanisms across how different...

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Oshan Jarow

Trump asks the Supreme Court to place him even further above the law

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt the criminal proceeding against him in New York state court. Trump was...

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Ian Millhiser

Live updates: Wildfires spread across Los Angeles

Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles, California, turning the skies red, destroying homes and businesses, and blanketing the region with smoke...

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Shira Tarlo

Why everyone has a gnarly stomach bug right now, explained in one chart

You’re not imagining it: An unusually large number of Americans are barfing these days. Ninety-one norovirus outbreaks were reported to the...

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Keren Landman, Md

Are North Carolina Republicans trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat?

North Carolina’s Supreme Court has temporarily prohibited the state’s Board of Elections from certifying the election of sitting Democratic...

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Ellen Ioanes

What banning medical debt from your credit score actually means

In the final days of its tenure, the Biden administration has banned credit reporting agencies from including medical debts in their reports,...

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Ellen Ioanes

Trump wants “one big, beautiful bill.” Can he get it?

With President Donald Trump’s second administration just weeks away, congressional Republicans are gearing up to execute on a wide-ranging...

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Li Zhou

Why is this cold snap so extreme? The jury is still out.

Bitter cold has lashed its icy fingers across the United States, bringing a frigid start to the New Year. Dubbed Winter Storm Blair, the tempest...

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Umair Irfan

I can’t stop watching Mr. Beast’s new game show and I hate myself

The point of Beast Games is laid out with chilling starkness in the first 60 seconds of its premiere. A thousand people are competing for a $5...

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Rebecca Jennings

College athletes were ready to unionize before Trump’s election. What now?

In March, Dartmouth basketball players made history with a 13-2 vote to unionize and be classified as college employees — the first successful...

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Rachel Cohen

Justin Trudeau is resigning. Here’s what comes next.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that he’d step down as head of the country’s Liberal Party, after weeks of speculation that his...

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Ellen Ioanes

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