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The paradox of Trump’s deportation push

President Donald Trump has vowed to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants out of the United States every year. So far, he’s falling well short...

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Rebeca Ibarra

A flesh-eating parasite is at our borders. What happens if it spreads? 

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in...

yesterday 6

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Pratik Pawar

How Ireland wrote the modern story of progress

One of my vacation habits is to take along a book about the place I’m visiting — which is how I found myself on Ireland’s spectacular Atlantic...

previous day 4

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Bryan Walsh

Rewatching Hamilton in 2025

When the Hamilton musical opened on Broadway in 2015, it was a game-changer. Setting the story of an American founding father to a ’90s-era hip-hop...

previous day 4

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Avishay Artsy

A tournament tried to test how well experts could forecast AI progress. They were all wrong.

Two of the smartest people I follow in the AI world recently sat down to check in on how the field is going. One was François Chollet, creator of...

friday 20

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Dylan Matthews

Why it’s called the Department of “Defense” in the first place — and why Trump wants to change it 

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense the “Department of War.” The move on its...

friday 10

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Joshua Keating

The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team

Last month, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dropped an inflammatory allegation on most of her colleagues.  On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down...

friday 6

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Ian Millhiser

The US Open is hotter than Coachella. That’s what makes it awful.

At the US Open’s Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums, there’s a hum that never goes away. It sort of sounds like the murmur cicadas make. The...

friday 6

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Alex Abad-Santos

What happens when Trump combines the war on drugs with the war on terror

With this week’s unprecedented deadly military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean, it’s clear that the US plans to use...

friday 1

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Joshua Keating

Why the Trump-Modi split is such a disaster

When it comes to bromances, President Donald Trump typically runs hot and cold. Remember Elon Musk? Vladimir Putin? First they’re besties, then...

friday 4

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Devan Schwartz

Everyone agrees organ donation saves lives. So why don’t more people do it?

A Vox reader asks: Why are so few people organ donors? Why would someone choose not to be a donor? Everyone agrees it’s a good thing but very few...

friday 1

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Pratik Pawar

What the new jobs report tells us, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news...

friday 4

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Cameron Peters

Why kids are all posing like this in pictures

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My kids were posing for...

04.09.2025 4

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Anna North

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer — and the alcohol industry is working hard to make sure it stays that way.  For...

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Dylan Scott

Trump’s lawyers just inadvertently admitted that his tariffs are illegal

The Trump administration formally asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday evening to decide whether President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff...

04.09.2025 10

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Ian Millhiser

RFK Jr.’s alarming Senate hearing, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news...

04.09.2025 2

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Cameron Peters

What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong

For anyone scrolling quickly through their news feeds, it is easy to believe that all students are now using AI to cheat in school. Whether in the...

04.09.2025 3

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Victor R. Lee

Why 3-year-olds need smartphones*

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably grappled with the question of when your kid should get a smartphone. There’s a nationwide movement, Wait...

04.09.2025 3

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Adam Clark Estes

A quarter of America’s “farms” aren’t really farms

The meat and dairy industries — along with the farms that grow corn and soy for animal feed — are some of the biggest polluters in the US. Yet...

04.09.2025 4

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Kenny Torrella

The big problem with “no tax on tips” 

The Democratic Party’s problems have a two-word solution: “economic populism.” Or so suggests much recent commentary (including, to an extent,...

04.09.2025 4

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Eric Levitz

The US strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news...

03.09.2025 6

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Cameron Peters

Why the Ukraine war is so hard to end

At the height of the Iraq war, bloggers coined the term “Friedman unit” in reference to the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s habit of...

03.09.2025 3

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Joshua Keating

Vox’s new membership program, explained

Since our founding in 2014, you’ve supported Vox in our mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world so that we can all help shape a...

03.09.2025 20

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Nisha Chittal

The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be

What happens when you put four of the Trump right’s leading intellectuals together in a room? You see what it looks like when a political movement...

03.09.2025 3

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Zack Beauchamp

Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medicine can help.

One day, Mars might become a home to humans. But first, there’s the cinematic, sci-fi challenge of making the Red Planet suitable for life....

03.09.2025 10

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Shayna Korol

How Trump lost the podcast bros

Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, the “manosphere” — an ecosystem of right-leaning podcasts and YouTube shows that helped elect him —...

03.09.2025 10

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Christian Paz

The 65-year-old theory that helps explain why the Democrats keep losing

Democratic strategists think the party has a messaging problem. Post-election autopsies overflowed with countless cross-tabs of how Democrats “...

03.09.2025 1

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Lee Drutman