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Betting scandals broke sports. Could prediction markets do the same to politics?

Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is.  Prediction markets are booming. Think of them as like a stock...

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Ariana Aspuru

Why Gen Z is flocking to SEC universities

Right now, millions of high school seniors are finalizing their college applications and anticipating where they’ll spend the next four years...

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Kyndall Cunningham

Confused by the Trump administration? Think of it as a royal family.

It was not a particularly subtle gift, but as the recipient himself would probably admit, he’s never been a particularly subtle guy.  When...

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Joshua Keating

Breaking free of zero-sum thinking will make America a wealthier country

I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world, the media capital of the world, and obviously,...

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Bryan Walsh

The debate over Hamnet, explained

Chloé Zhao’s lyrical, elegiac new film Hamnet, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, has been an Oscars frontrunner since its festival release...

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Constance Grady

200,000 additional children under 5 will die this year — thanks to aid cuts

The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children.  Insecticide-treated mosquito nets and novel treatments have...

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Sara Herschander

Why one of the world’s top fur producers just banned fur farms

The world’s second-largest fur producer is saying goodbye to fur. On Tuesday, Poland passed a law to phase out fur farms over the next eight years...

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Kenny Torrella

The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done

Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright...

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Ian Millhiser

The fascinating link between cherry pie and this bird

If you’re lucky enough to enjoy a warm slice of cherry pie this holiday, you should probably thank this bird.  It’s an American kestrel, the...

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Benji Jones

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?

In Bogotá’s historic downtown, a modest government building sits in the shadow of a gilded statue of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century liberator who...

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Rachel Cohen

America has a new clash of civilizations — with European liberals

America is out of the business of giving patronizing lectures to other governments about how to run their countries and trying to mold other...

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Joshua Keating

The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable

The Supreme Court reinstated a Texas gerrymander that is expected to give Republicans five additional seats in the US House on Thursday evening,...

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Ian Millhiser

RFK Jr.’s anti-vax committee is recklessly overhauling childhood vaccine policy

The federal government is ending its recommendation that every infant receive a hepatitis B vaccination at birth, the most substantive change to...

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Dylan Scott

The Supreme Court case that could redefine “cruel and unusual,” explained

Nearly a quarter century ago, in Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to execute offenders with an...

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Ian Millhiser

Kids are missing out on one of their best chances at learning

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. At about 10 am local...

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Anna North

The race to stop octopus farming before it starts

Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other states — plus the...

04.12.2025 2

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Kenny Torrella

Trump’s war crimes scandal, briefly explained

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

04.12.2025 2

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Cameron Peters

Why politics is ruining how we watch movies

One Battle After Another is, perhaps, too on the nose. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting back against a...

04.12.2025 3

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Kyndall Cunningham

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut one of the last limits on money in politics

There is a specter of inevitability hanging over much of the Supreme Court’s current term. It is unlikely that any legal argument could persuade...

03.12.2025 10

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Ian Millhiser

Welcome to the December issue of The Highlight

In Bogotá, Colombia, care work — often overlooked and unpaid — eats up more than 35 billion hours of labor per year. It’s a burden which falls...

03.12.2025 10

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Vox Staff

Did Trump accidentally boost direct giving?

When billionaire Michael Dell was 8 years old, he opened his first savings account.  Every time that young Michael forked a quarter over to the...

03.12.2025 20

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Sara Herschander

The twisted reason why Trump is bombing Venezuelan boats

In early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US military to “kill everybody” aboard a speedboat in the Caribbean.  A missile then...

03.12.2025 20

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Eric Levitz

People taking Ozempic are losing muscle mass — and it’s freaking them out

We’re used to seeing Serena Williams on our TVs, muscles flexing, smashing a tennis ball past her opponent. But in a recent 30-second commercial,...

03.12.2025 10

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Dylan Scott

Your guide to the weirdest winter virus season we’ve ever had

This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory.  With Robert F. Kennedy at the helm of the US...

03.12.2025 10

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Dylan Scott

What podcasts do to our brains

The most embarrassing thing happened to me recently. It was twilight, and I was walking my dog around the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood where I’ve...

03.12.2025 10

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Adam Clark Estes

Trump’s new immigration crackdown, briefly explained

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

03.12.2025 3

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Cameron Peters

The alt-right won

Late on Thanksgiving Day, a holiday whose central fable is about the American value of welcoming strangers in need, President Donald Trump...

02.12.2025 2

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Zack Beauchamp

Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake

Last month, a federal court in Texas ruled that a Republican gerrymander, expected to give the GOP five extra seats in the US House, must be struck...

02.12.2025 10

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Ian Millhiser

Trump’s confounding pardon of a drug lord, briefly explained

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

02.12.2025 20

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Cameron Peters

Why is Trump suddenly so obsessed with Honduras?

The US may or may not be marching toward war with Venezuela, but at the moment, there’s another Latin American country that seems to be occupying...

02.12.2025 8

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Joshua Keating

Can Marco Rubio end the war in Ukraine?

President Donald Trump promised to stop the Ukraine-Russia war shortly after taking office, but it’s been almost a year since he was sworn in, and...

02.12.2025 5

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Kelli Wessinger