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Trump’s tariffs are Democrats’ golden opportunity. Are they botching it?

President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, raising prices and tanking stocks in the process. His approval rating is in free fall. And...

yesterday 7

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Eric Levitz

Trump’s power to declare national emergencies is a national emergency

When President Donald Trump announced his tariffs last week, he also declared a national emergency. According to the White House, the emergency in...

yesterday 30

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Abdallah Fayyad

Trump just made it harder to have a kid in America

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Having a baby is...

yesterday 20

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Anna North

What Trump’s tariff pause can’t solve

Much has apparently changed in the last 24 hours in the US economy. The S&P 500 opened Wednesday more than 10 percent down since President Donald...

yesterday 10

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Nicole Narea

AI is perfect for this stressful, seasonal chore

Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...

yesterday 7

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Adam Clark Estes

Oops, we accidentally drugged the world’s fish

For those of us with anxiety (hello!), the class of prescription drugs known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, can be a boon in times of crisis....

yesterday 1

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Benji Jones

A surprisingly useful tool for this year’s tax season

Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...

yesterday 1

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Adam Clark Estes

These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals

Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.” The fluffy white canines —...

yesterday 1

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Marina Bolotnikova

Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of 2020

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

yesterday 0

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Patrick Reis

Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t only demolished trillions in wealth and raised the chance of a global recession. They’ve also led some...

previous day 10

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Zack Beauchamp

The questionable assumption fueling the stock market rally

President Donald Trump beat a partial — and possibly temporary — retreat from the most radical version of his trade agenda Wednesday.  One week...

previous day 30

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Eric Levitz

Who stands to lose from Trump’s stock market chaos?

The US stock market has lost trillions of dollars in value in the days since President Donald Trump announced major tariffs on American imports. ...

previous day 10

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Nicole Narea

Trump threw the economy into chaos because of a bizarre misinterpretation of one statistic

Donald Trump has been angry about trade for nearly half a century — and throughout all that time, he’s kept on making the same complaint. The...

previous day 9

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Andrew Prokop

What just happened with Trump’s tariffs?

Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m breaking down President Donald Trump’s wild afternoon of trade moves. What is going on with tariffs? Last week,...

previous day 4

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Patrick Reis

Why Trump blinked

After a week of intensifying market turmoil, President Donald Trump stepped back from the brink of financial crisis Wednesday, announcing a 90-day...

previous day 3

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Andrew Prokop

Why some victims of the Long Island serial killer may never receive justice

The arrest of Rex Heuermann, allegedly the infamous Long Island serial killer, makes for riveting drama in Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries...

previous day 3

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Aja Romano

Trump’s tariffs are an opportunity for China. Can Beijing seize it?

 It’s not often the case, but this is a week when the hard-working spokespeople for China’s foreign ministry have a pretty easy job.  The trade war...

previous day 3

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Joshua Keating

The slow death of American science has already begun

In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson’s new book Abundance — which maybe you’ve heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian American...

previous day 4

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Bryan Walsh

Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump?

For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a...

previous day 5

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Kevin Carey

What happened the last time the US went all-in on tariffs?

In less than a week, President Donald Trump’s tariffs have already created economic chaos in the US and abroad.  On Wednesday, he announced a...

tuesday 20

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Nicole Narea

The best financial advice right now is the most counterintuitive

The Trump administration’s announcement of widespread tariffs has thrown the stock market into a tailspin, increasing the odds of a recession. ...

tuesday 9

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Allie Volpe

Why RFK Jr. wants to ban fluoride in water

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expanding his crusade to turn back the clock on federal health policy. Having...

tuesday 3

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Dylan Scott

Would you pay more for an American-made TV? This influential thinker thinks you will.

Most mainstream economists agree that the massive tariffs Donald Trump is imposing on most of the United States’s trading partners are a bad idea —...

tuesday 20

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Noel King

Will AI become God? That’s the wrong question.

It’s hard to know what to think about AI. It’s easy to imagine a future in which chatbots and research assistants make almost everything we do...

07.04.2025 10

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Sean Illing

Are repressed memories real? A hit memoir clashes with the science.

What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir,...

07.04.2025 2

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Aja Romano

I can’t afford a house right now. Am I screwed?

“Should I buy a house?” That’s the question that a listener, Miranda, brought to Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show. “I think...

07.04.2025 1

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Jonquilyn Hill

America may be headed for this rare type of economic crisis

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose large tariffs on all foreign imports has triggered a global trade war — and predictions of an imminent...

07.04.2025 20

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Eric Levitz

Trump’s tariff-driven market crash, briefly explained

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

07.04.2025 10

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Patrick Reis

The Supreme Court just made it easier for Trump to deport people

On Monday night, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision tossing out a closely watched district court decision, which blocked President Donald...

07.04.2025 10

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Ian Millhiser

Trump’s tariffs risk destroying his winning coalition

As markets tank and the prospect of higher prices becomes more real, the future of President Donald Trump’s winning coalition might be on a...

07.04.2025 3

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Christian Paz