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Why the Trump administration is fixated on Latin America

For decades, experts have accused American presidents of neglecting the Western Hemisphere in favor of faraway conflicts in Europe, the Middle...

yesterday 20

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Joshua Keating

Don’t expect the courts to save us from Donald Trump

We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of...

yesterday 60

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Ian Millhiser

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was more concerned with Drake than politics

Since Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show’s headliner last September, music fans have been abuzz with excitement,...

yesterday 9

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Kyndall Cunningham

Luminous! A masterpiece! Why publishing can’t stop debating blurbs.

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from...

yesterday 9

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Constance Grady

Exclusive: California’s new plan to stop AI from claiming to be your therapist

Over the past few years, AI systems have been misrepresenting themselves as human therapists, nurses, and more — and so far, the companies behind...

yesterday 40

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Sigal Samuel

Trump’s Guantánamo plan is an old idea — with an ugly history

President Donald Trump is looking to vastly expand immigrant detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Trump hopes to eventually detain up to 30,000...

yesterday 10

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Nicole Narea

The fight for the future of the CFPB, explained

The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. ...

yesterday 10

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Patrick Reis

The tiny lizard that will test Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda

While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration...

yesterday 1

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Benji Jones

How a shipping error more than a century ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the...

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Kenny Torrella

We can see factory farm pollution all the way from space

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not...

previous day 6

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Sam Delgado

The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired...

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Abdallah Fayyad

Los Angeles has a chance to protect itself from the next fire. It shouldn’t squander it

At their peak, the devastating wildfires that ignited around Los Angeles in January forced upward of 200,000 people to evacuate and torched more...

07.02.2025 20

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Umair Irfan

Gen Z doesn’t know how to act in bars

One of America’s favorite pastimes, right up there with baseball and gimmick food, is generational disdain. Gen Z is experiencing the same hot...

07.02.2025 40

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Alex Abad-Santos

The right’s flirtation with degrowth, explained

Over the last few years, I’ve written a lot about degrowth ideology, the view that the only way to save the planet is to abandon economic growth as...

07.02.2025 4

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Kelsey Piper

Why do US politics affect the rest of the world?

Vox reader Jo Ní Coinnigh asks: Why do American politics (especially the presidential election) affect not just the US, but the entire world? On...

07.02.2025 4

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Zack Beauchamp

How safe is donating your eggs?

Vox reader Quentin Ampersand asks: How safe is egg donation? Are there negative long-term impacts? How well are the health impacts understood? Egg...

07.02.2025 2

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Anna North

How Big Meat silences its critics

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in...

07.02.2025 2

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Kenny Torrella

How a major Supreme Court case is changing how police do their jobs

Vox Members got to read this story first. Support independent journalism and get exclusive access to stories like this by becoming a Vox Member...

07.02.2025 4

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Marin Cogan

Your guide to taming that astronomical grocery bill

A few weeks ago, I was wandering down a grocery store aisle when I encountered the most expensive eggs I’d ever seen. The price for a dozen eggs...

07.02.2025 4

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Sara Youngblood Gregory

The public domain keeps culture vibrant. Why is it shrinking?

I believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will...

07.02.2025 6

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Jorge.just

The high-stakes fight at Treasury, explained

Welcome to The Logoff. Today, I’m focusing on a fight over control of the Treasury Department’s payment system, a legal battle with big...

07.02.2025 5

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Patrick Reis

Kanye West’s antisemitic spiral, explained

Editor’s note, February 7, 2025, 12:30 pm ET: On February 7, Kanye referred to himself openly as a Nazi in a post on X, along with a number of...

07.02.2025 2

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Aja Romano

Why Trump’s plan to “clean out” Gaza actually matters

It’s a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin...

07.02.2025 20

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Joshua Keating

A setback for Elon Musk’s plan to gut the federal workforce

The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. ...

06.02.2025 2

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Patrick Reis

What a wild conspiracy theory about Politico tells us about how Trump governs

A brief spat between Elon Musk and the news organization Politico is making something quite obvious: The nation’s governance is increasingly at the...

06.02.2025 60

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Christian Paz