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Bryan Walsh

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The pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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150 years ago, nine words changed the world

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

14.03.2026 6

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The AI threat costing Americans $16.6 billion a year

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

11.03.2026 8

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These reforms could transform criminal justice for people — and they cost almost nothing

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

10.03.2026 4

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The quiet revolution that made your home, car, and wallet a lot safer

A few weeks back, in the run-up to Christmas, my family was doing what it always does during the holiday season: watching Home Alone. And, around the...

08.02.2026 10

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The forgotten hero who helped eradicate one of humanity’s oldest killers

Had William Foege been a military general or a CEO or a politician, his death on January 24 would have been bold-type, front-page news. Elementary...

03.02.2026 6

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Moltbook, the AI social network freaking out Silicon Valley, explained

Did you notice something… weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various...

03.02.2026 20

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Who do you believe about the end of the world?

Not everyone wants to rule the world, but it does seem lately as if everyone wants to warn the world might be ending. On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the...

28.01.2026 9

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We just took a major step forward in protecting the oceans

In the spring of 2010, I was one of a few journalists invited to travel down to the coast of Ecuador to join an ocean-going TED conference. With me...

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A non-coder’s guide to Claude Code

If it feels like the tech people in your life and on your timeline have collectively lost their minds — but, like, more than usual — that’s just...

16.01.2026 20

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A world without flu is possible

Let’s start with the bad news. There’s a decent chance, perhaps as high as 11 percent if you’re unvaccinated, that some time over the course of...

13.01.2026 20

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5 strategies to help your New Year’s resolution survive “Quitter’s Day”

It’s January 3. The gyms are suddenly crowded; the freshly bought journals are pristine; and suddenly, everyone you know is trying to learn Italian...

03.01.2026 20

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26 things we think will happen in 2026

For the seventh year in a row, the Future Perfect staff — plus assorted other experts from around Vox — convened near the end of the year to make...

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The 19 predictions that came true in 2025 — and the 4 that didn’t

It’s that time of year again. Every January 1, the Future Perfect team makes forecasts for the events we think will (or won’t) happen over the...

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The 2025 stories that prove people still run toward danger

One of my favorite books is Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. The book is, in...

27.12.2025 20

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The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025

As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — a quick way to see what landed...

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2025 felt like a disaster — but the numbers tell a very different story

2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of...

22.12.2025 20

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We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.

America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. A Pew Research Center survey published in September found that 50 percent of respondents...

13.12.2025 10

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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, the...

06.12.2025 10

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The end of malaria

I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places,...

01.12.2025 10

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A shocking new warning about global poverty should unsettle everyone

Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful...

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The global decline in murder, explained in one chart

One source of good news — favored both by me and, apparently, venture capitalists — is what’s known as a “narrative violation.” A...

29.11.2025 9

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How 6 organizers are building effective global health solutions from the bottom up

Global development is wobbling — funding slipping, crises multiplying — and the most reliable force we have isn’t a new pledge or a distant...

19.11.2025 10

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The 2025 Future Perfect 25

When we launched Vox’s Future Perfect section in 2018, it began with a simple question: “What topics would we write about if our only instruction...

19.11.2025 20

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One of the world’s most influential philanthropies is changing its name. Here’s why it matters.

Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been the rare philanthropic shop with both the resources and the rigor to make a dent in some of the...

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The US is still a magnet for top foreign students — for now

For most of the 20th century, the center of gravity in science was anywhere but the US. On the eve of World War II, the great laboratories were in...

15.11.2025 10

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AI is resurrecting the voices of dead famous people

Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and...

14.11.2025 20

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Your washing machine is actually a time machine

If Good News had a patron saint, it would be the Swedish professor of global health Hans Rosling. Rosling, who died in 2017, was a wizard at using...

10.11.2025 10

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Why peanut butter is back on the kids’ menu

If, like me, you’re a parent of a young child, there’s one thing you’ve come to fear above all else. (And no, it’s not “Golden” from KPop...

03.11.2025 10

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The Ozempic effect is finally showing up in obesity data

For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it was launched, Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being...

01.11.2025 20

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How the US turned sports into one big casino

Sports betting has become so ubiquitous and so massive in the US that it can be difficult to remember that at the start of 2018, it was only legal in...

24.10.2025 4

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The traffic revolution that’s making cities cleaner — and happier

While walking my son to school a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening on Court Street, a major thoroughfare that runs through our...

18.10.2025 20

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The world is producing more food crops than ever before

If you ever find yourself in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, turn down Vesey Street toward North End Avenue. You’ll arrive at something...

11.10.2025 9

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2024 was a record-setting year for lifesaving vaccines

There’s a “paradox” at work in global health, as the philanthropist Bill Gates wrote last week. Even as funding for global health is declining,...

06.10.2025 10

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The age of endless AI slop is here

Really, it’s almost unfair to hold a tech company to its mission statement. From Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” to WeWork’s “Elevate the...

03.10.2025 8

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How America cut deadly city fires in half

My family lives in a heavily-trafficked part of Brooklyn, and most nights you’ll hear the occasional whine of fire engine sirens through our living...

28.09.2025 5

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The accessibility revolution hiding in your AirPods

As a person firmly ensconced in middle age — 57 percent of the way through life, to be precise, if government actuarial tables hold — I have begun...

21.09.2025 20

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Is this the “sickest generation” in American history? Not even close.

If you’ve been paying any attention to the fractious debate over American health policy, you’ve probably heard this phrase: “the sickest...

13.09.2025 9

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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...

06.09.2025 9

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The decline of drinking, explained in one chart

Today, around 8,200 or so Americans will turn 21. Which means, of course, they will become eligible to engage in that time-honored habit of adulthood:...

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Stop romanticizing the 1990s. The data shows today is better.

Let me introduce you to four of the most dangerous words in politics: “the good old days.” Humans have a demonstrated tendency to remember the...

12.08.2025 50

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We’re hardwired for negativity. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed to it.

Over the past week or so, the US economy took a major hit, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was no longer in the business of...

10.08.2025 10

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The surprising reason fewer people are dying from extreme weather

From the wildfires that torched Los Angeles in January to the record-setting heat waves that cooked much of Europe in June, the first half of 2025 has...

02.08.2025 9

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Four stories that are more important than the Epstein Files

Over the past couple of weeks, one story has overshadowed every other, no matter how important they might be: Jeffrey Epstein.  Unless you’ve been...

26.07.2025 8

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The brain tech revolution is here — and it isn’t all Black Mirror

When you hear the word “neurotechnology,” you may picture Black Mirror headsets prying open the last private place we have — our own skulls —...

19.07.2025 10

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America is finally moving past its post-9/11 security theater

On Tuesday, the TSA — a federal agency not known for its generosity — gave American travelers a gift: They will no longer have to take off their...

12.07.2025 20

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Heart attacks aren’t as fatal as they used to be

A day before my 47th birthday last month, I took the subway to Manhattan’s Upper East Side for a coronary artery calcium scan (CAC). For those who...

05.07.2025 20

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How the largest digital camera ever made is revolutionizing our view of space

Last Thursday, I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a...

28.06.2025 10

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5 reasons to be grateful for air conditioning

Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. He didn’t say...

21.06.2025 10

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The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias

Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a...

15.06.2025 10

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