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Marina Bolotnikova

The Intercept

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Why the Trump administration loves the stupidest renewable energy

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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Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Leather is not an innocent byproduct of the meat industry

Leather is not an innocent byproduct of the meat industry Your leather purse might put out as much carbon as 35 hamburgers. But the alternative...

08.07.2026 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The evidence against “ultra-processed” foods is weaker than you think

The evidence against “ultra-processed” foods is weaker than you think New analysis suggests other factors may explain the harms blamed on...

04.07.2026 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in

America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in The United States is turning 250. Everything we want for the next 50 years starts with...

01.07.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

American cities are paying too much for sprawling housing

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...

03.06.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.

02.06.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The shocking death toll of cars in poor countries

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...

26.05.2026 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Activists tried to free 2,000 dogs from a Wisconsin research lab. Then came the tear gas.

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...

29.04.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The surprising reason why pedestrian deaths are down in the US

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...

27.04.2026 30

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

How Austin’s stunning drop in rents explains housing in America

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...

10.04.2026 30

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Hey Google, stop trying to write my emails!

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...

27.03.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement

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...

05.03.2026 90

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The biggest drawback of driverless cars

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...

04.03.2026 30

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The secret to better public housing

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise...

06.02.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The hidden double standards driving our housing crisis

It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that, for more than a century, American urban planning has been devoted to layering on ways to all but...

04.02.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Can America build beautiful places again?

The root of America’s housing affordability crisis isn’t complicated in the abstract: We need to build more homes (4 million more, to be more or...

20.01.2026 30

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The new food pyramid is lying to you

If you take anything at all from the latest edition of the federal dietary guidelines, out this week, it should be… not much. Although US Health...

09.01.2026 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.

The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, Abundance (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is a detail almost no one...

19.12.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving

Today, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy or find meaning in. We will...

28.11.2025 150

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The Case Against Thanksgiving Turkey

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Thursday, tens of millions of...

27.11.2025 20

Mother Jones

Marina Bolotnikova

The surprisingly profound debate over whether fish feel pain

What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from water, to be (if one is lucky) oblivious to the...

21.11.2025 40

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling

Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats...

02.11.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

How soybeans took over America — and the world

Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the world.  Most of us associate the...

16.10.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Jane Goodall’s most radical message was not about saving the planet

Most people know Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist who died on Wednesday at 91, for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She...

02.10.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food

Perhaps the most crucial idea for understanding our species’ future on this planet boils down to two boring words: land use. To mitigate climate...

09.08.2025 50

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The old suburban frontier is closing. Here’s what the new one could look like.

For the last half-century, America’s population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and waterlogged, yet...

07.07.2025 40

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The one thing the Trump administration got very right

If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of...

18.06.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

You’re being lied to about protein

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every...

28.05.2025 40

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova