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Marina Bolotnikova

Marina Bolotnikova

The Intercept

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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 10

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 10

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 10

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 10

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 70

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 10

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 9

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 10

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 20

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 10

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 10

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 10

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 20

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 10

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 10

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 10

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 40

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 30

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 10

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 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

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 —...

10.04.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

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 —...

10.04.2025 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

The life of a dairy cow

At Vox, I specialize in writing and editing all sorts of stories about animal agriculture and the future of food, from the strange ritual of eating...

03.04.2025 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

Americans are drinking more cow’s milk. Here’s why that’s a problem.

The past few years have violated many of my assumptions about human progress. Twenty-year-olds are going MAGA. More and more Americans say that women...

10.03.2025 20

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova

America’s never-ending obsession with milk, explained in 8 charts

The past few years have violated many of my assumptions about human progress. Twenty-year-olds are going MAGA. More and more Americans say that women...

06.03.2025 10

Vox

Marina Bolotnikova