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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...
Every great new discovery has to start somewhere. Penicillin was born out of moldy petri dishes followed by years of experimental testing. The Spice...
“The mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded,” Vice President JD Vance bellowed to a crowd of zoomer nuns,...
In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining...
Today, no American tragedy is complete without a GoFundMe. It took less than a week to raise over $1.5 million for the family of Renee Nicole Good,...
What happens when you merge the world’s most toxic social media cesspool with the world’s most unhinged, uninhibited, and intentionally...
Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt. Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to give...
When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too...
The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children. Insecticide-treated mosquito nets and novel treatments have made...
When billionaire Michael Dell was 8 years old, he opened his first savings account. Every time that young Michael forked a quarter over to the bank...
Every time a MacKenzie Scott grantee talks about receiving one of her multimillion-dollar gifts, there is always a hint of the same bashfulness, the...
By the time the woman arrived at the hospital, she had nearly bled to death. She went into labor on a warm September day earlier this year, and made...
The carnage in the Sudanese city of El Fasher has become so severe that the blood stains can be seen from space. The paramilitary Rapid Support...
We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Learn more about how to support our work. Hurricane Melissa plowed through...
In the heart of southern India’s centuries-old textile industry, tens of millions of garment workers spin cotton fibers into yarn each year. They...
Cori Jackson — a single mom living in Indiana — took in her two young nieces to keep them out of foster care this summer. It hasn’t been easy. ...
It’s back-to-school season and across the US, the aroma of freshly sharpened pencils, pumpkin spice everything, and ultra-processed pizza lunches is...
By the time the earthquake struck, flattening mud-brick homes across Afghanistan’s eastern mountains last week, many nearby health clinics had...
Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV...
Immigrant rights activist Guerline Jozef can’t count the number of frantic texts, calls, and emails she gets daily from Haitians in the United...
If the world has had enough of helping others, then somebody forgot to tell Spain. Yes, Spain. The same country that, a little more than a decade...