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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...
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...
Football occupies a strange place in American life. It’s the most popular sport in the country by an absurd margin, but it’s also the most...
There’s a familiar mood in American life right now, a frustration that feels both personal and ambient. The bridge doesn’t get fixed. The train...
Open almost any conversation about wrongdoing in America, and the idea of forgiveness will not be far behind. It’s one of our most cherished...
Open the internet today, and you’ll find entire worlds most of us never encounter. Spaces built around practices so strange, so hyper-specific, they...
By almost any measure, the last two centuries delivered astonishing leaps in human prosperity. We live longer, healthier, safer lives than almost any...
Thanksgiving is the Super Bowl of awkwardness. You love these people (mostly), but the scripts are fuzzy. Do we hug? Do we talk politics? What do I...
Climate stories usually start the same way: fire, flood, loss, collapse. The charts are grim. The vibes are worse. But there’s another story in the...
TikTok and airlines have something in common with your search engine, your grocery app, and (increasingly) your car: They start out great, lock you...
Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is. We tend to imagine memory almost like a filing cabinet — a faithful...
Political violence isn’t new in America. But the reaction to it today feels different. After the killing of Charlie Kirk, the country didn’t rally...
TikTok is not just the most downloaded app in the world; it’s the most powerful information platform on the planet. The app is also a political...
Talking about climate change can feel hopeless. Even the good news, on the rare occasion we get some, feels hollow. But for the most part, it’s bad...
Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t suspended because of poor ratings. He wasn’t suspended because he crossed some ethical red line. He was suspended because the...
Free speech is the foundation of democracy. It’s the lifeblood of a liberal society. Saying what you want to say, what you need to say, is the top...
America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Light rail. Bridges. Housing. Everything takes seemingly forever, if it even happens at all. ...
Almost every tech platform is designed to grab your attention and never let it go. You give it clicks, and it gives you dopamine. Games, news updates,...
Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think our way out, invent our way out, maybe...
Project 2025 laid out the battle plan pretty clearly: Get rid of the Department of Education, shut off federal funding, take control of the...
What’s the point of college if no one’s actually doing the work? It’s not a rhetorical question. More and more students are not doing the work....
For more than half a century, the American right has preached the virtues of free markets and low taxes and deregulation. But a new wave of...
There are very few philosophers who become part of popular culture, and often, if their ideas become influential, people don’t know where they came...
You often hear about “ideology” these days. Even if that word isn’t mentioned, it’s very much what’s being discussed. When President Donald...
There are lots of stories to tell about the Covid pandemic, but most of them, if you drill down, are about politics. It’s about who made the...
It’s hard to know what to think about AI. It’s easy to imagine a future in which chatbots and research assistants make almost everything we do...
Who hasn’t heard the phrase “ignorance is bliss” a thousand times? Like all cliches, it sticks because it’s rooted in truth, but it’s worth...
A friend of mine once told me that “You are where your attention is.” That line always stuck with me. It was a reminder that the most important...
How many times a day do you interact with devices? If you’re anything like me, it’s impossible to count. You’re reading this article on a...
What’s going on with men? There’s a growing body of evidence that men are falling behind. You can see it in education, in the labor market, and in...
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