Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation that it is planning a major military operation against the government of Venezuela. This week, the situation escalated dramatically with the US seizing a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan […] Read more ›
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A Vox reader asks: Why is Dubai chocolate suddenly everywhere?! My husband and I have noticed that we suddenly see it everywhere from small town ice cream shops, national chains, grocery stores — and it appears to be across the country. Since we are DC people, our brains immediately went to wondering whether there was […] Read more ›
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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 then dye large swaths of that yarn a dusty indigo hue before weaving it into a denim fabric that will eventually be cut and sewn into your favorite pair of light-washed low-rise […] Read more ›
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The idea of extinction — the permanent loss of life — is frightening. Yet the stakes of losing plants and animals are often unclear. If an already-rare bird vanishes from the forest, most people probably won’t feel the impact. But a troubling situation unfolding in Florida is different. Following a record-shattering heat wave in 2023, two marine […] Read more ›
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At least twice a year, I’ll download a new browser, open it up, and see if the web looks better through a different window. It never does — or at least it didn’t until recently. We’ve entered a new era of AI-powered browsers. They have names like Comet, Dia, and Neon, and they all make […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. Anti-establishment parties and politicians are surging in Western Europe and Japan. In the United States, the MAGA movement, led by President Donald Trump, has seized power. Political violence is rising and […] Read more ›
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Final estimates are still pending, but early reports suggest that Saturday’s “No Kings,” anti-Trump protests were the biggest single-day protest event since 1970 — and perhaps the largest nonviolent protests in US history. Over 2,700 events were held in all 50 states, according to organizers, which means as many as 7 million Americans joined. Sen. Elizabeth […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House without review, recourse, or an approval process. Why is this happening? Trump announced […] Read more ›
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If you’ve noticed your electricity bill is higher than normal recently, you’re not alone. Power is getting more expensive everywhere, outpacing inflation. One major culprit? The flurry of new data centers being built to meet demand from the AI sector. To find out more, I asked my colleague Umair Irfan, who covers energy policy, for Vox’s […] Read more ›
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Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead. That, at least, is the implied conclusion of a viral investigation published last week by Consumer Reports on levels of lead and other heavy metals in popular protein supplements. Many brands, the article reported, “carry troubling levels of toxic […] Read more ›
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The buzziest political word of the year is “affordability” — it’s the mantra that carried the insurgent progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani to victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, and that Democrats across the country have since raced to claim as their own. “Affordability is the central issue, the central reason to be a Democrat,” […] Read more ›
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs, the burning of emergency food supplies, the renewed politicization of vaccines are just a few of the bleak developments that have happened since the start of the year. But that […] Read more ›
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The political fallout is continuing from the leak of the Young Republicans group chat. A Politico investigation found revealed that young GOP leaders from Arizona, Kansas, New York, and Vermont sent each other thousands of Telegram messages that included racist, antisemitic, and violent rhetoric. The authors of the messages repeatedly used slurs and epithets to […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. Derek Gregory hasn’t been in the same state, let alone in the same room, as his best friend Ringo in nearly two decades. Their relationship dates back to the early 1980s, […] Read more ›
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After the release of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, TikTok had some expectedly strong takes. One popular TikTok claims that Swift’s album is a “case study in moral collapse” full of lyrics that demonstrate “pathological self-involvement” and “an absence of self-identity.” The user’s tone is confident, but their analysis is largely speculative. Another […] Read more ›
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This story is also available in English. Click here to read that version. HELODRANON’NY RANOBE, Madagasikara — Ny haran-dranomasina (vatohara) izy tenany dia tena tsara tokoa. Miaina any amin’ny dimy kilaometatra miala ny morontsiraka izy ireo, any amin’ny rano lalina manodidina ny dimy ambin’ny folo metatra, ary dia toy ny tany mikitoantoana misy loko mavokely, […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is trying to pay himself $230 million in taxpayer money. Wait, what? The payment, which was first reported Tuesday by the New […] Read more ›
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In a recently leaked group chat, it was revealed that a Republican operative named Paul Ingrassia referred to himself as having a “Nazi streak.” The leak is just one among many recent signs that this kind of radical and incendiary rhetoric has become increasingly normalized among some up-and-coming Republican staffers. But Ingrassia isn’t just any […] Read more ›
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It’s hard to think of a more dramatic question than the issue before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois. President Donald Trump wants to use federalized troops to quell protests outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago. Two federal courts have ruled that federal law does not permit Trump to do this. But the […] Read more ›
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Tsindrio eto raha te hamaky ity lahatsoratra ity amin’ny teny Malagasy. BAY OF RANOBE, Madagascar — The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […] Read more ›
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Last month, in Tina Turner’s hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, a bronze statue honoring the late singer was erected. When famous people die, people want to remember them. A statue goes up, and people start remembering. The thing about the Tina Turner statue is that it is, as fans pointed out, extremely ugly and looks nothing […] Read more ›
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