George Santos is gone, and the race to replace him is a squeaker. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIs the situation really so dire for Democrats? Tuesday’s special election will give us a clue. Even the race to replace George Santos in Congress is packed with drama. The historic expulsion of Santos in December has prompted a rare special election in a swing congressional district that could prove a... Read more ›
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Supporters of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party celebrate Pakistan’s election results. | Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty ImagesImran Khan’s candidates won the most votes. He can’t be prime minister. What next? Pakistan’s parliamentary elections ended in a surprise upset, one that could make the transition to the next government a chaotic affair and that could leave the winning politicians without real governing power. Backed by Pakistan’s powerful and... Read more ›
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People inspect the damage to their homes following Israeli air strikes on February 12, 2024, in Rafah, Gaza. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesEverything is riding on what Israel does next in Rafah, Gaza. The world on Sunday got its first look at how devastating an Israeli invasion of Rafah — Gaza’s southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought safety amid Israel’s military operations — might be. At least... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures to members of the audience as he leaves a rally at Coastal Carolina University on February 10, 2024, in Conway, South Carolina. | Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever. The Supreme Court now has two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, the... Read more ›
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From Kelvin Kiptum’s country of Kenya to Angola, pictured here, car crash deaths have been on the rise across Africa. | Artur Cavalho/Getty ImagesCar crashes are killing too many young Africans like Kelvin Kiptum. Kelvin Kiptum, who set a world-record marathon time this past October at the Chicago Marathon and was expected to contend for gold at this summer’s Olympic Games, died Sunday in a car crash in his home... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures to members of the audience as he leaves a rally at Coastal Carolina University on February 10, 2024, in Conway, South Carolina. | Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever. The Supreme Court is about to have two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v.... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace.... Read more ›
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Xiao Hua Yang for VoxOpioid addiction doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to, but the crisis is as bad as ever. It doesn’t have to be. The opioid crisis doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to before Covid-19, but the news remains stubbornly, shockingly bad. Decades into the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in American history, people are dying at higher rates than ever. Between 2017 and... Read more ›
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President Biden is seen here responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on his mishandling of classified documents. | Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEven if voters or the establishment wanted to, there really isn’t a viable process to replace Biden as the nominee. That President Joe Biden is an old man is nothing new. It’s also not groundbreaking to say that he’s unpopular with broad swathes of Americans. But after... Read more ›
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European grocery chain Carrefour has delisted PepsiCo products from thousands of stores, citing price hikes. | Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty ImagesInflation is cooling, but food companies keep raising prices. In 2022, grocery prices rose more than they had in over four decades, since the “great inflation” of the 1970s. The hair-raising climb has finally stopped, but the pain remains: We’re still paying 25 percent more for groceries than we did... Read more ›
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Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty ImagesThe world’s “coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele, wins reelection. On February 4, as El Salvador held presidential elections, current president Nayib Bukele showed up at a polling place accompanied by speakers blasting “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by R.E.M. The song choice was deliberate — Bukele was once again trolling critics who claim he’s steering the country toward... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesForming a healthy relationship with regret means learning to look it in the face. When Peter and Sjanna Leighton were in their early 20s, their marriage fell apart. Money was tight, and they each feared they were disappointing the other; neither one knew how to communicate their vulnerabilities and hurt. So one day, almost a year after their vows, Peter packed his bags and moved out of their home... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesThe Protestant work ethic hijacked America. It’s time for a new pro-worker ethos. When you hear the phrase “work ethic,” you might think of the perfect employee. The one who puts her job above everything else, who never complains, the type that lives to work. That is certainly one version of the work ethic, and it’s a story that serves employers much more than it serves employees. But is... Read more ›
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A 268-unit mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction project known as The Laureate in Montgomery County, Maryland. | Montgomery County’s Housing Opportunities CommissionLocal governments are trying a new way to address the housing crisis. Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced in the United States. Governments have successfully addressed housing shortages through publicly developed housing in places like... Read more ›
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A chunk of camembert melts off a spatula. | Jonathan Knowles/Getty ImagesGird your curds! Say a prayer for Camembert! A collapse in microbe diversity puts these French cheeses at risk. Camembert, I’m sorry to report, is in trouble. The soft cheese, which smells a bit like feet, is on the “verge of extinction,” according to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Other cheeses, including brie and various blues,... Read more ›
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Super Bowl 2024 is a classic American story and these two are our main characters. | Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesAn extra-super Super Bowl is in store. Sometime on Sunday, the white-hot center of the biggest spectator events of the past year will arrive in Las Vegas. Their every move will be tracked by relentless media and even more relentless fans. Also, a football game will be played. There will be no... Read more ›
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a flag-hoisting ceremony in Izium after the Ukrainian forces took control of the city from the Russian forces in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 14, 2022. | Metin AktaÅ/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA major military shake-up comes amid a fight in Congress over US funding for Ukraine. Ukraine’s military underwent a major leadership shake-up this week, a decision that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy framed as a reset... Read more ›
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Tracy Chapman singing “Fast Car” at the Grammys. | John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyThe multiplatinum singer’s Grammys performance has brought out songwriting “experts” online. Did you know Tracy Chapman’s song “Fast Car” isn’t about an automobile traveling at a heightened velocity? Did you need someone to explain it to you? Did you want someone to? Thanks to Chapman’s fantastic Grammys performance alongside cover artist Luke Combs, people —... Read more ›
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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a South Carolina rally ahead of the Nevada caucuses. | Allison Joyce/AFP/Getty ImagesTrump won, Haley lost, and Nevada botched its key role in the GOP primary. Nevada is doing things differently this election season, and not necessarily for the better. Former President Donald Trump and his former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, competed this week in Nevada as the last... Read more ›
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Christina Animashaun/VoxThe flow of new money and interest into core EA fields like AI safety poses a challenge to a movement that was used to being small. This past weekend I attended the latest Effective Altruism Global conference, which was held in the Bay Area, where I live. These events always have me reflecting on two things: how to effectively do good in the world — the prime directive of... Read more ›
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