It’s that time of year again: Summer is over, class is in session, and high school seniors are filled with dread. Yes, it’s college application season. The formula required to get into many colleges these days involves striking a delicate balance between highlighting personal and academic accomplishments, outlining future interests and aspirations, and painting a […] Read more ›
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Bill Gates helped launch a global health revolution at the turn of the 21st century, one in which multilateral humanitarian efforts arrested the AIDS crisis in Africa and began to make strides against longtime killers like tuberculosis and malaria. People in the Global South were living longer. A more equitable future appeared within our grasp. […] Read more ›
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Over the past two days, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been targeted with an attack as sophisticated and audacious as it is brutal, with the devices in their own pockets turned into deadly weapons. On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members and associates in Lebanon and Syria exploded, killing at […] Read more ›
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Ukraine’s military apparently launched a drone attack against a weapons depot in Russia’s Tver region Wednesday, causing a blast detectable from space. The large-scale attack occurred near the village of Toropets, about 240 miles west of Moscow, according to Russian military bloggers. According to Russian state media, the attack was so intense the town of […] Read more ›
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Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party, has been in conflict with Israel since its founding decades ago. The intensity of the hostilities has waxed and waned, hitting a relative low point before the war in Gaza broke out. The months since October 7, though, have brought a dangerous escalation in fighting […] Read more ›
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Rich Johnston, a father of two school-aged children in Atlanta, thought AOL Instant Messenger was bad enough. Johnston recently told me that “away messages screwed with people’s brains,” stressed them out. The self-identified elder millennial also loves the fire hose of information that is X, formerly Twitter, and yes, he knows that’s weird. “Now we’ve […] Read more ›
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced Tuesday that it would begin rolling out measures that restrict what kind of content young people can access, who they can talk to, and how much time they spend on special media. The new measures will begin with an Instagram rollout that began September 17 […] Read more ›
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Now that inflation has cooled, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it is cutting interest rates by half a percentage point. That should be welcome news for all Americans in need of a loan: business owners, college students, and anyone looking to buy a home. Until March 2022, the US enjoyed historically low interest rates. This […] Read more ›
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Sen. J.D. Vance has fashioned himself as a different kind of Republican. He is an “anti-regime,” “anti-elitist” populist who believes that America’s social order is “tilted toward the few.” He has decried traditional economic conservatism as an ideology that “subordinates human life and community to a false ideal of the market somehow existing independent of […] Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled that the Green Party must be removed from that state’s 2024 ballot because of a paperwork error. Nevada law requires people who collect petition signatures seeking to place a “minor party” on the ballot to “verify that they believe each person signing the petition is a registered voter […] Read more ›
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This week, there’s been yet another wave of extreme weather around the globe. North Carolina was hit with a historic amount of rain. Central and Eastern Europe have experienced some of their worst flooding in decades. And Nigeria has faced unprecedented floods following multiple days of torrential precipitation. Individually, the disasters have been damaging; together, […] Read more ›
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Additional explosions, reportedly involving thousands of walkie-talkies, went off in Lebanon Wednesday, a day after hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria in an attack that apparently targeted members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party. Israel was reportedly behind both attacks, though it has not taken public credit. […] Read more ›
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A few months ago, I wrote about a proposal called the End Kidney Deaths Act, which seeks to make sure that every one of the more than 135,000 Americans who get diagnosed with kidney failure every year has access to a kidney transplant. Its method is simple: a federal tax credit worth $10,000 a year […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday, we launched a new way for us to answer your questions. Our Explain It to Me franchise will include a weekly podcast, weekly newsletter, and regular videos that all focus on what our audience wants to know. The first podcast episode answers a listener’s question about whether his dentist is scamming him while […] Read more ›
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Vox reader Gunnar Colleen writes: “So are all the bugs really disappearing? If so, why does it seem like nobody is doing anything about it? Is there anything I can personally do to help out the little guys at the very base of our ecosystems? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and it seems […] Read more ›
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As I’ve been thinking about Donald Trump and JD Vance’s reckless lies about Haitians eating cats in Ohio, I keep coming back to one question: What makes this different from all the other things they’ve said about immigrants? Trump blaming crime on immigrants is, after all, the foundation of his political identity: His 2016 campaign […] Read more ›
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If you need something explained, Vox is the place to go. Now, we’re bringing that ethos to our latest franchise, Explain It to Me, which launches Wednesday, September 18, and focuses on answering your questions through a weekly podcast, a weekly newsletter, and a video series. Every week, we’ll tackle a question from a listener […] Read more ›
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On September 6, the Missouri health department announced it had recently identified a new human case of bird flu. This case was different from the other 15 human cases previously identified in the US in that the patient denied having contact with animals, raising the possibility that the illness had already begun spreading among humans. […] Read more ›
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The Murdochs — the real-life media family that inspired HBO’s Succession — are currently navigating a court case that could rival any fictional drama. The family, led by 93-year-old patriarch Rupert Murdoch, controls a vast, global news organization that includes the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, as well as Fox News in […] Read more ›
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A horrifying sexual assault case playing out in France is adding to a larger French reckoning over abuse toward women. The case centers on 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot, who is accused of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and inviting dozens of other men to sexually assault her while she was unconscious. Dominique Pelicot — […] Read more ›
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