House Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the Senate GOP caucus walk through the Capitol on November 1, 2023. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty ImagesMAGA Republicans took down the last GOP speaker. Now they’ve passed an aid package tailored to their goals. Although Rep. Mike Johnson was a relative unknown when he took the House speakership, one of the few things that’s quickly become apparent is how closely aligned he... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxRetailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it. Jonathan wants me to guess how often retail workers see someone steal. It’s a challenge he likes to make to friends, who always underestimate it. “It’s multiple times a day, maybe as often as once an hour. And that’s the stuff you can see, like the really blatant ones,” he says. “A lot of people picture a scared... Read more ›
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Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades. On October 7, Hamas, a militant group based in the Gaza Strip, launched a deadly attack on Israel, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping more than 200. In retaliation, Israeli airstrikes had killed more than 7,000 Palestinians when this video was published on October 27, and thousands more have been killed since in Gaza, where Palestinians have lived for decades under... Read more ›
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Dead bodies at the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Gaza on October 25, 2023. | Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty ImagesReal-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway. At a press conference on October 25, PBS Newshour reporter Laura Barrón-López asked US President Joe Biden a stark question. More than 6,000 Palestinian deaths had been reported in Gaza since October 7, she... Read more ›
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Pro-Palestine supporters attend a demonstration in New York in 2018. | Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSilencing criticism makes it harder for Israel’s leaders to think clearly. Eight years ago, I published a novel about a Montreal Jewish family with a dangerous mystical obsession. It had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. But that didn’t stop a former Israeli combat soldier from trying to get me disinvited from a book event. He... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. You can also get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed... Read more ›
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Courtesy of American UniversityNelson to lead policy, politics, and health and science. Today, Vox announced Libby Nelson has been promoted to editorial director for policy, politics, and health and science. In her new role, Nelson will be the senior newsroom leader overseeing the policy and politics teams and our coverage of the 2024 elections; and Vox’s health and science coverage. “Libby has been a part of building Vox since day... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesWhy green cities might not be the panacea we think they are. Des Fitzgerald’s new book, The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great, reads like a provocation. The idea of green cities — urban spaces where trees and plant life are integrated to make the environment more sustainable and livable — is so prevalent that there are very few cities in the United... Read more ›
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Third grade students read a book during an English language arts class at their temporary school site in early October before campuses in Lāhainā re-opened. | AP/Mengshin LinHawai‘i education officials want to return to normal. But some parents want more time to heal. On October 15, a day before Lāhainā’s public schools were set to reopen, the families of West Maui — still reeling from the deadliest wildfire in US... Read more ›
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Three justices attend an event at the Trump White House. | Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe justices appear to have no idea when they should get involved with online disputes between government officials and their constituents. A pair of Supreme Court cases asking what limits the First Amendment places on government officials who use social media seemed to perplex the justices on Tuesday. The arguments in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and... Read more ›
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Families and friends of hostages cry and embrace while visiting the Lights of Hope installation featuring photos of the hostages on October 30, 2023, in Jerusalem, Israel. | Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesMore than 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas. Here’s what we know. Pressure is mounting on the Israeli government to find a way to retrieve over 200 hostages currently held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as the... Read more ›
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The Warren’s case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe. There are franchises, and then there are shared universes. Movies like Halloween, Scream, and The Exorcist are all successful horror franchises. For the most part, they follow one continuous story. Their sequels, re-quels, and reboots all tend to center around the same villain we’ve known since the beginning. But The Conjuring is different. Every new film pulls on... Read more ›
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President Biden hands his pen to Vice President Harris after signing the Artificial Intelligence Safety, Security, and Trust executive order on October 30, 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNow comes the hard part: Congress. Since the widespread release of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, there’s been an increasingly loud call to regulate them, given how powerful, transformative, and potentially dangerous the technology can be. President Joe Biden’s long-promised Executive Order on... Read more ›
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Community members attend a vigil at the Prairie Activity and Rec Center for 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadea al-Fayoume on October 17, 2023, in Plainfield, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThere’s a surge in reports of assaults, vandalism, harassment, and intimidation. Deadly violence in the Middle East is spurring attacks and heightening fear in Muslim, Jewish, and Arab (especially Palestinian) communities across the United States. In Illinois, about a week after Hamas... Read more ›
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Fayyad named policy correspondent; Just joins as editorial director of audio. Today, Vox announced that Pulitzer Prize finalist Abdallah Fayyad is joining Vox as a correspondent on the policy team, and Jorge Just will join Vox as editorial director of audio. In his new role, Fayyad will examine the impact of domestic and social policies past, present, and future, including reporting on poverty, housing, criminal justice, and questions of democracy.... Read more ›
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March 2023. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesIsraelis aren’t rallying around their prime minister. They’re rallying against him. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble. As in, facing a non-zero risk of losing his job trouble. And this political drama could have a profound effect on Israel’s approach to the conflict with Palestine. Netanyahu’s poll numbers since the October 7 Hamas massacre have been grim:... Read more ›
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Ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren may not have been the wholesome religious examples of pop culture fame. | Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Media via Getty ImagesThe onscreen version of exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren is a far cry from their real-life counterparts. The reputation of cute cuddly exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren has grown outsized in 21st-century pop culture. That’s mainly thanks to the juggernaut Conjuring franchise, loosely based on their... Read more ›
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A Tesla charging station in Skei, Norway. The country has the world’s highest rate of electric car adoption. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesElectric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options. OSLO, Norway — With motor vehicles generating nearly a 10th of global CO2 emissions, governments and environmentalists around the world are scrambling to mitigate the damage. In wealthy countries,... Read more ›
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Community members attend a vigil at the Prairie Activity and Rec Center for 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadea al-Fayoume on October 17, 2023, in Plainfield, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThere’s a surge in reports of assaults, vandalism, harassment, and intimidation. Deadly violence in the Middle East is spurring attacks and heightening fear in Muslim, Jewish, and Arab (especially Palestinian) communities across the United States. In Illinois, about a week after Hamas... Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai leaves the court after testifying in his company’s defense on October 30, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhich search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide. The first big trial of the modern Big Tech antitrust movement is here: On September 12, the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google’s search engine monopoly began. What’s at stake? Oh, nothing much —... Read more ›
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