The US Supreme Court building seen in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023. | Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe US Supreme Court convened for a new term on October 2 and will begin hearing a growing list of cases that could transform the scope of the federal government, voting rights, and the rights to free speech and public safety. Justices will consider the constitutionality of an entire federal agency,... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) celebrates with the gavel after being elected as speaker in the House Chamber on January 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesOnce again, the Supreme Court must deal with judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit. Two of the most partisan judges in the country handed down an order last week that is hard to explain as anything other than an attempt... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden is welcomed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 15, 2022. | Royal Court of Saudi Arabia / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesBiden called Saudi Arabia a “pariah.” What happened? Five years after a Saudi hit squad murdered, dismembered, and disappeared the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia has won. It was President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner... Read more ›
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Emily’s List President Laphonza Butler addresses a Biden-Harris campaign rally on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson, decision which struck down a federal right to abortion, at the Mayflower Hotel on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked Butler, the president of Emily’s List, as the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s successor. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that... 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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Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBelieve it or not, there are worse judges than Brett Kavanaugh. And now Brett needs to clean up their mess. No matter how bad the Supreme Court gets, it can always get worse. This reality will be on full... Read more ›
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Pictured above: What should probably now be considered a luxury item. | akinbostanci via Getty ImagesYour expensive coffee habit is indeed getting even more expensive. That Pumpkin Spice Latte is going to cost you a pretty penny this fall. If you are a connoisseur of fancy coffee and fancy coffee shops (or even just fancy-ish), you’ve probably noticed that the price of your favorite drink is higher than it used... Read more ›
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Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesMcCarthy, Matt Gaetz, and the motion to vacate, explained Congress finally managed to squeeze out a deal to fund the government for 45 days on Saturday, but the eleventh-hour resolution is already causing trouble for Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida indicated Sunday that he will call for a motion to vacate — a vote to toss McCarthy from leadership for... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoSocial media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate. Oversharing in conversation is nothing new. Throughout thousands of years of social interaction, people have divulged certain secrets, vulnerabilities, and desires to perhaps the wrong listener, with results ranging from mild embarrassment to shattered reputations. Thanks to social media, the ability to make these confessions to a potentially much wider audience is easier than ever. What... Read more ›
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A demonstrator kicks a tear gas shell during clashes with the police outside the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, on June 26, 2013. | Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty ImagesJournalist Vincent Bevins grapples with failed revolutions from Egypt to Brazil to Hong Kong. When a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in protest of the Tunisian government in 2010, he inspired a revolution in his country and ultimately a cascade of... Read more ›
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Kevin McCarthy teamed with Democrats to keep the government open. Will he keep his job? | Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesKevin McCarthy faced either a shutdown or a right-wing push to kick him out of his job. He chose the latter. With only hours to spare, Congress on Saturday narrowly avoided a government shutdown. The Senate approved a bill to keep the government open for the next 45 days by... Read more ›
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New Yorkers attempt to clear storm drains in Brooklyn on September 29 | Michael M. Santiago / Getty ImagesThe flooding on September 29 was bad. The future will be, too. Apocalyptic flooding brought New York City to a standstill Friday, with subway service suspended and murky rainwater seeping into buses attempting to navigate the city’s flooded roads. The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, did not directly address the public till nearly... Read more ›
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Niv Bavarsky for VoxThe world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal. The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents... Read more ›
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These two guys probably said something about their friend during brunch. And that’s normal! | Getty Images/iStockphotoCan all the TikTok tattletales please calm down? When I asked Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan — the hosts of the I’ve Had It, a podcast about best friends who complain — if they’ve ever complained about each other, they said, with 100 percent certainty and almost in unison, that they absolutely did.... Read more ›
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Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop“Get outside more” seems like simple advice. The reality can be much more complicated. Like a lot of people who sheltered in place in the early days of the pandemic, I dreamt of moving out of the city and closer to nature. So when lockdown orders finally lifted in the European city I had called home for nearly two decades, I headed for the mountains. I chose my... Read more ›
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Access to the Charlton Flat campground is blocked by a locked gate in the Angeles National Forest on October 2, 2013 in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles, California, during a partial government shutdown that year. | David McNew/Getty ImagesWhat is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown. The US government sure looks like it’s on track for another shutdown. Currently, the House of Representatives has... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in the House Chamber after Gaetz for a fourth time held up McCarthy’s election as speaker, on January 6, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA rundown on the factions involved in the disarray. This month, due to House Republican in-fighting, the US government is on the verge of a shutdown yet again. It’s clear Congress doesn’t have time... Read more ›
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Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty ImagesThe latest struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, will ripple throughout the region. A decades-long conflict in the Caucasus flared up last week — only to seemingly finally be decided. Azerbaijan on September 19 launched an “anti-terror” strike aimed at Nagorno-Karabakh, the semi-autonomous, majority-Armenian region within its internationally recognized borders. One day later, the breakaway government agreed to disarm and dissolv Read more ›
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A first edition of Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith’s book The Wealth Of Nations is displayed at the Dutch House of Representatives library in the Hague on May 31, 2018. | Bart Maat/AFP via Getty ImagesToday, Explained looks at how Americans lost faith in capitalism — and whether we can get it back. My interest in capitalism began with an observation. I worked as an economics reporter for six... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a May Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFeinstein died as a new generation of leadership was preparing to take power in California. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the US Senate and a vocal advocate for gun control measures, died Thursday night. She was 90. Her death brings to an end a messy, long-running chapter of national politics centered on... Read more ›
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