Editor’s note: President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday, January 3, that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a “large scale strike” on the country, a significant escalation of US involvement in the region. Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in […] Read more ›
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Artesunate is the leading effective anti-malaria treatment, and was made from a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine. | Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHow the Vietnam War and ancient Chinese medicine led to a malaria treatment. Let’s talk about artesunate. This drug is now the standard, World Health Organization-recommended treatment for severe malaria. It was only in 2011 that it officially displaced the old treatment, quinine, which you may know... Read more ›
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Mifepristone, pictured, is one step in the most common medication abortion regimen. Access to it, and to clinical abortion, has become increasingly limited in the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned. | Getty Images/iStockphotoThe regimen is common and considered safe after 10 weeks, but the delays are cause for concern. Medication abortion is a simple procedure. A patient takes one medication, mifepristone, which stops the pregnancy from developing, followed... Read more ›
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Malis interim leader and head of Junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta looks on, in Bamako, Mali, on September 22, 2022 during Mali’s Independence Day military parade. | Ousmane Makaveli/AFP via Getty ImagesThe junta’s constitutional amendments could let it consolidate power over an unstable nation The ruling junta in Mali is holding a constitutional referendum as part of a transition back toward civilian rule, but experts and political opponents say the true... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesOverwhelmed by too much guidance from all directions? This should help. Few people’s job description includes doling out wisdom to strangers on the internet. John Paul Brammer’s does. His column, ¡Hola Papi!, is billed as “What if Dear Abby was a gay Mexican man on Grindr?” Readers have sought Brammer’s guidance on matters of the heart (like whether to let go of a decent, if not thrilling, relationship) and... Read more ›
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A carnivorous sundew plant in New Jersey’s pine barrens. | Benji Jones/VoxCarnivorous plants are thriving in the most unlikely place. For small aquatic critters like mosquito larvae and water fleas, a plant called the bladderwort is a nightmare. Like the Venus flytrap, it’s carnivorous; it eats bugs. On the water’s surface, bladderworts don’t look menacing. They have long and slender stems topped with small, colorful flowers. Yet underwater, they have... Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest as Gov. Ron DeSantis appoints the New College of Florida board. | Octavio Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHere’s what’s really behind the right-wing campaign on academic freedom. Republican lawmakers around the country are moving quickly to remake higher education in their conservative vision. Bills in states including Florida, Texas, and Ohio have alarmed proponents of academic freedom, who say that the efforts to limit or mandate certain courses or... Read more ›
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara listens as Attorney General Merrick B. Garland (out of frame) addresses the findings of a Justice Department investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department during a press conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 16, 2023. | Photo by STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP via Getty ImagesAfter the murder of George Floyd, the Department of Justice began investigating Minneapolis. Here’s what they found. On Friday, the Department of Justice released... Read more ›
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Xia Gordon for Vox and Capital BInterrogating the true toll of pervasive racism. For this month’s issue of The Highlight, Vox teamed up with Black-led nonprofit newsroom Capital B to explore the insidious effects of discrimination on Black Americans. The collaboration — part of an ongoing partnership with Capital B — was prompted in part by the work of researchers at the University of Chicago, who compiled nearly 50 years’... Read more ›
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Carlos Basabe for Vox and Capital BThere’s no cure for the effects of pervasive discrimination, but there are steps you can take to help heal. Part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. This story was produced in partnership with Capital B. As Black people, we are bombarded by instances of racism every day: Images of police and self-deputized citizens killing Black people. Hospitals shutting down in our communities. Negative... Read more ›
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Farm workers harvest curly mustard in a field in February 2021 in Ventura County, California. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesRepublicans are rolling back child labor laws. But they’ve always been weak on farms. While many middle schoolers spend their summers at the pool, biking around the neighborhood, or playing video games, Jacqueline Aguilar spent most of hers toiling in the lettuce fields of south central Colorado. “My parents... Read more ›
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Fire and water don’t mix. Or do they? | Disney / PixarWhat it misses on story it makes up for in visual splendor. Not to sound like an old person, but I do miss the Pixar of my youth — the can’t-miss studio that turned out artful, funny movies for kids and adults and had cultural staying power. (Toy Story was released in 1995, shortly after my 12th birthday, but... Read more ›
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A Ugandan wearing a mask with a rainbow sticker takes part in the Gay Pride parade in Entebbe on August 8, 2015. | Isaac Kasamani/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen identity gets criminalized, everyone gets hurt. On May 26, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, also known as the AHA. Uganda is far from the only nation to criminalize homosexuality — at least 62 other countries, most of them... Read more ›
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Huge blooms of sargassum seaweed have emerged in the Atlantic Ocean amid record-high water temperatures. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesUnprecedented Atlantic Ocean heating and El Niño in the Pacific are pushing the climate into uncharted territory. On Wednesday June 14, the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean reached an average temperature of 73 degrees Fahrenheit. That may sound like a pleasant day at the pool, but it’s actually a record high,... Read more ›
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An alternative to thoughts and prayers. On May 3, 2023, Serbia experienced two mass shootings that left more than 15 people dead. While Serbia has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, mass shootings there are rare, and the shootings shocked the country. In response, one of the big things the Serbian government did was implement a weapon surrender scheme. So far, 26,000 unregistered weapons, 1.3 million... Read more ›
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From left, FBI director Christopher Wray, National Security Agency director Paul Nakasone, and director of national intelligence Avril Haines at a March 2023 hearing. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesYour tax dollars are going to data brokers. Do you think the government needs a warrant to collect intimate data about you? Or that you’d have to at least be suspected of doing something wrong first? Not exactly. A newly released... Read more ›
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Last week, pharma giant Merck and the US Chamber of Commerce filed lawsuits arguing that the provisions authorizing Medicare negotiations on a select number of medications next year are unconstitutional. | Getty Images/iStockphotoIf the government can’t legally constrain prescription drug prices, what can it do? Later this year, the federal government is supposed to start a serious attempt to rein in drug prices: For the first time, Medicare will negotiate... Read more ›
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Miss Juneteenth Sean-Maree Swinger-Otey waves to the crowd during the celebration parade in Denver on June 20, 2015. | Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesThe holiday’s 158-year history holds a lot of meaning in the fight for Black liberation today. A year after protests for racial justice swept the nation, propelling conversations on how to improve conditions for Black lives, the country is getting ready to celebrate the 158th... Read more ›
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From left, Ezra Miller as Barry Allen, Ezra Miller as another Barry Allen, and Sasha Calle as Supergirl in The Flash. | Warner Bros. Pictures™ and © DC ComicsWelcome back, [redacted]! Can a superhero movie without any plans for a sequel or a future have a credits scene? If we’re using The Flash as an example, yes! The movie, starring Ezra Miller as the super-speedy hero, has one credits scene... Read more ›
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a student loan cancellation rally in February 2023. | Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesIf the Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, advocates see another path — if the administration is willing to take it. Each passing day brings the country closer to knowing if the Supreme Court will kill President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and halt relief for the more than 40... Read more ›
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Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, walks down the House steps after the last votes of the week in the Capitol on Thursday, April 20, 2023. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesIt adds to other GOP failures at political payback this term. Republican attempts at getting revenge on the Biden administration — and other Democrats — don’t seem to be faring so well these days. This week, House Republicans had their latest... Read more ›
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