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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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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Brooks Koepka tees off at recent LIV Golf Invitational. | Rob Carr/Getty ImagesBiden’s former antitrust adviser thinks regulators might block the “partnership.” Congress is investigating. The Justice Department might be, too. The golf world was rocked last week by news that the PGA Tour, Europe’s DP World Tour, and Saudi Arabia’s controversial LIV Golf plan to merge. Or, as the PGA Tour put it, “unify the game of golf.” PGA... Read more ›
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Protestors chant at a vigil in the Broadway-Lafayette subway station Wednesday, May, 3, 2023 in Manhattan, New York. | Barry Williams/NY Daily News/Getty ImagesDaniel Penny has now been indicted in connection with the tragic killing, which came in a climate of fearmongering and New York City’s long failure to support people experiencing homelessness. In early May, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black, unhoused man experiencing mental health issues, died after fellow... Read more ›
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Supreme Court Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Ketanji Brown Jackson visit before President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol on February 7, 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA landmark statute protecting Indian tribes from cultural genocide is upheld. Haaland v. Brackeen, which the Supreme Court handed down on Thursday, is a case... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxGrief — for a parent, a child, or fertility issues — can be especially heightened during family holidays. These tips could help. I didn’t realize that a commercial for flower bouquets could feel like an emotional assault until Mother’s Day 2019. My mother died on November 25, 2018, the day before my birthday; I remember thinking that I would never be able to celebrate with joy again.... Read more ›
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez speaks to the media at the Miami Police Department about former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the federal courthouse in Miami on June 12. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesMiami Mayor Francis Suarez is joining the race. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is the latest Republican to join a growing field of candidates challenging former President Donald Trump for the presidency in 2024. The only Latino candidate in the... Read more ›
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And how it could swing the 2024 elections. In 2013, a divided Supreme Court gutted one of the major pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In the 10 years since then, the court has moved even farther to the right. So when the Voting Rights Act came before the Supreme Court again in 2022, it didn’t look good. But then something completely unexpected happened: in a 5-4 decision, two... Read more ›
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Scarlett Johansson in Asteroid City. | Focus FeaturesLife, the universe, and everything, through both the telescope and the microscope. Nuclear bombs keep going off over the horizon of Asteroid City (population 87). “Another atom bomb test,” the characters declare, with some combination of intrigue and boredom. They trot out of the diner to look at the tiny mushroom cloud, snap a few pictures, and go back inside for more coffee.... Read more ›
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It’s tough to figure out where it’s safe to buy if you hate Target and Bud Light. | Natalie Behring; Getty Images/VoxTurns out, shopping when you’re trying to boycott everything is hard. If you are a conservative consumer in America right now, shopping is getting weird. You’re not supposed to drink Bud Light or shop at Target or eat at Chick-fil-A or watch Fox News. It’s Pride month, meaning all... Read more ›
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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. | Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty ImagesHomelessness nearly lost her the election. Now she’s trying to fix it. The challenges of homelessness and a lack of affordable housing are particularly acute in Oregon. The state has seen a 63 percent increase in unsheltered homelessness over the last six years. While roughly 18,000 people are currently unhoused in the state, there are only about 5,200 year-round shelter beds to serve... 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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Xia Gordon for Vox and Capital BIs it chemicals? Diet? Stress? Part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. This story was produced in partnership with Capital B. Comedian Dulcé Sloan took to Twitter recently with a burning health question: “Soooo EVERY black woman has fibroids,” she wrote, injecting a bit of hyperbole, “and no one knows why?!” The tweet sparked a flurry of responses theorizing why 80 percent of... Read more ›
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Vox; Getty Images“Regime Change” sounds like a radical book. It isn’t — and that’s telling. Patrick Deneen hates liberals. But liberals don’t hate him back. A political theorist at Notre Dame, his 2018 book How Liberalism Failed became a surprising phenomenon among liberal elites. Despite some flaws, including a tendency toward straw-manning liberal thinkers and an allergy to empirical evidence, the book presented a thought-provoking critique of our governing philosophy... Read more ›
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Troops from the Syrian Democratic Forces Special Operations and the US-led anti-jihadist coalition take part in heavy-weaponry military exercises in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, on March 25, 2022. | Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images“This is a classic forever war.” Call it a forever war. US troops are fighting ISIS in Syria. But Congress hasn’t approved it, the public hardly knows about it, and it’s not clear... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks in Bedminster, New Jersey, after his arraignment on federal charges. | Getty Images“Listen to the podcast,” Sen. Ted Cruz told us. Former President Donald Trump’s second indictment, a bombshell set of charges related to taking classified federal documents, has once again put the Republican divide about the future of their party on full display. While many Republicans, including conservatives and Trump allies, have echoed familiar... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. | Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty ImagesWorldviews are clashing when it comes to artificial intelligence. I sometimes think of there being two major divides in the world of artificial intelligence. One, of course, is whether the researchers working on advanced AI systems in everything from medicine to science are going to bring about catastrophe. But the other one... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks outside the clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, New Jersey. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTrump claims he’s the victim of a double standard. But the allegations in the indictment put him in a league of his own. Former President Donald Trump insists that he’s being unjustly criminalized for retaining documents from his time in office, while his predecessors... Read more ›
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Proponents for affirmative action in higher education rally in front of the US Supreme Court on October 31, 2022, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court is set to rule on two cases challenging race-conscious admissions at colleges. The Supreme Court is set to rule on a pair of cases that could radically transform how college admissions officers consider race as a factor in admissions, and possibly ban... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesA new study shows how non-medical use of drugs like Ritalin leads to more time spent working harder, not smarter. The idea, and allure, behind “smart drugs” is simple enough: Take a pill, get a brain boost. From medical students using Adderall to cram for competitive exams to effective altruists running on the anti-narcoleptic modafinil to work more and sleep less, the rising consumer demand for cognitive enhancement is... Read more ›
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