Pro-DACA protesters hold a march outside of the Capitol calling for a pathway to citizenship on November 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe high stakes of the latest DACA decision, explained. This week, DACA — or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — was dealt another blow in court after a federal judge deemed the program illegal, but stopped short of ending it for now.... 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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Getty ImagesHow people like you could wipe out extreme poverty and prevent the next pandemic. If you earn $60,000 a year after tax and you don’t have kids, you’re in the richest 1 percent of the world’s population. If you have a household income of $130,000 after tax and you’ve got a partner and one kid, you’re also in the richest 1 percent. Or say you have a household income... Read more ›
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Min Heo for Vox“Young blood,” starvation, fruit-only diets: How the rich are striving to “age in reverse” Rich tech entrepreneurs are by all accounts a hyper-competitive bunch. Whether it’s taking a shuttle to the edge of space, buying the biggest yacht, or challenging one another to a cage fight, with great wealth and power seems to come a voracious desire to engage in games of one-upmanship. The Rejuvenation Olympics, an... Read more ›
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Pfizer’s Sudafed PE nasal decongestant is displayed on a shelf at a Walgreens store in 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. | Tim Boyle/Getty ImagesPhenylephrine and other medications that contain it, like Sudafed PE, don’t work. On September 12, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel agreed unanimously that phenylephrine, a common decongestant that’s part of many over-the-counter cough and cold medications, is ineffective as an oral medication. That means name-brand... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden host a reception to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it? Though we’re still more than a year out from the 2024 presidential election, the season for Democratic “bedwetting”... Read more ›
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on February 1, 2023, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesBeyond Congress’s hawkishness, there are other ways of seeing the new Cold War with China. Congress’s new China-focused committee hasn’t traveled to China yet. But they came to New York this week to meet with Wall Street executives, foreign policy leaders, and journalists in... Read more ›
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Paul Dano as Keith Gill a.k.a. Roaring Kitty, the de facto king of the GameStop traders. | Sony PicturesThree years later, what do we even know about GameStop? This is the type of simple story I’d love to be able to tell about GameStop: In early 2021, a ragtag group of everyday traders, led by a Massachusetts dad going by — depending on your social media platform — Roaring Kitty... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden arrives for a court appearance at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware. | The Washington Post via Getty ImProsecutors are moving aggressively because the plea deal fell apart. But why did it fall apart? For more than four years, prosecutors have been digging into Hunter Biden’s tax and business affairs — including millions of dollars he made from a Ukrainian gas... Read more ›
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Planned Parenthood announced it will resume providing abortions in Wisconsin, though the state’s laws remain unclear. | Michael Thomas/Getty ImagesAbortions will soon be available in Wisconsin, even though no one is sure it’s legal. Planned Parenthood made a somewhat surprising announcement on Thursday: It will resume providing abortion care in Wisconsin, even though litigation asking whether abortion is legal in that state has not yet concluded — and no court... Read more ›
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) answers questions in his office after announcing he will not seek reelection on September 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSenate Republicans will be worse off without Romney in office. On Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), a high-profile critic of former President Donald Trump, announced that he would retire after this term — a move that appears likely to shift the Senate GOP further... Read more ›
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Min Heo for VoxPrimary care is the foundation of American medicine — and it’s withering. Soon after Dr. Gerard Weigel moved his family to Somerset, Kentucky, in the mid-1960s, he found himself not only the town’s only primary care doctor but the only doctor of any kind — the cardiologist, endocrinologist, and pulmonologist for each patient at his practice. In a 1967 Mercury Monterey — ”It looked just like Steve... Read more ›
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An Israeli demonstrator holds up a flare outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government plan to overhaul the judicial system on September 11, 2023. | Ilia Yefimovich/Picture Alliance/Getty ImagesThe history behind Israel’s democratic crisis, explained. The Israeli Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in a landmark case about itself. At issue is the first law passed in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s... Read more ›
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A mother and child at a Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Anka, Nigeria, the site of a major lead poisoning outbreak in 2019. | Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty ImagesHowever bad you think lead poisoning is for the world, it’s worse. Everyone knows lead is bad for you. We’ve known this for a very long time: in the first century BCE, the Roman architect Vitruvius warned against using lead in pipes,... Read more ›
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Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe new Shop feature appears to be transforming the entire app experience. Right next to the For You page on TikTok lives the TikTok Shop, the new and inevitable evolution of the company’s attempts to make money off of how good TikTok can be at making products go viral. When I opened the Shop page after its official roll-out to all US users on Tuesday, I... Read more ›
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act would create a new agency dedicated to regulating Big Tech. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesShe built an agency to protect consumers from Big Banking. Now she wants to create a new one to protect us from Big Tech. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Sen. Elizabeth Warren has an idea for a new federal agency that takes on some... Read more ›
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Police officer Michael Bennis speaks to a man at a homeless camp that was being cleared by city workers in May 2023 in Portland, Maine. Many of the people who had been living there moved to a new encampment on the Fore River Parkway Trail. | AP Photo/Robert F. BukatyIf a city can’t provide desirable housing, some advocates urge leaving people in tent encampments alone. PORTLAND, Maine — All summer,... Read more ›
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A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya, on September 12, 2023. | Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe death toll is a tragedy decades in the making. The storm and accompanying floods this week that have killed thousands in Libya was a natural disaster, likely compounded by climate change. But the magnitude of loss in... Read more ›
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Elon Musk talking to reporters as he leaves the AI Insight Forum on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesIn Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy. There’s a recurring phrase in Walter Isaacson’s new biography Elon Musk. Certain things, Isaacson writes again and again in his dense and thoroughly reported book, are simply “in Musk’s... Read more ›
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Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDEEP VZN aimed to discover viruses in wildlife that could threaten humans, but the risks weren’t worth the rewards. A year ago I wrote about the question of DEEP VZN, a $125 million USAID program to track down viruses that might cause the next pandemic. For a long time, the US has funded work like this, and the case for it is pretty simple: Why don’t we... Read more ›
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