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Constance Grady @ Vox · 09/12/2023 06:00 EDT

The book of the year so far is Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. | RiverheadGroff’s latest is an un-put-down-able story of survival. As I read Lauren Groff’s astoundingly good new novel The Vaster Wilds, I had a visceral flashback to being 8 years old and reading the children’s classic My Side of the Mountain: that delicious sense of a vast, unending wilderness, rich with possibilities and unforgiving, and the danger and potential for ingenuity of being a... Read more

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 09/11/2023 18:50 EDT

The US-Iran prisoner swap, briefly explained

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visits the holy shrine of Hazrat Zeinab on May 3, 2023, in Damascus, Syria. | Borna News/Matin Ghasemi/Aksonline ATPImages/Getty ImagesFor Iran’s struggling economy, the deal is more about money. A tentative deal to release five Americans held in Iran in exchange for access to $6 billion in assets and the release of people imprisoned in the US is advancing, as the US issued a waiver allowing... Read more

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Neel Dhanesha @ Vox · 09/11/2023 15:20 EDT

How rescuers find survivors after deadly earthquakes

Emergency workers search beneath a heavily damaged house on September 10, 2023, in Moulay Brahim, Morocco. | Carl Court/Getty ImagesPeople might be still trapped under debris in Morocco. Here’s how they could be saved.   At least 2,600 people have been confirmed dead in the aftermath of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday, making it the deadliest tremor in the country in more than six decades. Thousands more... Read more

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stanographer @ Vox · 09/11/2023 14:17 EDT

Will you support Vox’s journalism? (new amounts 9/2023)

A gift of any amount helps keep Vox’s unique explanatory journalism free for all, and supports our mission to provide clarity that helps people understand and navigate the world. All Vox contributors get a newsletter that offers behind the scenes looks at how we do our reporting, and opportunities to get involved with our journalism and connect with our journalists. One-Time... Read more

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 09/11/2023 13:38 EDT

The Spanish sexual misconduct scandal roiling soccer, explained

Players of Pachuca pose with a message in support of Jennifer Hermoso of the Spanish National Team at Hidalgo Stadium on August 28, 2023, in Pachuca, Mexico. | Hector Vivas/Getty ImagesSpanish soccer president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed a player after the World Cup. For weeks, he refused to resign. Editor’s note, September 11, 2023: After weeks of refusing to step aside, Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales has resigned,... Read more

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Li Zhou @ Vox 3 place · 09/11/2023 12:30 EDT

Republicans might shut down the government... again

Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), left, talk during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, July 13, 2023. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty ImagesConservatives have threatened to oppose a funding bill if their demands aren’t met. It’s that time of year, again: As a funding deadline fast approaches at the end of September, worries about a potential government shutdown are once more percolating in Washington, DC.... Read more

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Umair Irfan @ Vox · 09/11/2023 11:31 EDT

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

Morocco just experienced its most severe earthquake in more than a century. | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake in Morocco killed more than 2,000 people. Here are eight things to know about these seismic events. A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked Morocco Friday night, the largest tremor to hit the country in at least 120 years. Officials report more than 2,100 people have died and expect the death... Read more

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Andrew Prokop @ Vox · 09/11/2023 08:35 EDT

This decades-old GOP movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins in the Biden era

Min Heo for VoxThe conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever. Why — and what comes next? With little national attention, the conservative movement has racked up a remarkable series of victories on one of their long-held policy dreams. For decades, activists on the right have pushed to steer state money toward alternatives to the public school system. Typically, they proposed vouchers, in which the... Read more

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Alex Abad-Santos @ Vox · 09/11/2023 07:30 EDT

What if the Real Housewives unionized?

Bethenny Frankel wants to start a reality television union ... maybe | Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage,Bethenny Frankel’s reality TV star union is easier said than done. To this day, there’s probably no Bravolebrity — a portmanteau of Bravo and celebrity that denotes the network’s crop of reality stars — who has benefited more from their association with that brand of reality TV than former Real Housewife of New York Bethenny... Read more

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Sara Morrison @ Vox 3 place · 09/11/2023 07:00 EDT

Google owns search. Is that illegal?

Google’s office in New York City. | Spencer Platt/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 begins. What’s at stake? Oh, nothing much — just the future of the internet. Or maybe the future of... Read more

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 09/10/2023 16:36 EDT

What we know about Morocco’s deadly earthquake

Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in decades has killed at least 2,000 people and caused widespread damage. | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,100. More than 2,100 people are dead, including four French nationals, after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the... Read more

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 09/10/2023 16:18 EDT

What’s behind Africa’s recent coups

Desirey Minkoh/Afrikimages Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesNot all coups are the same — but they do have some important commonalities. A recent coup in the Central African nation of Gabon is the latest nondemocratic transition of power on the continent, following a July coup in Niger and 2022 coups in Burkina Faso and Mali. But Gabon’s putsch is quite different from a series of coups in Africa’s Sahel region,... Read more

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 09/10/2023 09:17 EDT

What we know about Morocco’s deadly earthquake

Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,000. More than 2,000 people are dead after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the country in decades. A 3.9-magnitude quake, likely an aftershock, followed Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The death... Read more

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Zack Beauchamp @ Vox 3 place · 09/10/2023 09:00 EDT

Chris Rufo’s dangerous fictions

Vox; Getty ImagesThe right’s leading culture warrior has invented a leftist takeover of America to justify his very real power grabs. Christopher Rufo might be the future of the Republican Party. A journalist and activist, Rufo is largely responsible for the rise of “critical race theory” as a major concern for the GOP. He has played a crucial role in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attempt to transform Florida’s universities, spearheading... Read more

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Allie Volpe @ Vox · 09/10/2023 08:00 EDT

How birthdays became week-long blowouts

Getty Images/CSA Images RFIf your friends have started throwing lavish, time-intensive birthday celebrations, here’s how to navigate. The celebration was threefold: a dinner, a boozy art class, and a day party, held over the course of a weekend last October. Ashlee Kelly, 35, had committed to attending every festivity during the multi-day function, all in honor of a friend she’d known since high school. To get there, Kelly, a college... Read more

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox 3 place · 09/09/2023 14:03 EDT

What we know about Morocco’s deadly earthquake

Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 1,000. More than 1,000 people are dead after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.8 hit Morocco Friday night near the city of Marrakesh, the largest such quake to hit the country decades. The death toll is rapidly climbing as rescue workers search the towns and villages around the epicenter in... Read more

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Umair Irfan @ Vox · 09/09/2023 12:32 EDT

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

Morocco just experienced its most severe earthquake in more than a century. | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesA massive quake in Morocco killed more than a thousand people. Here are eight things to know about these seismic events. A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked Morocco Friday night, the largest tremor to hit the country in at least 120 years. Officials report more than 1,000 people have died and expect the... Read more

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Jen Kirby @ Vox · 09/09/2023 11:12 EDT

The viral portrait of Theresa May, explained by the artist

The Rt Hon Theresa May MP: Saied Dai’s official portrait of the former prime minister. | Saied DaiIf she looks like an enigma, that’s on purpose. Maybe you’ve seen it already: that portrait of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, standing stoic, a bit steely even, with a military-esque blue coat draped over her shoulders. One hand, with red-painted fingernails, rests across her body. The other peeks out from beneath... Read more

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Umair Irfan @ Vox 3 place · 09/09/2023 08:00 EDT

The Southern Hemisphere, where it’s winter, has been really hot too

São Paulo, Brazil experienced 90-degree temperatures last month, during winter. | Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBrazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Australia had heat waves in the past few months. Now spring begins. It’s been a hot, brutal, record-breaking summer across much of the world, and it’s not quite ready to let go as late-season heat waves bake parts of the United States, the United Kingdom, North Africa, and the Middle... Read more

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Rebecca Leber @ Vox · 09/09/2023 07:30 EDT

The world’s brutal climate change report card, explained

An oil refinery in France is one example of the kind of infrastructure that would need to transition to clean energy or capture its carbon emissions to meet global climate goals. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe first international climate change stocktake says trying is not enough. Just about every country in the world committed to keeping climate change in check in 2015. This week, the United Nations issued its first... Read more

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