USAID Administrator Samantha Power speaks at the University of Khartoum in Sudan’s capital on August 3, 2021. | Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty ImagesThe rise of cash benchmarking at USAID, explained. How good does a foreign aid program have to be to be good enough? It’s a question I have wrestled with since my first post with the US Agency for International Development. Now, after a decade of work, the agency,... Read more ›
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Players of Pachuca pose with a message in support of Jennifer Hermoso of the Spanish National Team prior to the sixth round match between Pachuca and Atlético San Luis as part of the Torneo Apertura 2023 Liga MX 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. He’s refusing to resign. After the... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in Milwaukee at the first debate of the GOP primary season — an event that served to only raise his profile. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe Asian American candidate is peddling a dangerous message. When Vivek Ramaswamy opened the first GOP presidential primary debate last month, he acknowledged that he does not fit the mold of a traditional Republican presidential candidate. “Let me just address the... Read more ›
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith. | Penguin PressThe Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. Midway through Zadie Smith’s elegant new novel The Fraud, Smith offers us a striking description. She’s writing about the man at the center of a court case, currently appearing before a crowd at a rally being held in his name. “One saw at once that here... Read more ›
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A fourth grade class at Garfield Elementary School in Long Beach, California, on the first day of school on August 30, 2023. | Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty ImagesPrivate school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war. As the new school year kicks off, education advocates are bracing for continued attacks on America’s public schools. Yet despite the ongoing culture wars schools... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxHow to cope with both inflation and lifestyle creep. On the Money is a new monthly advice column written by Nicole Dieker, a personal finance expert who’s been writing about money for over a decade. For Vox’s Money Talks interview column, she’s written stories about couples who run small businesses, navigate different relationships with spending, handle health insurance, and more. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing... Read more ›
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Luca Sola/AFP via Getty ImagesChaos, poverty, and unemployment on a national scale set the stage for Thursday’s fire. An apartment fire in the South African city of Johannesburg has killed at least 76 people including 12 children and highlighted the city’s housing crisis, which has led to terrible conditions in unregulated dwellings run by criminal gangs. The fire — the worst in South Africa’s history — broke out Thursday night,... Read more ›
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The weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert produces about 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide. | Jordan England-Nelson/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesBuilding a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet. Update Sept. 3, 8:45 am EST: After a series of storms rolled through the Black Rock Desert Friday and Saturday evening, approximately 70,000 Burning Man attendees of have been left stranded... Read more ›
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Fans rally before Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on August 7, 2023. | Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesFans are creating new concert traditions for a new age. It started with simple nostalgia. In the wake of the pandemic, Craig Powers, a 38-year-old researcher from Tacoma, rediscovered his love for his favorite bands and albums. But as Powers dove... Read more ›
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A man protests homelessness in Vancouver. Around 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year, and the rates continue to rise. | Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty ImagesThe results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness. Ray, a man in his 50s, used to live in an emergency homeless shelter in Vancouver, Canada. Then he participated in a study that changed his life. He was able to pay for a place... Read more ›
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Avoid the airport chaos, roll your windows down, and take to the road for a trip to remember. | Getty Images/fStopAirports are a nightmare. What about driving instead? The theory of relativity is felt most strongly in a vehicle. A broken AC, busted speakers, or your brother-in-law’s stories from his frat days can make the miles pass so slowly, you wonder if the universe needs a change of battery. Yet,... Read more ›
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on July 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesThe US added 187,000 jobs over the last month. It’s more than expected. In August, US job and wage growth slowed down and unemployment was up, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that might not... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn just a few days time, drugstores like Walgreens will have it in stock, for everyone. Here’s how to use it, and who it will help. Narcan, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose within minutes, will imminently be available over-the-counter in drugstores. First approved by the Federal Drug Administration for over the counter purchase in March, Narcan has been shipped to mass drug, pharmacy, and grocery stores,... Read more ›
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Former Boston Red Sox and current Los Angeles Dodger Mookie Betts tips his batting helmet to the crowd in his first game at Fenway Park since being traded. | Barry Chin/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesBaseball fixed itself by changing its rules. The country should pay attention. Back in the spring, I wrote a piece about Major League Baseball’s attempt to save itself from the irrelevance wrought by overoptimization. The short... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn a sex recession, consider the benefits of a DIY approach. Many of us grew up reading glossy instruction manuals full of increasingly eccentric tips for pleasing a partner. A few memorable ones from my own tween reading years: Eat a doughnut off their genitals. Run an ice cube down their abs. Prior to sex, perform a chair-based dance routine. Moisten your mouth by imagining that it is full... Read more ›
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Stock image of a fantasy world. | Getty ImagesPatricia C. Wrede just published her first book in a decade. Here’s how she enchanted a generation. When I heard that Patricia C. Wrede was publishing a new book for the first time in 10 years, I gasped. Then I forwarded the news to multiple people with a screaming emoji appended. Patricia C. Wrede’s middle-grade novels are the kind of books that... Read more ›
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Ben Hickey for VoxBut “juice jacking” is the decade-old cybersecurity urban legend that just won’t die. What’s worse, your phone running out of power or someone stealing all your data? For years now, you’ve been told that this is a choice you may face, thanks to something called “juice jacking.” Juice jacking is when someone tampers with a charging station or USB port, allowing it to leach data from your... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidates participate in primary debate. | Getty ImagesRepublican voters don’t really care for the war on woke. That doesn’t mean it will end. It was nearly two hours into the first Republican primary debate before any of the eight contenders on stage uttered the word “woke.” Toward the end of the Fox News event, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was the first to say it, during a... Read more ›
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reached out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhat happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience another health episode during a news... Read more ›
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The defendants in the Georgia case will all receive mugshots. | Fulton CountyThe mugshots and the charges they face, briefly explained. Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to Fulton County, Georgia charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The plea comes ahead of his scheduled arraignment on September 6, and follows his arrest on August 24. In making his plea, Trump also waived his right... Read more ›
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