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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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) departs the US Capitol after a vote on May 11, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesRep. George Santos was federally indicted — but he’s still likely staying in Congress. If Democrats have their way, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will join two felons and three Confederate sympathizers in being expelled from the House of Representatives. It just won’t happen yet. An effort to expel Santos... Read more ›
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Skyline view of Jacksonville, Florida, with John Alsop Bridge. | Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesFormer news anchor Donna Deegan flipped the city of Jacksonville, a rare win for Democrats in the state. This week, Democrats got a rare bit of good news in Florida: For the first time in years, they flipped the mayoral seat in Jacksonville, the most populous Republican-led city in the country. The... Read more ›
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A rally to protest Florida education policies outside Orlando City Hall on April 21, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. | Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesNew election results suggest voters are mixed at best on the GOP’s educational culture wars. Tuesday night’s school board elections in Pennsylvania and Oregon again showed how classrooms continue to be a front in the Republican Party’s broader culture war, a battle it has pursued in... Read more ›
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Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett talk before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Court appears to be backing away from its “shadow docket.” The Supreme Court handed down a very brief order on Wednesday morning that offers gun regulation advocates a slightly surprising — but likely short-lived — victory. The order denies relief to litigants challenging Illinois’s ban... Read more ›
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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso attends a meeting with US Senators Bob Menendez and Tim Kaine at the Carondelet Palace in Quito on April 10, 2023. | Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty ImagesCorruption charges are the latest problem for President Guillermo Lasso, who has failed to curb violence in Ecuador. On Wednesday, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the country’s National Assembly ahead of a vote to impeach him on allegations of corruption,... Read more ›
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What jobs do 15-year-olds expect to do at 30? Every few years, thousands of teenagers are asked a very simple question: What job do you expect to have when you’re 30? It’s an important question because having an answer helps teenagers plan for the future, whether that’s taking a specific class or deciding to attend college. That’s why the OECD’s PISA survey has asked this question since 2000. But in... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) receives the gavel from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after McCarthy was elected speaker, on January 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/GettyThe discharge petition is here, and Democrats are looking for five Republicans to sign it. Negotiations between the White House and Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling are underway. But there are still two main ways things... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift — not in a suitcase! — and Matty Healy leaving Electric Lady Studios in New York on May 16. | Robert Kamau/GC ImagesSwifties are furious over The 1975 singer. Should they be? In what appears to be a case of peak Tumblr-era Mad Libs, Taylor Swift is reportedly dating Matty Healy. Healy is the lead singer of the English synth-pop band The 1975, and Taylor Swift is Taylor... Read more ›
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Free-range chicken, by the Tyson-owned brand Smart Chicken, for sale at a supermarket in Wisconsin. | Marina Bolotnikova/VoxWhy you shouldn’t believe what’s on your chicken label. Last fall, an undercover investigator worked for two months at a Virginia farm outside Richmond that raises chickens on contract for Tyson Foods, America’s largest chicken company. During their short stint on behalf of the Washington, DC-based animal rights group Animal Outlook, the investigator... Read more ›
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A rally for abortion rights in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2022. | Alex Slitz/Charlotte Observer/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesThe policy behind North Carolina’s dramatic abortion showdown, explained. On Tuesday, the North Carolina legislature took the hugely consequential step of overriding Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a new 12-week abortion ban. Republicans control a supermajority in both the Senate and the House, which gave them enough votes to override the governor’s... Read more ›
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Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesWhy do we know so little about pregnancy — one of the most common experiences on Earth? Technically, pregnancy is one of the most ordinary things in the world. After all, every single person on Earth has firsthand experience with it (since we all had to come out of someone’s womb). And yet, even though it happens every day, pregnancy also remains extremely mysterious. Sometimes, it’s mysterious in... Read more ›
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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks to the press at the Supreme Court on October 12, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe wild primary in the most important election of 2023 pits a future GOP star against a megadonor. Editor’s note, May 17: Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general, has won the Republican primary in the Kentucky governor’s race. He’ll face off against Democratic Governor Andy Beshear in the... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAmerican life is hostile to community building, but we’re more desperate for it than ever. In early May, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced an advisory for the public health crisis of loneliness and social isolation in the US. For the past three years, it’s been one of the defining experiences of American life: Shut inside during the pandemic, we’ve emerged into an even more antisocial society, one in which... Read more ›
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Allison Joyce/Getty ImagesNorth Carolina’s new abortion ban exposes the GOP’s failures to shore up government assistance for parents and children. Last summer, after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned the federal right to have an abortion, much ink was spilled on the possibility that Republicans, eager to pass a new round of abortion bans, would feel compelled at the same time to improve the social safety net to help the... Read more ›
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The torrential rainfall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in April came amid the state’s hottest year on record. | Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesWhy you should keep tabs on the subtle changes in weather, not just extremes. It’s been a strange few weeks for weather across the US. A dust storm in Illinois earlier this month led to a 72-vehicle pileup that killed seven people. In April,... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxIs it possible to be truly original anymore — in your own life, in commerce, in art? We’re in a cultural moment where it feels like so much is being rehashed, repackaged, and resold to a captive audience. This is certainly the case in entertainment, where the Hollywood reboot machine is the driving force behind what makes it to our screens; even “original” programming is frequently built... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responds to a local TV reporter’s question in May 2021 in Miami. | Carl Juste/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesDozens of videos on social media show empty construction sites and farms even before a new law goes into effect. The videos from Florida aren’t hard to find: Dozens of clips of empty fields, abandoned construction sites, and scores of truck drivers calling for boycotts of... Read more ›
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Cristina Spanò for VoxThe endless cycling — and recycling — of parenting advice. Part of the issue Everything old is new again from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. On a recent Monday, my son didn’t want to go to school. The straps of his bicycle helmet were too loose, or possibly too tight, and because he is 4, this was a catastrophe that simply... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxThe E. Jean Carroll verdict illuminates the fraught history of the term’s legal definition. This article contains graphic discussions of sexual violence. On May 9, a jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual battery against the journalist E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial, ordering the former president to pay her $5 million. They did not, however, find Trump liable for rape. The murky, vexed distinction the... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden shakes hands as he presents a copy of his speech to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy before he delivers his State of the Union address on February 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty ImagesWhat is the debt ceiling? What happens if the US breaches it? And other questions you were too embarrassed to ask. This spring, Congress finds itself standing at a familiar precipice. Once again,... Read more ›
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