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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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum on April 19, 2023, in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesDeSantis wants to beef up his “tough on China” cred. The result is a racist law. This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed disturbing legislation that could fuel racial profiling of Chinese immigrants in the state. The bill, which bars many Chinese citizens from buying... Read more ›
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Helen Gym, a progressive former city councilor, is among the candidates vying for the Philadelphia mayoral seat. | Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesPolls show a close race in Tuesday’s election, which features prominent candidates from different wings of the party. On Tuesday, Philadelphia voters will cast their ballots in a crowded Democratic mayoral primary that won’t just decide who’ll be the city’s likely next mayor, but will also offer national Democrats new... 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 afternoon, the North Carolina legislature is set to take a hugely consequential vote: whether to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a new 12-week abortion ban. Republicans control a supermajority in both the Senate and the House, but only by a single... Read more ›
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Special Counsel John Durham, who then-US Attorney General William Barr appointed in 2019 after the release of the Mueller report to probe the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, arrives for his trial at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on May 17, 2022, in Washington, DC. | Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty ImagesDurham tried to prove a Democratic plot to frame Trump. He couldn’t. Special counsel John... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before Congress. He did not get the grilling from lawmakers that social media and Big Tech CEOs have endured. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBig Tech moves fast. DC doesn’t. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made what has become a tech CEO rite of passage on Tuesday: he testified before Congress, where the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Privacy, Technology, & the Law subcommittee held a hearing on artificial intelligence... Read more ›
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Some immigrants seeking asylum in the US are stuck in a makeshift camp between two border walls as volunteers offer assistance on the other side, on May 13, near San Diego, California. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesHere’s what the end of Title 42, a controversial Trump-era immigration policy, really means for the border. The end of the controversial Trump-era immigration policy Title 42 has reignited concerns about an impending crisis at... 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. The biggest race of 2023 is in Kentucky, and it’s not the Derby. Instead, the reelection bid by the state’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear will be the focus of... Read more ›
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Is there No Safe Beer for conservative Americans to drink anymore?! | Scott Olson via Getty ImagesConservatives are mad about a Miller Lite video from March now. I don’t know. Is there no safe beer for conservatives in America to drink right now?! First, Bud Light sent a few beers to a transgender influencer in early April. Then, Miller Lite ran an ad celebrating female brewers and offering up a... Read more ›
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Striking teachers are joined by parents and students on the picket line outside Dahlia Heights Elementary School in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles on January 16, 2019. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesEric Hanushek’s influential arguments on school funding shaped policy for four decades. Has he changed his mind? This story was initially published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Eric Hanushek, a leading education... Read more ›
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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) listen during a news conference at the US Capitol September 25, 2019, in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesOf the “five families” of the House GOP, one group could determine if the US defaults on its debt. Over the past decade, the United States has gone through a series of standoffs over the... 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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Cristina Spanò for VoxHow today’s fight over pornography is rooted in a 40-year-old feminist schism. Part of the issue Everything old is new again from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. The news has come, at first gradually and then all at once, over the past few years: The teens don’t believe in casual sex anymore. And they really don’t believe in porn. They are... Read more ›
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The real modern warfare might be Big Tech’s fight against antitrust regulators around the world. | Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBut the future of the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal is still looking dark, thanks to the UK. One of the last major hurdles to Microsoft’s massive $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard has been cleared: The European Union has approved the merger, with a few conditions. But that... Read more ›
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Protesters hold up cutouts of gerrymandered districts outside of the Supreme Court. | Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post via Getty ImagesSouth Carolina’s lawyers propose a rule that could make it virtually impossible to challenge racial gerrymanders. The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case that could give state lawmakers even more leeway than they already have to draw gerrymandered maps. In January, a federal court determined that South Carolina violated... Read more ›
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Pita Limjaroenrat, Move Forward Party leader and prime minister candidate, gives a speech during a celebratory parade after winning the most seats in the Thai general election on May 15, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. | Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images“This is an earthquake”: Voters this weekend decisively rejected the country’s years-long military rule. Progressives — and other members of Thailand’s pro-democracy opposition parties — scored a stunning victory in the country’s elections... Read more ›
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan waves to his supporters from a balcony on May 15, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. | Yavuz Ozden/Dia Images via Getty ImagesThe opposition forced a runoff — but also showed how challenging it will be to unseat the Turkish president. Turkey’s very big deal elections are headed to a May 28 runoff, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his main opposition challenger failed to win a majority... Read more ›
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Inside this issue: For the May issue of The Highlight, Vox asks the question: is it possible to create new ideas? In today’s cultural landscape, we find ourselves immersed in a sea of recycled ideas, repackaged for an audience hungry for familiarity. This trend is especially evident in popular media and entertainment, where the Hollywood reboot machine reigns supreme, generating content that predominantly relies on well-worn storytelling tropes and formats.... Read more ›
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The Palestinian catastrophe, explained. Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, or “the Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history — and the root of Israel’s creation. Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had... Read more ›
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Posters of Turkish President and People’s Alliance’s presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan (top) and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate and leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), on May 9, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. | Aziz Karimov/Getty ImagesCould the opposition end President Erdogan’s 20-year rule? Editor’s note, May 15, 9:40 am ET: Turkey’s elections are headed for a May 28 runoff, election officials announced Monday, after official preliminary results showed President... Read more ›
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A Sudanese protester walks past a recently painted mural during a demonstration near the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, on April 24, 2019. | Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty ImagesThe debate over the US’s failures in Sudan, explained. In 2019, Sudan briefly held out hope. After mass protests, the military arrested and overthrew Omar al-Bashir, who had brutally run Sudan for three decades. Though in the aftermath the military shakily... Read more ›
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