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Zack Beauchamp @ Vox · 08/17/2023 06:30 EDT

The Trump indictments reveal a paradox at the heart of American democracy

Trump supporters near Mar-a-Lago on April 1, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Trump cases help us understand how America’s democracy can be both strong and weak at the same time. After Monday’s late-night filing in Georgia, we have finally seen them all: Every single known criminal investigation into Donald Trump has produced an indictment. The former president is now facing four trials on 91 separate counts whose maximum sentences, put... Read more ›

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Constance Grady @ Vox · 08/17/2023 06:00 EDT

How does Elon Musk get away with it all?

Alex Fine for VoxThe billionaire’s heroic image is built on media praise, breathless fans, and … romance novel tropes. Elon Musk is an Ozymandias for our moment. He’s got wealth and influence. His place as the richest man on earth fluctuates with the market, but he consistently cycles among the top three slots. He’s the CEO of two major companies and the owner of what was, up until he bought... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 08/16/2023 17:30 EDT

The fight over whether courts can ban mifepristone is headed back to the Supreme Court

A cabinet containing boxes of mifepristone, seen in Wellspring Health Access clinic in Casper, Wyoming. | Rachel Woolf/Washington Post via Getty ImagesA far-right court just tried to ban an abortion drug. Here’s why you can ignore that decision. On Wednesday, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down an opinion claiming that mifepristone, an abortion drug that has been legal in the United States since... Read more ›

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Rebecca Leber @ Vox · 08/16/2023 15:50 EDT

Biden’s historic climate law has a problem

The Inflation Reduction Act’s biggest impact one year in is on US manufacturing announcements. Biden marked the anniversary at Ingeteam Inc., an electrical equipment manufacturer, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe average American probably doesn’t know about all the free money in the Inflation Reduction Act. The Inflation Reduction Act turns one year old this week. The law is President Joe Biden’s biggest climate achievement to date, with... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/16/2023 12:30 EDT

Trump’s 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes

Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesA quick guide to Trump’s 4 indictments and why they matter. Donald Trump’s legal web has grown more tangled than ever. The former president is facing 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions — Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has two trial dates set for 2024 so far. And all this is... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/16/2023 12:21 EDT

A US soldier has “willfully” crossed into North Korea. Here’s what we know.

Barricades are placed near the Unification Bridge, which leads to Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on July 19, 2023 in Paju, South Korea.  | Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesNorth Korea commented publicly on his crossing for the first time this week. On Wednesday, North Korea commented publicly for the first time about a US soldier who made an unauthorized crossing into the country roughly a month ago. In the statement, they claimed... Read more ›

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Fabiola Cineas @ Vox · 08/16/2023 10:25 EDT

Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie?

Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the Carolina Panthers football team. | Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesMichael Oher says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him. The 2009 film The Blind Side tells the story of a white family on a heartfelt mission: to... Read more ›

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Benji Jones @ Vox · 08/16/2023 09:17 EDT

9 things everyone should know about Maui’s wildfire disaster

An aerial view of Lahaina after a wildfire tore through the town last week. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesIncluding how you can help. The outbreak of wildfires last week in Maui, Hawaii — a state known for its beaches and rainforests but typically not fire — is now the nation’s deadliest such event in more than 100 years. The fires burned thousands of acres and killed more than 100 people, a... Read more ›

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Rebecca Jennings @ Vox · 08/16/2023 09:00 EDT

“Girl” trends and the repackaging of womanhood

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesOnline, women eat “girl dinners” and go on “hot girl walks.” Welcome to the girlouboros. “What kind of insufferable girl are you?” my TikTok algorithm asked me the other day. The options were “femcel,” as in someone who’s pathologically unlovable because she’s a radical feminist; “coquette,” as in, someone who wears bows and listens to Lana Del Rey, or “blogger,” as in, I guess, me. The original... Read more ›

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Kenny Torrella @ Vox 2 place · 08/16/2023 06:30 EDT

Americans can’t afford their pets. It’s pushing animal shelters to the brink.

A young beagle mix at an animal shelter in Central Islip, New York. | John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty ImagesHow animal shelters are coping with a crisis of abandoned cats and dogs. Lonely and stuck at home, millions of Americans turned to animals for comfort in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, adopting and fostering cats and dogs from shelters at record rates. Videos of empty animal shelters went... Read more ›

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Fabiola Cineas @ Vox · 08/15/2023 18:41 EDT

Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie?

Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the Carolina Panthers football team. | Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesMichael Oher now says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him. The 2009 film The Blind Side tells the story of a white family on a heartfelt mission:... Read more ›

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Jen Kirby @ Vox · 08/15/2023 16:15 EDT

An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup?

Coils of razor wire lay across the tarmac at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, left behind after the US military withdrew from the country and Taliban fighters moved in to take control of the airport, on August 31, 2021. | Marcus Yam/Los Angeles TimesTwo years after Kabul fell, tens of thousands of Afghans are still stuck in limbo in the US. Two years ago, the Taliban marched into Kabul, the... Read more ›

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Andrew Prokop @ Vox · 08/15/2023 14:50 EDT

The five conspiracies at the heart of the Georgia Trump indictment

Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis (left), and Sidney Powell (right) conduct a news conference on November 19, 2020. All three were just charged with felonies in Georgia. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via GettyWhat Trump, Giuliani, Meadows, Powell, and others were actually charged with. The indictment of Donald Trump filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is, to put it mildly, complicated. The core allegation is simple — that Trump... Read more ›

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Kimberly Mas @ Vox · 08/15/2023 14:20 EDT

What we get wrong about saving the bees

Honeybees get a ton of attention, but they’re not the ones who need help. Every year there are alarming headlines about honeybees in the US. Each one highlights some grim facts about the fate of these insects and the subsequent fallout: Colonies are collapsing, beekeepers are struggling, farming is at risk. The stakes are high. Honeybees are estimated to pollinate up to $15 billion worth of food in the US.... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 08/15/2023 14:08 EDT

The 4 criminal investigations into Donald Trump, explained

Former US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump is the first, second, third, and fourth former president to be indicted for a crime. Former President Donald Trump has now been indicted four times, in four separate jurisdictions, for an array of crimes arising out of how he became... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 08/15/2023 13:00 EDT

Why Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are debating each other

DeSantis and Newsom could do a live debate on Fox News later this fall. | Getty ImagesThe thirst for attention is real. In what appears to be a blatant attention grab by both politicians, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to debate one another on live television later this fall. Given the fact that the two aren’t actually competing head-to-head in an election, it’s a... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 08/15/2023 11:25 EDT

Will anyone trust these hyper-politicized courts to try Donald Trump?

The criminal defendant in two federal prosecutions places his hand on the shoulder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. | Getty ImagesThe federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history. Even under the best of circumstances, a criminal trial of a former head of state is a fraught exercise. And, for a number of reasons,... Read more ›

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Kelsey Ichikawa @ Vox · 08/15/2023 07:30 EDT

The story about Ambien and sex differences in medication isn’t what you think

A prescription of bottle of Ambien  | Getty ImagesThe risks of sex-based drug dosing recommendations. Zolpidem tartrate is infamous. It walks the street with many names: “A-minus,” “zombie pills,” “no-go pills.” It has been blamed for a range of strange and disastrous incidents in the news over the years, including Roseanne Barr’s racist tweeting in 2018 and Tiger Woods’s terrible car accident in 2021. But you probably know zolpidem tartrate... Read more ›

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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox · 08/15/2023 07:00 EDT

The new “science of reading” movement, explained

Nicole Miles for VoxA huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good. For over a century, a pendulum has swung back and forth on the best way to teach kids to read. On one side are advocates of phonics, an instructional approach focused on the relationships between sounds and letters; on the other, various methods, championed by educators,... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox 1 place · 08/15/2023 06:00 EDT

Trump’s 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes

Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesA quick guide to Trump’s 4 indictments and why they matter. Donald Trump’s legal web has grown more tangled than ever. The former president is facing 91 criminal charges across four different jurisdictions — Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has two trial dates set for 2024 so far. And all this... Read more ›

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