Want to inspire a Vox story? Share your ideas with us. Ever since we started Vox, we’ve had a channel on Slack, the messaging app we use to communicate within our newsroom, called #vox-explain-it-to-me. Members of our newsroom use this channel to ask questions about the topics they need clarification on, trends they’ve noticed, or subjects they are just curious or confused about. The conversations in this channel, along with... Read more ›
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Abortion rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesA six-week ban could put further pressure on abortion providers in the Midwest. Barring any delays over legal issues, Iowa is poised to enact a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant. The ban has exceptions for cases where... Read more ›
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People in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park shade themselves from the sun on July 11 amid a dangerous heat wave. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/APOne of them rhymes with shmimate range. In the next few days, temperatures in parts of the American Southwest could approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit, potentially breaching existing heat records and endangering human lives. Summer is always warm, but this is already among the hottest ones ever. In early... Read more ›
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Gas prices are seen at a Mobil gas station on June 12, 2023, in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesInflation is still higher than ideal levels, but it hit its lowest rate in two years. Wednesday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report had some promising news for US households: It shows that inflation remains above ideal levels but is slowing, suggesting... Read more ›
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From left: Cathy Gillies, Kitty Lutesinger, Sandy Good, and Brenda McCann, of the Manson Family, kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice on March 29, 1971. They kept a vigil throughout the trial in which Manson and three women were convicted of slaying actress Sharon Tate and six others. | Wally Fong/APThe Manson Family murders weren’t a countercultural revolt. They were about power, entitlement, and Hollywood.... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. Or get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our Crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed by these... Read more ›
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The silly way we think about resource scarcity. When I was younger, there was a lot of hubbub about the concept of “peak oil.” Technically, the phrase just refers to the point where we reach the highest level of global oil production, after which it begins a permanent decline. This will probably happen at some point, as we deplete the cheapest-to-access sources of oil and transition to an economy that’s... Read more ›
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A sand tiger shark off the coast of North Carolina. | Gregory Sweeney/Getty ImagesNature is healing. In most past summers, New York beaches were, at their worst, crowded, dirty, and loud. Now, however, beachgoers must contend with something slightly more unsettling: sharks. Along the south shore of Long Island, on some of New York’s most popular beaches, shark attacks appear to be on the rise. Over the long July Fourth... Read more ›
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Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie, a movie about Barbie | Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesA Barbie aficionado and certified doll expert explains why life in plastic has suddenly become so fantastic. This summer belongs to Barbie. Thanks to the Margot Robbie-led movie and the inescapable marketing surrounding it, Mattel’s 64-year-old doll has once again become America’s sweetheart. Everyone wants a Barbie. Everyone wants to be a Barbie. And everyone wants... Read more ›
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Joan Wong for Vox; Getty ImagesHow the tactics and arguments are changing ahead of 2024. Last election cycle, abortion rights won in all six states with abortion ballot measures, including in red states like Kentucky and Montana that otherwise elected Republican lawmakers. Now, this fall and in next year’s election, national liberal groups are planning to invest more heavily in ballot measure campaigns, seeing them as vehicles both to protect... Read more ›
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In Canada, Crawford Lake’s well-preserved sediment layers show the start of the Anthropocene epoch, scientists say. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe holy grail for understanding the start of the Anthropocene lies at the bottom of a lake in Canada. An intrepid band of geologists has spent over a decade scouring the planet for the evidence they need to declare we’re living in the Anthropocene, a new chapter in Earth’s history... Read more ›
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We don’t have to shop because Amazon says. And yet. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesGet something you didn’t need on Prime Day? You’re not alone. You might not think an Instant Pot would be at the top of your summer shopping list. The sweltering heat doesn’t exactly put people in the mood for a hearty stew. But Amazon has managed to help make it into a hot item... Read more ›
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Actress Keke Palmer and boyfriend Darius Jackson courtside at the 2022 NBA All Star Weekend. | Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty ImagesWhat Keke Palmer, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jonah Hill tell us about how we talk about gender online. At this point, Twitter’s death feels imminent. Between expired rate limits, the proliferation of bots, and an app from a rival billionaire dubbed the “Twitter killer,” it appears the end is nigh.... Read more ›
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A mailbox sits in front of a flooded property on Route 11 on July 10, 2023 in Londonderry, Vermont. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesClimate change is contributing to heavier precipitation, a major factor in flooding. Parts of the United States’s eastern seaboard have been hit with massive floods in recent weeks, a phenomenon that’s expected to grow more common — and worse — as climate change warms the planet. “It’s worse... Read more ›
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A Palestinian boy looks at damage to a building on July 6, following the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. | Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua via Getty ImagesWhat we learned from Ambassador Tom Nides’s exit interview with the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal on Monday published an exit interview with President Joe Biden’s outgoing ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, in which he called on Prime Minister... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA judge has denied the agency’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger. Microsoft’s merger with video game giant Activision Blizzard just got a major power-up: a federal district court judge in California has turned down the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop it. The agency is currently suing Microsoft and Activision... Read more ›
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And why so many of those players are among the best in Major League Baseball. Baseball has a long history in the United States, but it also has strong roots in the Caribbean and Latin America, particularly in the Dominican Republic. Cubans were the first to bring the game from the US to their country in the 19th century, and later, wealthy Cubans introduced it to the Dominican Republic. Over... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA judge has denied the agency’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger. Microsoft’s merger with video game giant Activision Blizzard just got a major power-up: a judge has turned down the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop it. The agency is currently suing Microsoft and Activision to block the massive $69... Read more ›
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Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. | Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesOur reliance on delivery gives the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the New York Times reported that the labor stoppage “created myriad inconveniences, large and small, for companies and consumers across the nation” and... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopA conversation about parenting, our planet, and holding onto hope. There are a handful of topics that I almost force myself to not think about because the thoughts lead to a dead end. At the top of that list is climate change. It’s one of those problems that starts to overwhelm me when I consider the scale and the implications and all the barriers to tackling it. I also... Read more ›
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