Stacks from the Colstrip coal-fired power plant east of Billings, Montana. | Corbis via Getty ImagesA lawsuit in the state of Montana could set a legal precedent on climate action. Do citizens have a right to a healthy environment? In Montana they do. The state constitution reads, “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” And a... Read more ›
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A person experiencing homelessness walks to their tent in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on February 24, 2022. | David Swanson/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIs there a right to sleep outside? Five years ago, a federal court issued a crucial ruling. People experiencing homelessness, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said, can’t be punished for sleeping outside on public property if there are no adequate alternatives available. The... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesGet ready now to resume (or start) paying back your student loans. More than three years after student loan repayments were paused due to the Covid-19 pandemic, borrowers will soon receive their first bill since early 2020. With the Supreme Court likely to rule against the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan — which would cancel up to $20,000 in debt — and the debt ceiling bill preventing any... Read more ›
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Illustration by Xia Gordon for Vox and Capital B; data visualization by Alvin Chang for Vox and Capital BVox analyzed dozens of studies and found that racism adds up in insidious ways. Part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. This story was produced in partnership with Capital B. After a long search, Keisha Orr — a human resources manager working on Wall Street in the early 2000s — believed... Read more ›
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Meika Ejiasi for Vox and Capital BFrom chronic stress to cancer, racial discrimination weathers Black Americans’ lives over time. Part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. This story was produced in partnership with Capital B. On most warm days, Stephanie McWoods catches the California breeze with the bubble wand she keeps on her patio. Sometimes, the bubbles float, then burst midair. Other times, when they don’t pop, it is... Read more ›
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Xia Gordon for Vox and Capital BInterrogating the true toll of pervasive racism. For this month’s issue of The Highlight, Vox teamed up with Black-led nonprofit newsroom Capital B to explore the insidious effects of discrimination on Black Americans. The collaboration — part of an ongoing partnership with Capital B — was prompted in part by the work of researchers at the University of Chicago, who compiled nearly 50 years’... Read more ›
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Ezra Miller as The Flash in The Flash. | Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures™ & © DC ComicsThe Flash is really about bad decisions. What does Warner Bros. want with The Flash? The new film, out on June 16, is beset with complications. It’s one of the last of the films made before director James Gunn completely revamps the studio’s superhero schedule, stars problematic tabloid mainstay Ezra Miller, and feels,... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxRemote workers came for the cash. They stayed for the community. TULSA — Teamer Tibebu walked onto the rooftop of the recently renovated Tulsa Club Hotel to survey his new home. The 32-year-old software engineer had moved from New Orleans just two weeks earlier to join Tulsa Remote, a program that gives knowledge workers $10,000 to move to this city of 400,000 in northeastern Oklahoma. On this warm May... Read more ›
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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with media this week after a hard-right faction of fellow GOP lawmakers blocked a bill in retaliation for McCarthy’s debt ceiling deal with the Biden administration. | Getty ImagesA mutiny last week among the GOP’s far-right faction spells trouble for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and everyone else. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s compromises with far-right members of his own Republican party to gain leadership of... Read more ›
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Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty ImagesMalaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough. In 2000, nearly 900,000 people died of malaria, the vast majority of whom lived in poorer regions of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa. It’s one of the biggest public health problems in the world, threatening nearly half the world’s population. Over the last 20 years,... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoYou don’t need to make new friends to have a fulfilling social life. Loneliness has been cast as many things: An epidemic, pervasive, a public health crisis, even deadly. Exacerbated by social distancing measures during the pandemic, the loneliness narrative predates 2020: A 2010 study found that those with weaker social relationships had a higher risk of early mortality than those who did not; a 2018 survey raised the... Read more ›
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Protestors outside a Glendale Unified School District meeting on teaching sexual identity to kids in Glendale, California on June 6, 2023. | Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty ImagesThe American right is returning to its homophobic roots. Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a tweet criticizing a draconian new anti-LGBTQ law in Uganda. The law imposed strict criminal penalties for same-sex relations — including execution for... Read more ›
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Former British PM Boris Johnson has resigned as a member of parliament, leaving his party in chaos. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesThe former prime minister has resigned as a Member of Parliament, throwing his own party into chaos. On Friday, June 9th, Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as a member of Parliament just after learning that an investigation into his flouting of Covid-19 rules while he was in office... Read more ›
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KTSDesign/Science Photo LibraryThe ultimate “whoa, if true.” Especially the “if true” part. The headline is a bold one. “Intelligence officials say US has retrieved craft of non-human origin,” the story in the publication The Debrief reads. The phrase “whoa, if true” was coined for a situation like this. Especially the “if true” part. Here’s what seems true enough at this point: a former government official named David Grusch, who has... Read more ›
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Striking academic workers at the University of California, Los Angeles in November 2022. | Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesUnions won’t come back without fundamental changes to bargaining. Every once in a while, reporters see a few successful unionization drives in the US, like at Starbucks or Amazon, and conclude that the US is in the midst of a labor union resurgence, that unions are “booming,” or... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Westend61The telltale signs of fatigue — and why it’s different from sleepiness. The mortal urge for sleep frequently hits at the most inopportune times: on your commute to work, during the post-lunch slump, the exact moment you should depart in order to make it to an exercise class on time. The simple act of getting some shut-eye isn’t necessarily the best remedy for each of these bouts of languor.... Read more ›
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Members of Ukrainian Armed Forces are seen during their shooting training with heavy weapons at the areas close to the frontline in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on April 20, 2023. | Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesCool it with the predictions, for one. “When we start the counteroffensive, everyone will know about it, they will see it,” top Ukrainian security official Oleksiy Danilov said Wednesday. Danilov was responding to Russian claims... Read more ›
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Rev. Pat Robertson, controversial founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Coalition, is dead at 93. | Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ImagesPat Robertson was a cartoonish figure. He was also one of the most powerful men in conservative America. Televangelist Pat Robertson, who died on June 8 at the age of 93, occupied the cultural landscape as an incredibly influential, doomsaying extremist. The one-time Southern Baptist minister’s career... Read more ›
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Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty ImagesThe allegations are that Trump deceived his own attorneys and the government to try and hold on to documents including defense, nuclear, and military secrets. Special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former president Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation was unsealed Friday. It is detailed and damning. The indictment alleges that, while out of office, Trump deliberately kept many documents involving military, nuclear, and... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump watches from a box on the 18th green during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational - DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 26, 2023, in Sterling, Virginia. | Rob Carr/Getty ImagesHere’s what you need to know about the classified documents case against Trump. Former President Donald Trump was charged Thursday with federal crimes in connection with his alleged refusal to return classified... Read more ›
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