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 ImagesThis legislative session has been all about Ron DeSantis. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has leaned heavily on the Florida legislature this session to give him a launchpad for a 2024 presidential bid, which he is expected to announce in the coming weeks. Most recently, Republican... Read more ›
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Want to inspire a Vox story? Share your ideas with us. Vox turned 9 on April 6! And nine years in, explanatory journalism is still as core to our mission as ever. To celebrate, we’re launching a new way for you, our loyal audience, to ask us for an explainer when you need one. Ever since we started Vox, we’ve had a channel on Slack, the messaging app we use... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe network’s ratings plummeted in the days after Carlson got fired. In a stunning announcement, Fox News said on April 24 that it has ended Tucker Carlson’s reign as the host of the network’s highest-rated primetime show (and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable, period), effective immediately. The news comes less than a... Read more ›
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The US Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, on April 21, 2023. | Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow it’s legal to work as a corporate consultant and a Pentagon adviser at the same time. An array of new federal intelligence and military offices have been launched in recent years with one overriding goal: to connect the slow-moving federal bureaucracy to private, venture capital-backed companies doing cutting-edge work. Several military services and... Read more ›
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Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed federal judge who has largely acted as a rubber stamp for right-wing causes. | Courtesy of Senate Judiciary CommitteeThere is a solution to America’s Matthew Kacsmaryk problem. The United States has a Matthew Kacsmaryk problem. A longtime activist for the Christian right, Kacsmaryk is the Trump-appointed judge who tried earlier this month to ban mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in... Read more ›
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Livia Giorgina Carpineto for VoxHow geopolitics and technological advances are making this a riskier world for bioweapons. GENEVA — Venomous Agent X is a deadly nerve agent, though you likely know it by another name: VX. It’s an amber, oil-like liquid that targets the body’s nervous system. A single drop on the skin can kill within minutes. In 2017, North Korea is believed to have used VX to assassinate Kim... Read more ›
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In 2005, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, then the state’s attorney general, discusses a Supreme Court decision to allow a Ten Commandments monument to be displayed outside the state capitol. | Getty ImagesWhy religion in public schools is making a comeback. This month, Texas Senate Republicans passed three bills about religion in schools that have historians feeling déjà vu. The first, SB 1515, would require public schools to display the Ten... Read more ›
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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat happens next depends on Amazon, the workers, and the interpretation of outdated US labor law. Amazon delivery drivers unionized and negotiated their first contract with the Teamsters union last week — a huge feat for workers at a company that has used its enormous size and strength to fight off worker organizing. But that victory is a bit complicated. The 84 California delivery drivers... Read more ›
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney looking at each other but reportedly not “seeing” each other. | Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesWhy everyone suddenly cares about the stars of the yet-to-be-released rom-com Anyone But You. Since the dawn of moviemaking, extremely attractive people — called actors — have fallen in love with each other on set. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Goldie Hawn... 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 ImagesThe future of the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal is looking dark, thanks to the UK. Microsoft’s massive $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard was dealt a major and possibly game-ending blow this week. The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday that it has decided... Read more ›
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Magazine Columnist E. Jean Carroll leaves after the first day of her civil trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on April 25, 2023 in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThe case could send a big message about the long history of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump. Former President Donald Trump is the subject of another court case this week, this time centering on allegations... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump, left, and current President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate on October 22, 2020. | Brendan Smialowski, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s looking like neither Trump nor Biden will have to participate in a presidential debate in 2024. Neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump, the leading presidential candidates for their respective parties, seems to have any plans to participate in primary debates... Read more ›
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We can’t truly switch to renewable energy without a breakthrough. In the past few decades, solar and wind energy have made remarkable progress; they’re now satisfying significant portions of our energy demand. But there’s a problem holding us back from relying on them even more: They can’t be stored very well. Solar energy is only generated while the sun is up, and wind energy while the wind is blowing. But... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sit down with other administration officials and members of Congress for a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on July 14, 2011, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDemocrats and Republicans took different, sometimes contradictory, lessons from the last standoff. If the 2023 debt... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in 2021. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAs the US inches closer to default, House Republicans offered an opening bid. On Wednesday, House Republicans were actually able to come together and pass their opening bid on the debt ceiling, known as the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The bill was approved by 217 Republicans, with just a handful — four — defecting. As... Read more ›
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Writers on strike in 2007 outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. | Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence could be the most important part of a writers strike, for reasons bigger than show business. “Beating up on screenwriters,” John Gregory Dunne wrote in 1996, “is a Hollywood blood sport; everyone in the business thinks he or she can write, if only time could be found.” To put it another way, everybody... Read more ›
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Nuclear explosion and atomic mushroom cloud over French Polynesia. | Sygma via Getty ImagesNuclear war, AGI, and the importance of understanding what makes an existential risk. Four years ago, I wrote one of my most controversial articles. It argued that climate change — while it will make the world we live in much worse and lead directly and indirectly to the deaths of millions — won’t end human life on... Read more ›
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A viral fake Drake and The Weeknd song, which an anonymous user posted online and claimed to make using AI, shows how good AI is getting at entertaining us. | Ollie Millington/WireImageThe viral fake Drake and The Weeknd song tells us a lot about the future of AI. You’ve probably heard a lot lately about AI. Everyone from Elon Musk to Joe Biden has been worried that AI could take... Read more ›
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The Pre-Teen Sensations! From left, Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret, Amari Price as Janie, Elle Graham as Nancy, and Katherine Kupferer as Gretchen in Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Dana Hawley/LionsgateA new movie adaptation captures the sneaky complexity of what Judy Blume’s classic gets right about being 11. In my mental catalog of Judy Blume books, everything is filed according to the adolescent trope... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removes his face mask during a press conference to address the rise of coronavirus cases in the state at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on July 13, 2020. | Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesDeSantis’s surgeon general is accused of manipulating data to justify an anti-vaccine agenda. How did we get here? In March 2020, in the uncertain first weeks of the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis... Read more ›
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