It’s been just over a week since TikTok — in the United States — transferred into the hands of new owners. And it’s been a mess ever since. At the government’s urging, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance sold the app to a mostly American group of investors, including the software business giant Oracle (founded by Trump […] Read more ›
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Over the past couple of years, celebrities, tech bros, and biohackers have come to believe they’ve found the ultimate source of good health. Boosting this one thing, they say, will cure all ails, rejuvenate the body, and lead to longer life. They are talking about the star of middle-school biology class: mitochondria. The “powerhouse of […] Read more ›
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Some smart people think we’re witnessing another ChatGPT moment. This time, folks aren’t flipping out over an iPhone app that can write pretty good poems, though. They’re watching thousands of AI agents build software, solve problems, and even talk to each other. Unlike ChatGPT’s ChatGPT moment, this one is a series of moments that spans […] Read more ›
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This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My husband was picking up our older kid from school a few weeks back when he overheard a teacher issuing an exasperated directive to her class: “No more chickens! No more chicken banana!” Though it might sound absurd […] Read more ›
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Wildfires have consumed thousands of buildings, killed dozens of people, and smothered millions in choking smoke in recent years. Blazes like the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025 have also revealed that fighting these massive blazes continues to be hampered by bureaucratic traps — which agency is in charge of the response, who is on the […] Read more ›
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There’s something sad about seeing a humanoid robot lying on the floor. Without any electricity, these bipedal machines can’t stand up, so if they’re powered down and not hanging from a winch, they’re sprawled out on the floor, staring up at you, helpless. That’s how I met Atlas a couple of months ago. I’d seen […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration says it will remove 700 federal immigration agents from Minneapolis, but there are few signs of the crackdown letting up. What’s happening? […] Read more ›
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The XXV Winter Olympic Games are being held in sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy, starting with the opening ceremony on Friday, February 6, and lasting until February 22. From ice hockey (having a cultural moment of its own) to newer competitions like ski mountaineering, the games span the full breadth of the Winter Olympics. […] Read more ›
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“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” a lawyer representing Donald Trump’s government told a federal judge on Tuesday. Julie Le, the lawyer, who was temporarily detailed to the US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis, was assigned to 88 federal court cases in under […] Read more ›
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After decades of declining sales, whole milk consumption has been on the upswing in recent years. Its return was crowned when, last month, the Trump administration published updated federal dietary guidelines that recommend full-fat dairy, like whole milk, and passed a new law that allows public schools to serve whole milk, which had been effectively […] Read more ›
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The internet is an archive of so many different versions of ourselves. If you’re Gen Z or a millennial, there’s a good chance you preserved almost every stage of your life online: old fandoms, old friends, old opinions. And with that comes an inevitable cringe.  So what do you do when you see something embarrassing […] Read more ›
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It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that, for more than a century, American urban planning has been devoted to layering on ways to all but ban apartment buildings. And so, as the US now tries to shift out of the anti-density gear that’s driving our housing affordability crisis, policymakers are finding […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. I feel a bit of trepidation when anyone brings up the Jeffrey Epstein case. It’s hard to know, at first blush, which they’re talking about: the documented crimes of which Epstein was convicted or […] Read more ›
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The world is hungrier than ever for energy. Demand for heating, cooling, lighting, computing power, and just getting around is rising. In particular, the buildout of data centers to power technologies like AI has set off a rush for new power plants in countries like the US and China. Fossil fuel consumption reached a record […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration’s attempt to end deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants is on hold — for now. What’s happening? Late on Monday, […] Read more ›
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Barring a major unforeseen announcement from Washington or Moscow, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday. It’s been a long, slow death for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which went into force in 2011 to replace the earlier post-Cold War START treaty […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Over the weekend, the Justice Department released yet another tranche of files from its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex trafficker who paled around with the likes of […] Read more ›
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Had William Foege been a military general or a CEO or a politician, his death on January 24 would have been bold-type, front-page news. Elementary schools and highways would have been named after him. Instead, Foege’s passing registered the way the deaths of many public health giants do: as a quiet tremor among the people […] Read more ›
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There was an underrated storyline of the 2024 election, one that’s increasingly starting to resurface now, as President Donald Trump goes on a foreign policy crusade, threatening to upend longstanding geopolitical norms between the United States and our allies (*cough, acquiring Greenland, cough*): Gen Z really doesn’t want to go to war. In my work […] Read more ›
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A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story is playing out in the US economy right now. The stock market is at record levels, and the latest economic growth reading is above 4 percent, a boom-like scenario. But this positive tale has a dark side: there is virtually no hiring, and that has left many Americans […] Read more ›
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