Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation that it is planning a major military operation against the government of Venezuela. This week, the situation escalated dramatically with the US seizing a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term. More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he’s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day. The polling averages show this net disapproval clearly: On the economy, he’s down 13 percentage points. […] Read more ›
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In a short, one-paragraph order, the Republican justices ruled on Monday evening that President Donald Trump may effectively nullify a federal law and an international treaty that is supposed to protect immigrants from torture. The Court’s order in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. does not explain the GOP’s justices’ reasoning, although Justice Sonia Sotomayor […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has framed his strikes on Iran as a costless triumph. The president is not asking Americans to accept sacrifices in service of destroying the Iranian nuclear program — only to applaud his already successful destruction of it. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump declared Saturday night. […] Read more ›
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The cover for Sabrina Carpenter’s upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, isn’t going over well. Last week, the singer unveiled the polarizing artwork, which shows her on all fours while a male hand grabs her hair. Within seconds, users on X and TikTok labeled the image “misogynistic” and “irresponsible.” Others claimed that Carpenter was never “for […] Read more ›
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Over the weekend, the United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran has been considered a political risk to America since the 1979 revolution, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that it cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The strikes mark yet another attempt in a long-running US strategy to rein in […] Read more ›
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The United States bombed Iran on Saturday night, joining an Israeli-led offensive aimed at demolishing the Iranian nuclear program. The American assault targeted three facilities associated with the program at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow — the last of which was widely seen as too fortified for the Israelis to disable without American help. President Donald […] Read more ›
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The border wall between the US and Mexico is, of course, a barrier meant to prevent human migrants from crossing into America as they seek work, family, or refuge from violence.  It’s also a significant barrier to ranging wildlife. The border wall, a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda, cuts through a rugged, unique […] Read more ›
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There is a lot of advice out there about how much alcohol one should drink. There is research suggesting that drinking could be dangerous, and research that indicates drinking is good for you. Which is it? Obviously, too much drinking is bad for one’s health — and drinking to excess can destroy the human body. […] Read more ›
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A series of high-profile incidents of political violence — targeting members of both major political parties — have grabbed the nation’s attention. Earlier this month, a gunman shot two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers in their homes. State Rep. Melissa Hartman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were injured. In April, […] Read more ›
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It’s never good when an alarm surprises you in the middle of the night. I was recently on vacation with my family, and a weird beeping woke everyone up around 2 am. My wife thought it was a carbon monoxide detector. I thought it might be the baby monitor. It was actually a signal from […] Read more ›
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form or email sigal.samuel@vox.com. Here’s this week’s question from a reader, condensed and edited for clarity: I am a university teaching assistant, leading discussion sections for large humanities lecture classes. This […] Read more ›
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Below is a graph showing a trend that exploded during the 2020s: What is this depicting? Compute use for AI? Crispr gene edits per year? No, this is another, much less-known example of massive growth these past several years. This is a chart of the number of pancreases (or, to use the correct plural, “pancreata”) […] Read more ›
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When Vice President JD Vance appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, anchor Kristen Welker asked him a simple question: Is the United States now at war with Iran? In response, Vance said, “We’re not at war with Iran; we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.” This is akin to saying that, in attacking […] Read more ›
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For more than half a century, the American right has preached the virtues of free markets and low taxes and deregulation. But a new wave of conservative thinkers are now arguing that Republicans have been wrong — or at the very least misguided — about the economy. This new economic thinking represents a break from […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump claimed during his 2024 campaign for president that America had fought “no wars” during his first presidency, and that he was the first president in 72 years who could say that. This was not, strictly speaking, true. In his first term, Trump intensified the air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, ordered […] Read more ›
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Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. He didn’t say penicillin, which has saved over 500 million lives, or the nuclear bomb, which has shaped geopolitics like nothing before. He didn’t even say TV! Instead, Lee had a simple two-word […] Read more ›
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In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it can’t truly reason — it’s all shallow mimicry, just “stochastic parrots” squawking. At the time, it was easy to see where this perspective was coming from. Artificial intelligence had moments of being impressive and interesting, […] Read more ›
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Four years ago, America was on the cusp of the largest expansion of its welfare state since the 1960s. Under Joe Biden in 2021, House Democrats passed legislation that would have established a monthly child allowance for most families, an expansion of Medicaid’s elder care services, federal child care subsidies, universal prekindergarten, and a paid […] Read more ›
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The science fiction author Isaac Asimov once came up with a set of laws that we humans should program into our robots. In addition to a first, second, and third law, he also introduced a “zeroth law,” which is so important that it precedes all the others: “A robot may not injure a human being […] Read more ›
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The first big Christmas gift I remember getting was an animatronic bear named Teddy Ruxpin. Thanks to a cassette tape hidden in his belly, he could talk, his eyes and mouth moving in a famously creepy way. Later that winter, when I was sick with a fever, I hallucinated that the toy came alive and […] Read more ›
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