With dim sum restaurant closures and empty senior centers, some worry Brooklyn’s Sunset Park may never recover.| Vox
Progressives can’t afford to trust their guts.| Vox
TikTok faces an impending court decision this week. But the fight might not end there.| Vox
Author Will Storr on our universal obsession with status and how it distorts so much of human behavior.| Vox
In his first term, President Donald Trump touted the “medical miracle” of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine that he helped deliver to market through the unprecedented public-private partnership known as Operation Warp Speed. In its second term, the Trump administration is dismantling the signature health achievement of his first term by sowing doubt about the safety […]| Vox
America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Light rail. Bridges. Housing. Everything takes seemingly forever, if it even happens at all. Meanwhile, there’s China. A country that builds much faster — high-speed trains, solar panels, electric cars, bridges, ports, drones — all churned out at breakneck speed. Why can China do this, and […]| Vox
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Are American kids eating the wrong foods? It’s a question parents and policymakers have worried over for generations, but it’s become especially fraught in recent months as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make American Healthy Again movement […]| Vox
For the last few years, we’ve been asking Future Perfect newsletter readers what their biggest questions are. And while we usually answer privately, we figured we’d try something new: a reader mailbag! This week, we’ve answered questions from three readers on classic FP issues: artificial intelligence, animal welfare coverage, and, of course, altruistic kidney donations. […]| Vox
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad […]| Vox
The two and a half weeks since President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, police department have mixed the disturbing and the comical. Combined with the spectacle of the National Guard picking up trash, there’s been a lot of law enforcement activity aimed at unauthorized immigrants. But many residents, though annoyed at Trump’s move, […]| Vox
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from a […]| Vox
A Vox reader asks: What exactly are parasocial relationships and why are they so prevalent now? Here’s a hypothetical scenario: You hear your favorite podcasters every day. You know their voices by heart. They’re chatty and relatable, and they casually reveal all the details of their lives — and what they don’t say on the […]| Vox
Companies in the AI race are barreling toward a new goalpost: so-called superintelligence, or an AI model that can surpass human intelligence. The terminology here can get a bit dizzying. Top AI companies had already been trying to build what’s long been called “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), or AI that they claim will be as […]| Vox
The CDC is collapsing. Will America’s health follow suit?| Vox
The problem with how Neeson talks about racism, explained.| Vox
If you love nature, consider not driving in it.| Vox
Welcome to our third annual celebration of the thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.| Vox
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Why it feels like people are more impolite than ever.| Vox
A conversation with Heather McGhee about the costs of America’s racial bargain.| Vox
Your neighborhood watering hole is more important than you think.| Vox
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.| Vox
The costly procedure was supposed to give women a new kind of freedom. Is that what it really offers?| Vox
It is spiraling out of control — and the problem starts at the top.| Vox
Director Kitty Green on how she made the first great movie of the Me Too era.| Vox
What we learned (and didn’t learn) from the big Google antitrust trial.| Vox
The alternative to affirmative action is now under attack.| Vox
The original Sex and the City ended with a fairytale happily ever after. It was never quite right.| Vox
Fans are creating new concert traditions for a new age.| Vox
Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.| Vox
No, demons will not possess you if you use one.| Vox
The Court just gave voting rights activists another tool to combat gerrymandering.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
From Lord of the Rings to the ramen craze to Ozempic, the cultural touchstones that help us understand the 21st century.| Vox
A huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good.| Vox
They can’t rebook your flight, but they can probably swing a free drink. Just remember that they’re human, too.| Vox
“Looking only at one half of the population is a mistake.”| Vox
Rent control won’t fix the housing crisis. It’s still a good idea.| Vox
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
A growing number of thinkers say factory farming can help save the planet. Are they right?| Vox
“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”| Vox
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.| Vox
Trump finally imposed his new tariffs. Here’s what to know.| Vox
There’s a long history of using starvation as a weapon of war. But this is different.| Vox
The nostalgia is the point.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
CNN’s Oliver Darcy and BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel say the people who carried Trump to victory have been disappointed by his conventional policies so far.| Vox
If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server.| Vox
You’ll want to delete your Facebook account.| Vox
Some Supreme Court justices just want to watch the world burn.| Vox
How the Friday night massacre could change America’s armed forces.| Vox
On Israel, the two are not the same.| Vox
The internet hates Botox and fillers — but only when they don’t look good| Vox
Debris removal after Hurricane Helene did more damage to the environment than the storm itself in some parts of the state, scientists claim.| Vox
How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.| Vox
A federal law requires hospitals to provide abortions when necessary to prevent serious health consequences. The justices could neutralize that law.| Vox
The GOP remains a conspiracy to steal from the poor and give to the rich.| Vox
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”| Vox
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.| Vox
“You’re always being pulled away, and it’s getting worse every day.” —Tim Wu, author of Attention Merchants| Vox
The cardiac miracles that have saved millions of American lives.| Vox
The tech giant has faced scrutiny from regulators over its in-house brands.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
OpenAI released a model that tells users they’re right — no matter what. That’s more dangerous than it seems.| Vox
Yet another downside to fossil fuel dependence.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
How a movement intended to lift up women really just limits their acceptable emotions. Again.| Vox
A psychologist’s advice for arguing your moral beliefs without grandstanding.| Vox
The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.| Vox
How do you outrun something that’s designed to follow you everywhere?| Vox
It’s the worst allergy season ever. Again. Just like last year.| Vox
The meat industry’s environmental racism problem, explained.| Vox
You may be underestimating or overestimating the calories burned by as much as 20 percent.| Vox
The long, strange history of a quintessentially American theology.| Vox
The quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
Sanders was hit hard for his position on guns in 2016. He’s trying to avoid that in 2020.| Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.| Vox
Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.| Vox
USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.| Vox
In the oil-rich Permian Basin, the dunes sagebrush lizard faces extinction. Will Trump do it in?| Vox
Even a single degree of warming can have devastating consequences for the natural world.| Vox
Down to Earth is Vox’s home for coverage of the planet’s biodiversity crisis.| Vox
Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement.| Vox
Vox’s coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues| Vox
Cutting red tape is a social justice issue.| Vox
Understanding the world isn’t just about explaining the news. Vox’s coverage examining religion, love, family, careers, and how we live.| Vox
How the small structures have ignited hopes and fears for those living outside.| Vox
As millions “age in place,” millions more must figure out how to provide their loved ones with increasingly complex care.| Vox
They include harsh new proposals, and augmented versions of past ideas, too.| Vox
The world can be terrifying. But we should still give kids the freedom to explore it.| Vox
Podcaster and author Sam Harris is the latest to fall for it.| Vox
All he has to do is embrace the consensus that’s waiting for him.| Vox