A DNA test upended my family. Do I side with my grandmother — or her secret child?
The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and we’re dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates has the diagnosis — but not the cure
That perspective has predictably earned Coates detractors who find his omissions disgraceful. In a widely seen interview with ...
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Get used to more absurdly hot Octobers
Li Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and elections. Previously, she was a tech policy reporter at Politico and an editorial fellow at the Atlantic. Much of the western ...
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The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
Keren Landman, MD is a senior reporter covering public health, emerging infectious diseases, the health workforce, and health justice at Vox. Keren is trained as a physician, researcher, and ...
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The latest on the fallout of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene ruined much of what it encountered in its 500-mile journey across the Southeast US, leaving Florida, Georgia ...
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Florida criminalized homelessness. Then Hurricane Helene hit.
Rachel M. Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for ...
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The massive dock workers’ strike, explained
Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at Vox. She previously worked at Business Insider covering the military and global conflicts. Workers at ports on ...
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Nitrous, one of the oldest mind-altering drugs, is back
The sweet, odorless gas technically called nitrous oxide has many names: laughing gas, galaxy gas, hippy crack, whippets, even “the atmosphere of heaven.” Nitrous itself has just as many ...
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What the death of Hezbollah’s leader means for the Middle East
Israel successfully killed Hezbollah’s longtime leader with an airstrike in Beirut last week, part of a flurry of attacks in its ongoing offensive against Lebanon that has since escalated to an ...
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3 winners and 2 losers from the Walz-Vance debate
The vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday was something of a stalemate, though it did feature several striking moments and offered an interesting preview into what ...
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The only moment from the VP debate that mattered
Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16.
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7 questions — and zero conspiracy theories — about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
It’s been more than a week since the arrest of music mogul and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs on a litany of federal charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, but the ...