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For decades, experts have accused American presidents of neglecting the Western Hemisphere in favor of faraway conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Both Republicans and Democrats have carried out a policy of either “benign” or “malign” neglect, allowing threats to grow and missing valuable opportunities.  No one can accuse the new Trump administration […]

Over the past few years, AI systems have been misrepresenting themselves as human therapists, nurses, and more — and so far, the companies behind these systems haven’t faced any serious consequences.  A bill being introduced Monday in California aims to put a stop to that.  The legislation would ban companies from developing and deploying an AI […]

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book’s cover, which hardly anyone likes to write and even fewer people like to ask for.  One big author and one major publisher announced within […]

We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of the Constitution, cut Congress out of the federal budgeting process, and cut off agencies’ control of their computer systems. Let’s imagine that all six of the Supreme Court’s […]

Since Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX halftime show’s headliner last September, music fans have been abuzz with excitement, wondering how the Pulitzer Prize winner would handle the historic gig — the first for a solo rapper.  Fresh off a summer-long beef with Drake that birthed the Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like […]

2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year.  It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his career and dominated pop culture in 2024 thanks to a now-iconic feud with Drake. But the new year is off to an even stronger start.  At the beginning of February, he picked […]

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the iPhone, or the automobile, but rather something humbler: the chicken bone.  The reason? We eat so many chickens. So, so many. In 2022 alone, people around the world consumed over 75 billion […]

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not only can we see the air pollution generated by industrial swine facilities, but we can see that it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color — all the way from space. A new study published in […]

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him. The swift resignation was, at least at first, a breath of fresh air. President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly […]

Welcome to The Logoff. Today, I’m focusing on a fight over control of the Treasury Department’s payment system, a legal battle with big implications for our democracy. At stake is Congress’s ability to keep control over government spending, a critical (and constitutional) check on Donald Trump’s power. What’s the latest? A federal judge on Thursday signed off […]

It’s a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as well as a follow-up social media post, is not going to happen. The US almost certainly will not take a “long-term ownership position” in the Gaza Strip, […]

Editor’s note, February 7, 2025, 12:30 pm ET: On February 7, Kanye referred to himself openly as a Nazi in a post on X, along with a number of other antisemitic sentiments. Read this story, first published in October 2022, to understand how we got here. Fake children, lost Black tribes of Israel, and vast conspiracies, all […]

Over the last few years, I’ve written a lot about degrowth ideology, the view that the only way to save the planet is to abandon economic growth as an objective. Degrowthers sometimes say uncontroversial things like that GDP isn’t the only thing that matters in the world and sometimes say more controversial ones like that […]

A few weeks ago, I was wandering down a grocery store aisle when I encountered the most expensive eggs I’d ever seen. The price for a dozen eggs was very nearly in the double-digits.  Sure, I was in New York City, one of the most expensive cities in the country. But still! Did that mean […]

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went up. By 2014, there were 10, housing around […]

At their peak, the devastating wildfires that ignited around Los Angeles in January forced upward of 200,000 people to evacuate and torched more than 16,000 homes, offices, and shops. The total economic losses may reach as high as $275 billion. Now the blazes are fully contained and have mostly died down.  As Angelenos grapple with […]

Vox Members got to read this story first. Support independent journalism and get exclusive access to stories like this by becoming a Vox Member today. Two and a half years ago, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that experts said would upend America’s gun laws.  On the surface, New York State Rifle & Pistol […]

Vox reader Quentin Ampersand asks: How safe is egg donation? Are there negative long-term impacts? How well are the health impacts understood? Egg donation occupies an unusual spot in American medicine and culture. Use of donor eggs is quite common: More than 20,000 in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles using donor eggs took place in 2022 […]

The Logoff is 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. Today’s edition is about a court order pushing back Elon Musk’s deadline for federal workers to take him up on his offer for a deferred resignation. That […]

A brief spat between Elon Musk and the news organization Politico is making something quite obvious: The nation’s governance is increasingly at the whim of online conspiracy theorists. This incident began with two unrelated events: On Tuesday, staffers at Politico reported that the company had missed payroll. Those issues were resolved later that day. Separately, […]

Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created Department […]

President Donald Trump’s first weeks back in the White House have been nothing short of dizzying.  He kicked off his second presidency with a fury of policy actions — imposing (then postponing) tariffs on Canada and Mexico; barring transgender people from serving and enlisting in the military; and eliminating many US foreign aid programs. He […]

Welcome to Know-It-All. In the age of information overload and so many things to care about, Vox experts explain what you need to know to get into a particular corner of culture. I don’t want to sound like too much of an expert, but this past weekend, something big and weird happened in the world […]

The United States, despite being the richest country in the world and a biopharmaceutical powerhouse, has long struggled with drug shortages. At any given time, up to 100 or more — sometimes many more — drugs are not readily available to American patients, largely because drug manufacturing operates with very little slack that leaves it […]