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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Vox reader asks: Can you explain how tariffs work? How will imposing tariffs impact the everyday lives of Americans? According to President Donald Trump, “tariffs is the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” surpassed only by God, religion, and love. Trump has also claimed, as he did shortly after his inauguration, that “tariffs are […]

The US, apparently, is becoming increasingly averse to parties. As The Atlantic noted last month, only an average of 4.1 percent of Americans attended or hosted social events on an average weekend or holiday in 2023. The problem isn’t due to a lack of desire: Most people are happy with the number of friends they […]

Just over two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already thrown American democracy into crisis.  On his first day in office, the president pardoned those who had violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to obstruct his removal from power. He then fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors […]

“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.”  “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that pollute our air, our water, our soils end up in our own bodies. They ruin our health in the same way that they ruin nature.” Those might sound like comments from […]

We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. Now that the extraordinarily fast-moving wildfires that engulfed swaths of Southern California this year have started to die down, the enduring toll […]

About two and a half months ago, I wrote a piece about what foreign aid might look like in the second Trump term. Reading that piece now feels bizarre.  I thought that Trump’s second term would look much like his first: lots of proposals to cut foreign aid funding, pushed back on by Republicans in […]

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have put Democrats in a frustrating bind. He’s thrown so much at them (and at the nation), that they’re having serious trouble figuring out what to respond to — let alone how. He’s signed dozens of executive orders; attempted serious power grabs and overhauls of the […]

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. Six months ago, young Democrats were preparing for a very different conversation. They were breathing a sigh of relief after Joe Biden formally dropped out of the 2024 presidential […]

Donald Trump has incoherent and unhinged beliefs about trade policy.   He also has a penchant for pretending to be a “crazy guy” for the sake of increasing his leverage in negotiations. This made it difficult to tell whether his proposal for an across-the-board 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports was sincere. That policy […]

Welcome to The Logoff. Today’s edition is about Donald Trump’s efforts to purge the Federal Bureau of Investigation of his perceived enemies — a power struggle with ramifications for the rule of law throughout the United States. What’s happened so far? On Friday night, the Department of Justice moved to fire several senior FBI executives — including […]