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Political violence has reached alarming levels in the US over the last few years.  The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and multiple assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump are all examples of America’s increasingly polarized and perilous environment.  Now, the 2024 election could […]

When election season rolls around I always run into a lot of people who are having a pretty bad time. It’s the drumbeat of dire news and last-minute plot twists and scandals. It’s the absurdly close polls. It’s the feeling that we — especially people like me in California — are approximately powerless while a […]

In the midst of a heated presidential election, political coverage and commentary can feel unavoidable. Kids are not immune — they might be picking up information about the race from the adults in their lives, at recess, or on social media. As much as parents may think their children are oblivious, research shows kids, including […]

The 2024 election cycle has produced some stunning and sometimes counterintuitive narratives about how demographic subgroups might end up voting. We may just see a historic gulf in the way men and women vote — or not. Polls suggest we’re in for the greatest racial realignment since the Civil Rights Act was passed — or […]

Arab Americans are one voting bloc that’s used to being slighted by both major parties. In 1984, Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president, returned donations made by Arab Americans; a campaign official at the time said it was the campaign’s policy to refuse contributions from that community. In 1988, Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis rejected […]

If you’re confused, it’s not an accident. Republicans are trying to have it both ways on health care during the 2024 campaign. They boast that they want to deregulate insurance and massively cut government spending, yet they also claim that they would never do anything to endanger people’s coverage. That two-step keeps getting them into […]

For the most part, Donald Trump has been mum on who he’d appoint to his administration if he wins. But he has made one pretty clear promise: Trump has said he’ll let conspiracy theorist and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, food, and drug regulation. That could have massive consequences for […]

The Biden era has witnessed a revolution in the Democratic Party’s approach to policing large corporations. Under the leadership of chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission has grown markedly more aggressive in blocking mergers and cracking down on big business’s exploitative practices. This has earned Khan’s FTC plaudits from critics of corporate power. But […]

Another season of Love Is Blind has come and gone, and in its wake we were left with two marriages, five breakups, a villain who bullies, a gold-digging hero, and at least one secret father who never mentioned his children to his partner. Initially, season seven didn’t look like it was ever going to peak […]

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I remember the first time I encountered Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It was second grade, and another kid had smuggled a copy of the Alvin Schwartz horror collection out to the playground during recess. We […]

Apple just put AI in millions of people’s pockets. The company is rolling out what it calls Apple Intelligence this week, bringing some basic text generation and image editing features to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users who opt in. I’ve been testing these tools through the developer beta version of the software for a couple […]

In 2016, Christy Lopez was living her dream. She was an attorney at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division working on policing where, among other things, she led the team that investigated the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown. Lopez believes that her work spurred meaningful policing reforms, both […]

Vox reader Jason Taylor writes: Should voters be concerned about the possibility of Trump election deniers being in positions of power to count votes in Trump’s favor that he did not receive in the upcoming election? Thank you for your time and consideration of my question. One of the defining — and troubling — facts […]

Joe Biden is no longer competent at speaking in public. This makes him a poor surrogate for Kamala Harris’s campaign, but he is also the president, and therefore an extremely prominent surrogate for the Democratic nominee.  This generated a problem for Harris Tuesday night when Biden set out to criticize dehumanizing rhetoric at a recent […]

Israel’s parliament voted to ban the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) on Monday, a decision that could further impede the delivery of critical aid to Gaza as Israel continues its brutal assault there. For over 70 years, UNRWA has provided assistance and services — schools, clinics, food and cash assistance, and […]

In 1990, the FDA banned the use of Red No. 3 in topical drugs and cosmetics. Its cited reasoning was that the color additive was “not shown to be safe,” because when fed to rats, Red No. 3 was found to slightly increase the risk of thyroid cancer.  Today, that same dye is still found […]

It’s election o’clock, and that means there is, once again, chatter about Texas going blue. Democrats haven’t won statewide since 1994, but now, they’re pinning their hopes on Rep. Colin Allred, who is challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.  Cruz leads Allred by between 1 and 7 percentage points in recent polling, though Allred has […]

Early voting numbers are showing a high number of Republicans casting their ballots ahead of Election Day, but that doesn’t mean an automatic victory for former President Donald Trump and Republicans down the ballot. Historically, Democrats have been more likely to vote early in states where that’s an option, but with just a week before the […]

In a speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night in New York City, former President Donald Trump reiterated his pledge to “launch the largest deportation program in American history” on day one of a second term. That raises two questions: If he wins the election, could he even do that? And if so, how […]

The Today, Explained podcast is taking a deep dive into the major themes of the 2024 election through the lens of seven battleground states. We’ve heard so far from voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, and this week we turn to Nevada, where the economy is the top concern for voters. With […]

What drives Donald Trump and his movement’s belief in voter fraud and election denialism? Of course there’s the superficial, and obvious, layer: a sense of aggrievement, a desire for retribution from a man known for never admitting a loss, and a movement that believes him unequivocally. There’s also a slightly deeper ideological sense — frustration […]

Want to read this story in English? Click here. A principios de este mes, México inauguró a Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo como su primera presidenta después de que obtuviera una contundente victoria electoral con cerca del 60 por ciento de los votos.  Sheinbaum, de 62 años, es climatóloga de formación, aunque ha ocupado cargos públicos durante […]

In one of the most powerful speeches of the election cycle thus far, former first lady Michelle Obama laid out the effects of rolling back abortion care in some of the clearest terms that Democrats have used yet. During remarks that she delivered Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Obama said:  To the men who love us, […]

Republican officials are panicking after a comedian made racist jokes about Latinos and the territory of Puerto Rico during a rally for former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden Sunday night, fearing it might cost them votes in swing states.  Since making gains among Latino voters in 2020, the Trump campaign has invested heavily […]