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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. The wildfires engulfing the Los Angeles area might reshape what Southern California will look like for years to come. Within a […]

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. Fires in and around Los Angeles continue to rage as gusting Santa Ana winds drive the flames through brush and into […]

Democrats and Republicans generally don’t agree about science. The vast majority of Democrats believe climate change is a major threat, for example, while less than a quarter of Republicans say the same. But people across the political spectrum agree on animal testing. Or, more accurately, no one knows what to think: About half of each […]

Vox reader Dov Stein asks: Why do people think the past was so much better when so many things have drastically improved? That’s an excellent question, one I think about a lot as someone who runs a section at Vox dedicated in part to covering how meaningful economic and scientific and social progress can and […]

When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA warned that the drug could severely damage her heart or even possibly kill her, but because she’d been trying to lose weight since she was aware of having a body, and the only thing that […]

Back in 2016, when much of the political press was casting Donald Trump as a dovish counterpart to Hillary Clinton, I wrote a story arguing that people were fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of Trump’s approach to foreign policy. Though Trump certainly wasn’t a neoconservative, I argued, he was a different and older kind of nationalist […]

Future Perfect, Vox’s section dedicated to solving the world’s most important yet neglected problems, obsessively covers how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet. For the last year, we’ve been working hard on a special series of ambitious, deeply reported feature stories and investigations on the history of the meat and dairy […]

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. In the midst of the devastating wildfires that have raged through the Los Angeles area over the last week, thousands of […]

On the Money is a monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your question on this form. Here, we answer a question asked by a Vox reader, which […]

The hundreds of billions of pounds of waste produced by America’s dairy cows every year has long been a headache for farmers.  Manure is expensive to manage and, to state the obvious, it smells terrible, which can lead to complaints, protests, and lawsuits from neighbors — even the occasional fine or misdemeanor charge. And when […]

For many, January is a month full of hard-to-keep resolutions and hopeful plans for self-improvement. New year, new … you? We’re kicking off this often uneasy season with an investigation into confidence: How important is it, really? A look at the myth of frictionless relationships is another timely piece, as is a how-to on journaling. […]

Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting a real-life technical wall. I argued that the question matters less than many think: There are existing AI systems powerful enough to profoundly change our world, and the next few years are going to be […]

Megyn Kelly is impressive when you consider that she’s been able to create an entire career just from being mad at stuff. She is like the Rumplestiltskin of irritation — turning cranky thoughts into gold — or a blond Andy Rooney with consequences. From the idea of Santa Claus being Black to fighting with Jane […]

It is an era of superpower conflict and competition for natural resources. Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political geography. The US government eyes a strategically located island territory, currently under the control of the Kingdom of Denmark, which Washington believes is necessary for its national security and economic interests. After first making […]

In just four days, blazing wildfires across Los Angeles neighborhoods have put 150,000 residents under evacuation orders, burned over 30,000 acres, destroyed more than 10,000 structures, and, as of Thursday, killed killed 10 people. Experts say it may be the costliest wildfire in US history. The fires are still ongoing, and the toll of destruction […]

For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media app that had become central to their lives could be taken away. Again and again, the ban never actually materialized, and users continued to enjoy what had, since 2018, become one of the most creative, […]

TikTok has only been around in the US since August 2018, but it’s become the defining social media app of Gen Z. The app once known as Musical.ly was bought by the Beijing-based internet company ByteDance in 2017. Though it relaunched as virtually identical to Musical.ly, TikTok quickly transformed into something more like Vine: a […]

TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it. Concerns that ByteDance could share TikTok user data […]

After a last-minute about-face, pushback, and compromise, congestion pricing officially went into effect this week in New York City.  The first-in-the-nation policy — which tries to reduce traffic and raise revenue for public transit by charging drivers a steep fee to use the busiest roads in Manhattan — has been, to say the least, controversial. Back in […]

On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the popular social media app TikTok can still exist in the United States once a law that effectively bans the app goes into effect January 19. After the arguments, it’s not looking good for TikTok fans. The first two-thirds of […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put the decades-old debate over water fluoridation back on the table. As President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, he might become the most powerful public health figure in the US who believes we should take fluoride out of our water. Currently, it’s up to municipalities to set […]

As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate, or try to, President-elect Donald Trump has decided to point his ire toward a fish. Not the severe Santa Ana winds that fueled the fires. Not the unusually dry weather. Not […]

Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because he’ll never leave you alone. He will abandon the small town he’s terrorizing and immigrate — as difficult as organizing a coffin shipment by naval vessel can be — to a […]

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last November, Matthew Yglesias published a manifesto imploring the Democratic Party to reembrace “common sense.” Specifically, in his Slow Boring newsletter, Yglesias called on Democrats to redouble their party’s commitment to economic growth, honor the electorate’s moral values, reject identity politics, abandon language policing, and moderate on a […]