~vox | Bookmarks (533)
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Are Elon Musk’s China ties a national security risk?
Elon Musk has opinions on how a lot of the world’s countries should be run. He...
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Don’t get surgery on a Friday
If you have any say, you might want to avoid scheduling your next surgery on a...
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America — and the media — needs a Covid reckoning
In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the media did not exactly cover itself...
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Disney is bungling its most treasured property
Disney’s new live-action Snow White, dogged by controversy after controversy, must have been cursed at birth...
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The case for conservatism
The conservative philosopher GK Chesterton is known for a parable about two lawmakers who encounter a...
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A newly surfaced document reveals the beef industry’s secret climate plan
It’s now well established that for decades, major oil companies knew that burning fossil fuels would...
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The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I...
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A new book suggests a path forward for Democrats. The left hates it.
When a Democrat contemplates their nation’s biggest problems today, minimum lot sizes in suburban housing codes...
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The real lesson of the JFK files
For half a century, conspiracy theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy have flourished. President...
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We’ll miss globalism when it’s gone
I have, like I suspect many readers, been in quite a bad mood for the last...
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More than 1 million people die of tuberculosis every year. They don’t have to.
Humanity’s battle against tuberculosis has been one of slow and imperfect progress. The disease no longer...
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The silencing of Voice of America
The Trump administration has shuttered a number of federal agencies, and ordered another tranche closed last...
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The Trump right’s pro-Israel antisemitism
Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism while wielding power...
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Trump’s call with Putin, briefly explained
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without...
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Book recs for March: 4 portraits of complicated women
It’s been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her last novel, Americanah, to overwhelming acclaim....
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The alarmingly high stakes in an easy Supreme Court voting rights case
Louisiana v. Callais, a case about whether Louisiana’s congressional maps are an illegal racial gerrymander, should...
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What can be done if Trump is openly defying the courts?
The question of what happens if the Trump administration openly defies a federal court order has...
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Tren de Aragua, the gang Trump is targeting, explained
Over the weekend, the stakes of the Trump administration’s deportation efforts reached a new level after...
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The not-so-patriotic thing so much true crime has in common
What makes something an “American” crime? It’s a question that’s inadvertently surfaced in true crime entertainment...
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Think twice before you smear beef tallow and salmon sperm on your face
For a chance at a youthful complexion, you could slap rendered cow fat on your face,...
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Has Trump already killed NATO?
Throughout his first term as president, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to leave NATO, an alliance that...
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Trump’s attacks on higher ed could provide a chance to reimagine the university
On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted on X that it would terminate over...
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America’s (lack of) separation between church and state, explained
A Vox reader asks: If we have “separation of church and state,” why do we give...
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Were companies ever serious about DEI?
The buzzwords “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are everywhere right now, but you can’t be blamed if...