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Should I throw out my kid’s Froot Loops?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Last week, the Food...

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Anna North

Trump’s crypto grift is a warning

Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve of his inauguration,...

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Adam Clark Estes

Can RFK Jr. remake school lunch?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a lot of controversial agenda items if he is confirmed as President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary:...

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Miles Bryan

An odd year in movies, explained by this year’s Oscar nominations

After a surprisingly delightful, Barbenheimer-themed Oscars in 2024, this year’s nominations are a return to form. As per usual, the nominees are...

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Kyndall Cunningham

Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure

MALCOM, IOWA — When Carolyn Bittner moved to Malcom, Iowa, in 2008 to serve as a pastor at two churches, she had no idea the town was also home...

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Kenny Torrella

Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders are both right about immigration

The H-1B visa program helps corporations replace US workers with cheap foreign laborers who lack basic rights. It also makes America wealthier....

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Eric Levitz

How Trump will hide his anti-democratic politics in plain sight

When I was researching my book on anti-democratic politics, I found a striking pattern in modern incarnations of it — that these movements,...

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Zack Beauchamp

What Trump’s executive orders tell us about the future of immigration

If all of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders on immigration and deportation go through, he will have succeeded in a radical overhaul...

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Nicole Narea

Trump’s sweeping new order tries to dismantle DEI in government — and the private sector

New executive actions from the Trump administration on Tuesday make clear that not only is President Donald Trump using his power to purge the...

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Andrew Prokop

What makes a neighborhood resilient to fires?

Firefighters around Los Angeles have been making steady progress against the massive, fast-moving blazes that erupted around the city this month....

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Umair Irfan

There are no “acts of God” anymore

Why do disasters happen? The ancient Greeks had an all-purpose explanation, as I’ve been learning from my Greek myth-mad 7-year-old son: the gods....

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Bryan Walsh

I evacuated when the Sunset Fire broke out. What happened next was surreal.

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for over 15 years. I moved here in fall 2008 to follow my dreams and attend journalism school, and like so many...

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Elizabeth Price

Have we cured AIDS?

Vox reader Burak Ova asks: What is HIV and what is AIDS? How is it transmitted? What are the prevention methods? Is there a cure? Human...

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Jessica Craig

Trump’s January 6 pardons were democratically legitimate — and dangerous

On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump signed executive orders that ranged from addressing petty grievances to radical...

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Abdallah Fayyad

Candidate Trump was an abortion moderate. What will President Trump be?

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump relished the chance to assure voters that the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade meant people did not need to worry...

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Rachel Cohen

How can we make the world a more sensory inclusive place?

The blinding flash of fluorescent lights, the sound of a mechanical scrubber buffing off layers of plaque, the minty burn of a mouthwash rinse —...

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Harry Spitzer

The Air Quality Index and how to use it, explained

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...

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Rebecca Leber

How Canadian wildfires are impacting air quality across the US

The summer of 2023 has seen persistent spikes in dangerous air quality levels across the United States as smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada is...

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Vox Staff

The Logoff: Trump’s anti-DEI blitz

The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. ...

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Patrick Reis

Is Donald Trump’s agenda actually popular?

Standing in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, President Donald Trump captured the vibes buoying Republicans — and the American right writ-large — as...

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Christian Paz

Down to Earth, Vox’s project on the biodiversity crisis, enters its 4th year

As Down to Earth enters its fourth year, the urgency surrounding the global biodiversity crisis has never been more apparent. When we launched this...

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Paige Vega

Why Wall Street found Trump’s first day reassuring

Donald Trump has never been on better terms with corporate America. Yet his ostensible trade agenda has never been more antithetical to the...

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Eric Levitz

The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained

On Monday, his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a wave of executive orders.  Some are ridiculous, such as an order...

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Ian Millhiser

6 things we learned from Day 1 about how Trump will govern

The dizzying array of executive actions President Donald Trump issued on Monday, the first day of his second term, show that he is increasingly...

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Andrew Prokop

The Logoff: Trump attacks birthright citizenship

This story first ran in The Logoff. Sign up here to get stories like this delivered to your inbox every weekday. Good evening, and welcome to the...

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Patrick Reis

The frustrating reason we’re not saving more kids from malaria

Malaria kills more than a thousand children every day. Measures like antimalarial medications and insecticide-treated bed nets, which stop infected...

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Celia Ford

What did Trump just do to the environment?

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Within hours of being sworn into...

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Naveena Sadasivam

The Trump executive orders that threaten democracy

Ever since Donald Trump declared he’d act like a dictator on Day 1 during his presidential campaign, there have been real concerns that he’d be...

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Zack Beauchamp

Biden’s last-minute preemptive pardons, explained

Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. On Monday, just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden...

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Ian Millhiser

Your phone is destroying your social life

How many times a day do you interact with devices?  If you’re anything like me, it’s impossible to count. You’re reading this article on a...

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Sean Illing

6 factors to watch in the incoming Trump administration

President-elect Donald Trump is set to become President Donald Trump — again. And he’s made a lot of promises about what he’s going to do with...

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Sean Collins

President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration

Donald J. Trump and JD Vance were officially sworn in as the 47th president and vice president of the United States on Monday, January 20, 2025, in...

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Why Trump’s second inauguration isn’t like the first

It’s a very cold day in the District of Columbia. The frigid temperatures have prompted the inauguration of Donald Trump and JD Vance to be moved...

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Avishay Artsy

The law is clear on birthright citizenship. Can Trump end it anyway?

Ending birthright citizenship has been on President Donald Trump’s wish list for years, and he’s reportedly expected to issue an executive order...

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Nicole Narea

The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.

There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos,...

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Sigal Samuel

Trump’s real inaugural address started when the teleprompter stopped

When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy,...

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Zack Beauchamp

I care a lot about climate change. Does that mean I can never ever fly?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a new framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions. This...

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Sigal Samuel

How we measure poverty matters — and we can do better

How many people are living in poverty in America? It depends on whom you ask. If it’s the US Census, the answer would be somewhere around 37...

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Abdallah Fayyad