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Last week, a Texas judge ordered Dr. Margaret Carpenter — a New York abortion doctor  — to pay at least $100,000 in penalties for failing to appear in court. Carpenter has found herself at the center of two major abortion lawsuits: In December, she became the target of the first-ever civil suit against an out-of-state […]

H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza known as bird flu, continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s egg farms. In just the last month, more than 21.2 million egg-laying hens — about 7 percent of the national flock — have fallen prey to the virus or been brutally killed by egg producers in […]

Uziel Gomez, 26, can relate to his Gen Z clients who are navigating adulthood and personal finance for the first time.  It’s no secret that young people have faced a range of financial challenges early in their lives and careers, including the Covid-19 pandemic, rapidly rising costs of living, and steep tuition, says Gomez, founder […]

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m working on a longer piece, so I wanted to bring you something a little lighter for this week’s newsletter. I’ve been reading Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home with my 2-year-old recently, and I find myself thinking about […]

As soon as I sat down to write this, I got a text that simply said, “Hi.” In another era, I may have been intrigued by the mysterious message from an unknown number. Maybe I would’ve been curious about who wanted to say hello, and texted back. But this is not my first time playing […]

There are a lot of main characters in the second Trump administration. Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance.  Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the Office of Management and Budget, not exactly a sexy post. His […]

Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, and despite his team’s overall move-fast-and-break-things approach, the administration’s approach to the now nearly three-year-old conflict started out slowly.  Although the White House announced plans to seek a ceasefire deal, Trump made no moves at first to cut off aid to […]

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 I’m focusing on the Trump administration’s effort to exert control over independent regulators, a power grab with implications for the government’s balance of power — and for […]

Next Page is a newsletter written by senior correspondent and book critic Constance Grady. She covers books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. To get new editions in your inbox, subscribe here. Any time I travel to a new place for which there is no Rick Steves guidebook, I feel a little cheated. Steves, with […]

Americans don’t move much anymore and Yoni Appelbaum thinks that’s a serious problem. Appelbaum, a historian and deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, is the author of a new book exploring how and why Americans have become less likely to settle in new places.  In Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine […]

President Donald Trump wants larger nonprofits and academic institutions investigated for the “egregious” use of DEI. Elon Musk is trying to purge the federal workforce, and accusing nonprofits and the media of corruption in conspiratorial and factually inaccurate ways. Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who deeply influenced the administration’s hiring, has cited grand theories of […]

In recent months, the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion policies have been unrelenting. Since Donald Trump’s win in November, several major companies — including McDonald’s, Target, Amazon, and Meta — have announced that they’re either scaling back or outright ending their DEI programs. And since Trump returned to the White House, his administration has […]

For many, budgeting has never felt like more of a challenge, which might explain why it seems to be trendier than ever — with all the fads and judgment that attention implies. TikTok influencers offer financial trendbait like “loud budgeting” and the “100 envelope challenge,” which suggest that people can solve their financial problems by […]

Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump took a set of thick, black permanent markers and signed a sweeping set of executive orders that took aim at everything from immigration and gender to TikTok and climate change. One of his first moves was to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United […]

Spoiler warning: This story discusses the plot of the season three premiere of White Lotus. With every season of White Lotus, there are always two big questions surrounding the show: Who’s going to die? And who’s the butt of the joke? Assuming season three follows in its predecessors’ footsteps, we know who falls victim to […]

One of the first casualties of the second Trump administration has been the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  The agency, which funds and operates humanitarian aid programs all across the world, has quickly become a target for Republicans. Over the past four weeks, the White House has been pursuing a plan to reduce […]

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans.  The order decried “government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation” and accuses South Africa of a “shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights.” It specifically called for the resettlement of white Afrikaners, […]

On the days when he’s not in front of a classroom of students, University of Kansas professor Jeffrey Hall is heads down in his office writing, reviewing studies and papers, answering emails, combing through data. Before he knows it, he hasn’t spoken to a single person in hours. When he finally emerges, he has two […]

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants, Vox has learned. The agency, which supports wildlife protection in the US and overseas, ordered many of the organizations it funds to stop work related to their grants and […]

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 I’m focusing on the Justice Department dismissing charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a move that has raised questions about the integrity of the […]

Another round of snowy, chilly weather is gripping the United States this week, extending the frigid start to the year across much of North America. Yet despite the cold temperatures over the continent, the planet as a whole has set a new temperature record yet again: January 2025 was the hottest January ever measured on […]

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump got himself declared chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after purging the board of everyone appointed by President Joe Biden. In their stead, he appointed his own political allies, donors, and their wives, including second lady Usha Vance and White House chief of staff Susie […]

Donald Trump did not campaign on a promise to end the Pentagon’s celebration of Black History Month. Nor did the Republican air advertisements pledging to remove displays honoring nonwhite and female scientists from the National Science Foundation. And no Trump 2024 bumper sticker featured the tagline: He’ll curb the military’s recruitment of Black engineers! Yet […]

It’s been a busy week for Elon Musk. He says he’s saving taxpayers billions of dollars (though outlays from the Treasury Department are public and make it pretty clear he hasn’t); he bragged that he fed USAID “into the woodchipper,” an aide on his Department of Government Efficiency was revealed to have said this summer […]

You may have noticed egg prices going up, and even eggs being scarce. Bird flu is to blame, but it doesn’t just affect egg prices — and it doesn’t just affect birds. Avian flu is responsible for the deaths of mammals all over the globe. And this January, the US reported a human death from […]

When Mary Fox went to apply for a passport, she brought copies of her birth certificate, certificate of legal name, driver’s license, and a check, because the State Department website said passport fees had to be paid by check or cash. “They took Apple Pay,” Fox, a transgender woman, told Vox. “I was worried about […]

There are three things guaranteed in life: death, taxes, and Selena Gomez pissing off the internet.  The latest instance occurred on Jan. 27, when Gomez posted (and quickly deleted) an Instagram Story of herself crying in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, including increased ICE raids and mass deportations. “I’m so sorry,” said Gomez, […]

The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and manipulate your behavior accordingly. This wasn’t entirely off base. There is a dystopic future about what AI technology could enable that experts issue regular warnings about. There’s also the present reality of agentic AI, which […]

Editor’s note, February 13: NBC is set to air “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday, February 16 at 8 pm. This article about SNL’s 50th season was originally published on October 4, 2024. In April, Kristen Wiig hosted Saturday Night Live, an occasion that, under normal circumstances, would merit some excitement. But anyone familiar with the […]

At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American constitutional order. Their efforts to redirect federal spending are attempts to seize Congress’s power of the purse, a core element of its Article I constitutional power. They have attempted to […]

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. It’s preschool application season in New York City, where I live. That means parents of toddlers are eagerly and anxiously signing on to a (surprisingly user-friendly) city-run website and ranking their preferred programs, in the hopes that, come […]

We’re less than two months into the second Trump administration, but one thing is clear: President Donald Trump would very much like to be unbound by the Constitution. A whole range of Trump’s early actions, from his attempt to roll back birthright citizenship, to his attempt to freeze a whole range of federal spending, to […]

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 we’re focusing on the Trump administration’s new Ukraine policy, a shift with major implications for the war and for the world. What’s the latest? Donald Trump […]

The story of how french fries got to be ridiculously expensive starts really small, before making you scratch your head about the way the whole world works.  The short version is that there’s possibly an algorithm-driven conspiracy in which a literal potato cartel has been colluding to raise the price of all of our french […]

Theology isn’t usually part of the job description for America’s vice president, but that’s not stopping JD Vance from giving it a try just a couple of weeks into his new position. In a Fox News segment on immigration, Vance laid out what he called “a very Christian concept”: “You love your family and then […]

You’re in a crowd of tens of thousands of fellow fans. The band starts playing your favorite song. Everyone screams. You will never, ever forget this moment. Seeing a musician you adore live can be a transcendent experience. But getting to that moment has become a nightmare because getting tickets that won’t completely bankrupt you […]

In the initial days of the Trump administration, officials scoured federal websites for any mention of what they deemed “DEI” keywords — terms as generic as “diverse” and “historically” and even “women.” They soon identified reams of some of the country’s most valuable public health data containing some of the targeted words, including language about […]

A Vox reader asks: Why are young men struggling or failing to date/engage in romantic relationships more so than their female peers? In a recent conversation, a new acquaintance of mine recounted an exchange he’d recently overheard. A man turned to his female friend and exclaimed, “I’m not going to go to a bar and […]

Welcome to The Logoff. Today I’m focusing on the Trump administration’s string of court setbacks, which, for now, seem to be slowing down what once looked like a MAGA juggernaut.  What’s the latest? Several court rulings this week have stalled the Trump administration’s efforts to expand the president’s power. Those include: Does this mean all these initiatives […]

As of this writing, there are at least 45 lawsuits pending against President Donald Trump and his subordinates. They range from challenges to Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for many Americans, to suits intended to keep Trump from illegally cutting off federal spending, to challenges to Trump’s attempt to reduce the size of the […]

Donald Trump announced Monday that the US will impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum. The president has a habit of declaring radical changes to trade policy, only to swiftly walk them back. Last week, Trump postponed his long-promised 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada, after […]

President Donald Trump is looking to vastly expand immigrant detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Trump hopes to eventually detain up to 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo, which would require a massive investment in infrastructure, given that existing immigrant detention facilities are only designed to hold about 120 people.  The Trump administration has already sent a few […]

While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration will do everything in its power to supercharge oil and gas production. That agenda is unwelcome news for a small lizard in West Texas.  The dunes sagebrush lizard — a tan, […]

For decades, experts have accused American presidents of neglecting the Western Hemisphere in favor of faraway conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Both Republicans and Democrats have carried out a policy of either “benign” or “malign” neglect, allowing threats to grow and missing valuable opportunities.  No one can accuse the new Trump administration […]

Over the past few years, AI systems have been misrepresenting themselves as human therapists, nurses, and more — and so far, the companies behind these systems haven’t faced any serious consequences.  A bill being introduced Monday in California aims to put a stop to that.  The legislation would ban companies from developing and deploying an AI […]

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book’s cover, which hardly anyone likes to write and even fewer people like to ask for.  One big author and one major publisher announced within […]

We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of the Constitution, cut Congress out of the federal budgeting process, and cut off agencies’ control of their computer systems. Let’s imagine that all six of the Supreme Court’s […]

Since Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX halftime show’s headliner last September, music fans have been abuzz with excitement, wondering how the Pulitzer Prize winner would handle the historic gig — the first for a solo rapper.  Fresh off a summer-long beef with Drake that birthed the Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like […]

2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year.  It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his career and dominated pop culture in 2024 thanks to a now-iconic feud with Drake. But the new year is off to an even stronger start.  At the beginning of February, he picked […]

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the iPhone, or the automobile, but rather something humbler: the chicken bone.  The reason? We eat so many chickens. So, so many. In 2022 alone, people around the world consumed over 75 billion […]