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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]