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How tough would a President Kamala Harris be on immigrants?

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It wasn’t long ago that Democrats embraced an unequivocally pro-immigrant stance. The party once defined its...
It wasn’t long ago that Democrats embraced an unequivocally pro-immigrant stance. The party once defined its immigration platform in opposition to the policies of former President Donald Trump’s first term: separating families detained at the border, a travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, and efforts to gut the asylum system among them. In 2020, President Joe […]

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The increasingly bizarre — and ominous — home stretch of Trump’s 2024 campaign

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Here is a short and incomplete list of things that former President Donald Trump has done...
Here is a short and incomplete list of things that former President Donald Trump has done this week: Throughout these events, Trump has come off as (alternately) a buffoon and a would-be dictator. One minute, you’re laughing at his campy dance moves and Hindenburg car rants, the next you’re worrying that he really might try […]

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Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?

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The deadly and destructive hurricanes this year have torn through enormous swaths of the country and...
The deadly and destructive hurricanes this year have torn through enormous swaths of the country and reached places where people have never experienced such disasters in their lives. Beryl, Debbie, Francine, Helene, and Milton all made landfall in the continental United States in a season that’s shaping up to be well above average and may […]

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The chaos, conspiracy theories, and controversy surrounding Liam Payne’s death

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Liam Payne died Wednesday in Buenos Aires, leaving fans around the globe mourning the former One...
Liam Payne died Wednesday in Buenos Aires, leaving fans around the globe mourning the former One Direction singer — and grappling with chaos, conspiracy theories, and controversy in the wake of the 31-year-old’s death. Argentine police confirmed that Payne, who came to Buenos Aires two weeks ago to attend a concert by his former bandmate […]

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Israel killed Hamas’s leader. What happens next?

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The killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and architect of the October 7 attacks,...
The killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and architect of the October 7 attacks, could be a pivotal moment in the war in Gaza and the wider conflict in the Middle East. It might even be an opportunity to end the fighting — but only if both sides of the war treat it […]

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We need $700 billion to save nature

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If there’s one number worth paying attention to in the fight to protect nature, it’s this:...
If there’s one number worth paying attention to in the fight to protect nature, it’s this: $700 billion. That’s the sum in US dollars that experts say we need each year — in addition to more than $100 billion the world is already spending — to stop the decline of animals and ecosystems and all […]

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The $1.3 trillion question we may never answer

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Despite what a new HBO documentary suggests, the identity of one of the richest people in...
Despite what a new HBO documentary suggests, the identity of one of the richest people in the world is still unknown. By now, the story is so famous that it’s taken on the aura of a creation myth: one day in early 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the inventor of bitcoin, released the […]

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The strange case that the Supreme Court keeps refusing to decide

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For more than a year, Joseph Clifton Smith, a man who says he is intellectually disabled,...
For more than a year, Joseph Clifton Smith, a man who says he is intellectually disabled, has sat on death row, waiting to find out if the Supreme Court will greenlight his execution. Smith’s case, known as Hamm v. Smith, first arrived on the Court’s doorstep in August 2023. Since then, the justices have met […]

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The Democrats’ pro-union strategy has been a bust

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When Joe Biden took office, the Democratic Party had been bleeding support among working-class voters for...
When Joe Biden took office, the Democratic Party had been bleeding support among working-class voters for decades. At mid-century, America’s two parties were cleaved by class, with educated professionals backing the GOP and blue-collar workers voting Democratic. But starting in the 1960s, this class divide began narrowing gradually, as white voters with college diplomas drifted […]

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Kamala Harris and the problem with ceding the argument

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Fox News was never going to be a friendly venue for Vice President Kamala Harris. In...
Fox News was never going to be a friendly venue for Vice President Kamala Harris. In an appearance on Special Report With Bret Baier, she was asked about some of the American right’s top fascinations and talking points: gender-affirming surgeries, Joe Biden’s mental acuity, the prospect of war with Iran. And — of course — […]

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Is every car dealer trying to rip me off?

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A Vox reader writes: “Why are car dealers so shady? How do consumers avoid them? Is...
A Vox reader writes: “Why are car dealers so shady? How do consumers avoid them? Is it frustrating for everyone?” Americans have long hated the car-buying experience. It’s not uncommon to spend hours (or even the whole day) at a dealership, finally reaching a deal and still walking away feeling vaguely hoodwinked. “It’s a process […]

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I’m Gen Z. How can I save for retirement and still enjoy my life?

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Personal finance is hard no matter what stage of life you’re in. But for Zoomers just...
Personal finance is hard no matter what stage of life you’re in. But for Zoomers just entering the workforce, the challenges are also coupled with a lot of uncertainty. And that combination is what brought Carolina to us with her question on this week’s episode of Explain It to Me, Vox’s go-to hotline for all […]

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Critiquing Trump’s economics — from the right

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There are few more influential right-wing scholars than the economist Friedrich Hayek — and few whose...
There are few more influential right-wing scholars than the economist Friedrich Hayek — and few whose work is less compatible with the right’s ascendant Trumpian strain. Born in Austria in 1899, Hayek spent his career developing a wide-ranging libertarian social theory. Societies, for Hayek, emerge from the interplay of countless different systems and logics — […]

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The nightmare facing Democrats, even if Harris wins

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Over the course of its last few terms, the Supreme Court has effectively placed itself in...
Over the course of its last few terms, the Supreme Court has effectively placed itself in charge of the executive branch. It’s given itself an extra-constitutional veto power over virtually any policy decision made by a federal agency. Even when it ultimately rules in favor of President Joe Biden’s policies, it often sits on those […]

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Cities face daunting challenges. Mike Bloomberg wants to help them help each other.

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Cities represent the future of humanity — and that means we must figure out how to...
Cities represent the future of humanity — and that means we must figure out how to make them more livable. The share of people who live in urbanized areas more than doubled in the US and across the world from 1900 to 2000. More than eight in 10 Americans live in cities today, as do […]

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Nebraska is the only state with two abortion measures on the ballot. Confusion is the point.

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Voters in 10 states will weigh in on abortion-rights ballot measures this November, but only Nebraskans...
Voters in 10 states will weigh in on abortion-rights ballot measures this November, but only Nebraskans will cast ballots on two competing initiatives. Initiative 439 would establish a state constitutional right to abortion up to fetal viability or when necessary to protect the “health or life” of the pregnant patient. Initiative 434, however, would ban […]

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Miscarriages are incredibly common. Abortion bans have made them less safe.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth

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I’ve always believed that the world is complicated and that our desire for simplicity is understandable...
I’ve always believed that the world is complicated and that our desire for simplicity is understandable but dangerous. But when does the impulse to embrace ambiguity become its own pathology? Sure, the world is complex, but sometimes we have to pass judgment. We have to be willing to say that something is true and something […]

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The present — and future — of the American left

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The Democratic Party is extraordinarily unified behind Vice President Kamala Harris — a cohesion born of...
The Democratic Party is extraordinarily unified behind Vice President Kamala Harris — a cohesion born of a defeat-Donald-Trump-at-all-costs strategy in an election with deep consequences for the future of American democracy. But the truce is a fragile one that is likely to end with the presidential election, whether Harris wins or loses. If Harris is president, […]

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The rise — and fall? — of the New Progressive Economics

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When Kamala Harris gave her campaign’s biggest economic speech yet in Pittsburgh last month, she tried...
When Kamala Harris gave her campaign’s biggest economic speech yet in Pittsburgh last month, she tried to keep everyone in her party happy. She did not succeed. Attempting to strike a balance between progressive and pro-business themes, Harris said she’d hold corporations accountable if they didn’t play by the rules — but opined that “most […]

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Changing With Our Climate

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In recent years, there’s been a growing appreciation for Indigenous land stewardship and traditional knowledge. But what gets overlooked is that successfully...
In recent years, there’s been a growing appreciation for Indigenous land stewardship and traditional knowledge. But what gets overlooked is that successfully managing those lands means that Indigenous people have already survived severe climate events and extreme weather. Now, Indigenous communities are leading the way in climate adaptations — from living alongside rapidly melting ice to confronting rising seas and creating […]

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There’s no such thing as an autistic mouse

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In the world of neuroscience research, the mouse reigns supreme: in the US alone, tens of...
In the world of neuroscience research, the mouse reigns supreme: in the US alone, tens of millions of mice are studied as a proxy for the human brain in labs. They’re small, they breed quickly, and they’re relatively easy to genetically manipulate, making mice ubiquitous in biomedical science. When studying something fundamental to biology, like […]

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Colonial solutions to climate change aren’t working

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Hi, I’m Paige Vega, Vox’s climate editor. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with...
Hi, I’m Paige Vega, Vox’s climate editor. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Joseph Lee, a New York City-based journalist and member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe, on a series exploring Indigenous solutions that address extreme weather and climate change. And today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’ve published the project’s latest feature, […]

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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change

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This story is the fourth feature in a Vox special project, Changing With Our Climate, a limited-run...
This story is the fourth feature in a Vox special project, Changing With Our Climate, a limited-run series exploring Indigenous solutions to extreme weather rooted in history — and the future. Last October, Aiyana James attended her first water potato harvest on the reservation of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in northwestern Idaho. The weather was unusually […]

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