Blackouts aren’t unusual in Cuba, but this one is different
Cuba is suffering a nationwide blackout after the collapse of its electrical grid. Power went out all over the island Friday, ...
How Hurricane Helene scrambled the election in North Carolina
Officials in North Carolina are preparing for an election like no other in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The storm scrambled ...
How the wealthy are redrawing the world map
A new book explores the world of tax havens and techno-utopias, and asks if they can be used for good.
There’s something off about this year’s “fall vibes”
This is the platonic ideal of “autumn,” according to one photo that’s gone viral both on X, where it’s been seen almost 12 ...
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The rise — and fall? — of the New Progressive Economics
Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and ...
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Nebraska is the only state with two abortion measures on the ballot. Confusion is the point.
Rachel M. Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for ...
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What went wrong with autism research? Let’s start with lab mice.
Celia Ford is a Future Perfect Fellow focusing on the intersection of emerging technology, culture, and the mind. She is also fascinated by the process of science, the institutions that fund it ...
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Cities face daunting challenges. Mike Bloomberg wants to help them help each other.
Dylan Scott is a senior correspondent and editor for Vox’s Future Perfect, covering global health. He has reported on health policy for more than 10 years, writing for Governing magazine ...
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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer and lives in New York City. This story is the fourth feature in a Vox special project, Changing With Our Climate, a limited-run series exploring ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth
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?
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Fixing Social Security means raising taxes — and not just on the superrich
Abdallah Fayyad is a correspondent at Vox, where he covers the impacts of social and economic policies. He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America.
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The cultural power of the anti-woke tech bro
Rebecca Jennings is a senior correspondent covering social platforms and the creator economy. Since joining Vox in 2018, her work has explored the rise of TikTok, internet aesthetics, and the ...