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Biden takes aim at American inequality by investing $1.8 trillion in families

Biden’s new plan would be life-changing for many American families. Can it pass?

What to expect from Biden’s first address to Congress

Is it a state of the union? And all your other questions about Biden’s first address to Congress, answered.

This could be the year federal paid leave finally passes

President Joe Biden’s new plan treats family and medical leave like the priority that it is.

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Apple vs. Facebook (feat. Privacy)

Apple updated its software and Facebook was very upset. Recode’s Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka explain. Roller derby is involved.

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Vox’s audience support program, explained

This Barack Obama adviser is quietly investing $250 million in startup founders of color

The Pandemic Playbook

Vox explores the successes — and setbacks — in six nations as they fought Covid-19.

How to listen to all of Vox’s Earth Month podcasts

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How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer

Poorer countries might not get Covid-19 vaccinated until 2023

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The rape allegations against Philip Roth’s biographer are a damning condemnation of publishing

Why brown is so on trend in fashion and design

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Who will save the night sky? 

Joe Biden is about to test the politics of going big

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Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is “missing”

The US may still be helping Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war after all

The pandemic made live events surprising again

The White House can raise taxes on the wealthy without touching the tax code at all

America is making climate promises again. Should anyone care?

3 reasons most public masking is still important — even if you’re vaccinated

Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered

TikTok’s shapeshifting filter is my nemesis

“Wokeness is a problem and we all know it”

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A Manchin for all seasons

Vox's Andrew Prokop joins Matt and Dara to talk about the emerging politics of Manchinism, and what Joe from WV wants to do with his power in a 50-50 Senate

The Supreme Court’s conservatives are quaking over cancel culture

Joe Manchin wants to save Democrats from themselves

But is his love for the filibuster dooming the country to dysfunction?

The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, explained

Here’s the nuclear option to opt out of tracking on iOS

Biden’s fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat

Why the new iOS update is such a big deal

The Supreme Court will hear a major Second Amendment case that could gut US gun laws

I help people decide if they want to have kids. Here’s my advice.

Biden is using his economic plan to challenge China

How thrifting became problematic

How the UK found the first effective Covid-19 treatment — and saved a million lives

The United Kingdom is not a pandemic success story. But its massive Covid-19 trials program is.

7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars

Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. It embodies it.

4 ways the 2021 Oscars made history

The US military is finally withdrawing from Afghanistan

Polls: A majority of Americans feel good about Biden’s first 100 days

State-level Republicans are making it easier to run over protesters

9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing

The 2021 Oscars have been shrouded in mystery. Here’s what to expect.

A coronavirus surge is overwhelming India’s health care system