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5 winners and 3 losers from the October Democratic presidential debate

Winner: Bernie Sanders. Loser: Joe Biden.

By Dylan Matthews, Zack Beauchamp, and 3 others

The Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment is in grave danger from the Supreme Court

With Kennedy gone, the Supreme Court’s already rethinking the Eighth Amendment.

By Ian Millhiser

No one has a damn clue how many jobs will be lost to automation

Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang clashed over a highly misunderstood issue during the Democratic debate.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Everybody went after Warren over Medicare-for-all

Warren got a frontrunner’s treatment over the hard questions of Medicare-for-all.

By Dylan Scott

Kamala Harris brought up the most-ignored policy issue in the Democratic debates so far

Reproductive rights finally got a moment.

By Anna North

Sorry, but Democrats need to talk about Hunter Biden

Democrats are afraid to talk about Hunter Biden. Trump won’t be.

By Ezra Klein

The best and most substantive answers of the 4th Democratic debate

From Kamala Harris on abortion rights to Julián Castro on police violence as gun violence, the 2020 Democratic candidates delivered some memorable responses on Tuesday.

By Emily Stewart, Anna North, and 3 others

The art of doing makeup on a dead body

Applying makeup on a dead person is not much different than on a living person, one funeral director says.

By Terry Nguyen

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A new war in Syria

The Trump administration just imposed sanctions on Turkey for invading northern Syria. But it may be too late for America’s Kurdish allies.

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Fort Worth police had problems way before the Atatiana Jefferson shooting

By P.R. Lockhart October 16

How Robert Pattinson transformed into a salty lighthouse keeper for his new movie

By Alissa Wilkinson October 16

Elizabeth Warren spoke the most at the Democratic debate — a sign of her status as a frontrunner

By Li Zhou October 16

Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke’s feud boils over at the Democratic debate

By Li Zhou October 16

The simmering debate over Big Tech explodes on the Democratic debate stage

By Theodore Schleifer October 16

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By Vox Staff October 16

Democrats’ debate about automation missed the mark

By Matthew Yglesias October 15

Here’s everything you need to know about the November Democratic debate

By Li Zhou October 15

Elizabeth Warren was treated like the frontrunner at the Democratic debate

By Ella Nilsen October 15

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Gina Rodriguez said the n-word on Instagram, then issued a weak “apology”

By Aja Romano October 15

Introducing Reset, a new podcast about how tech is changing our lives

By Liz Nelson October 15

The Democratic candidates are calling for locking up opioid executives

By German Lopez October 15

Here’s what the 2020 Democrats are saying about Trump’s Syria policy

By Alex Ward October 15

Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

How the Democratic presidential candidates would combat the opioid epidemic

By German Lopez October 15

Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

Where every 2020 candidate stands on guns

By German Lopez October 15

Tom Steyer shouldn’t be running for president

By Kelsey Piper October 15

Here’s where all the 2020 Democrats stand on impeachment

By Li Zhou and Sean Collins October 15

Vox Sentences: 12 Democrats take the stage

By Hannah Brown October 15

Joe Biden’s Iraq problem

By Tara Golshan and Alex Ward October 15

What does it mean to be an ethical biohacker?

By Delia Paunescu October 15

The Democratic debates have spent 93 minutes on health care

By Hannah Brown and Dylan Scott October 15

Giuliani’s $500,000 payout from Fraud Guarantee reveals the hypocrisy of his attacks on Hunter Biden

By Aaron Rupar October 15

Generation Z doesn’t always want to hear from you

By Rani Molla October 15

We asked 2020 Democratic candidates 6 key questions on climate change

Here’s what they said.

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Elizabeth Warren compares Big Tech to Big Oil in a new fundraising ban

By Theodore Schleifer October 15

Google employees are fighting over their company’s decision to ban a Hong Kong protest video game app

By Shirin Ghaffary October 15

Former White House official bolsters the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower’s allegations

By Alex Ward October 15

Warren and Biden release new campaign finance reform plans before the Democratic debate

By Ella Nilsen October 15

The Witch director Robert Eggers spills his beans about The Lighthouse

By Alissa Wilkinson October 15

Ronan Farrow’s new book is a reminder of how silencing women helped Trump get elected

By Anna North October 15

Money Talks: They laid out finances on their first date. Then they retired at 38 and 41.

By Nicole Dieker October 15

The week ahead in impeachment, briefly explained

By Ella Nilsen October 15

Trump sanctions Turkey for the Syria invasion his troop withdrawal allowed

By Jen Kirby October 15

Why everybody is mad at LeBron

By Dylan Scott October 15

Watch this robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed

By Kelsey Piper October 15

Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

The boldest and weakest labor platforms of the 2020 Democratic primary

By Alexia Fernández Campbell October 15

Hunter Biden says taking a job at a Ukrainian energy company was “poor judgment”

By Sean Collins October 15

Have we gotten any happier over 200 years? Researchers analyzed millions of books to find out.

By Sigal Samuel October 15

Fort Worth officer charged with murder in killing of black woman in her own home

By P.R. Lockhart October 15

So your kid is a bully. Here’s how to stop it.

By Rachel Wilkerson Miller October 15