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How much worse can the coronavirus get?

The virus will keep evolving. Here’s what scientists do and don’t know about the future of Covid-19.

By Brian Resnick

Homeownership can bring out the worst in you

It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person.

By Jerusalem Demsas

America’s mental health moment is finally here

There’s a mental health moment in America, and athletes are leading the way.

By Anna North

“Progressive prosecutors” are working within the system to change it. How is that going?

What Larry Krasner has learned about trying to reform policing from the inside

By Jamil Smith

Yes, Covid-19 vaccine mandates are legal

What the law says about vaccine mandates, explained.

By Ian Millhiser

Why school lunches feel like they’re frozen in time

The fascinating history behind why students today are still eating square pizzas, crinkle fries, and cartons of milk.

By Ally Shwed

Will the Tokyo Olympics be a superspreader event?

Japan’s pandemic problems are bigger than the Olympics, experts say.

By Dylan Scott

The Green Knight is glorious and a little baffling. Let’s untangle it.

Unpacking the new movie’s connections to Arthurian legends, myths of saints, and … Scorsese?

By Alissa Wilkinson

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The spike in gun violence (Part I)

The nation’s murder rate rose by almost 25 percent last year — the largest increase in at least 60 years. This year might be even worse. ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis reports on “The Great Regression.”

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By Sara Morrison July 30

The Great Regression

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What’s in the new infrastructure bill — and why it’s a big deal

By German Lopez July 29

Is Merrick Garland letting Trump’s people off the hook?

By Andrew Prokop July 29

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Is Robinhood the next meme stock?

By Emily Stewart July 29

The 4 main fault lines that divide the vaccinated and the unvaccinated

By Umair Irfan July 29

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Beetles, drought, and fires are a ticking time bomb in the West

By Benji Jones July 29

Medical debt was cut nearly in half in states that expanded Medicaid

By Dylan Scott July 29

The new Pursuit of Love TV show means it’s time to remember the Mitfords

By Constance Grady July 29

The magic, sex, and violence of the 14th-century poem behind The Green Knight

By Constance Grady July 29

Biden is turning back Haitian migrants at sea, echoing a shameful chapter in US history

By Nicole Narea July 29

LA’s favorite flea market is a teen fashion paradise

By Indya Brown July 29

How to make the child tax credit more accessible

By Gabby Birenbaum July 29

The worst money we’ve ever spent

By Vox Staff July 29

For hackers, space is the final frontier

By Rebecca Heilweil July 29

Google and Facebook lead the way with Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Will corporate America follow?

By Shirin Ghaffary July 28

Why Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic gymnastic women’s team finals

By Alex Abad-Santos July 28

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Getting power to the people

Matt is joined by Liza Reed of the Niskanen Center to talk about energy policy, electricity transmission, and America's complex power delivery system

Democracy’s big threat isn’t coming from China. It’s coming from within.

By Zack Beauchamp July 28

Don’t dwell on the US life expectancy drop. Worry about the long-term trend.

By Michael Bader July 28

Do I want kids?

By Cleo Abram July 28

Why Newsmax is failing

By Aaron Rupar July 28

The long road to a reckoning on racist team names

By Maria Givens July 28

The endless expansion of the American beverage aisle

By Melinda Fakuade July 28

Mandate the vaccine, not masks

By German Lopez July 28

Cops at the schoolyard gate

By Kristin Henning July 28

The political crisis in Tunisia, explained by an expert

By Jen Kirby July 27

The first January 6 hearing was a harrowing indictment of the GOP

By Aaron Rupar July 27

The courts are destroying America’s ability to fight pandemics

By Ian Millhiser July 27

Reckoning with the theft of Native American children

By Fabiola Cineas July 27

Olympics TikTok is one of the best parts of the Games

By Rebecca Jennings July 27

The best four years of your life?

Dropping out helped me see the lies we’re sold about the college experience.

By Rainesford Stauffer July 27

Why the 400m hurdles is one of the hardest Olympic races

By Kimberly Mas July 26

The case for optimism about US democracy

By Sean Illing July 26

The danger in corporate solutions to government problems

By Emily Stewart July 26

Why LeVar Burton’s Jeopardy! quest feels so meaningful

By Aja Romano July 26

Welcome to the Schools Issue of the Highlight

By Vox Staff July 26

How Emily Oster became one of the most respected — and reviled — voices of the pandemic

By Anna North July 26