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An exclusive look at Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids money

Baby bonds, explained.

By Sarah Kliff

What we know about 2018’s undecided voters

Six important facts about the voters still undecided in the 2018 midterms.

By Dylan Scott

NYTimes report shows how Twitter, McKinsey were complicit in helping Saudi Arabia silence critics

Saudi Arabia reportedly groomed a Twitter employee to help it spy on dissenters.

By Emily Stewart

After weeks of lying, Saudi Arabia just admitted Jamal Khashoggi is dead

This is a big test for President Donald Trump.

By Alex Ward

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By Vox Staff

Justice Department charges Russian national with conspiring to interfere with 2018 midterms

It’s another charge in connection with a "troll farm" that posts social media propaganda.

By Andrew Prokop

Reconsidering the US-Saudi relationship

Things have changed since the Cold War.

By Matthew Yglesias

This Is Us goes to Vietnam for a poignant, gut-wrenching episode

Somehow, this show, of all shows, captures the arbitrary horrors of war.

By Todd VanDerWerff

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9 experts warn that Latino dislike of Trump may not translate into midterm turnout

By Li Zhou October 22

Can technocracy be saved? An interview with Cass Sunstein.

By Dylan Matthews October 22

Is the media making American politics worse?

By Ezra Klein October 22

Melmoth, from the author of The Essex Serpent, is a lurid novel of sin and redemption

By Constance Grady October 22

Abortions by mail are available now in the US. Here’s what you need to know.

By Julia Belluz October 22

How “America First” ruined the “American dream”

By Sean Illing October 22

In the age of Instagram museums, what happens to haunted houses?

By Rebecca Jennings October 22

Why do millennials love bullet journals? Control.

By Oset Babur October 22

“It’s not going to create or take away a single job”: Why Trump’s excuse on the Saudis doesn’t hold up

By Emily Stewart October 21

The Trump administration reportedly wants the government to revoke civil rights protections from transgender people

By Emily Stewart October 21

Trump says there’s another tax cut on the way. We have no idea what he’s talking about.

By Emily Stewart October 21

13 found-footage horror movies actually worth watching this Halloween

By Dylan Scott October 20

Halloween’s post-credits “scene,” explained

By Aja Romano October 20

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here’s how to watch.

By Brian Resnick October 20

A guide to the 2018 midterm elections

How Republicans are misleading voters about preexisting conditions

By Dylan Scott October 20

Alaska’s independent governor drops out of 3-way race and endorses a Democrat

By Dylan Scott October 20

Michael Cohen now wants to get out the vote

By Emily Stewart October 20

Judy Blume’s seminal Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret is becoming a movie

By Constance Grady October 20

Vox Sentences: Meddling in the midterms

By Stavros Agorakis October 19

Karlie Kloss and Josh Kushner’s marriage adds new star power — and weirdness — to the Trump family tree

By Eliza Brooke October 19

How the Sears catalog transformed shopping under Jim Crow, explained by a historian

By Gaby Del Valle October 19

Nancy Pelosi just suggested she sees herself as a “transitional” House speaker

By Ella Nilsen October 19

A radio ad invoked lynchings to court black voters. It did not go over well.

By P.R. Lockhart October 19

5 fascinating stories about Lee Israel, the real person behind Can You Ever Forgive Me?

By Alissa Wilkinson October 19

Social issues YA novels can be terrible. The Hate U Give is a stunning exception.

By Constance Grady October 19

Democratic outreach to Latino voters doesn’t look much better than it did in 2016

By Li Zhou October 19

Here’s why Trump threatened to pull out of a 144-year-old postal treaty

By Jen Kirby October 19

Louisiana voters will have a chance to strike down a Jim Crow law this November

By German Lopez October 19

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The new Halloween reimagines the franchise as a tale of maternal warrior women

By Todd VanDerWerff October 19

Edible cotton now exists — and it could have a big effect on world hunger

By Rachel Sugar October 19

Lyft has a new “all-access” subscription plan. But is it really worth the money?

By Aditi Shrikant October 19

Halloween costumes are about dressing as someone else. I decided to go as my own fears instead.

By Joe Wadlington October 19

Cage-free, free range, organic: what all those egg labels really mean

By Dylan Matthews October 19

Twitter released 9 million tweets from one Russian troll farm. Here’s what we learned.

By Aja Romano October 19

Julian Assange is fighting the Ecuadorian government over a cat

By Alex Ward October 19

Watch: Stephen Colbert skewers white supremacists’ weird obsession with chugging milk

By Brian Resnick October 19

Kamala Harris’s new basic income-style bill is so frustratingly close to being great

By Dylan Matthews October 19

Report: 300 Pennsylvania Catholic priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children

By Tara Isabella Burton October 19

Polls can be wrong

By Andrew Prokop October 19

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