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Joe Biden is taking office amid a poverty crisis

Columbia researchers project that 5 million to 12 million more people will be in poverty in January than a year before.

By Dylan Matthews

How millennials became the burnout generation

Author Anne Helen Petersen on why millennials have internalized the worst parts of their condition.

By Sean Illing

How bad is your state’s Covid-19 outbreak?

These maps show how your state is doing.

By German Lopez

Singapore is the first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products

Chicken bites from bioreactor-grown chicken will be available for sale.

By Kelsey Piper

Congress seems ready to pass a bipartisan $908 billion stimulus — if Mitch McConnell says yes

Democratic leaders are backing a $908 billion bipartisan Covid-19 relief framework. It’s a big step toward a final deal.

By Ella Nilsen and Jerusalem Demsas

Why the CDC changed its Covid-19 quarantine guidelines

The CDC now says people can quarantine for less than two weeks — but would prefer people stick to the full 14 days.

By German Lopez

Decking the halls for pandemic Christmas

Revelers are going hard on decor this year, both inside and out.

By Jolie Kerr

Why tens of thousands of farmers are blocking roads into India’s capital city

India says its new laws will modernize agriculture. Farmers say it will cause their ruin.

By Jariel Arvin

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Low-income students are dropping out of college because many don’t have a reliable way to get online. Vox’s Emily Stewart says the solution is simple: Give everybody the internet.

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What one of Amazon’s biggest critics thinks the future of the retail industry means for workers

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AI has cracked one of biology’s toughest problems

By Sigal Samuel

America’s failures have led to a new daily record in Covid-19 deaths

By Dylan Scott

A new Georgia poll suggests that Republican lies about “voter fraud” are hurting the GOP

By Ian Millhiser

Returning stuff you bought online is about to get easier

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The Armenia and Azerbaijan war, explained

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South Korea just changed a longstanding military law for the sake of BTS

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A surprising number of government agencies buy cellphone location data. Lawmakers want to know why.

By Sara Morrison

China and Australia are in a nasty diplomatic spat over a fake tweet — and real war crimes

By Alex Ward

Staying safe this winter means a lot of time outside. Here’s how to stay warm.

By Rebecca Jennings

The Joint Chiefs chair just gave a brutally honest assessment of the Afghanistan war

By Alex Ward

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3 Hong Kong pro-democracy icons were sentenced to prison in huge blow to protest movement

By Jen Kirby

This winter, the Vox Book Club is reading about lesbian necromancers in space

By Constance Grady

How Trump’s blizzard of misleading fundraising emails explains his refusal to concede

By Aaron Rupar

The past 24 hours in Trump’s legal issues and pardon news, explained

By Andrew Prokop

The UK is the first country to grant emergency approval to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

By Umair Irfan

The rise in murders in the US, explained

By German Lopez

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Dara and Matt on Biden’s choice to run Homeland Security and the many challenges he’ll face

Who will get the Covid-19 vaccine first? A CDC advisory panel just weighed in.

By Julia Belluz

How Santas are handling a pandemic Christmas season

By Lauren Vespoli

Religious conservatives have won a revolutionary victory in the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

The government’s failure to provide economic relief is killing people

By Anna North

What happened to department stores?

By Recode and The Goods

The death and rebirth of America’s department stores, in charts

By Rani Molla

The battle over Trump’s huge UAE arms deal, explained

By Alex Ward

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel

The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

By Tanya Pai

Advent, explained

By Alissa Wilkinson

Is the pandemic making people more generous — or more selfish?

By Sigal Samuel

How voice actors are fighting to change an industry that renders them invisible

By Aja Romano

Joe Biden should do everything at once

By David Roberts

The high rate of executions during Trump’s last weeks in office, explained

By Rachel Ramirez

Trump’s pardon shenanigans are ramping up

By Andrew Prokop

“The stakes are life and death”: Addiction treatment’s Covid-19 challenge

By German Lopez

Why Trump taking credit for the Covid-19 vaccines could be a good thing

By Brian Resnick

Pop culture’s department stores taught us what to want

By Constance Grady

This week in TikTok: The only election that mattered

By Rebecca Jennings

The pandemic is changing college. Let’s reconsider GPAs while we’re at it.

By Mai Tran