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Mandate the vaccine, not masks

Vaccines are the solution to Covid-19. Let’s make the most of them.

By German Lopez

The political crisis in Tunisia, explained by an expert

The Arab Spring’s democratic success story is under threat.

By Jen Kirby

Cops at the schoolyard gate

How the number of police officers in schools skyrocketed in recent decades.

By Kristin Henning

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

Covid-19 cut US life expectancy by 1.5 years, but that might not mean what you think it means.

By Michael Bader

Why Newsmax is failing

The sudden rise and precipitous fall of Newsmax, explained by an expert.

By Aaron Rupar

Do I want kids?

How do I decide whether to have kids? A new episode of Glad You Asked explores this enormous life decision.

By Cleo Abram

The long road to a reckoning on racist team names

I worked for a Native American advocacy group. The hardest part of my job was fighting racist sports names.

By Maria Givens

The endless expansion of the American beverage aisle

The American beverage aisle is overflowing, with no sign of letting up.

By Melinda Fakuade

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The Covid Olympics

The 2020 Games were mired in scandal before they even started. Vox’s Jen Kirby explains how things are going now that the Olympics have finally begun.

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Vox’s audience support program, explained

By Vox Staff April 23

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

By Alex Abad-Santos 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

Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword

By Vox Staff July 1

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

By Kimberly Mas July 26

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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

Our bodies can adapt to hotter conditions — but there’s a limit

By Brian Resnick July 26

The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse.

By Cameron Peters July 25

6 questions to consider before launching yourself into space

By Rebecca Heilweil July 25

The Simone Biles scoring controversy, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos July 24

As the pandemic wears on, some Americans could need booster shots

By Cameron Peters July 24

How to become an Olympic sport

By Emily VanDerWerff July 24

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Time Machine: Buchanan v. Warley (1917)

Vox's Jerusalem Demsas joins Matt and Dara on a time machine trip back to a WW1-era Supreme Court decision that shaped land use policy, zoning, and racial discrimination in housing

Gymnastics still hasn’t fully reckoned with its abuse problem

By Anna North July 24

Anti-abortion lawyers are finally being honest

By Ian Millhiser July 24

Does Congress know what it would take to stop the next pandemic?

By Kelsey Piper July 24

Did the Covid-19 Olympics have to be a mess?

By Jen Kirby July 23

The opioid epidemic isn’t unsolvable

By German Lopez July 23

M. Night Shyamalan returns with Old, a floppy but haunting thriller about aging

By Alissa Wilkinson July 23

The surprising past, unlikely present, and uncertain future of Christmas in July

By Emily VanDerWerff July 23

Jane Goodall reveals what studying chimpanzees teaches us about human nature

By Sigal Samuel July 23

Democrats are going it alone on immigration reform

By Nicole Narea July 23

The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.

By Kaleb Horton July 23

Prom, after a senior year interrupted

By Melinda Fakuade July 23

How Kevin McCarthy tried to sabotage the House January 6 investigation

By Aaron Rupar July 22

An Indigenous firefighter explains how to better manage wildfires

By Benji Jones July 22

A new bill would hold Facebook responsible for Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rebecca Heilweil July 22

America’s houses are old. Low-income renters are suffering because of it.

By Jerusalem Demsas July 22

Here’s how hard it is to vote in Texas

By Fabiola Cineas July 22

The price of Olympic glory

By Emily Stewart July 22

This outed priest’s story is a warning for everyone about the need for data privacy laws

By Sara Morrison July 21

The Senate’s infrastructure gamble, explained

By Li Zhou and Gabby Birenbaum July 21

Companies that make people return to the office will lose employees

By Rani Molla July 21