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Democrats may let the best weapon against child poverty fade away

The child tax credit accomplished in one month what other policies took a decade to achieve.

By Li Zhou

What happens when your favorite thing goes viral?

A 2002 song by the Mountain Goats about a doomed divorce is suddenly big on TikTok. Why?

By Rebecca Jennings

Playdates are ruining all the fun

It’s time to rethink how American children play.

By Anna North

Biden’s Plan B for the climate crisis, explained

It’s not too late for Democrats to go big on climate change. But it won’t be easy, and there’s no margin for error.

By Rebecca Leber

Congress isn’t going to save the housing market

Build Back Better doesn’t build enough.

By Jerusalem Demsas

The Supreme Court case that could gut America’s gun laws, explained

More than a century of gun laws are potentially on the chopping block.

By Ian Millhiser

How well can an AI mimic human ethics?

Meet Delphi, an AI that tries to predict how humans respond to ethical quandaries.

By Kelsey Piper

Biden’s plan to make your internet cheaper and better is one step closer

Net neutrality is back on the table.

By Sara Morrison

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Vox's Aja Romano explains how Dave Chappelle's latest standup special led to a reckoning at Netflix. Vulture's Craig Jenkins assesses whether there's anything funny in it.

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Can a haunted house even scare us in 2021?

When a pandemic rages just outside our doors, maybe escapism is all we can hope for.

By Luke Winkie October 27

Immigrants could fix the US labor shortage

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Is ignoring the pandemic a crime against humanity?

By Jen Kirby October 26

House isn’t selling? Blame the ghosts.

Realtor? Check. Appraiser? Check. Ghostbuster? Check.

By Jerusalem Demsas October 26

Scream broke all the rules of horror — then rewrote them forever

By Aja Romano October 26

Wall Street doesn’t care about the Facebook leaks. Mark Zuckerberg does.

By Shirin Ghaffary October 25

Why your credit card company wants to give you crypto

By Rebecca Heilweil October 25

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By Vox Staff October 25

Why do banks charge a fee for not having enough money?

By Tatiana Walk-Morris October 25

The horror century

From the first morbid films a hundred years ago, scary movies always been a dark mirror on Americans’ deepest fears and anxieties.

By Aja Romano October 25

What will the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races mean for Biden?

By Andrew Prokop October 25

Succession turns a box of doughnuts into a stealthy statement about abuse

By Emily VanDerWerff October 24

Supply chain chaos and inflation could last into 2022

By Ellen Ioanes October 24

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The case for and against open borders

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How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus

By Kelsey Piper October 24

Pfizer’s clinical data puts the US one step closer to a Covid-19 vaccine for younger kids

By Ellen Ioanes October 23

What Dave Chappelle gets wrong about trans people and comedy

By Aja Romano October 23

Who should get a Covid-19 booster shot right now?

By Dylan Scott October 23

The French Dispatch is peak Wes Anderson. I wish I loved it.

By Alissa Wilkinson October 22

The Supreme Court’s very unusual new abortion orders, explained

By Ian Millhiser October 22

What Democrats are still fighting over in the budget bill

By Li Zhou October 22

How Vox built a YouTube channel with 10 million subscribers

By Vox Staff October 22

How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic”

By Sigal Samuel October 22

Why Dune endures

By Alissa Wilkinson October 22

The future of vaccine mandates will likely come down to Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

By Ian Millhiser October 22

MLMs might not be able to get away with their shady promises much longer

By Emily Stewart October 22

The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow

By Umair Irfan October 22

Poaching is altering the genetics of wild animals

By Benji Jones October 21

Remote work is bringing the city to the suburbs

By Rani Molla October 21

How New York overengineered its million-dollar vaccine passport

By Rebecca Heilweil October 21

Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s definition of “freedom” still matters

By Jamil Smith October 21

It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff

By Terry Nguyen October 21

Democrats’ winnowing health care ambitions

By Dylan Scott October 21

Democrats are setting up social policies for painful cliffs

By Li Zhou October 20

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