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How robots are transforming Amazon warehouse jobs — for better and worse

Amazon is leading a robotics race that will have a seismic impact on the warehouse industry, which employs more than 1.1 million Americans today.

By Jason Del Rey

Why humans kiss, explained

A comic about the cultural and scientific reasons we love making out.

By Xulin Wang

From Pokémon Go to Facebook, here’s how to protect your privacy on apps

Mobile apps want to know everything about you, but you can minimize what they have access to.

By Sara Morrison

Young female activists like Greta Thunberg have the world’s attention

Will people in power take action?

By Anna North

Trump’s executive order on campus anti-Semitism, explained

No, Trump isn’t reclassifying Judaism as a nationality. Here’s what he’s doing instead.

By Zack Beauchamp and Ian Millhiser

Brands are getting more “woke.” Who actually benefits?

Always removed the Venus symbol from its period products. While it’s a step forward, some consumers are understandably skeptical.

By Calvin Kasulke

Trump’s speech in Hershey revealed a presidency off the rails

It was one of his ugliest rallies yet — and put the stakes of 2020 in sharp relief.

By Aaron Rupar

The Nobel went to economists who changed how we help the poor. But some critics oppose their big idea.

Randomized control trials and the debate over them, explained.

By Kelsey Piper

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The cost of PrEP

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Trump administration agree on one thing: the cost of HIV drugs is too high.

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Vox Sentences: A deadly shooting, an apparent hate crime

By Hannah Brown

What we know about Pete Buttigieg’s McKinsey clients

By Ella Nilsen and Emily Stewart

America’s weak gun laws enable shootings by terrorists and extremists

By German Lopez

Europe now has its own Green Deal

By Umair Irfan

Clint Eastwood’s new movie Richard Jewell thwarts its truth-telling by smearing its female journalist

By Alissa Wilkinson

Impeachment, explained

By Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Prokop

Why the right’s usual smears don’t work on Greta Thunberg

By David Roberts

Juice Wrld helped define Soundcloud rap through vulnerability, debauchery, and mortality

By Allegra Frank

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Away’s new CEO was going to be second in command — until a toxic workplace story blew up

By Jason Del Rey

Pentagon halts operational training for Saudi military students after Pensacola shooting

By Alex Ward

Study: more people reported sex crimes around the world in the wake of Me Too

By Anna North

“We are desperate for any sign of hope,” Greta Thunberg tells UN climate negotiators

By Umair Irfan

6 months after a major public controversy, YouTube is changing its anti-harassment policies

By Shirin Ghaffary

Air pollution is much more harmful than you know

By Matthew Yglesias

Airlines are to blame in the debate over reclining plane seats

By Terry Nguyen

Your phone location is a goldmine of information — and every political candidate wants it

By Theodore Schleifer

2 million federal workers are poised to get paid parental leave for the first time ever

By Li Zhou

Can Joe Biden win the nomination even if he loses Iowa and New Hampshire?

By Ella Nilsen

How Mike Bloomberg made his billions: a computer system you’ve probably never seen

By Emily Stewart

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How safe is Uber?

Uber released its first-ever safety report. How should we feel about its numbers and what do they tell us about safety and sexual misconduct in the gig economy?

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By Hannah Brown

The Irishman is very long and very popular, says Netflix

By Peter Kafka

Democrats — and Trump — declare victory on USMCA

By Jen Kirby

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Open Sourced: explaining and exposing the hidden consequences of tech

By Vox Staff

The shamelessness of Bill Barr

By Zack Beauchamp

Amazon warehouse workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off

By Shirin Ghaffary

Showtime’s Work in Progress has gallows humor, smart writing, and Lilly Wachowski

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff

Arrests of migrants at the US-Mexico border dropped again in November

By Nicole Narea

Obamacare had an unusually good day at the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

Is Trump guilty of obstructing Congress? I asked a legal expert.

By Sean Illing

The moral philosophy of The Good Place

By Ezra Klein

The silent “sixth” sense

By Brian Resnick

Trump gave Russia’s top envoy a White House meeting. He still hasn’t done that for Ukraine.

By Alex Ward

Democrats announce 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump

By Andrew Prokop

Read Democrats’ articles of impeachment against President Trump

By Andrew Prokop

Why are so few Nobel Prizes awarded to women?

By Matthew R. Francis and Maki Naro

John Kerry and the climate kids: a tale of 2 new strategies to fight climate change

By David Roberts

Trump lashes out at FBI Director Wray for telling the truth about the IG report

By Aaron Rupar

Vouchers can help the poor find homes. But landlords often won’t accept them.

By Stephanie Wykstra

Meet the women suing America’s biggest companies over equal pay

A spate of lawsuits against giants from Google and Twitter to Nike and Goldman Sachs reveals the growing frustrations of women in pursuit of the C-suite.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell