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Climate activist Greta Thunberg used her superpower of shaming adults on Senate Democrats

"I know you’re trying, but just not hard enough."

By Ella Nilsen

To bring “prestige” back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

He’s an adviser to President Trump — but he also wants to see a national $15 minimum wage and an overhaul of the H-1B visa program.

By Eric Johnson

The Trump administration’s new slaughterhouse rules could be bad news for animals and consumers

The USDA wants to "modernize" inspections of slaughterhouses. Critics say they’re letting the industry rule itself.

By Kelsey Piper

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on why cable news is suddenly talking so much about climate change

MSNBC and CNN are pushing candidates on climate change where the Democratic party is not.

By Umair Irfan

How Fox News twisted the Kavanaugh scandal into a way to attack the New York Times

They keep using the same false talking point to change the topic.

By Aaron Rupar

Walmart shootings prompt retailers to change their open-carry policies

Walmart, Kroger, CVS, and more are asking customers to leave their guns at home.

By Hilary George-Parkin

GM workers are on strike to accomplish what Trump couldn’t

They want the automaker to keep good-paying jobs in the US.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

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Israel’s election results show Netanyahu is in serious trouble

By Zack Beauchamp

Corey Lewandowski’s chaotic congressional testimony, explained

By Andrew Prokop

Vox Sentences: Picket lines round the US

By Stavros Agorakis

Greta Thunberg is leading kids and adults from 150 countries in a massive Friday climate strike

By Umair Irfan

Ayanna Pressley just filed an impeachment resolution against Brett Kavanaugh in the House

By Li Zhou

Andrew Yang’s use of Asian stereotypes is reinforcing toxic tropes

By Li Zhou

Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter

By Sean Collins

These scientists want to make psychotherapy sessions much, much shorter

By Brian Resnick

Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 26 at Afghan president campaign rally

By Jen Kirby
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Trump’s weird ideas on the US-Saudi relationship, sort of explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Why Corey Lewandowski is testifying about the Mueller report

By Andrew Prokop

The Air Force spent more at Trump’s Scottish resort than originally thought

By Sean Collins

Silicon Valley is throwing Trump a fundraiser. They’d just rather not talk about it.

By Theodore Schleifer

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The 20 Democrats running for president, the next debate lineup, and everything else you should know about 2020

By Dylan Scott

Trump makes profoundly bizarre sales pitch to Latino voters in New Mexico

By Aaron Rupar

India’s scary new detention camps, explained

By Sigal Samuel

Israel’s election, and how Benjamin Netanyahu might lose, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

“It’s young people, it’s their future”: Inside the Sunrise Movement’s bid to save the world

A growing group of crusaders have made strides putting climate change on the national agenda. Most aren’t even 30.

By Ella Nilsen

How billionaire philanthropy provides reproductive health care when politicians won’t

By Kelsey Piper

Money Talks: She moved home to save money — and her mom never wants her to leave

By Julie Vadnal

The astounding advantage the Electoral College gives to Republicans, in one chart

By Ian Millhiser

Vox Sentences: The latest twist in the Kavanaugh saga

By Stavros Agorakis

“Corruption is breaking our democracy”: Elizabeth Warren’s case for the White House

By Emily Stewart

Boris Johnson had a really bad day in Luxembourg. The Incredible Hulk was involved.

By Jen Kirby

A new Brett Kavanaugh allegation puts the heat back on Susan Collins and Joe Manchin

By Li Zhou

The US blames Iran for the Saudi Arabia oil attacks, further escalating tensions

By Jen Kirby

Susan Collins is in the political fight of her life, and Brett Kavanaugh is a huge factor

By Ella Nilsen
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Mitch McConnell isn’t too concerned about a new sexual misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh

By Li Zhou

Defending Kavanaugh has become personal for conservatives, not ideological

By Jane Coaston

SNL fires new hire Shane Gillis after recent homophobic and racist slurs surface

By Alex Abad-Santos

The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh ignited national controversy last year. Now it’s happening again.

By Anna North

Uber’s baffling claim that its drivers aren’t core to its business, explained

By Shirin Ghaffary

How Elizabeth Warren has stayed out of the Medicare-for-all fray

By Dylan Scott

The new Kavanaugh allegation is important because of what it says about the FBI

By Laura McGann

Why “Seinfeld” is coming to Netflix

By Peter Kafka

Elizabeth Warren just won an endorsement that’s making Bernie Sanders’s world really mad

By Emily Stewart

The controversy surrounding the Times’s handling of the latest Kavanaugh allegation, explained

By Aaron Rupar

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