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Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.

How the country has kept coronavirus deaths to just 35, and grew its economy in 2020.

By Julia Belluz

How to help kids catch up after a year of pandemic learning

This strategy could help America’s schoolchildren make up for lost time.

By Anna North

5 things to know about the new US climate commitment

It’s the most ambitious target to date, but it still may not be big enough to atone for our outsize emissions.

By Umair Irfan

Why the Chauvin verdict didn’t feel like justice

The current criminal justice system is not equipped to provide real justice after police killings.

By Sean Collins

Moderna mafia? Pfizer pham? Vaccine factions are forming online.

It doesn’t matter what vaccine you got, except when it totally does, for fun.

By Luke Winkie

Minari is America

Why we love this Best Picture nominee.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Alex Abad-Santos, and 2 more

Greek life is losing members. Here’s why.

From racist slurs to classism, three students share the reasons why they left — or dismantled — their fraternities and sororities.

By Maryam Gamar

Are our pets gobbling up the planet?

From the meat-based meals to kitty litter to plastic poop bags, pet care is unarguably bad for the environment. What can we do about it?

By Eleanor Cummins and Maki Naro

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Is nuclear energy good or bad?

Listen to the Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer explain the arguments and then decide for yourself.

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Vox’s audience support program, explained

By Vox Staff April 23

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone is a muddled, joyless checklist of fantasy tropes

By Aja Romano and Constance Grady April 23

The rape allegations against Philip Roth’s biographer are a damning condemnation of publishing

By Constance Grady April 23

Biden’s federal paid leave plan, explained in 600 words

By German Lopez April 23

Truck driver against a vinyl record spinning backdrop

How trucker country music became a ’70s fad

By Estelle Caswell and Antonella Crescimbeni April 23

Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained

By Alex Ward April 23

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By Vox Staff April 1

Your job saved money on electric bills during the pandemic. You didn’t.

By Rani Molla April 23

How to listen to all of Vox’s Earth Month podcasts

By Eliza Barclay and Lauren Katz April 23

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How broken policing is breaking our democracy

By Zack Beauchamp April 23

For All Mankind’s season 2 finale is the best TV episode of 2021 so far

By Emily VanDerWerff April 23

The Pandemic Playbook

Vox explores the successes — and setbacks — in six nations as they fought Covid-19.

By Dylan Scott, German Lopez, and 3 more April 23

Breaking down the 2021 Best Picture nominees

By Alissa Wilkinson April 23

Republicans’ opening bid on infrastructure is about a quarter of the size of Biden’s plan

By Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou April 22

The Senate strongly condemns anti-Asian hate crimes by passing new bill

By Li Zhou April 22

The new rom-com Together Together explores the romance of platonic friendship

By Alissa Wilkinson April 22

I could have been Ma’Khia Bryant

By Tiffanie Drayton April 22

Why do we care how smart animals are?

By Sigal Samuel April 22

How climate became the centerpiece of Biden’s economic agenda

By Ella Nilsen April 22

We now have a solution to Covid-19 hot spots. Let’s use it.

By German Lopez April 22

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Vox's Dylan Scott joins Matt and Dara to talk about South Korea's response to Covid-19

The fight for DC statehood gets its best chance yet

By Jerusalem Demsas April 22

The Supreme Court’s “cursing cheerleader” case could reshape students’ First Amendment rights

By Ian Millhiser April 22

The history of police killing children in America

By Maryam Gamar April 22

Could the solution to fashion pollution be … tiny nuclear reactors?

By Alden Wicker April 22

How Best Picture nominee Judas and the Black Messiah questions the meaning of freedom

By Alissa Wilkinson, Coleman Lowndes, and 2 more April 22

The uncertain prospects for police reform in the Senate, explained

By Li Zhou April 22

Wildlife is in peril, but that doesn’t mean conservation has failed

By Benji Jones April 22

How to walk away from an awkward conversation

By Sean Illing April 22

10 things we learned about Earth since the last Earth Day

By Benji Jones and Brian Anderson April 22

This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund

By Umair Irfan April 22

Elon Musk’s $150 million charity spending spree

By Theodore Schleifer April 22

Why Apple’s latest gadget is catching the attention of antitrust regulators

By Rebecca Heilweil April 21

Now that Derek Chauvin has been convicted, here’s what happens next

By Ian Millhiser April 21

India can’t vaccinate its way out of its latest Covid-19 surge

By Jen Kirby April 21

Biden wants to convince the world America can be trusted on climate change

By Ella Nilsen and Alex Ward April 21

The Derek Chauvin guilty verdict is a huge outlier

By German Lopez April 21

Recode

Just because you can work from home doesn’t mean you’ll be allowed to

Which jobs are heading back to the office and which can stay home varies widely.

By Rani Molla April 21

Why Biden still hasn’t raised the refugee cap

By Nicole Narea April 21

We have enough proof

By Allissa V. Richardson April 21

Why is it so hard to prosecute police? It starts with the investigation.

By German Lopez April 21