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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Some say Apple’s App Store is a monopoly. Apple says it’s just giving customers what they want.

By Sara Morrison

Germany’s new government has big plans. It might be a shock after Merkel.

Olaf Scholz takes over as the new chancellor. What to know about the "traffic light" coalition he leads.

By Jen Kirby

Why adoption isn’t a replacement for abortion rights

From the dangers of pregnancy to the trauma of adoption, there’s a lot the Supreme Court didn’t acknowledge last week as Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance.

By Anna North

Did Democrats blow it on Roe v. Wade?

The real reason conservative activists might be on the verge of a Supreme Court victory.

By Andrew Prokop

What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021

Wolf haircuts and Wall Street: What Americans googled this year.

By Rani Molla

The ocean’s rarest mammal has a few final lessons to teach us

A tiny porpoise called the vaquita has polarized a Mexican fishing town. The species is fighting for its life.

By Benji Jones

Why the Belarus migrant crisis is different

And what it tells us about the EU.

By Christina Thornell

The hyperspecific gift guides of TikTok

Have a "fuccboi little brother"? There’s a TikTok gift guide for that.

By Rebecca Jennings

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The shooter's parents

The mass killing at Oxford High School in Michigan may seem comparable to those that preceded it, but the aftermath has taken several new turns.

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Let Succession be ambiguous

By Emily VanDerWerff

The hideous legal obstacles facing DOJ’s new anti-gerrymandering lawsuit in Texas

By Ian Millhiser

Why we’re so obsessed with nuns

By Alissa Wilkinson

Black and Hispanic renters experience discrimination in almost every major American city

By Jerusalem Demsas

Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword

By Vox Staff

One Good Thing: The Mole is a relic of early reality TV that still holds up

By Steffan Triplett

Elon Musk’s imaginary world

By Sean Illing

Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sex and the City’s frenemy feud 

By Alex Abad-Santos
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The US needs a clear Covid-19 goal now more than ever

By German Lopez

BuzzFeed’s a public company. Now what?

By Peter Kafka

Biden’s pre-K plan might not be as “universal” as he hopes

By Fabiola Cineas

Who the pandemic’s next phase will hurt the most

By Dylan Scott

What Peng Shuai’s rape accusation says about China

By Ellen Ioanes

Antarctica was once a rainforest. Could it be again?

By Daniel A. Gross

Israeli spyware was used against US diplomats in Uganda

By Ellen Ioanes

One Good Thing: Money Heist, a joyful TV series about fighting the system

By Molly Lipson

Biden’s bewildering decision to expand a Trump-era immigration policy

By Nicole Narea

There need to be consequences for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic comments

By Li Zhou

Long hours make bad neighbors

By Anna North

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Learning to love rent control

Does rent control actually control rent?

NASA gave Jeff Bezos money to build his office park in space

By Rebecca Heilweil

Biden’s winter Covid plan is what a new normal might look like

By Dylan Scott

Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped

By Kelly Pau

How to know if omicron is as scary as it seems

By Dylan Scott

This legendary 92-year-old biologist has some advice for saving Earth

By Benji Jones
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Why the pope dresses like that

By Marie Cascione

Why the government is constantly on the verge of shutting down

By Li Zhou

I changed my mind on rent control

By Jerusalem Demsas

Real estate has gone meta

By Adam Clark Estes

The futuristic plan to fix America’s power grid

By Neel Dhanesha

The religious right wants states’ tax dollars, and the Supreme Court is likely to agree

By Ian Millhiser

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The escalating costs of being single in America

Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?

By Anne Helen Petersen

In Flee, one Afghan refugee’s story comes to vibrant, animated life

By Alissa Wilkinson

To catch variants like omicron, the world needs to sequence way more virus genes

By Umair Irfan

Virgil Abloh forever changed the relationship between fashion and language

By Rikki Byrd

Booster shots today could fight omicron tomorrow

By Dylan Scott

Biden’s latest travel ban is “probably a waste of time”

By Nicole Narea

It sure sounds like Roe v. Wade is doomed

By Ian Millhiser

Spend the winter reading novels of our online brains

By Constance Grady

How the faltering global vaccination effort paved the way for alarming variants

By Kelsey Piper

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