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Texas’s anti-abortion law is back at SCOTUS. Here’s what’s different this time around.

The Biden administration’s last-ditch bid to restore abortion rights in Texas, explained.

By Ian Millhiser

The past, present, and future of body image in America

Millennials grew up hating their bodies. Does Gen Z have to be the same?

By Anna North

How screwed are Democrats in the Senate?

The challenges the party will face in keeping its majorities in 2022 and 2024.

By Andrew Prokop

The author whose story inspired Netflix’s Maid on why welfare is broken

How Stephanie Land went from Vox article to book deal to Netflix show.

By Constance Grady

What’s the deal with fictional influencers?

One tech company has created a slate of scripted influencers, each with their own storylines. But how is anyone supposed to tell the difference between what’s real and what isn’t?

By Rebecca Jennings

19 must-see movies from the fall film festivals

Don’t miss these under-the-radar gems.

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: A YouTube decluttering channel that made my sister and me quit screaming

Kay Patterson, the mind behind The Organized Soprano, is a decluttering genius.

By Athena Frost

The myth of the climate moderate

"There isn’t a middle ground between a livable and unlivable world."

By Rebecca Leber

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Iran’s hostage industrial complex

Iran is entering its fifth decade of taking hostages. One who made it out tells his story.

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Fake rhino horns were supposed to foil poachers. What went wrong?

By Benji Jones October 18

What to know about the latest fight over Trump’s executive privilege claims

By Ellen Ioanes October 17

The best $160 I ever spent: A session with a Black therapist

By Sarah Doneghy October 17

Joe Manchin won’t support a key climate program. Alternatives won’t be enough.

By Ellen Ioanes October 16

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By Vox Staff October 1

Americans are ready to tax the rich

By Tim Ryan Williams October 16

Where is the line between life and art?

By Alissa Wilkinson October 16

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No, the supply chain mess is not a war on Christmas

By Rebecca Heilweil October 16

In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, medieval nuns build a feminist utopia

By Constance Grady October 15

The case against means testing

By Li Zhou October 15

The $5 trillion insurance industry faces a reckoning. Blame climate change.

By Umair Irfan October 15

The Last Duel is a medieval epic about believing women, and it’s a mess

By Alissa Wilkinson October 15

A last will and testament can be a huge fight for families

By Luke Winkie October 15

Dave Chappelle vs. trans people vs. Netflix

By Aja Romano October 14

Why so many new buildings are covered in rectangles

By Phil Edwards October 14

How TV lied about abortion

By Tanya Melendez October 14

Money Talks: The couple that grew up with very different relationships to spending

By Nicole Dieker October 14

The dark, enthralling power of Succession

By Emily VanDerWerff October 14

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The home care fight in Congress

What elderly and disabled activists want from Biden.

Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call

By Marie Cascione October 13

Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea

By Adam Clark Estes October 13

When removing a statue actually is antidemocratic

By Jen Kirby October 13

Bryan Stevenson on tracing the legacy of American enslavement to mass incarceration

By Jamil Smith October 13

Why so many people undercharge for their work

By Paulette Perhach October 13

Can the US cut drug prices without sacrificing new cures?

By Dylan Scott October 13

Biden’s incoherent immigration policy

By Nicole Narea October 13

Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush

By Rebecca Heilweil October 13

Why Merck’s Covid-19 pill molnupiravir could be so important

By Umair Irfan October 12

The controversial plan to bring jaguars back to the US

By Jason Plautz October 12

Couch Guy and the nightmare of going viral

By Rebecca Jennings October 12

One Good Thing: Only Murders in the Building plays like a Nora Ephron murder mystery

By Constance Grady October 12

The problem with America’s semi-rich

By Emily Stewart October 12

Why the best aliens are just a little bit human

By Emily VanDerWerff October 11

A better way to legalize marijuana

By German Lopez October 11

Lebanon’s electricity was down for a day, but the crisis was years in the making

By Ellen Ioanes October 10

The thorny truth about socially responsible investing

By Emily Stewart October 10

Texas’s anti-abortion law was halted. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t.

By Ellen Ioanes October 9

The many signals China is sending with its Taiwan flyovers

By Jen Kirby October 9

A brief history of the internet hating Jonathan Franzen

By Constance Grady October 9

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