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Coronavirus

200,000 Americans are now confirmed dead from Covid-19

A failed government response and America’s structural disadvantages contributed to the highest coronavirus death toll in the world.

By Dylan Scott and Christina Animashaun

Mitch McConnell has the votes to move forward with a Supreme Court nominee

Sen. Mitt Romney signaled Tuesday that he’d take a vote on President Trump’s pick.

By Li Zhou

The Republican Party is an authoritarian outlier

Compared to center-right parties in developed democracies, the GOP is dangerously far from normal.

By Zack Beauchamp

How to save the economy for everyone

"This crisis is far worse than the one that we faced in 2008."

By Emily Stewart

Trump at the UN: America is good, China is bad

The president portrayed the US as a benevolent, responsible world leader — and China as the world’s aggressor.

By Alex Ward

Court-packing, Democrats’ nuclear option for the Supreme Court, explained

Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.

By Dylan Matthews

The battle to define the Biden economic team, explained

Personnel is policy.

By Matthew Yglesias

The future of the Senate may come down to Susan Collins

Collins’s uncomfortable relationship with a Trump-led GOP, explained.

By Ella Nilsen

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The fight over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat has already begun, but let’s not forget to celebrate her legendary life.

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The hell that is remote learning, explained in a comic

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Trump wants the Supreme Court to let him weaponize the census against immigrants

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Inside the Biden campaign’s surprising influencer strategy

By Rebecca Heilweil September 22

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“It affects virtually nobody”: Trump erases coronavirus victims as US death toll hits 200,000

By Aaron Rupar September 22

Why Walmart thinks TikTok is the future of its business

By Jason Del Rey September 22

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David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster

By Ezra Klein September 22

You can now personalize your iPhone home screen. People are already making it weird.

By Rebecca Jennings September 22

What it’s like fighting for the right to vote as an ex-felon

By Fabiola Cineas September 22

The best $40 I ever spent: A not-quite-tarot deck

By Mike McClelland September 22

The Vox Senate interview: Sara Gideon is Susan Collins’s most serious challenger in decades

By Ella Nilsen September 22

Who is a terrorist, actually?

By Daniel Byman September 22

It’s easier than ever to find out how your favorite websites are tracking you

By Sara Morrison September 22

Making sense of Marvel’s delightfully bizarre WandaVision trailer

By Alex Abad-Santos September 21

After 6 months and $1.8 billion, Quibi wants a new owner. That will be a hard sell.

By Peter Kafka September 21

How to vote by mail in 2020

By Cameron Peters September 21

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By the People: How to rig an election

America’s voter suppression problem

Trump says the US is “out of Syria.” But more US troops are heading there.

By Alex Ward September 21

Can the Senate vote on a replacement for Justice Ginsburg before the election?

By Andrew Prokop September 21

Your guide to getting into Schitt’s Creek, this year’s Emmys comedy darling

By Constance Grady September 21

“It’s kinda like a first date”: Making the most of starting a new job remotely

By Peter Kafka September 21

Noam Chomsky’s Green New Deal

By David Roberts September 21

Trump and Biden want you to believe they’re more anti-war than they are

By Alex Ward September 21

Minority rule in America

By Matthew Yglesias September 21

Trump’s weekend rallies showed just how unhinged his campaign is

By Aaron Rupar September 21

Covid-19 taught companies how to run remote offices. That could transform developing countries.

By Dylan Matthews September 21

The Vox guide to navigating the coronavirus crisis

Scientists say the coronavirus is airborne. Here’s what that means.

By Brian Resnick September 21

Is this Trump’s last UN speech, or the last of the UN?

By Jen Kirby September 21

To achieve racial justice, America’s broken democracy must be fixed

By Roge Karma September 21

How the Beirut explosion was a government failure

By Sam Ellis September 21

How to guard your social feeds against election misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil September 21

Yes, Russia is interfering in the 2020 election

By Jen Kirby September 21

When did good governance become an “armageddon option”?

By Ezra Klein September 21

How the Supreme Court revived Jim Crow voter suppression tactics

By Ian Millhiser September 21

Politics & Policy

The price — and big potential payoff — of turning Texas blue

Democrats are starting to take Texas seriously as a battleground state.

By Nicole Narea and Dylan Scott September 21

The Vox Senate interview: Doug Jones on how Democrats can win in the South

By Ella Nilsen September 21

Why the Senate’s most endangered Democrat thinks he can win, again

By Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou September 21