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The great rebuild

The coronavirus has laid bare the flaws in our economy. Can we remake it to be more inclusive of all Americans?

By Vox Staff

Most candidates run to the center in the general election. Biden is moving left.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party’s leftward shift.

By Ezra Klein

Kamala Harris is a politician, not an activist. It’s an awkward fit for this moment.

While many have called for Harris’s nomination in reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, her politics are not rooted there.

By Aaron Ross Coleman

Joe Biden’s criminal justice reform plan, explained

Joe Biden’s new criminal justice reform plan reverses some of the policies he helped make law.

By German Lopez

Why people are volunteering to get Covid-19

A controversial plan could get us a vaccine sooner.

By Laura Bult

Facebook’s new voter information center gives Americans fact-checked voting information

But the company still won’t fact check President Trump’s misleading posts about voting by mail.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Do you really have to wash your mask after every use? Short answer: Yes.

Masks have become a necessity. Here’s how to pick the right one, and wash it.

By Isabella Simonetti

The Covid-19 pandemic could be the last straw for high drug costs

New polling shows voters are ready for aggressive actions on prescription drug prices.

By Dylan Scott

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Biden picked Harris. Vox’s Fabiola Cineas explains the role race is already playing in the election, and Ezra Klein argues Donald Trump is making things easy for his opponents.

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By Aja Romano

The 2020 election calendar

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The surprising benefits of contemplating your death

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How bad is your state’s Covid-19 outbreak?

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Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained

By German Lopez

How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

By Terry Nguyen

Harris is the choice Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley

By Theodore Schleifer

College football’s coronavirus crisis, explained

By Jane Coaston

The Democratic National Convention just announced its speaker lineup

By Ella Nilsen and Nicole Narea

Facebook bans blackface and certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

By Shirin Ghaffary

Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his running mate

By Li Zhou

Live results for the August 11 primaries

By Katelyn Burns

Twitter is finally helping people shut out “reply guys”

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why Democrats are holding out for more comprehensive stimulus

By Li Zhou

Tuesday’s Georgia runoff could help launch the Congressional QAnon Caucus

By Aaron Ross Coleman

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Apple's Lisa Jackson on racial justice

A special interview with the Apple exec on her definition of racial justice and how she plans to merge her background in environmental sustainability with the company’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.

How Trump’s mail voting sabotage could result in an election night nightmare

By Aaron Rupar

Do you really need to worry about your security on TikTok? Here’s what we know.

By Shirin Ghaffary

How a homemaker with no political experience took on Europe’s longest-serving dictator

By Alex Ward

America’s uniquely bad Covid-19 epidemic, explained in 18 maps and charts

By German Lopez

This week in TikTok: So … is it getting banned or what?

By Rebecca Jennings

The Supreme Court’s enigmatic “shadow docket,” explained

By Ian Millhiser

The legal questions surrounding Trump’s new executive orders, answered

By Ian Millhiser

Wisconsin’s primaries are setup for the real battle in November

By Andrew Prokop

Can a college course in moral philosophy convince people to eat less meat?

By Dylan Matthews

How the beauty industry is surviving the pandemic

By Cheryl Wischhover

The TikTok drama shines a spotlight on the rare tech investor who backs Trump

By Theodore Schleifer

A top Hong Kong pro-democracy figure was arrested. Beijing isn’t playing around.

By Jen Kirby

Lebanon’s entire government has resigned after a weekend of violent protests

By Alex Ward
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The global coffee crisis is coming

By Sam Ellis

A devastating indictment of the Republican Party from a GOP insider

By Ezra Klein

The American right’s favorite strongman

By Zack Beauchamp

“Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor”: The power and the peril of a catchphrase

By Aja Romano

Want to fix policing? Start with a better 911 system.

"911 call takers are gatekeepers for the entire criminal justice system. We need to start treating them that way."

By Roge Karma

America is failing Black moms during the pandemic

By Anna North

Performative masculinity is making American men sick 

By Alex Abad-Santos