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The Senate finally approved a disaster aid package with $1.4 billion for Puerto Rico

It took six months to get here.

By Li Zhou

The Pentagon’s plan to send up to 10,000 troops to the Middle East is about Iran

The question now is if President Donald Trump will accept it.

By Alex Ward

Indian PM Narendra Modi and his party just swept India’s elections

It was a stunning victory for Hindu nationalism.

By Kalpana Jain

The Harriet Tubman $20 bill was due in 2020. Now it might wait years more.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says it likely won’t happen until after Trump leaves office.

By Gaby Del Valle

My great-grandmother’s struggle with mental illness — and the therapy that saved her life

Electroconvulsive therapy can help people with severe depression. But it has a controversial past.

By Alexia Underwood

“Send a Baby to Mars!” and other AI-generated petitions

An AI was asked to write petitions to the government. Here’s what it came up with.

By Kelsey Piper

How AirPods became an unlikely status symbol

Apple’s wireless earbuds have been fodder for memes and jokes about eating the rich — but people are still buying them.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

McDonald’s workers are on strike. 3 presidential candidates joined them.

Picket lines are now campaign stops.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

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"Keep our honor clean"

President Trump is reportedly considering issuing a series of pardons for alleged war crimes in time for Memorial Day. Some see parallels to Nixon’s handling of the My Lai massacre.

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Congress wants to stop surprise medical bills. But they have one big problem left to solve.

By Dylan Scott May 23

Facebook has taken down billions of fake accounts, but the problem is still getting worse

By Emily Stewart May 23

Democrats: we’d love to nominate a young woman of color in 2020. Also, we love Joe Biden.

By Tara Golshan May 23

The hasty plan to get Americans back on the moon by 2024, explained

By Brian Resnick May 23

“American Taliban” John Walker Lindh’s controversial release from prison, explained

By Alex Ward May 23

Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube

By Peter Kafka May 23

Climate change is making allergy season worse

By Danush Parvaneh and Umair Irfan May 23

Eric Garner died during a 2014 police encounter. An officer involved might lose his job.

By P.R. Lockhart May 23

What Rep. Justin Amash’s call for Trump’s impeachment showed about the Republican Party

By Tara Golshan May 23

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Attorney General William Barr dining at the Trump hotel is a bad look

By Aaron Rupar May 23

Recode Daily: Amazon employees ask their company to address climate change

By Theodore Schleifer May 23

The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained

By Brian Resnick May 23

When I couldn’t tell the world I wanted to transition, I went to Dressbarn

By Katelyn Burns May 23

Holding Trump accountable is a pocketbook issue

By Matthew Yglesias May 23

Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

Keep up with the policy debates that will shape the Democratic 2020 primary.

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Disruption comes for death

By Allie Volpe May 23

Vox Sentences: Nevada is no Alabama

By Catherine Kim May 22

Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

We asked all the 2020 Democrats how they’d fix child care. Here’s what they said.

By Anna North May 22

Why protesters are throwing milkshakes at Nigel Farage

By Jen Kirby May 22

What the leaked IRS memo does and doesn’t say about the Trump tax returns controversy

By Andrew Prokop May 22

We asked the dads running for president what they do for child care

By Anna North May 22

A Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans

By Gaby Del Valle May 22

“Elizabeth Warren called me!” is turning into a meme

By Emily Stewart May 22

Games of Thrones season 8

20 lingering questions about the Game of Thrones series finale

By Alex Abad-Santos May 22

Trump’s bizarre Rose Garden news conference on impeachment, explained

By Aaron Rupar May 22

How to make more Vox Video happen

By Joe Posner and Mona Lalwani December 17

Science & Health

How to get the most out of your exercise time, according to science

A simple guide to high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, the fitness trend du jour.

By Julia Belluz May 22

Congress’s high-stakes budget fight to avert an economic crisis, explained

By Tara Golshan May 22

Poll: Most Americans disapprove of the Alabama abortion ban

By Li Zhou May 22

Amazon’s Fleabag season 2 is gorgeous, heartbreaking — and so, so funny

By Todd VanDerWerff May 22

Trump walked away from infrastructure negotiations before they really began

By Ella Nilsen May 22

Nevada is lifting abortion restrictions, even as other states pass near-total bans

By Anna North May 22

Why North Korea called Joe Biden an “imbecile” and “a fool of low IQ”

By Alex Ward May 22

8,000 Amazon employees asked the company to do more on climate change. Shareholders just said no.

By Emily Stewart and Alexia Fernández Campbell May 22

What’s behind Elizabeth Warren’s comeback in the polls

By Dylan Scott May 22

Airbnb is partnering with 23andMe to send people on “heritage” vacations

By Gaby Del Valle May 22

Disney’s live-action Aladdin is almost a charming rom-com — when it’s not a sluggish musical

By Aja Romano May 22

The Green New Deal is fracturing a critical base for Democrats: unions

By Umair Irfan May 22

America’s newest stock exchange wants to fix one of capitalism’s fundamental challenges

By Theodore Schleifer May 22

Mnuchin denies that an IRS memo contradicts his position on Trump’s taxes. Spoiler: It does.

By Aaron Rupar May 22

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