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The Trump-Ukraine scandal, explained in one minute

A witness in Monday’s hearing broke Trump’s impeachable offenses down really, really clearly.

By Zack Beauchamp

What Trump has done to the courts, explained

No president in recent memory has done more to change the judiciary than Donald Trump.

By Ian Millhiser

The species the world lost this decade

This decade has made it clear: Humans are killing Earth’s great biodiversity.

By Brian Resnick

90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

As a result, wealth is also being concentrated in those areas.

By Rani Molla

Paul Volcker, the most important Fed chair of the 20th century, has died

Volcker caused two recessions — and ended the 1970s era of high inflation in the US.

By Dylan Matthews
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Hollywood almost lost to this city

Why did voters reject the movie industry?

By Phil Edwards

4 winners and 5 losers from the 2020 Golden Globes nominations

From Parasite to The Morning Show, it’s looking like another strange year at the weirdest awards show.

By Alissa Wilkinson and Emily Todd VanDerWerff

Devin Nunes’s explanations for his Parnas phone calls are getting increasingly outlandish

Devin Nunes isn’t doing a very plausible job answering questions about his involvement in the Ukraine caper.

By Aaron Rupar

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“This will end when one of us dies”

ProPublica’s Lizzie Presser explains why Americans are being jailed for their medical debt.

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More migrants from Africa are trying to reach the US through Mexico

By Nicole Narea

Read: The Justice Department’s inspector general report on the Russia investigation

By Jen Kirby

You can now buy Star Wars hypebeast sneakers, fancy Dutch ovens, and status parkas. Here’s why.

By Terry Nguyen

Here’s the full list of nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes

By Alex Abad-Santos and Constance Grady

Impeachment, explained

By Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Prokop

What to expect at the House Judiciary Committee’s second impeachment hearing

By Zeeshan Aleem and Sean Collins

Americans still drink. But in 2019, it became cool to drink less.

By Rebecca Jennings

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By Vox Staff

Joe Biden maintains a massive lead in a new South Carolina ranked-choice poll

By Li Zhou and Christina Animashaun
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Watchmen episode 8 has an Adrian Veidt-centric post-credits scene. It’s bonkers. 

By Alex Abad-Santos

Watchmen becomes an aching, beautiful love story in its next-to-last episode

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Alex Abad-Santos, and 1 other

Wonder Woman 1984’s first trailer teases the triumphant return of Gal Gadot — and the 1980s

By Alex Abad-Santos

Hong Kong demonstrators see a massive turnout on the 6-month anniversary of protests

By Zeeshan Aleem

Trump isn’t allowed at NATO’s cool kids’ table in SNL’s cold open

By Zeeshan Aleem

Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Station shooting: what we know

By German Lopez and Katelyn Burns

New House Judiciary Committee report defines impeachable offenses 

By Katelyn Burns

Trump orders review of EPA water rules because “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times”

By Katelyn Burns

The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a rare rebuke

By Ian Millhiser

White House declines to be involved in House impeachment inquiry, leaving defense to Republican lawmakers

By Katelyn Burns

Pete Buttigieg’s McKinsey problem, explained

By Emily Stewart and Ella Nilsen

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Don't curl your lashes and talk about Uighurs on TikTok

TikTok, the video sharing app that has taken the tweens and 2019 by storm, is now facing still competition, concerns over censorship, and a federal investigation.

How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

By Ezra Klein

This year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award recognizes a passage comparing a penis to a small monkey

By Constance Grady

It’s not just passengers being assaulted in Ubers. Drivers are at risk, too.

By Anna North

Vox Sentences: The president’s offenses

By Hannah Brown

Bloomberg’s first TV interview showed him to be exactly who progressives feared he was

By Zeeshan Aleem

Uber’s sexual assault report won’t hurt it as badly as other incidents

By Rani Molla

Uber says it’s focusing on safety. Its new report shows that there’s far more to be done.

By Terry Nguyen

The best books I read in 2019

By Constance Grady

Venezuela’s opposition leader failed to depose Maduro. He explains why he’s not giving up.

By Alex Ward

Rudy Giuliani just blew up Trump’s “no quid pro quo” talking point

By Aaron Rupar

Waves star Sterling K. Brown learned a lot about parenting from playing a father on screen

By Alissa Wilkinson

The House has passed a bill to restore key parts of the Voting Rights Act

By Ella Nilsen

This comedy of manners from 2012 perfectly anticipated the 2010s’ reckoning with misogyny

By Constance Grady

Trump’s use of a personal cellphone means Russia could have intel about Ukraine calls

By Zeeshan Aleem

Could this be Trump’s orange makeup?

By Cheryl Wischhover

Hundreds of wacky, obsolete laws still exist. Why don’t more states remove them?

By Michael Waters

The Trump campaign’s boast about impeachment polling is actually an own goal

By Aaron Rupar

Pregnant people are being offered an unproven treatment to “reverse” abortions

By Anna North

There is no culture war peace treaty

By Zack Beauchamp

Republicans are introducing a new compromise LGBTQ rights bill. But everyone already hates it.

By Katelyn Burns