Dylan Matthews
is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox's Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
1. Meet Jeffrey Fowle, the American just released by North Korea
A protest for Kenneth Bae, the longest-held American prisoner in North Korea, on February 16, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
One of the three Americans imprisoned by North Korea has been released.
Two Americans remain imprisoned in North Korea. 24-year-old Matthew Miller was accused by the North Korean government of "ripping up his visa on arrival to the country so he could go to prison and expose human rights violations there" and sentenced to six years hard labor last month.
The final detainee, 46-year-old South Korean-born American citizen Kenneth Bae, was arrested in 2012 and is currently serving a 15 year sentence of hard labor due to accusations he worked as a missionary.
The US State Department response: "While this is a positive decision by [North Korea], we remain focused on the continued detention of Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller."
A UN report from earlier this year details conditions at the country's prisons: "young male inmates in North Korean prison camps became so desperate for food they would eat live worms or snakes caught in the field to feel something in their stomachs."
Specialist doctor in infectious illnesses Jose Ramon Arribas (L) and specialist doctors in tropical medicine Fernando de la Calle (2L), Marta Arsuaga (2R) and Marta Mora (R) arrive to attend a press conference about the health of Ebola patient Teresa Romero at Carlos III hospital on October 21, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. (Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
The Spanish nurse who caught Ebola has now been cleared of the disease.
The US is making people flying from countries with Ebola to come to one of five airports. It's not a travel ban, but it's one of the first travel restrictions the administration has announced.
So what's going on? Two concrete reasons at McDonald's: service is getting slower as the menu gets longer and more complicated, and the company has responded to slowing sales by raising prices, driving away low-income customers.
But what about Coca-Cola? They're struggling to keep regular soda sales constant as they try to shift, with the rest of the market, to still drinks like coffee and juice and tea and energy drinks.
Here's why SpaceX's cheap launches are a BFD. Among other things: they could mean newer, better communications satellites, with tons of ensuing benefits.
"All this two-day shipping, click-to-ship, and get-it-on-your-doorstep-by-noon-tomorrow has come at a price, paid by the people who live in the shadows of the mega-warehouses: lung-stunting, cancer-causing pollution."
"Every male student I talked to had a story about intervening on the dance floor or at a party, mostly by just saying hello to someone who looked like a target of unwanted aggressive attention."
"The rise of very large philanthropies that are not shy about playing for big stakes in the public sphere raises crucial questions about philanthropic power and to whom it is accountable."
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