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Explainers

We live in a world of too much information and too little context. Too much noise and too little insight. That's where Vox's explainers come in.

Getting a Covid test at Walgreens isn’t as much of a privacy risk as it used to be

Millions of people got Covid-19 tests through Walgreens. Their information wasn’t adequately protected.

By Sara Morrison

Why Biden’s approval numbers have sagged, explained by an expert

The Covid-19 resurgence and chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal have fueled a 10-point drop in his approval rating.

By Aaron Rupar

The redistricting wars

By Andrew Prokop September 20

America’s car crash epidemic

By Marina Bolotnikova September 19

AI’s Islamophobia problem

By Sigal Samuel September 18

Does everybody need a booster shot?

By Dylan Scott September 17

Dirty air can be deadly. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By Rebecca Leber September 17

The dubious rise of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, explained

By Kelsey Piper September 17

What the Taliban’s new government reveals about how they will rule

By Jen Kirby September 13

The hype around exercise dresses, explained

By Terry Nguyen September 13

20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives

By Dylan Matthews September 11

John Mulaney was performing a role all along

By Aja Romano September 10

How bad will climate change get?

By Umair Irfan September 10

The US was a world leader in vaccination. What went wrong?

By Dylan Scott September 9

How 9/11 convinced Americans to buy, buy, buy

By Emily Stewart September 9

What we’ve learned about Britney Spears’s conservatorship case changes everything

By Constance Grady September 8

Medicare’s benefits are full of holes — and patients keep falling through

By Dylan Scott September 8

America needs to decide how much Covid-19 risk it will tolerate

By German Lopez September 7

The “g-word” of urban policy

By Jerusalem Demsas September 5

We’ve been radically underestimating the true cost of our carbon footprint

By Sigal Samuel September 4

Donda: The hype, the controversy, the music, the Kanye of it all, explained

By Aja Romano September 3

The evidence for violence interrupters doesn’t support the hype

By German Lopez September 3

What’s causing California’s unprecedented wildfires

By Umair Irfan September 3

What banning abortion at 6 weeks really means

By Anna North September 1

The Amazon rainforest’s most dogged defenders are in peril

By Salomé Gómez-Upegui September 1

Why America can’t fix its Covid-19 testing problems

By Dylan Scott September 1

How safe is it for kids to go to school during delta?

By Anna North September 1

The Jeopardy hosting saga has become a cautionary morality tale

By Aja Romano August 31

The Ted Lasso backlash was inevitable

By Emily VanDerWerff August 31

NATO allies are preparing for a future without America’s “forever wars”

By Jen Kirby August 31

Why Hurricane Ida has been so devastating to the Gulf Coast

By Umair Irfan and Benji Jones August 30

Why false claims about Covid-19 vaccines and infertility are so powerful

By Anna North August 30

Should vaccinated people worry about long Covid?

By German Lopez August 30

Pandemic unemployment insurance is ending at maybe the worst possible time

By Emily Stewart August 30

ISIS-K, explained by an expert

By Jen Kirby August 27

The lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson

By Umair Irfan August 27

How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment

By Kelsey Piper August 26

One policy that could challenge a century of fossil fuel dominance

By Rebecca Leber August 25

Women’s rights have an uncertain future in Afghanistan

By Jen Kirby August 24

Congress’s Democrat-on-Democrat hostage standoff, explained

By Andrew Prokop August 23

What full FDA approval for Covid-19 vaccines really means

By Umair Irfan August 23

How California’s bizarre recall system could elect a Republican governor

By Andrew Prokop August 23