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What the latest Covid-19 variants and subvariants mean for the pandemic

By Umair Irfan

Welcome to the May issue of The Highlight

In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the real effect of the child tax credit now that it’s gone, and more.

By Vox Staff

The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes

By Alissa Wilkinson

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

By Rebecca Jennings

Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science?

By Joanna Thompson

The eel-shaped parasite that threatens a $7 billion economy in the Great Lakes

By Benji Jones

Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work

By Bryan Walsh

What we know so far about monkeypox

By Keren Landman

The Supreme Court just condemned a man to die despite strong evidence he’s innocent

By Ian Millhiser

Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters

By Jonathan Guyer

An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough

By Rebecca Leber

Pandemic school reopenings were not just about politics

By Rachel M. Cohen

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The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash

Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped.

By Marin Cogan

The progressive push to oust the last anti-abortion House Democrat, explained

By Li Zhou

Stronger public health systems and uniform messaging are critical to fight Covid-19

By Natasha Ishak

Why Trump is struggling to take down Georgia’s Brian Kemp

By Nicole Narea

The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, explained

By Natasha Ishak

Is the center shrinking in the Democratic primaries?

By Christian Paz

The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators

By Siobhan McDonough

Title 42, the controversial Trump-era border policy, explained

By Nicole Narea

How much longer can Google own the internet?

By Sara Morrison

The Fortress of Solitude is a fraught and uneasy love letter to a vanished Brooklyn

By Constance Grady

Oklahoma isn’t waiting for the Supreme Court to ban all abortions

By Nicole Narea

Doug Mastriano really believes Trump’s lies about 2020. He also might be Pennsylvania’s next governor.

By Natalie Jennings

What Biden’s approach to Asia misses

By Jonathan Guyer