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Supreme Court

Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court today

By Ian Millhiser

Podcasts

Vox podcasts tackle the Israel-Hamas war

By Vox Staff

World Politics

Russia’s absurd claim that the LGBTQ community is extremist, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

An oil executive is leading the UN climate summit. It’s going as well as you’d expect.

By Li Zhou December 4

Two new Supreme Court cases ask if there is a right to medically necessary abortion

By Ian Millhiser December 4

Israel moves into southern Gaza after a week-long truce — and its goals are murkier than ever

By Ellen Ioanes December 2

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, briefly explained

By Avishay Artsy December 2

George Santos’s messy expulsion vote, briefly explained

By Li Zhou December 1

A woman in a MAGA hat speaks onstage while Donald Trump holds a sign behind her that reads “Latinas for Trump.”

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How Israel fractured the left and united the right

By Avishay Artsy December 1

Can the party of Trump really become a multiracial coalition?

By Christian Paz December 1

Why Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are debating each other

By Li Zhou November 30

What Henry Kissinger wrought

By Dylan Matthews November 30

There are now more land mines in Ukraine than almost anywhere else on the planet

By Jen Kirby November 30

The Supreme Court seeks a middle path between following the law and blowing up the government

By Ian Millhiser November 29

Nikki Haley’s “rise” and the Republican flight from reality

By Zack Beauchamp November 29

What is life like in Palestine? These short films offer a glimpse.

By Nylah Burton November 29

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser November 28

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is pictured raising a fist in a party salute, with images of his family and the word’s “Xi’s rise” in graphics behind him.

The rise of Xi Jinping, explained

By Coleman Lowndes November 28

The new Trump judge revolt against the Voting Rights Act, explained

By Ian Millhiser November 28

The Israel-Hamas prisoner deal was extended. What comes next?

By Ellen Ioanes November 27

What we know about the shooting of 3 Palestinian American college students

By Li Zhou November 27

The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist

By Ian Millhiser November 27

Is Biden doomed in 2024? 3 theories about the president’s bad polls.

By Andrew Prokop November 27

How Myanmar’s resistance could topple its military government — for good

By Ellen Ioanes November 25

The controversial phrase “from the river to sea,” explained

By Ellen Ioanes November 24

How Qatar became a key broker in the Israel-Hamas deal

By Jen Kirby November 22

Why Israel imprisons so many Palestinians

By Abdallah Fayyad November 22

The Israel-Hamas hostage deal, explained

By Jonathan Guyer November 22

The Israel-Hamas deal is not a real ceasefire

By Zack Beauchamp November 22

Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine

The many, many times Israelis and Palestinians tried to make peace — and failed

By Nicole Narea November 22

A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby November 21

A Supreme Court case about stocks could help make Trump’s authoritarian dreams reality

By Ian Millhiser November 21

How young Argentines helped put a far-right libertarian into power

By Lautaro Grinspan November 20

We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

By Oshan Jarow November 20

Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy.

By Emily Stewart November 20

Rishi Sunak’s cabinet shuffle won’t fix the UK’s Tories’ problems

By Ellen Ioanes November 19

Most of Israel’s weapons imports come from the US. Now Biden is rushing even more arms.

By Jonathan Guyer November 18

The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser and Li Zhou November 17

Congress is procrastinating on the real government shutdown fight

By Li Zhou November 16

The dire medical crisis in Gaza, explained

By Li Zhou November 15

The achievement of this year’s Biden-Xi summit is, simply, the meeting itself

By Jonathan Guyer November 15

The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke

By Ian Millhiser November 14