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The Highlight

The Highlight

Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world.

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Against doomerism

By Bryan Walsh

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The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel

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The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past

By Bryan Walsh

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The very cute, totally disturbing tale of the American “it” dog

By Tove K. Danovich

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Progress Report: America’s Schools

By Vox Staff

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet

The racist idea that changed American education

By Matt Barnum

Conservatives’ war on emotions in the classroom

By Fabiola Cineas

America’s after-school afterthought

By Rachel M. Cohen

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh

Why Teslas keep catching on fire

By Rebecca Heilweil

The glories of dining out alone

By Alissa Wilkinson

We pulled pandas back from the brink of extinction. Meanwhile, the rest of nature collapsed.

By Benji Jones

You may be thinking about animals all wrong (even if you’re an animal lover)

By Sigal Samuel

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Saving species, and other stories

What’s lost when focusing on the cute and charismatic. Plus: Why Teslas keep catching on fire, the progressive case for more people, and others.

By Vox Staff

Yes, you can have kids and fight climate change at the same time

By Bryan Walsh

New Zealand’s Māori fought for reparations — and won

By Fabiola Cineas

When humor becomes armor

By Ashley Ray

A joke with a literal cost

By Emily Stewart

Why do people still think women aren’t funny?

By Aubrey Hirsch

Is the right winning the comedy wars?

By Constance Grady

The very serious science of humor

By Allie Volpe

Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”

By Rebecca Jennings

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What’s so funny?

A status symbol, a political battleground, an emotional tool — humor is anything but a joke.

By Julia Rubin

Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note.

By Sigal Samuel

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

By Kelsey Piper

How one man quietly stitched the American safety net over four decades

By Dylan Matthews

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag

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The world to come

Earth’s population passed 8 billion this month — now what? Plus: the rise of an anti-vaccine America, the looming dangers of superintelligent AI, the shifting landscape of higher ed, and more.

By Bryan Walsh and Elbert Ventura

The incredible shrinking future of college

By Kevin Carey

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? 

By Bryan Walsh

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Back to the future

Rethinking old ideas about what we eat, where we live and work, and how we power our communities.

By Samantha Oltman and Adam Clark Estes

The future of the office is a lab

By Rani Molla

The wasted potential of garbage dumps

By Neel Dhanesha

The end of a battery’s life matters as much as its beginning

By Rebecca Leber

Under the hood of the electric vehicle revolution

By Rebecca Heilweil

Inside the fantastical, pragmatic quest to make “hybrid” meat

By Kenny Torrella

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

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Ruben Gallego’s ready for a fight — even if the Democratic Party isn’t

By Christian Paz

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The power and potential of Latino voters

Latino voters’ growing power, what the parties get right and wrong about them, and a brash Congress member on what Democrats need to do better.

By Natalie Jennings and Sean Collins

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A practical guide to winning Latino voters

By Natalie Jennings and Christian Paz

Los votantes latinos están siendo inundados con aún más desinformación

By Christian Paz

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Latino voters are being flooded with even more misinformation in 2022

By Christian Paz

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Yes, most Latinos are Christian. No, that doesn’t make them anti-abortion.

By Nicole Narea

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Some brand names have long perpetuated racism. Black Lives Matter is changing that.

The Cleveland Indians are reportedly the latest group preparing to abandon a stereotypical name, following the Washington Redskins and Aunt Jemima this summer.

By Allegra Frank