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The Highlight

Money

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

By Whizy Kim

Climate

The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change

By Rachel DuRose

Even Better

Take the visitor’s approach to exploring your own city

By Allie Volpe

Health Care

What happened to the family doctor?

By Dylan Scott

Politics

The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever

By Andrew Prokop

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?

By Marina Bolotnikova September 7

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

What the stories we tell about robots tell us about ourselves

By Constance Grady September 7

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Can AI learn to love — and can we learn to love it?

By Alissa Wilkinson September 7

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.

By Sigal Samuel September 7

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

What will love and death mean in the age of machine intelligence?

By Tahmima Anam September 7

How to deal with racial trauma, according to Black experts

By Kenya Hunter, Capital B June 16

Discrimination everywhere

By Vox and Capital B June 16

What’s behind Black women’s excessive rate of fibroids?

By Akilah Wise, Capital B June 15

AI automated discrimination. Here’s how to spot it.

By A.W. Ohlheiser June 14

We need to rethink discipline in schools

By Jonquilyn Hill June 14

How cars fuel racial inequality

By Marin Cogan June 13

Discrimination isn’t just infuriating. It steals Black people’s time.

By Sean Collins and Izzie Ramirez June 12

A racist society is detrimental to your health

By Margo Snipe, Capital B June 12

Everything old is new again

By Julia Rubin, Alanna Okun, and 2 more May 19

The billionaire’s guide to self-help

By Whizy Kim May 19

Crypto is the same fraud, different package

By Emily Stewart May 18

From banning hugs to gentle parenting, how are you supposed to raise kids, anyway?

By Anna North May 17

The return of the porn wars

By Constance Grady May 16

2023’s big summer movie season, explained

There’s no such thing as a new idea — just ask the Little Mermaid

By Alissa Wilkinson May 15

The 100-year-old mistake that’s reshaping the American West

By Samantha Oltman, Brian Resnick, and 2 more April 21

These 8 species depend on the Colorado River. What happens as it dries up?

By Benji Jones April 21

The devil lurking in the dust

By Keren Landman April 20

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few?

By Bryan Walsh April 19

Let’s talk about the biggest cause of the West’s water crisis

By Kenny Torrella April 19

You — yes, you — are going to pay for the century-old mistake that’s draining the Colorado River

By Benji Jones April 18

The worst-case scenario for drought on the Colorado River

By Umair Irfan April 17

Native American histories show rebuilding is possible — and necessary — after catastrophe

By B.L. Blanchard March 24

The Highlight

How will we feed Earth’s rising population? Ask the Dutch.

The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale.

By Kenny Torrella March 23

Why the news is so negative — and what we can do about it

By Dylan Matthews March 22

We need the right kind of climate optimism

By Hannah Ritchie March 21

The Highlight

Against doomerism

It’s boom times for doom times but there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.

By Bryan Walsh March 20

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel March 20

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

By Bryan Walsh March 20

The Highlight

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

How the quest to own the nation’s most popular, most Instagram-worthy pup has bred a world of problems.

By Tove K. Danovich March 16

Progress Report: America’s Schools

By Vox Staff February 23

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet February 23

The racist idea that changed American education

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat February 22

Conservatives’ war on emotions in the classroom

By Fabiola Cineas February 22

America’s after-school afterthought

By Rachel M. Cohen February 21

The Highlight

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 December 14, 2020

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