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Why cheating is allowed on game shows

A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way.

By Phil Edwards

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

How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

By Coleman Lowndes

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By Vox Staff March 26, 2021

How bats carry deadly diseases without dying

By Kimberly Mas November 22

Something weird happens when you keep squeezing

By Adam Cole November 15

A screenshot from a video that reads “Ugly??” in a pink banner over an image of a blocky concrete brutalist building.

Why everyone hates this concrete building

By Dean Peterson November 7

The Gaza Strip blockade, explained

By Rajaa Elidrissi November 1

How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror

By Edward Vega October 31

How China is designing flood-resistant cities

By Halley Brown October 27

Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?

By Kimberly Mas October 20

Where was the Israeli army on October 7?

By Liz Scheltens October 16

Why useless decongestants are still for sale

By Phil Edwards October 6

The antiracist town in the American South, explained

By Ranjani Chakraborty September 29

Side by side movie posters of Jaws (right) and Barbie (left). The Barbie poster features a photo of Margot Robbie dressed as a barbie in a retro blue and white striped swimsuit. The Jaws poster is stylized to match the Barbie poster, with a sparkly pink and blue backdrop and the words “Bruce The Shark” lettered across the top.

Why Jaws and Barbie were such blockbusters

By Edward Vega September 28

How to fight climate change with parking lots

By Ranjani Chakraborty September 27

It’s time to replace urban delivery vans with e-bikes

By Liz Scheltens September 20

Why most tennis players struggle to make a living

By Laura Bult September 12

Why Silicon Valley is here

By Phil Edwards August 28

The day women shut down Iceland

By Halley Brown August 23

What we get wrong about saving the bees

By Kimberly Mas August 15

How to travel now

How airplane legroom got so tight

By Edward Vega August 8

How to travel now

How cruise ships got so big

By Christophe Haubursin August 1

How to travel now

Why Americans love big cars

By Laura Bult July 25

2023’s big summer movie season, explained

Oppenheimer’s secret city, explained

By Phil Edwards July 20

How to travel now

What I learned from taking a train across the US

By Dean Peterson July 18

Why so many baseball players are Dominican

By Rajaa Elidrissi July 11

How to travel now

How RVs get their swoops

By Estelle Caswell July 10

How flight attendants changed the airline industry

By Halley Brown June 29

A desert fungus that infects humans is spreading

By Kimberly Mas June 27

2023’s big summer movie season, explained

How Wes Anderson uses miniatures

By Edward Vega June 23

A person in a hardhat buried to the waist in a pile of guns. The heading reads “640,000 guns.”

Do “gun buybacks” work?

By Christina Thornell June 16

Why the Supreme Court made this map illegal

By Adam Freelander June 15

How streaming caused the TV writers strike

By Laura Bult June 7

Why fake punches in movies look real

By Edward Vega May 30

The two men who derailed Sudan’s revolution

By Rajaa Elidrissi May 26

Why 25% of teens can’t answer this question

By Alvin Chang May 17

Why Palestinians protest every May 15

By Ranjani Chakraborty May 15

How A24 took over Hollywood

By Edward Vega May 12

Why Texas judges have so much power right now

By Adam Freelander May 11

Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?

By Christina Thornell May 4

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

An AI artist explains his workflow

By Phil Edwards May 2

How to fix clean energy’s storage problem

By Sam Ellis April 27