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Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria will add to the region’s humanitarian struggles

The massive earthquakes come on top of decades of civil war in the region, which has created millions of refugees and a spiraling economic crisis.

By Jen Kirby

Nobody but your doctor should know your menstrual history

Florida wants way too much of its student athletes’ health information.

By Keren Landman

The balloon affair is a Sputnik moment

By Jonathan Guyer February 7

How this billionaire lost half his net worth in a matter of weeks

By Emily Stewart February 7

Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation

By Rachel M. Cohen February 7

The balloon thing is a bad sign for US-China relations

By Jen Kirby February 6

How you can help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

By Kelsey Piper February 6

The State of the Union address's history, explained

By Andrew Prokop February 6

The US’s empty commitment to a two-state solution

By Jonathan Guyer February 6

Did George Santos lie about everything?

By Ben Jacobs February 6

Can you get bird flu?

By Keren Landman and Benji Jones February 6

The dismal state of paid — and unpaid — leave in America

By Li Zhou February 6

What an abortion hotline reveals about reproductive care after Roe

By Marin Cogan and Victoria Chamberlin February 6

Republicans struggle to get their act together for a debt limit deal

By Ellen Ioanes February 5

The forgotten gas stove wars

By Rebecca Leber February 5

The labor strikes in Britain are years in the making

By Ellen Ioanes February 4

How Turkey is ruining NATO’s moment of unity

By Jen Kirby February 4

Inside the lonely and surprisingly earnest world of political TikTok

By Christian Paz February 3

It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

By Ian Millhiser February 2

Republicans kicked Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee to get revenge on Democrats

By Li Zhou February 2

TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington

By Sara Morrison February 2

Behind the scenes at TikTok as it campaigns to change Americans’ hearts and minds

By Shirin Ghaffary February 2

What do we want police body cams to do?

By Rachel M. Cohen February 2

The soft impact of Biden’s ongoing classified documents drama

By Christian Paz February 1

The lessons of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, explained by the negotiators who were there

By Li Zhou February 1

Biden is ending the Covid public health emergency. Here’s what that means for you.

By Dylan Scott February 1

Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own.

By Dylan Scott February 1

Remember the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case against Trump? It’s back.

By Andrew Prokop January 31

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

By Aja Romano January 31

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What we know about the killing of Tyre Nichols

By Vox Staff January 30

Lawmakers won’t compromise on police reform. Will Tyre Nichols’s killing change that?

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou January 30

Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it.

By Umair Irfan January 30

Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for the government to kill people

By Ian Millhiser January 30

With coworkers like Marjorie Taylor Greene, what can Democrats do on oversight?

By Christian Paz January 29

How years of instability came to a head in Peru

By Ellen Ioanes January 29

Trump struggles to define himself at his first public campaign stop

By Ben Jacobs January 28

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more January 28

What we learned from the Tyre Nichols video

By Ellen Ioanes January 28

In the last 48 hours, violence in Israel and Palestine has spiked

By Jonathan Guyer January 27

The Pelosi attack is the culmination of longtime GOP hate-mongering

By Nicole Narea January 27

The stunning hypocrisy of Bill Barr’s probe into the Russia-Trump investigation

By Andrew Prokop January 27

Believe it or not, we are not going to be sick forever

By Dylan Scott January 27