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Why 3-year-olds need smartphones*

Phones are a fact of life in the 21st century, and even if you try to keep them away from your kids, their friends will get devices, possibly w...

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What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong

For anyone scrolling quickly through their news feeds, it is easy to believe that all students are now using AI to cheat in school. Whether i...

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will oversee a revision of the US dietary guidelines — including the guidance...

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The US strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, briefly explained

Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on August. 26, 2025. | Aaron Schw...

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Why the Ukraine war is so hard to end

A man looks out of window from apartment in a damaged building after a Russian missile attack on August 28, 2025 in Sloviansk, Ukraine. | Roman...

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Vox’s new membership program, explained

Since our founding in 2014, you’ve supported Vox in our mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world so that we can all help sh...

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The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be

From left, Patrick Deneen, Curtis Yarvin, Johnny Burtka, Chris Rufo, and Christopher Caldwell. What happens when you put four of the Trump rig...

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The 65-year-old theory that helps explain why the Democrats keep losing

Democrats tried to emphasize Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, but this is hard to message, as the program goes by different names in...

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Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medicine can help.

Sarah Jane Pell dives with a spacesuit, in 2016 in Marseille, France, simulating lunar conditions. | Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images One day, Ma...

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How Trump lost the podcast bros

An illustration of several men lifting a giant red MAGA hat, with Trump merch scattered all. Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, the “...

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Are America’s four main adversaries really in cahoots?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping speak during a session at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 24, 20...

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The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results

It’s easy to assume, as many people do, that our planet is well explored. In the last few centuries, humans have summited Earth’s highest pea...