Mon - Fri 8:00 - 6:30

Because everything affects our health, life, and legacy.

Browsing: Cover Story

Cover Story

Trump’s redistricting loss in Indiana, briefly explained

A now-rejected draft congressional map is seen the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on December 8, 2025. | Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty...

Cover Story

Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess

Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to spike after Congress failed to avert the rate hike. Health insu...

Cover Story

Caitlin Dewey Joins Vox as Senior Writer & Editor for the Today, Explained Newsletter

Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and editorial director for politics, policy, and ideas Libby Nelson announced today that Caitlin Dewey is jo...

Cover Story

Yes, you should look up your home’s disaster risk

Earlier this month, the real-estate listing site Zillow ended a subtle social experiment. In 2024, they began to embed climate risk data dire...

Cover Story

Why Republicans in Congress are turning against Trump

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrives for a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 18, 2025. Johnson is dealing with a fractiou...

Cover Story

Want a new job? Be (sort of) annoying.

Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation. | Colleen Hayes/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images To anyon...

Cover Story

The “Trump Gold Card,” briefly explained

Donald Trump delivers remarks alongside a poster of the “Trump Gold Card” in the Oval Office of the White House on September 19, 2025. | Andrew...

Cover Story

The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence

The death chamber gurney at a prison in Texas. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images From the moment the Republican Party gained a 6-3...

Cover Story

The fierce debate behind Trump’s move on selling AI chips to China

President Donald Trump listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America"...

Cover Story

The Republicans fighting Trump’s latest redistricting plan

A display of the 2025 draft congressional map at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on December 8, 2025. | Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Gett...

Cover Story

Where lab-made DNA is created — and barely policed

Almost 20 years ago, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the only human disease to have ever been successfully er...

Cover Story

The man at the center of the crisis in Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro’s regime is all about strength and exercising control over his opposition. | Jesus Vargas/Getty Images Behind the crippling eco...