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Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn't fix everything.
Prediction markets have closely tracked Biden’s fate, but they have a long way to go as reliable indicators.
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
Charitable giving in the US is down. But generosity goes beyond dollars.
Teen jobs aren’t what they used to be. They’re worse.
Your summer won’t be as good as you think it will be. It never is.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
How a worker-driven initiative is filling in the gaps left behind by corporate social responsibility programs.
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
Why exponential growth can lead us to underestimate some technologies and overestimate others.
Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
More refugees live in cities. Could cash help them rebuild their lives?
“The survivors would envy the dead.”
Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has debt.
Scientists are testing futuristic tools to dismantle antibiotic resistance.
Americans are more socially isolated than ever. Here’s how we can reconnect.
Why critics call the company pushing to legalize MDMA a "therapy cult."
Churches, mosques, and temples could change the game on affordable housing.
Retracted studies and new treatments reveal the confusing state of Alzheimer’s research.
The debate that will steer the future of consciousness — and us.
Why some tech leaders are so worried about a California AI safety bill.
A bold experiment to help tenants is advancing.
“Utter neglect of displaced people has become the new normal.”
NYC’s very good plan to fix traffic fell victim to a very bad argument. And it's not just New York.
Already the world’s worst displacement crisis, new battlefronts in Sudan could unleash ethnic violence and genocide.
A new study reveals elephants are more like humans than we realized. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?
A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.
Both skeptics and boosters are too sure of themselves.
Mindfulness is one thing. Jhāna meditation is stranger, stronger, and going mainstream.
“I’m scared. I’d be crazy not to be,” one former employee tells Vox.
Musician FKA twigs made a digital clone of herself. Is this the future of celebrity?
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
House Republicans are working to make America's factory farms even crueler.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
AI is holding the internet hostage — and media is no exception.