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MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn't fix everything.
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In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here's what happened.
A recent poll suggests a reversal in a decades-long trend of the public warming to immigrants. What’s causing the shift?
Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
Harris flopped in 2020, but a lot has changed in four years.
The “motherhood penalty” is more complicated than you think.
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
Day care as public safety and public relations.
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
As the GOP’s voting base diversifies, conservative elites are doubling down on white identity politics.
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.
The Court's Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
A proposed tax hike sparked unrest, but Kenya’s real problem is a debt crisis.
Some lessons from the two presidents who walked away.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
The case for somebody, anybody else.
It's a historic rematch, the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president.
Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
We're here to help you understand the state of America on some of the most contested policy areas of the 2024 election.
The border trends during Biden's presidency, and how his policies played into them, explained.
Crime is actually falling. Here are three theories on why that doesn't seem to reassure voters.
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.
The ripple effects of the fall of Roe extend far beyond abortion.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
More refugees live in cities. Could cash help them rebuild their lives?
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices' own incompetence.
Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.
El Salvador has touted its tough-on-crime policies (and kept quiet on human rights issues). Now everyone wants to try.