What happens when Harvard can’t be Harvard
In 1965, then-French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing came up with the “mot juste” for describing the way that the ...
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The new pope has strong opinions about AI. Good.
Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started ...
The case against summer
Close your eyes and think of the word “summer.” What comes to mind?Is it long days at the beach, a ...
Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war
The first observance of what came to be known as Memorial Day was on May 30, 1868, when a Civil ...
Something remarkable is happening with violent crime rates in the US
The astounding drop in violent crime that began in the 1990s and extended through the mid-2010s is one of the ...
4,000 chicks died in the mail. They expose a darker truth about the meat industry.
Late last month, some 14,000 baby chicks in Pennsylvania were shipped from a hatchery — commercial operations that breed chickens, ...
How US drug overdose deaths dropped by record numbers
In 2020 and 2021, before I came to Vox, I worked as the future correspondent at Axios — yes, that ...
How we stretched our aviation system to the brink
Air travel is remarkably, astonishingly safe. Every year, commercial US airlines take more than 800 million domestic passengers to their ...
This illness kills babies at their most vulnerable. We can stop it.
If the year 2025 has had a message for developing countries, it’s this: “You’re on your own.”Most notably, the Trump ...
Does your job feel meaningless? Try “moral ambition.”
We’re told from a young age to achieve. Get good grades. Get into a good school. Get a good job. ...
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