Category Politics

The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political. Six Supreme Court justices attend President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is…

Flying has gotten hellish. Consumers might finally get compensated. Flights to LaGuardia Airport were delayed last June due to smoke and poor visibility. Getty Images Li Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and elections. Previously,…

It’s time to take back the Israel-Palestine debate from the radicals on both sides. Israeli and Palestinian flags on display in protests at UCLA on April 28, 2024 in Westwood, California. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Zack Beauchamp is a…

“A billion people at risk”: How worldwide cholera outbreaks are threatening lives. A nurse administers a dosage of the cholera vaccine during the launch of the campaign to immunize people in affected areas, at the Kuwadzana Polyclinic in Harare on…

A potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses. Federal law requires all research in federally funded laboratories to use only marijuana from a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Li Zhou…

Noem wanted to look decisive. That’s not what happened. Gov. Kristi Noem recently wrote about killing a puppy. It’s not going over well. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Li Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and…

Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy. Getty Images Is damn near everything a cult now? That’s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet…

Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century. George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on April 25, 2024, in…

The crackdown on protesters at Columbia and elsewhere lays bare the challenge of balancing academic freedom with student safety. Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest of more than 100 protesters,…

The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa. Pierre Poilievre speaks at a protest against a Federal Carbon Tax increase on March 27, 2024.…