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A second Trump presidency is likely to bring more austerity than the first one did. Trump finishing a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia earlier this month. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump called for a ban on…

All the reasons the doctored image doesn’t make sense, and the absurd reason it does. The photo from Kensington Palace that Kate Middleton admitted to editing. Kensington Palace Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who explains what society obsesses over,…

How gang violence pushed out Ariel Henry — and what allowed it to fester. Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend reporter at Vox. She previously worked at Business Insider covering…

Texas Republicans are trying to rewrite the Constitution — and this Supreme Court could let them. Migrants cross the US-Mexico border in Texas. David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on…

As the National Guard heads into subways, new research examines how the city is faring with gun violence. Security forces, including National Guard troops and police, take security measures at a subway station in New York City on March 7,…

A live Today, Explained, conversation on what Democrats need to show Black voters this year. Noel King, Charlamagne tha God, and Angela Rye. Vox Media A New York Times/Siena poll last month showed that 23 percent of registered Black voters…

The gaps between perception of the economy and the reality, explained. Then-President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. Brendan Smialowski and Jim Watson/AFP…

It’s one of two cases asking whether the government is allowed to speak freely to private companies. A man wears an NRA hat in front of the US Supreme Court building. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent…

With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what the Supreme Court will go after next. A protester dressed as a pack of birth control pills dances in front of the US Supreme Court. Chip Somodevilla/Getty…

As it heads into the Oscars, what Oppenheimer gets right — and wrong — about the threat of nuclear weapons. The mushroom cloud produced by the first explosion by the Americans of a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the…