“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social message on Tuesday, the most extreme threat the president has issued yet in nearly 40 days of war with Iran. The latest message was a follow-up to post over the weekend in which he instructed Iran […]

Today, Vox announced the launch of America, Actually, a new video podcast hosted by Astead W. Herndon. Designed from the ground up for video platforms, the show will bring audiences inside the forces shaping American politics for a post-Trump era through immersive reporting, sharp analysis, and deeply human storytelling. America, Actually will explore the question: […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbidden C-word” — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, […]

A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke.  See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people — […]

I work with a lot of very smart people, and sometimes one of them asks me a question that stops me in my tracks. That’s what happened after I published the newest installment of my advice column, Your Mileage May Vary, which was about whether it’s morally icky to send your kid to private school […]