This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places, recorder and notebook in hand. That’s how, […]

As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — a quick way to see what landed with you when you had the whole internet to choose from. Looking over the list, two themes dominated. One is intensely everyday: what we eat and drink, what […]

2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland.  On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland with the goal, as Landry put it, “to make Greenland a part of the US.” Though the territory has been moving gradually toward greater independence, Greenland […]

It was the last day of school before winter break, and Aiden and his eighth-grade classmates were playing a game of Mafia. After the first round, though, one of Aiden’s friends got bored and quit playing. Another friend called him a “screenager,” Aiden recalled — “like, your attention span is so short.” The incident was […]

The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […]