The Olympics offer a fascinating window into the diets and workout routines of some of the world’s finest athletes, and it would be easy to feel inadequate in the face of these examples of the human body’s awesome potential. We tend to gravitate to extraordinary outliers, like the athletes in the Winter Games. Lindsay Vonn’s […]

The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health.  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that it will publish its final rule to dismantle the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases — the legal foundation of the EPA’s major US climate regulations. But […]

A new villain has emerged in right-wing discourse: the Affluent White Female Urban Liberal, or AWFUL.  Talking heads on Fox News and right-wing YouTubers describe AWFULs as smug, entitled, and even “a cancer on the nation.” AWFULs, their argument goes, are the reason that ICE activities in Minnesota have become so violent. These women are […]

We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. Many Americans were shocked and disturbed by the image of 5-year-old Liam Ramos, with his bright blue hat and Spider-Man backpack, being led away by ICE agents. The detention of the Minnesota preschooler was a […]

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The latest US jobs report came out yesterday, and it paints a mixed picture. In the Vox employee Slack, senior editor Benjy Sarlin explained it to us as a bit of a “both/and” situation: […]