This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: It has been a bad week for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, after basic lawyering mistakes set back the president’s agenda on two fronts. What […]

The most shocking thing about President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday was that anyone was shocked by it.  The main headline coming out of the two leaders’ combative session with reporters was Trump’s blasé dismissal of a question about the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist […]

On Thursday, November 13, Vox co-hosted the 2025 L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Program grant awardees for a dinner celebrating their achievements in research and fostering connections among women in science across disciplines. Research Astronaut Kellie Gerardi emceed the evening, which opened with L’Oréal Groupe’s chief sustainability officer, Marissa Pagnani McGowan, giving remarks on […]

When we launched Vox’s Future Perfect section in 2018, it began with a simple question: “What topics would we write about if our only instruction was to write about the most important stuff in the world, particularly the most important stuff that isn’t already widely covered?” In the years since, the “most important stuff” has […]

The grand challenges of global health and development, from feeding a warming world to defeating antibiotic resistance, require funding and effort and politics. But they also require breakthroughs. In the last hundred years, we’ve made incredible progress fighting malaria, invented game-changing vaccines, and developed new drugs that could change the course on heart disease. But […]