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Vox Announces Elias Isquith Joins as Senior Editor for Policy, Politics, and Ideas

Vox editor-in-chief & publisher Swati Sharma and executive editor Elbert Ventura announced today that Elias Isquith will be joining the publication as a senior editor for policy, politics, and ideas.  “In our conversations with him, it was clear that Elias is passionately interested in the same questions that drive our work,” said Libby Nelson, Vox’s […]

Botswana’s incredible HIV success story, explained in one chart

Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV — to tell the world how they did the impossible: squash childhood HIV rates.  The number of children living with HIV has declined sharply everywhere, but nowhere more so than […]

ChatGPT isn’t just for cheating anymore

Everyone in education, from K-12 teachers to university presidents, is well aware that AI is transforming the classroom. That presents all the challenges you’ve probably already heard of: students using ChatGPT to cheat, churning out papers and assignments without a second thought. But there’s also the more underreported development — teachers are deploying the technology to write […]

A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media. Is she right?

Earlier this month, Katie Miller launched her new podcast with a specific origin myth. Miller, a former Trump administration official and wife of Stephen Miller, declared that by creating a lifestyle podcast for conservative women, she was filling a hole in the media ecosystem.  “For years, I’ve seen that there isn’t a place for conservative […]

The terrifying reality behind one of America’s fastest-growing dairy brands

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. You don’t need me to tell you that the US is in the midst of an obsession with protein. By now, you’ve probably seen extra protein in foods and beverages it […]