Reading List
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A public health expert keeps going viral on Instagram for delivering this very simple message
The way Jessica Knurick sees it, the Make America Healthy Again movement won over Americans on social media — and so that’s where public health’s battle to win back people’s hearts and minds must be fought. Knurick, a dietitian with a PhD, has become one of the faces of a fledgling counter-MAHA movement. She has […]
The one, big unanswered question about Ozempic
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. We are nearing a point of no return for GLP-1 drugs. More than one in 10 Americans have already taken a GLP-1 agonist, be it Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro. The medications, […]
Gen Z created a new type of man to avoid
If you live in a major city, you might have seen what looks like a hipster drag show playing out in a park or on a sidewalk recently: a parade of young men strutting with tote bags, holding up feminist literature, and showing off their newly purchased vinyls. That guess wouldn’t be totally wrong. Over […]
We used to stash gold in Fort Knox. What if we did the same with carbon?
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US government is a big-time hoarder. At last count, in three locations — Denver, Fort Knox, and West Point— it had socked away 248,046,115.696 troy ounces of gold. One might think to round that to the nearest ounce, […]
South Park is doing what the rest of the media won’t
South Park is back, and the show’s creators are going full force on their jabs at the Trump administration. Three episodes in, the show’s world-building centers fully around President Donald Trump and the colorful characters in his administration, with scathing parodies of figures like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance. While […]