Donald Trump has declared war on the Federal Reserve’s independence. On Monday, the president ordered the removal of Lisa Cook from the central bank’s Board of Governors. Cook, an economist appointed by Joe Biden, holds one of the 12 votes that determine whether the Fed will raise or lower interest rates.  Trump wants a central […]

Over the past 15 years, the idea of giving everyone a “basic income” has been heralded as a promising solution for economic justice and even ending poverty. The California Democratic Party adopted it into its official platform back in 2018, and Andrew Yang ran on the promise of basic income during his 2020 presidential bid. […]

Vox editor-in-chief & publisher Swati Sharma announced that senior correspondent Joshua Keating has been named a 2025 Outrider Fellow, joining a distinguished cohort of journalists supported by the Outrider Foundation.  The fellowship, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners, includes a grant to fund Keating’s continued reporting on the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and […]

Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, and the millions of tons of toxic manure that they produce creates a perfect environment for injuries, and even death.  This […]

It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” into the Greenland ice sheet, 800 miles from the North Pole. It had living facilities, and scientific labs, and working showers, all powered by one small nuclear reactor. The research base was called “Camp Century,” a […]