• From the Desk of: Ed Jay
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In November, satirical newspaper The Onion won a bankruptcy auction to purchase Infowars, a website dedicated to hawking anti-government conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, however, a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the purchase on the grounds that the auction wasn’t conducted in a sufficiently transparent fashion, and didn’t produce as many proceeds as it could have.  At […]

In the days after a hooded gunman shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the middle of Manhattan, people on the internet endlessly speculated about the identity and motives of the shooter. Perhaps he was an aspiring folk hero suffering under delusions of grandeur, or a redpilled manosphere type seeking power and revenge […]

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Thousands of teenagers across the country are extra nervous this week. That’s because many of the nation’s most selective colleges and universities will be releasing early-decision offers, letting seniors know whether they’ll have a spot in next year’s […]

In 2022, the US reached a grim peak in drug overdose deaths: Nearly 108,000 people died that year, more than twice the number who died in 2015, and more than four times the number in 2002.  Now, in what experts hope is more than a blip, the overdose epidemic that has affected every state in […]