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. Cigarettes are a public health nightmare: both highly addictive and highly dangerous. By the middle of the 20th century, nearly half of Americans were smokers, putting themselves at risk of lung […]

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: President Donald Trump is on a clemency spree, issuing four pardons to white-collar criminals this week, some of whom have connections to his administration. What […]

Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started talking about artificial intelligence.   In his first speech to the press, he recognized that AI has “immense potential” but emphasized that we need to “ensure that it can be used for the good of all.” […]

As right-wing populism has surged globally in the past 10 years, the socialist left has advanced a distinctive explanation for its emergence and how to respond. Their theory: President Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders’ ascendance is a symptom of Democrats and other center-left parties betraying their working-class base. These parties’ embrace of free trade […]

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. If you’ve spent any time on the internet over the last several years, you may have noticed the profusion of two closely linked trends — one very positive, the other its […]