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Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword
Welcome to the Vox crossword! New puzzles are published daily, Monday through Saturday, and our moderated comments section is now live. The registration link is below every puzzle so get over there and add your two cents. Puzzle editors, constructors, and other solvers will be on hand to answer your questions and reply to your […]
Who’s the real villain of the It Ends With Us saga?
The dramatic summer feud among the cast of It Ends With Us took a darker turn last month, when Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni, the movie’s costar and director, of sexual harassment on set and a subsequent plot to tarnish her reputation. On December 21, Lively filed a legal complaint against Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, […]
The most important questions to ask when picking a health care plan
Selecting a health insurance plan in the US is a little like going through a maze, or solving an impossibly difficult crossword puzzle. It can be a morass of hard-to-figure-out terms — HMO, PPO, deductible, premium, coinsurance — and plans. Under another Donald Trump presidency, understanding Affordable Care Act insurance plans may get even more […]
The Vox guide to using your benefits
Sometimes, it seems as if navigating health insurance benefits requires its own language (and maybe an actuarial degree to boot). The questions are endless: Is it better to have a high premium and a low deductible, or the other way around? How are you supposed to guess how much money to put in a flexible […]
25 things we think will happen in 2025
For the sixth year in a row, the staff of Future Perfect convened in December to make predictions about major events in the year to come. Will Congress pass a tariff bill that makes President-elect Donald Trump happy? Will the H5N1 bird flu become an honest-to-god pandemic? Will the war in Ukraine stop? Will a […]