Editor’s note, February 28, 5:30 pm ET: President Donald Trump announced on Saturday afternoon that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the airstrikes. The following story was published earlier on February 28, before the news of Khamenei’s death. Early Saturday, the United States launched an open-ended war on Iran. And nobody really knows […]

Editor’s note, February 28, 7:20 am ET: Israel joined the US-led assault on Iran early Saturday. For more on that story, read Vox’s latest coverage. This past week, we got a vision of what the future of world politics might look like. And it wasn’t pretty. The glimpse came during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]

President Donald Trump ordered the entire federal government to stop using products from the AI company Anthropic on Friday to stop what he called a “radical left, woke company” from encroaching on the military’s decision-making.  The public feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic which resulted in the firm’s blacklisting has become effectively a proxy for […]

President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs last year had been supposed to change everything — as companies retaliated against new tariffs, economists predicted, prices would soar and the US economy would plunge into recession. The Supreme Court recently declared those tariffs unconstitutional. As Trump scrambles to reimpose them, though, the news raised a question: Did […]

There’s a dire shortage of good news in global health, so let me start with some. Earlier this month, Congress passed — and President Donald Trump signed — a law to spend $9.4 billion on global health work in more than 50 countries. That’s funding for HIV treatment, childhood vaccines, malaria and TB programs, and […]