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![Democrats say Trump is an existential threat. They’re not acting like it.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2158271832.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Democrats say Trump is an existential threat. They’re not acting like it.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2158271832.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
If the stakes of the 2024 election are as great as the party says, there’s no excuse for inaction.
![How the UFC explains the USA](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2159595481.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670230966638%2C0%2C66.659538066724%2C100&w=2400)
![How the UFC explains the USA](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2159595481.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.00534644995723%2C0%2C99.989307100086%2C100&w=2400)
Ultimate fighting and the 2024 election's connections, explained
![The most important Biden Cabinet member you don’t know](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2152935501.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669982096678%2C0%2C66.660035806644%2C100&w=2400)
![The most important Biden Cabinet member you don’t know](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2152935501.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0049731450169119%2C0%2C99.990053709966%2C100&w=2400)
Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
![Noise canceling can help save your ears](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2155765168.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669802445908%2C0%2C66.660395108184%2C100&w=2400)
![Noise canceling can help save your ears](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2155765168.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0047036688617084%2C0%2C99.990592662277%2C100&w=2400)
We’re probably all listening to music too loudly, alas.
![The hollowness of corporate Pride](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1321485411.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C12.5%2C100%2C75&w=2400)
![The hollowness of corporate Pride](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1321485411.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C25%2C100%2C50&w=2400)
The troubling corporate pullback on Pride Month, briefly explained.
![Why the most powerful men in America are the worst dressed](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2152375641.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![Why the most powerful men in America are the worst dressed](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2152375641.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Twitter’s menswear guy explains, from Trump Republicans’ shiny red ties to the horror of “dress sneakers.”
![Do we have Alzheimer’s disease all wrong?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-512298231.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Do we have Alzheimer’s disease all wrong?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-512298231.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Retracted studies and new treatments reveal the confusing state of Alzheimer’s research.
![The Christian right is coming for divorce next](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-479917910.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.613979627678%2C0%2C66.772040744643%2C100&w=2400)
![The Christian right is coming for divorce next](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-479917910.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.078905839032089%2C100%2C99.842188321936&w=2400)
Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.
![The truth about Hunter Biden’s conviction](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2156101297.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.652707984366%2C0%2C66.694584031267%2C100&w=2400)
![The truth about Hunter Biden’s conviction](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2156101297.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.020929259104221%2C100%2C99.958141481792&w=2400)
Prosecutors showed Joe Biden’s son isn’t above the law. But there’s a complication to this story.
![One change that would make cars safer for everyone](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2156129754.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.828023235346%2C0%2C66.343953529308%2C100&w=2400)
![One change that would make cars safer for everyone](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2156129754.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.24203485301883%2C0%2C99.515930293962%2C100&w=2400)
Too many pedestrians are dying on US roads. Changing car safety ratings could save lives.
![The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-173465655.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.3125%2C0%2C69.375%2C100&w=2400)
![The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-173465655.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.951951951952%2C100%2C96.096096096096&w=2400)
If even Death Valley is in trouble, what does that mean for the rest of us?
![Our identity crisis on immigration](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1815425229.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.734589913398%2C0%2C66.530820173204%2C100&w=2400)
![Our identity crisis on immigration](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1815425229.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.10188487009679%2C0%2C99.796230259806%2C100&w=2400)
Cities and states aren’t waiting for the federal government to act.
![This is the world’s best investment](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-585855240.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.803571428571%2C0%2C66.392857142857%2C100&w=2400)
![This is the world’s best investment](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-585855240.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.20535714285715%2C0%2C99.589285714286%2C100&w=2400)
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
![8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25442451/GettyImages_1232956804.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=2.5666666666667%2C0%2C66.755555555556%2C100&w=2400)
![8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25442451/GettyImages_1232956804.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C99.866844207723&w=2400)
Billions of these bugs are about to erupt from the Earth — and they rule.
![The NCAA’s proposal to pay college athletes is fair. That's the problem.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1833410586.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The NCAA’s proposal to pay college athletes is fair. That's the problem.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1833410586.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The end of amateurism finally comes for college sports. Will we miss it?
![Your home insurance company dumped you. Now what?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1443030834.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663582531458%2C0%2C66.672834937084%2C100&w=2400)
![Your home insurance company dumped you. Now what?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1443030834.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0046257748172778%2C100%2C99.990748450365&w=2400)
It’s getting harder to protect your home from climate risk. Here are some things you can do.
![Why Trump's running mate could be the most important VP pick of our time](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Donald-Trump-VP-TeX-file.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=12.79453125%2C0%2C66.654492330168%2C100&w=2400)
![Why Trump's running mate could be the most important VP pick of our time](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Donald-Trump-VP-TeX-file.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0091307523739914%2C0%2C99.981738495252%2C100&w=2400)
VP picks are usually overhyped. But Trump's will really matter.
![Biden promised to defeat authoritarianism. Reality got in the way.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25453172/2152419383.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663848495096%2C0%2C66.672303009807%2C100&w=2400)
![Biden promised to defeat authoritarianism. Reality got in the way.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25453172/2152419383.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0042268999915507%2C100%2C99.991546200017&w=2400)
Still ‘rockin’ in the free world’?
![The unionization fight is coming to the South](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25451451/2147938654.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The unionization fight is coming to the South](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25451451/2147938654.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama are on their last day of voting for a UAW union. Here’s why it matters.
![The end of coral reefs as we know them](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25418401/Vox_PVickers_4_25_1920x1080.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=21.875%2C0%2C56.25%2C100&w=2400)
Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now it’s unfolding.
![What young voters actually care about](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25449861/1244204365.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.6625%2C0%2C66.675%2C100&w=2400)
![What young voters actually care about](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25449861/1244204365.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0062492188476426%2C100%2C99.987501562305&w=2400)
![Why school segregation is getting worse](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25448118/1968507624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Why school segregation is getting worse](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25448118/1968507624.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status.
![What the Methodist split tells us about America](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25446525/GettyImages_1192239200.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.671875%2C0%2C66.65625%2C100&w=2400)
![What the Methodist split tells us about America](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25446525/GettyImages_1192239200.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0078125%2C0%2C99.984375%2C100&w=2400)
A separation of church and church.
![Pig kidney transplants are cool. They shouldn’t be necessary.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25365562/20240316_mcr_kidney_transplant_244.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.650390625%2C0%2C66.69921875%2C100&w=2400)
![Pig kidney transplants are cool. They shouldn’t be necessary.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25365562/20240316_mcr_kidney_transplant_244.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.024402147388969%2C100%2C99.951195705222&w=2400)
We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too?
![The Trump hush money case has been a quiet affair. Enter Stormy Daniels.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25440990/2152213375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.659655027345%2C0%2C66.680689945309%2C100&w=2400)
![The Trump hush money case has been a quiet affair. Enter Stormy Daniels.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25440990/2152213375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.010515247108309%2C100%2C99.978969505783&w=2400)
What we learned from Daniels’s testimony.
![North America’s biggest city is running out of water](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25439473/GettyImages_2048048347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.6625%2C0%2C66.675%2C100&w=2400)
![North America’s biggest city is running out of water](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25439473/GettyImages_2048048347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0062492188476426%2C100%2C99.987501562305&w=2400)
Mexico City is staring down a water crisis. It won’t be the last city to do so.
![Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25437188/GettyImages_2150341585.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.948604992658%2C0%2C70.102790014684%2C100&w=2400)
![Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25437188/GettyImages_2150341585.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.4507750314202%2C100%2C95.09844993716&w=2400)
A post-Covid pandemic treaty was supposed to be a breakthrough. Instead, it looks like a disappointment.
![What does divesting from Israel really mean?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25436253/2150415833.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=6.2268150503445%2C0%2C87.546369899311%2C100&w=2400)
![What does divesting from Israel really mean?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25436253/2150415833.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C11.924939467312%2C100%2C76.150121065375&w=2400)
And is it feasible? Plus three other questions about the student protesters’ demands.
![The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427059/2059261051.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427059/2059261051.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.
![AI has created a new form of sexual abuse](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427403/GettyImages_1357723814.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.1321306188268%2C0%2C70.711550090708%2C100&w=2400)
![AI has created a new form of sexual abuse](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427403/GettyImages_1357723814.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.8601292284303%2C100%2C94.279741543139&w=2400)
How do you stop deepfake nudes?
![High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427518/2147859742.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=25.4875%2C24.343585896474%2C50.425%2C75.656414103526&w=2400)
![High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427518/2147859742.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.5%2C25.962740685171%2C72.4%2C72.418104526132&w=2400)
The Federal Reserve will give an announcement on interest rates during its May meeting Wednesday.
![Why we keep seeing egg prices spike](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25426044/GettyImages_1246333393.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Why we keep seeing egg prices spike](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25426044/GettyImages_1246333393.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.
![The AI grift that can literally poison you](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25420342/1243691496.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670107349298%2C0%2C66.659785301404%2C100&w=2400)
![The AI grift that can literally poison you](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25420342/1243691496.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0051610239471529%2C0%2C99.989677952106%2C100&w=2400)
When AI comes for mushroom foragers.
![How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25408761/1204094281.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25408761/1204094281.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case.
![Ukraine is finally getting more US aid. It won’t win the war — but it can save them from defeat.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25414450/2123611372.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Ukraine is finally getting more US aid. It won’t win the war — but it can save them from defeat.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25414450/2123611372.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
New American weapons will buy Ukraine’s defenders some valuable time.
![Can Canada stave off populism?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25413029/GettyImages_1241652246.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Can Canada stave off populism?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25413029/GettyImages_1241652246.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Justin Trudeau’s true dough plans to fight populism with policy.
![Climate change is disrupting our sense of home](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25404781/Lahaina.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.166666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
As disasters displace more people around the world, our connection to place becomes more tenuous.
![It’s impossible to be neutral about Taylor Swift](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25407002/2053191778.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660063391442%2C0%2C66.679873217116%2C100&w=2400)
![It’s impossible to be neutral about Taylor Swift](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25407002/2053191778.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0099029510794253%2C100%2C99.980194097841&w=2400)
The Tortured Poets Department and the broken way we talk about pop music.
![Everything ends. Even Bluey.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25405398/bluey_the_sign_brief_flappy_ludo_studio_046b6772.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=21.875%2C0%2C56.25%2C100&w=2400)
![Everything ends. Even Bluey.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25405398/bluey_the_sign_brief_flappy_ludo_studio_046b6772.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.8125%2C0%2C84.375%2C100&w=2400)
Did you see a parent crying today? The brilliant kids’ TV show Blueyis why.
![What science is just starting to understand about periods](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25402923/GettyImages_1201812018.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![What science is just starting to understand about periods](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25402923/GettyImages_1201812018.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Menstruation affects the body and mind in countless ways. A new study is just the beginning.