Voxflipped into All StoriesImpeachment Vox Sentences: Impeachment, Day 24VoxVox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive
Voxflipped into All StoriesTech Industry No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.RecodePay for sports? Sure. Pay for sports news? No way. That has been the conventional wisdom in the media industry for years. Alex Mather says it’s wrong. And for now, Mather looks like he’s correct: The of
Voxflipped into All StoriesRikers Island Why a vote to close New York’s Rikers Island is being met with backlashVoxFor the better part of eight decades, Rikers Island Jail has been a glaring symbol of the most negative aspects of New York City’s justice system. Now, the sprawling complex is potentially on its way being
Voxflipped into All StoriesCulture Barney the Dinosaur is getting a new movie. But is America ready?VoxBarney the Dinosaur, the giant purple nightmare from our childhoods, has found his way into our current hellscape — because if there’s anything we as a species deserve right now, it’s remixes of “I Love
Voxflipped into All StoriesDonald Trump Trump loves dictators. Erdogan is the latest to take advantage of that.VoxPresident Donald Trump is bragging that his decision last week to withdraw US troops from northern Syria — leaving America’s allies, the Syrian Kurds, to fend for themselves against invading Turkish forces
Voxflipped into IdentitiesAmazon The problem with Amazon’s speedy shipping, in one graphicVoxAmazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, say they package about four online orders every minute. If they stop for a few seconds outside of their designated breaks, it hurts their performance
Voxflipped into All StoriesWatchmen In 1986, Watchmen skewered the way we love superheroes. It’s still as relevant as ever.VoxWatchmen was never meant to be a regular superhero comic book, and it made its intentions clear right from the jump. Average readers might not notice what makes Watchmen so different. But superhero comic
Voxflipped into CultureCulture ABC’s Emergence blends Lost with This Is Us and adds a dash of E.T.VoxIn Watch This, Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff tells you what she’s watching on TV — and why you should watch it too. Read the archives here. This week: ABC’s new sci-fi family drama Emergence, airs
Voxflipped into All StoriesImpeachment Support for impeachment isn’t as high in battleground districtsVoxThe majority of Americans now support impeachment, according to a slew of recent polls from Pew, Gallup and Fox News. But based on an internal memo from House Democrats’ campaign arm, the margins are closer
Voxflipped into CultureLizzo When I twerked onstage with Lizzo, it was an act of political defianceVoxLast week, I made one of my dreams come true: I donned a skin-tight purple romper, tied a silver cape around my neck that read “100% THAT BITCH,” and twerked with Lizzo. By day, I am an author and tenure-track
Voxflipped into All StoriesAndrew Yang A new high-powered super PAC is going to spend millions to back Andrew YangRecodeA new super PAC is planning to spend over $1 million to back Andrew Yang’s campaign for the presidency, a surprising effort that could give Yang needed support but will also test his commitment to disempower
Voxflipped into All StoriesWorld News The Syrian ceasefire the US brokered is already falling apartVoxIt took less than a day for the ceasefire in Syria that President Donald Trump said was “Great for everybody” to fall apart. On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Voxflipped into All StoriesImmigration House Democrats say migrants aren’t getting fair hearings at tent courts on the borderVoxHouse Democrats are calling for investigations into two temporary immigration courts that opened along the southern border last month where migrants who have been waiting in Mexico are fighting to obtain
Voxflipped into CultureCulture Netflix’s The Laundromat is certainly the most entertaining way to learn about the Panama PapersVoxEvery week, new original films debut on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services, often to much less fanfare than their big-screen counterparts. Cinemastream is Vox’s series highlighting the most notable
Voxflipped into Policy & PoliticsBasic Income Basic income can’t do enough to help workers displaced by technologyVoxThe October Democratic presidential debate featured something that many activists would have considered impossible just a few years ago: a lengthy debate between leading presidential candidates about universal
Voxflipped into All StoriesCulture Netflix’s Tell Me Who I Am is a nearly unbelievable documentary about a dark secretVoxEvery week, new original films debut on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services, often to much less fanfare than their big-screen counterparts. Cinemastream is Vox’s series highlighting the most notable
Voxflipped into All StoriesInstagram Brands are using Instagram to sell colored contacts. They might not be safe to wear.VoxMy first pair of colored contact lenses was purchased inside an accessory shop in Koreatown. A middle-aged Korean clerk convinced my then-teenage self to fork out $30 for hazel contacts that would lighten
Voxflipped into Vox ExplainersAbortion How the abortion debate moved away from “safe, legal, and rare”Vox“I agree with Hillary Clinton on one thing,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said at the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night. “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” Clinton used this language in her
Voxflipped into All StoriesCatalonia Vox Sentences: A bitter pill for Johnson & JohnsonVoxVox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive
Voxflipped into All StoriesWorld News The US and Turkey reached a Syrian ceasefire. But what does that mean?VoxThe United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in northeastern Syria, a week after President Donald Trump withdrew US troops from the Kurdish-held area, effectively clearing the way for a Turkish
Voxflipped into All StoriesRick Perry Rick Perry, a key figure in Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, will resign as energy secretaryVoxEnergy Secretary Rick Perry, a Cabinet member who’s been caught up in the impeachment inquiry of the president over his actions in Ukraine, has officially tendered his resignation. He’ll leave the post
Voxflipped into All StoriesGoogle “I sold my face to Google for $5:” Why Google’s attempt to make facial recognition tech more inclusive failedRecodeOn October 15, Google announced its latest phone: the Pixel 4. There’s been hype around this phone for months. Its features were the worst-kept secret in tech. So the stuff that Google said at the launch
Voxflipped into All StoriesCitizenship Trump is still trying to collect citizenship data for redistrictingVoxThe Trump administration may have lost its bid to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census at the Supreme Court in June, but it’s still trying to collect citizenship data to use in redistricting
Voxflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics Elizabeth Warren raised five times as much money from Big Tech as Joe Biden didRecodeElizabeth Warren is crushing Joe Biden when it comes to donations from employees at Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies — despite her pledge to break many of them up. Warren raised five times as much
Voxflipped into All StoriesCulture Zombieland: Double Tap is an adequately fun throwback to a bygone era (of 2009)VoxIt’s been a long, long, long time since 2009. That was the year of Barack Obama’s inauguration. The year when swine flu became a global pandemic, and Michael Jackson died. The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Voxflipped into All StoriesWatchmen I think HBO’s Watchmen is tremendous television. Lots of people will strongly disagree.VoxThe opening 10 minutes of HBO’s new Watchmen series — not a straight adaptation of the acclaimed 1986 graphic novel but a companion to it — are a statement of purpose rarely seen on TV: “Here is what show
Voxflipped into All StoriesLebanon Wildfires are raging in Lebanon. Experts say they saw this coming.VoxLebanon struggled this week to fight its worst wildfires in decades after a heatwave and strong winds caused fires in the pine tree-dense western mountains to spread to towns south of Beirut. The fires
Voxflipped into All StoriesFacebook Mark Zuckerberg said a lot of nothing in his big speechVoxMark Zuckerberg is on a transparency tour. Earlier this month, the Facebook CEO held a livestreamed version of the social media company’s normally closed employee Q&As. And on Thursday, he streamed a talk
Voxflipped into All StoriesU.S. Politics Teacher strikes are changing. The Chicago walkout proves it.VoxTeachers in the nation’s third-largest school district are on strike, indefinitely canceling classes for more than a quarter of a million students. About 25,000 Chicago teachers and support staff didn’t
Voxflipped into Policy & PoliticsTrump Doral Trump’s move to host the G7 at his Doral resort takes self-dealing to new levelsVoxIn one of the starkest examples of how the Trump administration is normalizing the sort of self-dealing that would have been unfathomable in previous eras, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced
