Play buttonMoon Humans landed on the moon 50 years ago, and it’s still freaking awesomeVox - Brian ResnickFifty years ago, human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. Some 650 million people around the world watched the historic landing on July 20, 1969, and heard astronaut Neil Armstrong say “...
Bernie Sanders CNN announces the nightly matchups for the second Democratic debateVox - Andrew ProkopIt’s official — CNN has announced which Democratic presidential candidates will share the stage in this month’s second, two-night Democratic presidential debate. After a somewhat absurd live event involving
Iran Vox Sentences: ¡Ricky, renuncia!Vox - Catherine KimVox 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
Play buttonEric Garner “Do something”: why Bill de Blasio is facing criticism for the Eric Garner caseVox - P.R. LockhartIt’s been two days since the Department of Justice announced that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be prosecuted for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose cries of “I can’t breathe”
Play buttonCulture The first Cats trailer is finally here. We were not prepared.Vox - Aja RomanoOh, well, I never! Was there ever a trailer as ... unexpected? Furry? Declawed? The first trailer for Tom Hooper’s upcoming adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats has finally arrived, and certainly
Iran Trump says US Navy destroyed Iranian droneVox - Jen KirbyPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that the US military destroyed an Iranian aerial drone in the Strait of Hormuz, an escalation in the months-long standoff between the US and Iran. Just hours before,
Play buttonCulture Watch: It: Chapter Two returns with an eerie new trailerVox - Aja RomanoThe newly arrived second trailer for It Chapter Two delivers really creepy and unsettling imagery to great success, without giving us much new information. Where the first trailer emphasized a nightmarish
U.S. Politics Senate Republicans are literally avoiding what Trump does and saysVox - Li ZhouRepublican senators are hearing what they want to hear when it comes to President Donald Trump. The latest controversy over his fans’ “send her back” chant is no different. Initially, many Republican made
Play buttonComic-Con Comic-Con 2019: watch all the must-see movie and TV trailersVox - Alex Abad-SantosThe 2019 edition of San Diego Comic-Con — essentially the Super Bowl of geek culture and entertainment — is upon us. Running from July 18 to July 21, it will feature panels on some of the biggest properties
Michael Cohen Michael Cohen documents unsealed as Trump hush money investigation concludesVox - Andrew ProkopThe government released several search warrant documents related to their investigation of Michael Cohen Thursday — and apparently revealed that the investigation into hush money payments made on Trump’s
U.S. Politics Trump claims he tried to quell “send her back!” chants. The video says otherwise.Vox - Aaron RuparDuring an Oval Office media availability on Thursday, President Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to distance himself from one of the ugliest moments of his presidency — one his words directly incited,
Instagram Instagram is thinking about hiding the public “Like” countVox - Kaitlyn TiffanyInstagram is expanding its test of a feature that hides public “Like” counts. The test began in Canada in April, and, starting Wednesday, added Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.
U.S. Politics Trump’s racism is part of his larger conVox - Matthew YglesiasOn Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina to arouse the faithful by reiterating his racist crusade of the moment — a campaign to drive Rep. Ilhan Omar out of the country back
U.S. Politics It wasn’t just Ilhan Omar — Trump disparaged 8 women during his speech in North CarolinaVox - Aaron RuparPresident Donald Trump, amid a rant about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Somali refugee turned Congress member, promoted his fans to break out into chants of “send her back!” He also went after each of the
Culture Colson Whitehead’s spare, riveting, horrifying Nickel BoysVox - Constance GradyFrom 1900 to 1973, nearly 100 boys between the ages of 6 and 18 died at Florida’s Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Many of them were buried in unmarked graves, graves found only after the brutal reform
Minimum Wage The House just passed a $15 minimum wage. It would be the first increase in a decade.Vox - Alexia Fernández CampbellThe House passed a bill on Thursday to double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. This would mark the first increase to the rate in more than a decade and the highest increase ever. A total of 231
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein wanted to await trial in his Manhattan mansion. A judge just said no.Vox - Anna NorthA judge on Thursday denied bail to money manager Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. The ruling by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court the
Recode Recode Daily: Big Tech told Congress it has plenty of competitors. But does it really?Vox - Kat BorgerdingWe have the counterpoints to Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook’s antitrust defenses. The House grilled representatives from Big Tech companies during a much-anticipated antitrust hearing this week, they
U.S. Politics Here’s where the US government is using facial recognition technology to surveil AmericansRecode - Shirin GhaffaryAcross the US, government use of facial recognition technology, which critics say poses a serious threat to Americans’ civil liberties, is on the rise. A new report released Thursday from digital rights
Culture “I needed to do this movie”: Awkwafina on her star-making role in The FarewellVox - Alissa WilkinsonFrom an early age, rapper and actress Nora Lum — who goes by Awkwafina professionally — knew what it was like to experience grief and loss. Her mother, who was a South Korean immigrant, died when Nora
U.S. Politics The controversy over whether the media should call Trump’s racist tweets “racist,” explainedVox - Matthew YglesiasPeter Baker, in a July 14 New York Times “news analysis” article about President Trump’s decision to go on a racist Twitter tirade about four progressive first-term women of color in the US House of Representatives,
U.S. Politics George Will makes the conservative case against democracyVox - Ezra KleinIt’s a good time to be a Republican. But it’s a bad time, George Will argues, to be a conservative. Hence his new, 700-page manifesto, The Conservative Sensibility, which tries to rescue conservatism the
Archie Mountbatten-Windsor Royal baby Archie will have a huge impact on Britain’s economyVox - Jasmin Malik ChuaTo be fair, he’s not just any baby. Despite the lack of title and the relative paucity of given names — a mere two to his father’s four — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Prince Henry Charles
Ilhan Omar “Send her back!”: Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar — and the response to them — represent a new lowVox - Aaron RuparRep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a Somali refugee who became a US citizen. In November, she was elected to Congress by an overwhelming majority of voters in her Minneapolis district. Her story embodies elements
Play buttonEl Chapo Vox Sentences: A global health emergency in the DRCVox - Catherine KimVox 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
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders made Medicare-for-all mainstream. Now he’s trying to reclaim it.Vox - Tara GolshanSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took the stage at George Washington University Wednesday to reclaim an idea he’s made central to Democrats’ health care debate: Medicare-for-all. Since Sanders brought Medicare-for-all
Congressional Committees House votes to hold AG Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross in contempt of Congress over census citizenship questionVox - Ella NilsenThe US House has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt for not complying with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request for information
Denver Public Schools Presidential candidate Michael Bennet is way behind in the polls. But he believes he can win the nomination — and beat Trump.Recode - Eric JohnsonIn the crowded race for the 2020 Democratic nominee for president, you may have a hard time spotting Michael Bennet. The senior US senator from Colorado is near the back of most polls and has been overshadowed
Microsoft Microsoft says it notified nearly 10,000 customers that they were cyberattack victimsVox - Alex WardASPEN, Colorado — Microsoft just announced it notified nearly 10,000 of its customers that they were targeted or compromised by a cyberattack in the past year — primarily due to countries like Russia,
Netflix Netflix thought it would have 5 million new subscribers this quarter. Instead it added 2.7 million.Recode - Peter KafkaNetflix expected to add 5 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2019. It didn’t come close. The streaming video giant only added 2.7 million. Those numbers would be great news for lots of streaming
Play buttonMoon Humans landed on the moon 50 years ago, and it’s still freaking awesomeVox - Brian ResnickFifty years ago, human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. Some 650 million people around the world watched the historic landing on July 20, 1969, and heard astronaut Neil Armstrong say “...
Bernie Sanders CNN announces the nightly matchups for the second Democratic debateVox - Andrew ProkopIt’s official — CNN has announced which Democratic presidential candidates will share the stage in this month’s second, two-night Democratic presidential debate. After a somewhat absurd live event involving
Iran Vox Sentences: ¡Ricky, renuncia!Vox - Catherine KimVox 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
Play buttonEric Garner “Do something”: why Bill de Blasio is facing criticism for the Eric Garner caseVox - P.R. LockhartIt’s been two days since the Department of Justice announced that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be prosecuted for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose cries of “I can’t breathe”
Play buttonCulture The first Cats trailer is finally here. We were not prepared.Vox - Aja RomanoOh, well, I never! Was there ever a trailer as ... unexpected? Furry? Declawed? The first trailer for Tom Hooper’s upcoming adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats has finally arrived, and certainly
Iran Trump says US Navy destroyed Iranian droneVox - Jen KirbyPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that the US military destroyed an Iranian aerial drone in the Strait of Hormuz, an escalation in the months-long standoff between the US and Iran. Just hours before,
Play buttonCulture Watch: It: Chapter Two returns with an eerie new trailerVox - Aja RomanoThe newly arrived second trailer for It Chapter Two delivers really creepy and unsettling imagery to great success, without giving us much new information. Where the first trailer emphasized a nightmarish
U.S. Politics Senate Republicans are literally avoiding what Trump does and saysVox - Li ZhouRepublican senators are hearing what they want to hear when it comes to President Donald Trump. The latest controversy over his fans’ “send her back” chant is no different. Initially, many Republican made
Play buttonComic-Con Comic-Con 2019: watch all the must-see movie and TV trailersVox - Alex Abad-SantosThe 2019 edition of San Diego Comic-Con — essentially the Super Bowl of geek culture and entertainment — is upon us. Running from July 18 to July 21, it will feature panels on some of the biggest properties
Michael Cohen Michael Cohen documents unsealed as Trump hush money investigation concludesVox - Andrew ProkopThe government released several search warrant documents related to their investigation of Michael Cohen Thursday — and apparently revealed that the investigation into hush money payments made on Trump’s
U.S. Politics Trump claims he tried to quell “send her back!” chants. The video says otherwise.Vox - Aaron RuparDuring an Oval Office media availability on Thursday, President Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to distance himself from one of the ugliest moments of his presidency — one his words directly incited,
Instagram Instagram is thinking about hiding the public “Like” countVox - Kaitlyn TiffanyInstagram is expanding its test of a feature that hides public “Like” counts. The test began in Canada in April, and, starting Wednesday, added Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.
U.S. Politics Trump’s racism is part of his larger conVox - Matthew YglesiasOn Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina to arouse the faithful by reiterating his racist crusade of the moment — a campaign to drive Rep. Ilhan Omar out of the country back
U.S. Politics It wasn’t just Ilhan Omar — Trump disparaged 8 women during his speech in North CarolinaVox - Aaron RuparPresident Donald Trump, amid a rant about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Somali refugee turned Congress member, promoted his fans to break out into chants of “send her back!” He also went after each of the
Culture Colson Whitehead’s spare, riveting, horrifying Nickel BoysVox - Constance GradyFrom 1900 to 1973, nearly 100 boys between the ages of 6 and 18 died at Florida’s Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Many of them were buried in unmarked graves, graves found only after the brutal reform
Minimum Wage The House just passed a $15 minimum wage. It would be the first increase in a decade.Vox - Alexia Fernández CampbellThe House passed a bill on Thursday to double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. This would mark the first increase to the rate in more than a decade and the highest increase ever. A total of 231
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein wanted to await trial in his Manhattan mansion. A judge just said no.Vox - Anna NorthA judge on Thursday denied bail to money manager Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. The ruling by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court the
Recode Recode Daily: Big Tech told Congress it has plenty of competitors. But does it really?Vox - Kat BorgerdingWe have the counterpoints to Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook’s antitrust defenses. The House grilled representatives from Big Tech companies during a much-anticipated antitrust hearing this week, they
U.S. Politics Here’s where the US government is using facial recognition technology to surveil AmericansRecode - Shirin GhaffaryAcross the US, government use of facial recognition technology, which critics say poses a serious threat to Americans’ civil liberties, is on the rise. A new report released Thursday from digital rights
Culture “I needed to do this movie”: Awkwafina on her star-making role in The FarewellVox - Alissa WilkinsonFrom an early age, rapper and actress Nora Lum — who goes by Awkwafina professionally — knew what it was like to experience grief and loss. Her mother, who was a South Korean immigrant, died when Nora
U.S. Politics The controversy over whether the media should call Trump’s racist tweets “racist,” explainedVox - Matthew YglesiasPeter Baker, in a July 14 New York Times “news analysis” article about President Trump’s decision to go on a racist Twitter tirade about four progressive first-term women of color in the US House of Representatives,
U.S. Politics George Will makes the conservative case against democracyVox - Ezra KleinIt’s a good time to be a Republican. But it’s a bad time, George Will argues, to be a conservative. Hence his new, 700-page manifesto, The Conservative Sensibility, which tries to rescue conservatism the
Archie Mountbatten-Windsor Royal baby Archie will have a huge impact on Britain’s economyVox - Jasmin Malik ChuaTo be fair, he’s not just any baby. Despite the lack of title and the relative paucity of given names — a mere two to his father’s four — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Prince Henry Charles
Ilhan Omar “Send her back!”: Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar — and the response to them — represent a new lowVox - Aaron RuparRep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a Somali refugee who became a US citizen. In November, she was elected to Congress by an overwhelming majority of voters in her Minneapolis district. Her story embodies elements
Play buttonEl Chapo Vox Sentences: A global health emergency in the DRCVox - Catherine KimVox 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
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders made Medicare-for-all mainstream. Now he’s trying to reclaim it.Vox - Tara GolshanSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took the stage at George Washington University Wednesday to reclaim an idea he’s made central to Democrats’ health care debate: Medicare-for-all. Since Sanders brought Medicare-for-all
Congressional Committees House votes to hold AG Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross in contempt of Congress over census citizenship questionVox - Ella NilsenThe US House has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt for not complying with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request for information
Denver Public Schools Presidential candidate Michael Bennet is way behind in the polls. But he believes he can win the nomination — and beat Trump.Recode - Eric JohnsonIn the crowded race for the 2020 Democratic nominee for president, you may have a hard time spotting Michael Bennet. The senior US senator from Colorado is near the back of most polls and has been overshadowed
Microsoft Microsoft says it notified nearly 10,000 customers that they were cyberattack victimsVox - Alex WardASPEN, Colorado — Microsoft just announced it notified nearly 10,000 of its customers that they were targeted or compromised by a cyberattack in the past year — primarily due to countries like Russia,
Netflix Netflix thought it would have 5 million new subscribers this quarter. Instead it added 2.7 million.Recode - Peter KafkaNetflix expected to add 5 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2019. It didn’t come close. The streaming video giant only added 2.7 million. Those numbers would be great news for lots of streaming
