Huawei The US government’s battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explainedVox - Emily StewartThe Trump administration is putting the squeeze on the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, but gradually — it’s adding more of Huawei’s subsidiaries to its trade blacklist, even as it’s delaying ban
Recession Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happenVox - Zeeshan AleemAfter a week of serious warnings about the threat of a recession and the emergence of indicators signaling a coming economic downturn, the White House is scrambling to convince the public that the economy
Recession Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happenVox - Zeeshan AleemAfter a week of serious warnings about the threat of a recession and the emergence of indicators signaling a coming economic downturn, the White House is scrambling to convince the public that the economy
Taliban The deadliest attack of the year in Kabul bodes poorly for the US-Taliban dealVox - Zeeshan AleemA suicide-bomb blast killed at least 63 people at a wedding party in Kabul on Saturday night, and injured 182 more. It was the most lethal attack in Afghanistan’s capital this year, and it comes at a time:
Antifa Ahead of a far-right rally in Portland, Trump tweets a warning to antifaVox - Zeeshan AleemPresident Trump issued a stark warning to antifa, the collective of militant anti-fascist leftist groups, ahead of a rally on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, where antifa activists were widely expected confront
trump news update Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes, explainedVox - Zeeshan AleemLate Friday night, President Trump continued his obsession with crowd size, tweeting not once, not twice, but thrice about the number of people at his rally in New Hampshire the previous day. The tweets
Rashida Tlaib Trump calls Rashida Tlaib’s reversal on visiting Israel “a complete setup”Vox - Zeeshan AleemPresident Trump criticized Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) decision to decline Israel’s offer to allow her to visit her grandmother in the West Bank under strict political conditions on Friday evening, calling
Guns Here’s where every 2020 candidate stands on gunsVox - German LopezIn response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, supporters of stricter gun laws have voiced a simple mantra: “Do something!” So, after little federal action on guns for more than
Rashida Tlaib Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s on-again, off-again visit to Israel, explainedVox - Jen KirbyIsrael said Friday it would allow Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to visit her family in the West Bank after all, but now Tlaib is refusing the invitation. On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked
Larry Krasner The Trump Justice Department’s war on progressive prosecutors, explainedVox - German LopezPresident Donald Trump’s Department of Justice seems to have a new enemy: progressive prosecutors. The latest volley from the Justice Department came after a shooting in Philadelphia injured six police
Jeffrey Epstein What Jeffrey Epstein’s case says (and doesn’t say) about human trafficking in AmericaVox - Anna NorthThe Jeffrey Epstein case is forcing the American public to reckon with difficult questions about power, wealth, and the apparent ease with which all too many people were able to ignore evidence of abuse.
Play buttonMinimum Wage The $15 minimum wage bill has all but died in the SenateVox - Alexia Fernández CampbellIt’s official: The Senate has no plans to raise the federal minimum wage anytime soon. A spokesperson for Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and told
Jeffrey Epstein What happens next in the legal cases involving Jeffrey EpsteinVox - Anna NorthNow that Jeffrey Epstein is dead, the many women who have accused him of sexual abuse will not get the opportunity to face him in court. But they may still have a chance for restitution. Even though Epstein
Play buttonGreenland Trump’s plan to buy Greenland, explainedVox - Matthew YglesiasPresident Donald Trump would like to buy Greenland, according to an entertaining Wall Street Journal collaboration by reporters Vivian Salama, Rebecca Ballhaus, Andrew Restuccia, and Michael C. Bender.
U.S. Politics Trump’s plan to let employers discriminate against LGBTQ workers, explainedVox - Alexia Fernández CampbellThe Trump administration caused an uproar Wednesday for proposing a policy that would give certain federal contractors the right to discriminate against people who don’t share their employer’s religious
Guns Cory Booker on why Democrats should go bolder on gun controlVox - German LopezSen. Cory Booker wants Democrats to go bolder on guns — and says they’re playing into the hands of the National Rifle Association and the corporate gun lobby by rejecting bolder ideas. “For Democrats play
People's Bank of China Trump’s trade policy is a disaster. Here’s what the next president should do.Vox - Jared BernsteinWhen it comes to President Trump and trade, it’s been all pain, no gain. Last week began with China retaliating against a planned 10 percent tariff on $300 billion of its exports by letting its currency
Play buttonMinimum Wage What the US gets wrong about the minimum wageVox - Madeline MarshallThe American federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in a decade. That’s the longest wait since the US first set a minimum wage in 1938. Today, Congress is debating whether they should raise it again. But
trump news update Trump’s baffling, self-defeating attack on the New York TimesVox - Aaron RuparPresident Donald Trump’s latest attack on the New York Times wasn’t just a standard illustration of his shamelessness — it was also self-defeating. On Thursday, Trump lashed out at the publication for
U.S. Politics “A shameful, unprecedented move”: Democrats react to Israel blocking Omar and Tlaib’s tripVox - Alex WardIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the urging of President Donald Trump, has decided to block US Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from visiting the country next week. Omar and
U.S. Politics Trump’s transparent attempt to manipulate American JewsVox - Zack BeauchampWednesday night, a pickup truck pulled up to a densely packed group of Jewish protestors outside an ICE detention center in Rhode Island. The driver stopped for a second and then accelerated into the sending
Play buttonBernie Sanders Cardi B and Bernie Sanders’s video, and her longstanding interest in politics, explainedVox - Tara GolshanLast month, we learned that the 77-year-old Vermont senator met with the 26-year-old Bronx rapper in a Detroit, Michigan nail salon to talk about the issues central to his 2020 presidential campaign. video
John Hickenlooper Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is the latest Democrat to drop out of the presidential raceVox - Jane CoastonJohn Hickenlooper, former Democratic governor of Colorado, will drop out of the presidential race, according to the Associated Press and Politico, clearing the crowded 2020 field of a moderate with a of
Recession Why everybody’s worried about a recession againVox - Emily StewartThe seemingly sudden onslaught of recession alarm bells in the United States and around the globe lately might make it easy to panic — but try not to. Economists, investors, and market observers have to
U.S. Politics You have a better chance of achieving “the American dream” in Canada than in AmericaVox - Ezra KleinRaj Chetty is a Harvard economist who has been called “the most influential economist alive today.” He’s considered by his peers to be a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize. He’s transforming how economics is
Jeffrey Epstein Why the Jeffrey Epstein case inspires so many conspiracy theoriesVox - Anna NorthIn the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, President Donald Trump has been boosting the conspiracy theory that the sex offender was somehow killed by Bill Clinton. There’s no evidence to support this — authorities
Akron, OH Pete Buttigieg’s plan to use immigration to revitalize shrinking communities, explainedVox - Matthew YglesiasMany struggling American communities are, among other things, losing people. Meanwhile, many millions more people would like to move to the United States of America than the country is prepared to allow
U.S. Politics Senators call for closing “loopholes” that make health care fraud easyVox - Marshall AllenFollowing a detailed account of how scam artists can easily gain access to health care cash, six Democratic senators this week sent a letter to federal regulators urging them to “close loopholes” that
U.S. Politics ACLU, Tofurky ask for an injunction on Arkansas’s anti-veggie burger lawVox - Kelsey PiperA new law in Arkansas bans grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” and calling soy milk “soy milk.” The justification? That consumers might get confused about whether veggie burgers
