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Elon Musk can’t fix Twitter because no one can

Elon Musk at the Met Gala, May 2022. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images A $44 billion mistake. We still…

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A Twitter trial would expose Elon Musk to scrutiny. Buying Twitter might help him avoid it.

Elon Musk at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas, April 2022. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images The billionaire might buy Twitter…

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Why Americans want these insects dead

Can we actually kill all the spotted lanternflies? Over the summer, for the first time in what feels like a…

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The Russian nuclear threat, explained

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a rally in Moscow’s Red Square on September 30, after announcing he would annex four…

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The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be

Fun fact: Positano was the inspiration for the fictional seaside town in The Talented Mr. Ripley. | Getty Images Just…

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There’s something missing from the White House’s AI ethics blueprint

Javier Zarracina/Vox Can we get some laws, please? It’s a big week for Americans who’ve been sounding the alarm about…

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Philadelphia elected a progressive prosecutor twice. The state government wants to fire him anyway.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner leaves a news conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 14. | Matt Rourke/AP Republicans are…

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Cheating scandals hit different right now

The Try Guys (from left, Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld, and Keith Habersberger) address cheating allegations against former co-worker Ned…

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The Supreme Court is likely to weaken, but not destroy, the ban on racial gerrymandering

People rally in front of the Supreme Court during hearings on redistricting cases in Maryland and North Carolina, in Washington,…

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This year’s physics Nobel Prize went to pioneers in quantum tech. Here’s how their work could change the world.

The inside of an IBM System One quantum computer. | Bryan Walsh/Vox A brief guide to the weird and revolutionary…

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