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We’re bad at predicting the future and there’s no way around it
Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Technology improves over time, but it’s hard to know what that means when it comes to calculating
The Trump indictments reveal a paradox at the heart of American democracy
Trump supporters near Mar-a-Lago on April 1, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty Images The Trump cases help us understand how America’s democracy can be both strong
How does Elon Musk get away with it all?
Alex Fine for Vox The billionaire’s heroic image is built on media praise, breathless fans, and … romance novel tropes. Elon Musk is an Ozymandias
The fight over whether courts can ban mifepristone is headed back to the Supreme Court
A cabinet containing boxes of mifepristone, seen in Wellspring Health Access clinic in Casper, Wyoming. | Rachel Woolf/Washington Post via Getty Images A far-right court
Biden’s historic climate law has a problem
The Inflation Reduction Act’s biggest impact one year in is on US manufacturing announcements. Biden marked the anniversary at Ingeteam Inc., an electrical equipment manufacturer,
“Girl” trends and the repackaging of womanhood
Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Online, women eat “girl dinners” and go on “hot girl walks.” Welcome to the girlouboros. “What kind of insufferable girl are
Americans can’t afford their pets. It’s pushing animal shelters to the brink.
A young beagle mix at an animal shelter in Central Islip, New York. | John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images How animal shelters are coping
Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie?
Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the
An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup?
Coils of razor wire lay across the tarmac at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, left behind after the US military withdrew from the country and