Republican gubernatorial candidate Gov. Brian Kemp greets people during a primary night election party at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame on May 24,
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A deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas
Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images Uvalde joins America’s long list of horrific school shootings. An 18-year-old gunman killed 18 students and at least
What we know about the Uvalde elementary school shooting
Police walk near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, after a gunman killed 14 students and a teacher there. | Dario Lopez-Mills/AP
Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers
A Covid-19 testing site in Times Square in New York City on May 17. New York City has raised its Covid-19 alert level to high
Welcome to the May issue of The Highlight
Illustration by Julia Kuo for Vox In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the real effect of the child
The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival 2022 poster paying tribute to The Truman Show is displayed at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. | John Phillips/Getty Images
How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other
It should be noted that none of these dogs are guilty of plagiarism. | Getty Images Are you “hopping on a trend” or are you
To kill or not to kill: Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse”
Amanda Northrop/Vox Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science? Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that
The blood-hungry parasite that threatens big fish and business in the Great Lakes
The mouth of a sea lamprey. | T. Lawrence/Great Lakes Fishery Commission More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the
Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work
The inside of an IBM System One quantum computer. | Bryan Walsh/Vox Qubits, decoherence, and superposition: a guide to the weird and revolutionary world of