The potential for human waste to tell us about what is happening with our community’s health extends far beyond Covid-19. | Getty Images/EyeEm Wastewater can
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Is it genocide?
Officials collect the bodies of civilians killed by Russian attacks in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 11. | Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images There is
How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong
Christina Animashaun/Vox Bad takes, revisited. Let’s get this out of the way first: I was wrong about inflation. When prices began ticking up a little
Old-school homophobia is back
Students in Walpole, Massachusetts, protest anti-LGBT proposals in Florida and Texas. | Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Why anti-LGBTQ laws and accusations of
Elon Musk is no free speech messiah
Elon Musk at a February 2022 press conference in Texas. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images According to Musk, free speech costs about $3 billion.
When Russian troops arrived, their relatives disappeared
Close relatives of journalist Maks Levin at his funeral on April 4 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Levin went missing on March 13 and was found dead
The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto
Kids these days, probably. | Getty Images Today’s parents must ask the age-old question: When’s the right time to teach my 5-year-old about NFTs? For
They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one.
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense co-chairs Tom Ridge and Joe Lieberman testifying before the House in 2015. | Alex Wong/Getty Images 2003’s most famous politicians are
The Supreme Court’s “praying coach” case, explained
James Manship, dressed as George Washington, kneels and prays in front of the Supreme Court as protesters for and against the confirmation of Supreme Court
Congrats! You formed a union. Now comes the hard part.
Amazon Labor Union workers celebrate their election win on April 1. The next battle is getting a contract. | Andrea Renault/AFP via Getty Images The