Politics

Why the Soviets doctored this iconic photo

This photo conceals a clue to a brutal story of vengeance. “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” and “Raising a…

6 years ago

Self-checkout is terrible. It will never get better. It should die.

Yes! Because you won’t like what it spawns next. Rochester, New York, is a notorious model of terrible urban planning…

6 years ago

Vox Sentences: Don’t call it NAFTA

Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered…

6 years ago

The gig economy isn’t going anywhere. 4 experts explain why.

The online platform economy is a small but growing part of the gig economy. Last year, in the New Yorker’s…

6 years ago

A product for new moms used the word “vagina” in ads. It turns out that’s still controversial.

A company tried to place ads for its “Momwasher” product in several cities and failed. There are more than 20…

6 years ago

Bill Cosby is in prison. But the first real #MeToo trial hasn’t happened yet.

The true test of the movement’s impact on the criminal justice system has yet to come. When Bill Cosby was…

6 years ago

This chart shows Senate Republicans were uninterested in the facts of the Kavanaugh allegations

Republicans seemed wholly uninterested in learning more at Thursday’s hearing. The Republican-controlled Senate was well on its way to having…

6 years ago

The Kavanaugh doppelgänger theory, explained

Could both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford be telling the truth? Some on the right think so. Mainstream conservatives…

6 years ago

The Nobel Prize is a reminder of the outrageous cost of curing cancer

Cancer’s most promising therapies come with $100,000-plus price tags. For the first time ever, we’re living in a moment when…

6 years ago

The controversy over Kanye West’s 13th Amendment tweets, explained

Ye’s run into trouble talking about slavery — again. It was a busy weekend for Kanye West. Most notably, after…

6 years ago