Politics

Hurricane Lane is battering the Hawaiian islands with heavy winds and rain

The Category 3 storm has already dumped more than two feet of rain on the Big Island. Hurricane Lane unleashed…

6 years ago

Tom Frieden, former CDC director, has been arrested on sexual misconduct charges

Frieden, who led the public health agency for eight years, was arrested in New York on Friday. Tom Frieden, the…

6 years ago

5 great social issues documentaries that help explain America in 2018

These streaming movies spotlight stories over polemics while exploring policing, press freedom, political corruption, and more. All movies aim to…

6 years ago

Sen. John McCain is discontinuing his brain cancer treatment

The Arizona senator has been living with cancer. Sen. John McCain, 81, who announced his brain cancer diagnosis last summer,…

6 years ago

Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before might be the best teen romance of the decade

It’s an unabashedly sweet movie that doesn’t deconstruct its tropes. It just executes them beautifully. To All the Boys I’ve…

6 years ago

How coconut oil went from health food to “poison”

A Harvard professor’s assertion that the oil is like “poison” is just one more battle in the coconut oil wars.…

6 years ago

Vox Sentences: Disarray down under

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

6 years ago

Trump’s tweet echoing white nationalist propaganda about South African farmers, explained

There’s no evidence of a genocidal campaign against white farmers. President Donald Trump tried Thursday night to move the conversation…

6 years ago

The White House may have squashed a bipartisan Senate bill to stop election interference

It’s pretty clear the White House doesn’t have a strategy to defend America’s election system. A Republican-led, Democrat-supported bill to…

6 years ago

We’re failing in the opioid crisis. A more serious approach would save lives.

The study suggests a comprehensive approach is needed — one that goes way further than what America has done so…

6 years ago