1+ week, 5+ day ago (322+ words) Vox is now on Patreon with exclusive videos, live conversations, new community features, and more. The Vox Membership program is getting even better. We're excited to announce that Vox is now on Patreon. We're using Patreon's tools to introduce great new benefits to Vox Members and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our journalists, new community features, and more. Two new exclusive video seriesWe're launching two original video series, created exclusively for Vox Members: We're also digging into the Vox video archives to bring members a selection of fan-favorite videos, available to watch ad-free on Patreon. Livestreamed conversations and community chatsWe want to bring you closer to the Vox newsroom. Each month, Vox journalists will host a live conversation for members, a 30- to 60-minute discussion that dives…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago (240+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. Your membership gives someone who can't afford one access, too. We're launching a campaign to make each new Vox Membership go twice as far. This holiday season, when someone joins Vox as an annual member, we'll match their purchase by giving a free annual membership to a person who wants to be part of our community but can't currently afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. If cost is a barrier for you: We want our membership community to reflect the breadth of our audience. If…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (536+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. Welcome to The Logoff: After days of uncertainty, the Trump administration will keep food assistance flowing " but only for part of the month. What's happening? Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is likely to resume in the near future, after the Trump administration said Monday it would comply with a federal judge's order to spend about $5.5 billion in contingency funds (essentially, cash the program can draw on to keep operating in emergencies). SNAP funding lapsed over the weekend as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, interrupting vital food aid for nearly 42 million Americans, many of whom are children. While funding should start flowing again soon,…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago (532+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. The Venezuelan military, Haitian gangs, Antifa: Terrorist organizations aren't what they used to be. The designation of Cartel de los Soles " which the US says is led by Maduro himself alongside other high-ranking Venezuelan officials and military officers " "brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States," Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said last week. "The concern is that what they're doing is dressing up regime change under the guise of counterterrorism and counternarcotics," Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser now with the International Crisis Group, told Vox. It's also another example of the unusual…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (750+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. The debate over youth gender identity polling, explained. Are young Americans becoming less likely to identify as trans? This claim is getting a lot of attention on social media after two researchers published survey data appearing to show a shift in youth gender identity. The first analysis came from Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, and a longtime anti-PC and anti-woke crusader. In early October, Kaufmann published a report titled "The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity Among Young Americans. "The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (487+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. It's the latest example of how the Nobel Peace Prize aspirant and advocate of "America First" foreign policy is more than willing to use the threat of military force to accomplish his foreign policy goals, and to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries, when doing so aligns with his domestic political priorities. As we get deeper into Trump's second term, it's becoming increasingly clear that MAGA is not immune from the temptation to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. In addition, several Nigerian states have some of the world's most draconian blasphemy laws, which critics say are disproportionately enforced against Christians. Atheists and members of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (646+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. Democrats romped in both high-profile and low-profile elections Tuesday, in what clearly seemed like a national trend. The pendulum of American politics has swung again. Just one year after President Donald Trump and Republicans' victories nationwide, the Democratic backlash has arrived in Tuesday's elections. Democrats won both governor's races on the ballot, in Virginia and New Jersey " that was expected. But they won by a lot. Though votes are still being counted, at the time of this writing, Mikie Sherrill was winning New Jersey by 13 percentage points and Abigail Spanberger was winning Virginia by 14. Such a result would mean a significant partisan swing " in both states " from last year,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (1761+ words) A Heritage insider alleging "openly misogynistic and racist" conduct shines a light on the right's inner workings. Rather, it's a harbinger of the post-Trump future to come. Then the backlash began in earnest, with some Heritage scholars and even Republican senators speaking out publicly. Chris DeMuth, one of Heritage's most prominent recent hires, quit in protest. In a November staff meeting, video of which leaked to the press, more than one staff member told Roberts to his face that they expected him to resign. And the conflict is escalating well beyond Heritage. The result is that the right is going through its own version of the left's 2020, when ideas from its most radical factions broke containment and became debated in the traditional halls of power. Only, instead of police abolition and "white fragility," the ideas in question are pushing women…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (444+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. Movies like A House of Dynamite get a lot right. But there's an important danger that they're missing. AI is already in our nuclear enterprise, Vox's Josh Keating tells Today, Explained co-host Noel King. "Computers have been part of this from the beginning," he says. "Some of the first digital computers ever developed were used during the building of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project." But we don't know exactly where or how it's involved. So do we need to worry? Well, maybe, Keating argues. But not about AI turning on us. Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There's much more in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (462+ words) There's too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what's happening and why it matters. Trump muddies the waters on urgent food assistance. Welcome to The Logoff: The status of urgent food assistance is once again up in the air after President Donald Trump weighed in on Tuesday. If accurate, the president's decision to deny food aid to millions of Americans would be in direct conflict with a court order and statements by his own administration, which said yesterday it would draw on billions of dollars in contingency funds to provide partial Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits for November. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt subsequently told reporters that, contrary to Trump's post, "the administration is fully complying with the court order…...