Are the end times here? www.vox.com/politics/489...

Americans don’t really want “Christian nationalism." www.vox.com/politics/488...

The rise of the progressive billionaire candidate! @awprokop.bsky.social digs into how Tom Steyer, JB Pritzker, and others have won over the left in the "Fighting Oligarchy" era. www.vox.com/politics/488...

Did decades of low inflation make the public far more unforgiving when it finally did surge? www.vox.com/politics/488...

The secretary of state is dreaming of a kinder, gentler MAGA. www.vox.com/politics/488...

Want a break from gerrymandering discourse? There really might be enough states to institute a national popular vote by the 2028 presidential election. But as @awprokop.bsky.social writes, there are risks to an attempted Constitutional end-run by blue states www.vox.com/politics/487...

I've spent years arguing that Trump is a dire threat to democracy. The White House has blamed people like me for the WHCD shooting attempt. So I decided to test their claims by talking to five leading researchers on political violence. And I learned a lot (THREAD) www.vox.com/politics/487...

An evidence-based guide to talking responsibly about Trump’s threat to democracy. www.vox.com/politics/487...

$2 billion has been waged on bets related to the war against Iran, per @suzykhimm.bsky.social @joemurph.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Tom Steyer talks to Vox about using state power to fight the Trump administration. www.vox.com/politics/487...

the rare intentionally annoying headline that is 100 percent correct. Medicaid is not corporate welfare www.vox.com/politics/486...

Spoiler: It’s not about Israel. www.vox.com/politics/486...

It's impossible for Trump to give a jokey speech, he is his own reductio ad absurdum. So many things the WH explicitly passed off as "jokes" in Trump I are dangerous real-life policy in Trump II. If he talks about nuking hurricanes tomorrow, nobody will laughing. www.vox.com/politics/486...

First the White House lost Orbán. Netanyahu may be next. www.vox.com/politics/486...

Democratic voters turned against Israel. Now their politicians are following. www.vox.com/politics/486...

Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope. Pope Leo XIV is not Pope Francis. He starts with more buy-in from Catholic conservatives, and the war is a more divisive topic among them than other political fights. More from @christianpaz.bsky.social: www.vox.com/politics/485...

The vice president’s disastrous week reveals that he’s in a trap of his own making. www.vox.com/politics/485...

Donald Trump did something blasphemous? Wow, you're telling me this for the first time. More surprising is how hard the pushback on the right was this time — which may be symptomatic of deeper problems beneath the surface. Read @christianpaz.bsky.social: www.vox.com/politics/485...

The thing to watch right now: whether the opposition wins two-thirds of seats in Hungary’s parliament. If they don’t, then the Orbán regime will likely survive. If they do, then there is a chance - maybe even a good one - that Hungarian democracy could come back to life. www.vox.com/politics/485...

Orban defeat should make for some good ol' discourse in the US. First: LOL Vance. But second: The opposition united behind a conservative "Never Orban" defector to neutralize cultural attacks. Imagine Ds running Liz Cheney instead of campaigning with her. www.vox.com/politics/485...

Avignon-gate, the scandal blowing up MAGA-Catholic relations, explained. www.vox.com/politics/485...

The best-case scenario for the Iran crisis is still pretty bad. www.vox.com/politics/485...

"Let’s cut to the chase: Trump is about as likely to be removed via the 25th Amendment as he is to be deposed by an army of unicorn-riding elves." www.vox.com/politics/485...

Toward a new unified TACO theory www.vox.com/politics/485...

We're about to find out whether an authoritarian can lose at the ballot box. www.vox.com/politics/485...

“A whole civilization will die tonight”: How Trump is threatening war crimes My latest for @voxdotcom.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/484...

People often say we're in a "Manhattan Project" moment with AI. So when I visited Los Alamos recently, I was curious what that looked like where the actual Manhattan project happened. I found there are some very surprising things happening with the computers on the mesa www.vox.com/technology/4...

The MAGA civil war over the Iran war is opening up new and old religious and political feuds. www.vox.com/politics/484...

The internet fractured reality. Chatbots might put it back together. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Why the US wants to protect Iran’s oil and gas www.vox.com/politics/483...

“Iran doesn’t want to become one of these countries in which the US and Israel take military action based on a Google Calendar reminder every six months” www.vox.com/politics/483...

Online betting has grown so prominent among teen boys, there are now scared straight-style speakers traveling to schools across the country to warn kids about the dangers of gambling addiction. (Free PSA idea: This is your brain on DraftKings.)

Joe Kent's resignation letter is an antisemitic tract — the ur-text of a "stabbed in the back" myth that could do enormous damage to American Jews www.vox.com/politics/482...

The spiraling conflict is a lifeline for Vladimir Putin. www.vox.com/politics/482...

“One thing people forget,” he said, “is that we haven’t even reached the PTSD part yet. We’re still in the trauma part.” Voices from inside Iran on facing bombs above and bullets below. www.vox.com/politics/482...

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...

Based memes, real blood. www.vox.com/politics/482...

How long can Iran keep shooting missiles? How long can everyone else keep shooting them down? www.vox.com/politics/482...

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could usher in a new age of assassination. www.vox.com/politics/481...

Iran's Khamenei was the first recognized head of state killed by a foreign power in decades. @joshuakeating.bsky.social digs into why these killings have become so rare, whether it was legal, and if it's an omen of more assassinations to come. www.vox.com/politics/481...

Donald Trump says US and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader. He was the biggest target in a “decapitation” mission. The theory is familiar: take out the leadership, avoid a ground war, force change from the air. But history says it rarely works. www.vox.com/politics/481...

When presidents order airstrikes aimed at debilitating an enemy’s leadership, the logic feels compelling: Strike senior figures. Shock the system. Avoid a costly ground invasion. It is a recurring promise of modern warfare. But history suggests it's far more complicated.

My latest for @vox.com on a Mideast regime change war with Trumpian characteristics www.vox.com/politics/481...

Trump's foreign policy has come full circle. www.vox.com/politics/481...

I wrote in 2016 that Trump’s Mideast policy was incomprehensible because he’d already lied and flip flopped about so many positions, and there was no consistent throughline. Many tried to convince themselves otherwise to co-opt him for factional fights. www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...

Why did the US strike Iran? @joshuakeating.bsky.social answers some of your biggest questions about the conflict.

The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight My latest for @vox.com www.vox.com/politics/480...

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

Want to threaten Iran? You're going to need a bigger boat. www.vox.com/politics/480...

Aircraft carriers can't keep up with World War Trump. Ships still stuck near Venezuela likely influenced decision NOT to strike Iran in Jan. Now that they're in place, high cost of leaving them there could push him TO strike. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...