While American disapproval of immigration was key to Trump winning two presidential elections, polls today show a growing divide. Gallup found 30 percent of Americans want immigration decreased, which is down from 55 percent a year ago.

A shadowy company called Dumb and Co. has been convincing people in Washington, DC, to ditch their smartphones for a month. It’s part of a project called Month Offline, where participants get a flip phone and access to a support group to talk about loneliness, algorithms, and doomscrolling.

If you’re scrolling through Instagram or TikTok, you’ve probably encountered a “tradwife” influencer like Hannah Neeleman or Nara Smith. But where does the work of the "trad husband" fall in all this? voxdotcom.visitlink.me/kzN4ip

The 2025 elections revealed just how important federalism has been in constraining Trump's autocratic ambitions www.vox.com/politics/467...

The Trump administration has killed a short-lived IRS program designed to make filing tax returns fast and free. Here's what to know:

On what we can actually learn about Hispanic and Latino voters from Tuesday's elections, with @carlosodio.bsky.social: www.vox.com/politics/467...

Among the many unrealistic romantic ideals, the notion that your relationship must be nothing but positive is among the most misguided. Here's why: https://www.vox.com/life/465847/romantic-ambivalence-love-positivity-negativity-mixed-feelings

The slate of Republican losses — and the magnitude of Democratic wins in New Jersey and Virginia, especially — suggest not just that the Democratic backlash to Trump has finally arrived, but that a key part of Trump’s majority — Latino voters —might not actually be loyal Republican voters after all.

To many Republicans, this year’s elections are most alarming for what they may tell us about their party’s future. Put simply, the results suggest that the GOP has become perilously reliant on voters who will only turn out for Trump — a man who will (almost certainly) never be on the ballot again.

How tariffs ate American foreign policy My latest for @vox.com on what the Supreme Court case could mean for Trump’s international weapon of first resort. www.vox.com/politics/467...

The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul — they can also tell doctors a lot about what’s happening in the rest of our body. Why, then, do I have separate insurance cards for my medical and vision care? 👓

Almost 15% of adults have tinnitus. They suffer from a persistent, often intolerable sound…that is literally just in their heads. And, when they take a hearing test, the results say they’re perfectly fine. Learn more in the second episode of The Sound Barrier: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/EQKUjx

At least two of the Court’s Republicans — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down Trump's tariffs, and they will likely be joined by Chief Justice John Roberts. That leaves three votes for Trump, but it's not enough.

Damon Landor is Rastafarian and, as part of his religious devotion, does not cut his hair. But, while he was serving a five-month prison sentence for a drug-related crime in 2020, prison officials handcuffed him to a chair and shaved his head. Now his religion case is with the Supreme Court.

Zohran Mamdani — a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — just became mayor of the largest city in the US. His election marks a major triumph for America’s long-suffering socialist movement — possibly, the most significant in its history. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/IOQG5j

Astead Herndon breaks down Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, where he became the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor in the city’s history.

There was a striking consistency to the elections across states that really fits just one possible explanation: people are mad at President Donald Trump and voting for the opposition party. One part of the story is that the Democratic base turned out. But another part is that swing voters swung.

After days of uncertainty, the Trump administration will keep food assistance flowing — but only for part of the month. Trump’s preventable SNAP chaos, briefly explained:

Debbie Almontaser, a senior adviser at a nonprofit focused on organizing Muslim Americans, spoke to @christianpaz.bsky.social about what it's like to be a Muslim New Yorker watching Mamdani’s campaign, and the potential significance of him becoming the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history. 👇

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old progressive with a commanding lead in the New York City mayoral race, has placed universal child care at the center of his campaign, returning to it again and again as one of a few key policies that could redefine what City Hall delivers.

Two researchers published survey data appearing to show a shift in youth gender identity. But several scholars have significant methodological questions about their work, which has not been peer-reviewed or published in academic journals. Why the debate has bigger implications for trans rights:

Fed up with unaffordable costs and insurance denials, more Americans are fleeing the conventional health care system. Many are seeking to cut out the government and insurers entirely by pooling their money together to cover their own bills, turning to what are called health cost-sharing ministries.

If you’re in the market for a vehicle, you’ve probably noticed: cars are getting more expensive. Kelley Blue Book reported that the average sticker price for a new car topped $50,000 for the first time in September.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be trusted with power again,” he urged voters to elect Kamala Harris. Yet Cheney was one of the primary architects of the imperial powers that Trump now wields.

Robots can now do many parts of my job better than I can This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

If setting boundaries never feels totally right to you, maybe you're not the problem. Maybe it's "boundaries." For @vox.com, I wrote about how our societal language of "boundaries" is broken, and I offer an alternative from Buddhist psychology: www.vox.com/the-highligh...

There's a rising antisemitism crisis on the MAGA right that is largely of the party’s own making, one that risks raising people like Nick Fuentes, a leader of the antisemitic “Groyper” movement, to new heights of influence. And the GOP’s elites are now struggling to contain it.

Seeing two of the biggest names in activism in two very different places in their careers — one on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and one on the front lines of a humanitarian crisis — has caused lots of commentary online, resulting in something of a stan war between their supporters.

The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun.

One in three Americans resolved to make 2025 the year they get therapy. If you were one of them, you may have discovered: Figuring out how to get your insurance benefits to cover therapy can take some legwork. Here's how to navigate the mental health benefits insurance plans offer.

How does the White House handle crises across the world? Former top national security advisers Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer are giving you the inside scoop in their new podcast.

Every tech company now seems to have its own AI: Google Gemini. OpenAI’s ChatGPT. MetaAI. Spending for AI is reaching record highs, powering a big boom for the stock market. Even the White House wants in on the fun. So are we in an AI bubble — an overblown investment period that’s bound to deflate?

Trump thinks cutting regulations will save you money. Nope. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4672...

Because of their relatively privileged position in human society, lab experimentation on dogs has attracted intense scrutiny in recent years. And last week, one of the two major suppliers of dogs for lab research announced it will close its dog sales operations.

What happens when you mix AI and nukes? Dropped in on @vox.com's Today Explained to talk about some of my recent reporting. Also got into House of Dynamite and why nuclear discourse always seems to come back to the movies open.spotify.com/episode/59gZ...

Self-reported obesity rates in the US have started to fall. The main reason it appears to be happening isn’t because weight-loss experts have stumbled upon a new diet. It’s likely because of the growing use of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, better known as GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) compared peanut and food allergies before pediatric guidelines about feeding changed in 2017 and after, and found that infants and toddlers are being diagnosed with far fewer food allergies now.

Every product sells itself with a story. The story Ford tells us is that its cars are America. But the America that Ford is selling has changed over time. Watched in succession, Ford ads tell us the story of what America is ready to pay money to believe itself to be.

How you hear these two tones might depend on if you grew up in California or the United Kingdom. Noam Hassenfeld, host of the Unexplainable podcast, talks to researcher Diana Deutsch about why people from different countries hear tritones differently.

"If you believe, as I do, that we’re all actually profoundly interconnected and interdependent, that we’re constantly influencing and shaping reality for one another, then that idea of boundaries may feel like it muddies more than it clarifies." Read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social's advice column:

In the same way optical illusions trick our eyes, audio illusions can trick our ears. This raises a fundamental question: What is hearing, and how much of it is made up by our brains?🧠👂 Listen to the first episode of our new six-part series, Making Sense:

As the New York City mayoral election enters the final stretch, with the Muslim American Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani maintaining a sizable lead in all of the polls, a familiar beast has reared its head: blatant Islamophobia.

To many progressives, ICE is synonymous with President Trump’s brutal and cruel immigration regime. But to hardliners bent on carrying out mass deportation, ICE has actually been something of a disappointment. Enter another agency that they view as willing to go faster and harder: Border Patrol.

On social media, creators are gaining views by posting rage bait posing as people receiving food assistance living a life of luxury on the government’s dime. These videos have racked up millions of views and tons of angry responses.

It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose one. 💼 And yet, even as corporate America rains pink slips on its workforces, stocks keep hitting record highs.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Creating brains in a lab doesn't have to be like Frankenstein this Halloween. 🧠👻 The Braingeneers team at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute recently received a $1.9 million grant to grow miniature 3D brains from stem cells.

Last night, the president of the MAGA right’s leading think tank welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.”

Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending.

We had a member of Gen Z explain Sombr — allegedly a person, musician, and currently center of a seemingly impenetrable internet drama — to a grumpy millennial. Here's what we learned: