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The CDC’s troubling new second in command, briefly explained
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The CDC has a new second in command — with a long, con…
Nov 25, 2025, 11:25 PM
Why is Trump accusing a former astronaut of treason?
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
On the face of it, the Trump administration’s persecution of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) seems really scary. But if you look a little deeper, the story starts to look a little different: proof of Trump’s authoritarian ambitions, to be sure, but also evidence of th…
Nov 25, 2025, 9:08 PM
Trump’s revenge campaign falls flat
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s campaign of political prosecu…
Nov 24, 2025, 11:23 PM
How Zohran Mamdani won over Donald Trump — for now
astead.herndon, Cameron Peters, Vox
In a triumphant election-night speech earlier this month, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani addressed Donald Trump directly, telling the president to “Turn the volume up.” Trump has repeatedly called Mamdani a “Communist” and questioned his citizenship…
Nov 22, 2025, 7:24 PM
What Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud with Trump is really about
Christian Paz, Vox
Editor’s note, November 22, 2025, 9:06 AM ET: On November 21, Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she would resign from Congress in January. President Donald Trump responded by saying it was “great news for the country.” This article was originally publishe…
Nov 22, 2025, 3:56 PM
Trump’s peace plan is a demand for Ukraine’s surrender
Joshua Keating, Vox
The Trump administration has been something of a pendulum in its position on the war in Ukraine, swinging between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia positions over the past year. This week, it is swinging hard toward Moscow. Earlier this week, Axios reported on a ne…
Nov 21, 2025, 6:26 PM
The vaccine tug of war inside the Trump administration, briefly explained
Dylan Scott, Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The CDC is leaning into anti-vax rhetoric, suggesting …
Nov 20, 2025, 10:09 PM
The US-Saudi relationship is too big to fail…for now
Joshua Keating, Vox
The most shocking thing about President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday was that anyone was shocked by it. The main headline coming out of the two leaders’ combative session with reporters was Trump’s…
Nov 19, 2025, 8:31 PM
The 6 big thinkers reshaping foreign aid, masculinity, and development
Izzie Ramirez, Sara Herschander, Kenny Torrella, Marina Bolotnikova, Bryan Walsh, Vox
The roots of the world’s most stubborn global health problems don’t yield to vibes-based solutions. They surrender to data, rigor, and the surprisingly radical idea of actually trying to figure out what works. Governments and nonprofit organizations depend o…
Nov 19, 2025, 6:17 AM
Are the Epstein files coming out?
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After months of resistance by the Trump administration…
Nov 18, 2025, 11:41 PM
The case against releasing the Epstein files
Ian Millhiser, Vox
The Justice Department almost never discloses information it collected on a criminal suspect outside of a criminal judicial proceeding, and for very good reasons. Revealing such information can endanger victims or other witnesses. And it denies due process to…
Nov 18, 2025, 10:03 PM
The 3 layers of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Anticipation is rising for the potential release of the “Epstein files.” The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to approve the release of Justice Department case files related to the accused sex trafficker Tuesday, something even President Donald …
Nov 18, 2025, 9:01 PM
Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats
Ian Millhiser, Vox
In a decision that could potentially reshape the 2026 midterm elections and cement the Democratic Party’s future control of the US House, a federal court just struck down the gerrymandered Texas maps that President Donald Trump pressured that state to enact. …
Nov 18, 2025, 8:55 PM
Trump’s redistricting campaign isn’t going well
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s campaign to redistrict his wa…
Nov 14, 2025, 11:00 PM
The age of AI-run cyberattacks has begun
Joshua Keating, Vox
Menu planning, therapy, essay writing, highly sophisticated global cyberattacks: People just keep coming up with innovative new uses for the latest AI chatbots. An alarming new milestone was reached this week when the artificial intelligence company Anthropi…
Nov 14, 2025, 8:39 PM
The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether Trump can use troops against Americans
Ian Millhiser, Vox
About a month ago, Trump v. Illinois looked like it was going to be one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions of the entire Trump era. The case concerns President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops to an immigration facility in…
Nov 14, 2025, 7:12 PM
Do the new Epstein emails implicate Trump?
Andrew Prokop, Vox
On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent the political world into a frenzy by releasing two damning-looking emails Jeffrey Epstein had sent about Donald Trump. The committee’s Republicans then followed up by releasing thousands more Epste…
Nov 13, 2025, 6:25 PM
What changed after a record-long government shutdown, briefly explained
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After 43 days, the federal government shutdown is almo…
Nov 12, 2025, 11:04 PM
The Supreme Court will decide whether to toss out thousands of ballots
Ian Millhiser, Vox
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case claiming that, for many decades, states have been counting ballots that should have been tossed out entirely. The premise of the GOP’s argument in Watson …
Nov 10, 2025, 9:34 PM
Democrats were never going to win the shutdown fight
Andrew Prokop, Vox
After forcing the longest US government shutdown in history, Senate Democrats threw in the towel Sunday night. Eight Democratic senators voted with the Republicans Sunday to advance a deal to reopen the government, even though the deal includes no significant…
Nov 10, 2025, 9:07 PM
The redistricting battle that could decide the 2026 elections, explained
Christian Paz, Vox
In addition to lifting Democrats’ spirits, last week’s elections, in which the party beat expectations and regained much of the support among young and nonwhite voters that it had lost in 2024, changed the calculus for what may become one of the defining figh…
Nov 10, 2025, 5:00 AM
Is there any way out of Sudan’s nightmare?
Joshua Keating, Vox
For the past two and a half years, events in war-torn Sudan have been characterized by wild swings — not only between which side in the conflict has the upper hand, but between moments of tentative hope and outright despair. Could that be the case this week,…
Nov 7, 2025, 8:50 PM
Clean energy could become a huge political winner
Umair Irfan, Vox
You’ve probably noticed that Democrats are talking a lot less about climate change. But connecting clean energy to household bills proved to be a successful way to win voters in the elections across the US on Tuesday. This off-year election was a pressure t…
Nov 7, 2025, 3:20 PM
What the government shutdown means for air travel
Hady Mawajdeh, Noel King, Vox
Due to the longest shutdown of the federal government in American history, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that he will be reducing the total number of flights by 10 percent at 40 major airports. The move begins on Friday morning, and …
Nov 6, 2025, 11:04 PM
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