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The world is producing more food crops than ever before
Bryan Walsh, Vox
If you ever find yourself in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan, turn down Vesey Street toward North End Avenue. You’ll arrive at something unusual: a collection of stones, soil and moss, artfully arranged to look over the Hudson River. It’s the Irish Hung…
Oct 11, 2025, 12:20 PM
Will the Gaza ceasefire really stick?
Cameron Peters, Zack Beauchamp, Vox
After more than two years, Israel and Hamas have finally reached a ceasefire deal to free all remaining Israeli hostages and allow aid to flow into Gaza again. I spoke with my colleague Zack Beauchamp about the deal, what it could mean for Israeli Prime Minis…
Oct 10, 2025, 5:17 PM
The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies
Andrew Prokop, Vox
The Trump Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI director James Comey has been received with widespread incredulity, both because of the shady circumstances around its filing and the extraordinary weakness of the case. Yet Lindsay Halligan, the US atto…
Oct 10, 2025, 2:37 PM
Trump’s indictment of Letitia James, 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: President Donald Trump successfully directed the indic…
Oct 9, 2025, 10:50 PM
What the National Guard is doing in Chicago
Noel King, Danielle Hewitt, Vox
This week, Texas National Guard troops arrived in Chicago. The deployment was the latest turn in the Trump administration’s efforts to more aggressively marshal boots on the ground to abet its mass deportation efforts in some American cities. The situation o…
Oct 9, 2025, 6:09 PM
The bleak lesson Israel — and the world — might learn from the peace deal
Joshua Keating, Vox
At last, Israel and Hamas have reached a deal — of a sort. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump announced that the warring parties in Gaza agreed to implement the “first phase” of the peace plan he presented in September. While this doesn’t quite mean…
Oct 9, 2025, 5:42 PM
Animal abusers are getting off easy
Kenny Torrella, Vox
If someone illegally double parks in a one-way street and a cop walks by, the expectation is that they’d get fined. Similarly, you’d think that if a company that uses animals is caught mistreating them, they too would face some sort of legal repercussion. But…
Oct 8, 2025, 12:40 AM
Are Trump’s voters turning against him?
Christian Paz, Vox
Tariffs. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. National Guard deployments. Epstein files. Strikes on Iran. Gaza and Ukraine. Sticky inflation. The first year of President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a firehose of unpopular polici…
Oct 7, 2025, 9:54 PM
Why are US medicines so darn expensive?
Kelli Wessinger, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
Standing next to Pfizer CEO Albert Borla in the Oval Office last week, President Donald Trump announced that the pharma giant had made a startling concession: It would voluntarily lower the prices it charges Americans for its medicines. At the same time, the …
Oct 7, 2025, 4:35 PM
Trump’s war on cities, 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 Trump administration is pushing harder to deploy N…
Oct 6, 2025, 10:58 PM
Is Israel’s war in Gaza actually about to end?
Cameron Peters, Joshua Keating, Vox
Israel and Hamas will begin indirect talks in Egypt on Monday after Hamas said it would accept parts of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including releasing all remaining Israeli hostages. I spoke with my colleague Josh Keating about what we know abo…
Oct 6, 2025, 5:07 PM
Hamas responds to Trump’s peace plan
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: Hamas said late Friday that it would release all remai…
Oct 3, 2025, 10:30 PM
The chaos at the Pentagon, explained
Devan Schwartz, Noel King, Vox
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned around 800 top military officers to Quantico, Virginia, this week, there was widespread speculation about mass firings, new geopolitical priorities, even a declaration of war. None of that happened. Instead, Pre…
Oct 2, 2025, 10:37 PM
Trump’s “war” with drug cartels, 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 Trump administration is claiming that the US is en…
Oct 2, 2025, 10:20 PM
Democrats are doing more to resist Trump than their voters think
Christian Paz, Vox
The government shutdown that began Wednesday might have been one of the most anticlimactic developments yet: President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans were never going to negotiate, and Democrats had just about every incentive to obstruct. And fuel…
Oct 2, 2025, 8:34 PM
Elizabeth Warren on why Democrats had to shut down the government
Kelli Wessinger, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
At midnight on Wednesday, the federal government shut down. Democrats made good on their promise to vote against a continuing resolution if Republicans didn’t extend expiring Obamacare tax credits, and funding expired. Now, both sides are digging in to play t…
Oct 1, 2025, 9:56 PM
The real reason Democrats forced a government shutdown
Eric Levitz, Vox
Uncle Sam has closed up shop. The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Congress failed to extend its annual appropriations. Now, food will go uninspected, Superfund sites uncleaned, and IRS helplines unanswered. Millions of Americans will suffer fro…
Oct 1, 2025, 7:41 PM
The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one.
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
As of 12:01 am ET, the US federal government has been shut down. Workers deemed “nonessential” are staying at home, meaning that many government functions (like national parks) will be closed because of a lack of staff. “Essential” workers, ranging from soldi…
Oct 1, 2025, 5:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown
Ian Millhiser, Vox
On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down an order that could completely upend the balance of power between Congress and President Donald Trump. The order effectively permits Trump to cancel $4 billion in foreign aid spending that he is required to spend under…
Sep 30, 2025, 11:31 PM
The imminent 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: The federal government is hours away from the start of…
Sep 30, 2025, 10:38 PM
A reality check on Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Joshua Keating, Vox
After a pivotal Allied victory, years into World War II, Winston Churchill famously proclaimed that when it came to hopes for the end of the war, it was “not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” That sort of expectation…
Sep 29, 2025, 11:20 PM
Democrats’ shutdown strategy hinges on a risky bet
Eric Levitz, Vox
The Trump administration will use a government shutdown to gut the Democratic Party’s favorite federal agencies. Or at least, this is what the president wants Democrats to believe, as they negotiate over a bill to prevent federal funding from lapsing on Octo…
Sep 29, 2025, 8:17 PM
Trump’s new tariffs will slam America’s already brutal housing crisis
Rachel Cohen, Vox
Housing in America is about to get more expensive, thanks to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that will take effect this Wednesday, October 1. The new tariffs include a 50 percent tax on imported kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percen…
Sep 29, 2025, 4:32 PM
Donald Trump’s escalating revenge campaign, 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: President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution again…
Sep 26, 2025, 9:42 PM
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