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Trump’s DOJ wants to undo January 6 convictions
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 still trying to expunge th…
Apr 15, 2026, 9:56 PM
Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope
Christian Paz, Vox
The White House cannot stop fighting with the pope. On Tuesday night, Vice President JD Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — accused Pope Leo XIV of not understanding the Church’s stance on war, saying it was “very, very important for the pope to be…
Apr 15, 2026, 5:37 PM
Obama’s top Iran negotiator on Trump’s screwups
Kelli Wessinger, Noel King, Vox
President Donald Trump, in between blockading the Strait of Hormuz and posting blasphemous AI images of himself as Jesus, claims he still wants to strike a deal with Iran’s government to end the current conflict, reopen the Strait, and curtail the country’s n…
Apr 14, 2026, 7:54 PM
The new Hormuz blockade, 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 the US and Iran failed to reach a longer-term pe…
Apr 13, 2026, 9:50 PM
JD Vance had a vision for the world. Trump is wrecking it.
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
This past week has been a disaster for Vice President JD Vance. He embarked on two foreign adventures — campaigning for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and leading peace negotiations with Iran — that ended in total failure. Orbán lost by an enormous mar…
Apr 13, 2026, 8:36 PM
Donald Trump’s pivot to blasphemy
Christian Paz, Vox
To celebrate the second Sunday of Easter, President Donald Trump appears to have decided that blasphemy might be the best option. Late Sunday evening, Trump posted a wordy attack of Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social, saying the first American-born leader of the Ro…
Apr 13, 2026, 6:59 PM
Eric Swalwell’s downfall, explained
Benjy Sarlin, Vox
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suspended his campaign for California governor on Sunday after a series of disturbing accusations of sexual misconduct. The scandal had drawn a fierce response from Democrats nationwide as they tried to force him out and keep the fal…
Apr 13, 2026, 2:14 PM
Viktor Orbán has fallen
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Viktor Orbán, the European Union’s only autocrat, has fallen. Results from Sunday’s election in Hungary show that the opposition Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, has defeated Orbán’s Fidesz party — the first election the party has lost in 20 years. Orbán cal…
Apr 12, 2026, 8:49 PM
What does American politics look like beyond Trump?
Astead Herndon, Vox
The only people with worse poll numbers than President Donald Trump are the political media that cover him. We, the journalists, are in a crisis: of trust, relevance, and being swamped by an attention economy that will either replace us with Claude or an infl…
Apr 11, 2026, 12:04 PM
Why inflation is up
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 economic impact of the Iran war is becoming cleare…
Apr 10, 2026, 9:11 PM
The real reason your monthly gas bill keeps going up
Carrie Klein, Vox
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the cold snap this winter to the US war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind sp…
Apr 10, 2026, 7:50 PM
Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?
Christian Paz, Vox
Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of news reports this week raised that very strange pos…
Apr 10, 2026, 6:57 PM
Pete Hegseth preaches “maximum lethality.” What has that meant in Iran?
Ariana Aspuru, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
Even before the Trump administration went to war with Iran, it was talking differently about its approach to combat. President Donald Trump relabeled the Department of Defense to something more in line with his values: the Department of War. His Defense secr…
Apr 9, 2026, 7:53 PM
We have no idea if Iran can still build a bomb
Joshua Keating, Vox
The focus of the US-Iran war — and now the negotiations over the US-Iran ceasefire — has shifted to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, to such an extent that the main original justification for the war (destroying Iran’s nascent nuclear program) can some…
Apr 9, 2026, 3:54 PM
The surprising truth about logging
Benji Jones, Vox
The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean water and air, absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide, and provide homes for imperiled wildlife and a tranquil place for Americans to hunt and fish. It’…
Apr 9, 2026, 12:16 AM
The ceasefire is already getting shaky
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: Hi readers, big news broke just after yesterday’s news…
Apr 8, 2026, 9:11 PM
The war is on hold. But the economy is still in danger.
Eric Levitz, Vox
For months, America’s war with Iran has been slowly suffocating the global economy. In March, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf’s oil reserves to global markets. As a result, energy prices steadily rose while …
Apr 8, 2026, 9:07 PM
It should be much easier to remove the president from office
Ian Millhiser, Vox
The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that would allow them to temporarily prevent Trump from acting as p…
Apr 8, 2026, 8:01 PM
The soft TACO theory of Trump
Andrew Prokop, Vox
President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to accept a ceasefire in Iran — rather than following through on his threats to escalate the war further with massively destructive attacks harming Iranian civilians — is being greeted with what’s become a familiar re…
Apr 8, 2026, 6:37 PM
Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday. The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar by a twenty-point margin. Although Wiscons…
Apr 8, 2026, 1:51 PM
From threatening a civilization to ceasefire: What we learned from a wild day in the Iran war
Joshua Keating, Vox
President Donald Trump’s fast pivot on Iran — from “a whole civilization will die tonight” to a benign return to negotiations — has a whipsawed world scratching their heads. What was he up to? One possibility: Many Western analysts believe that Russian nuclea…
Apr 8, 2026, 1:33 AM
Is the Iran war turning into Trump’s Iraq?
Miles Bryan, Noel King, Vox
How closely does President Donald Trump’s war in Iran compare with America’s last conflict in the Middle East? Both the Iran war and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq have paired conventional American military dominance with shifting, ambiguous objectives. And bo…
Apr 7, 2026, 6:14 PM
Why Trump’s latest threat against Iran could be a war crime
Joshua Keating, Vox
For someone who claims to be unconcerned about the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump seems increasingly desperate to open it. In a Truth Social post over the weekend that was extreme even be his standards, Trump instructed Iran to “open the fuckin’ st…
Apr 6, 2026, 9:01 PM
Vox Launches America, Actually, a New Video-First Podcast Hosted by Astead W. Herndon
Vox Communications, Vox
Today, Vox announced the launch of America, Actually, a new video-first podcast hosted by Astead W. Herndon. Designed from the ground up for video platforms, the show will bring audiences inside the forces shaping American politics for a post-Trump era throug…
Apr 6, 2026, 1:17 PM
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