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Elon Musk and his government's efficiency is rampaging through the federal government. But he endorsed Barack Obama before he accidentally fired a nuclear safety worker on his dog team and declared Donald Trump that “a straight guy can love another man.” In other words, Musk is a complex, mercury man. To better understand him, the seven Voxwriters will teach you what they have learned to help you understand the billionaires.Men with extraordinary risk toleranceAccording to biographer Ashley Vance, Musk won about $250 million, or $180 million after tax, selling PayPal to eBay. He then turned around and threw his money…
Since its launch in 2025, more than 27 million egg-selling chickens (9% of flocks across the country) have either died of avian flu or (terrifyingly) to slow the spread.It led to a shortage of eggs and a surge in prices, which costs twice as much as what we did in early 2022 when this latest bird flu outbreak began.Due to its impact on grocery bills, mass murder of egg-selling chickens has attracted much more attention than the more routine cruelty in the egg industry. However, every year, far more chickens are brutally killed for a totally different purpose, regardless of…
For millennials everywhere, two of the most glamorous and terrifying fashionistas of the 2000s were the hosts of TLC’s What Not to Wear, Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. London’s Cruella streak of white hair, Kelly’s herringbone suits — the polish! The fabulousness! The way they would cackle over a hapless victim’s mom jeans and dated ’80s perm before literally throwing their whole wardrobe in the garbage — well, the meanest eighth-grader you know would have to work hard to be that scary.What was most compelling of all about London and Kelly, though, was the idea that they could actually tell…
This story appeared on the logoff A daily newsletter that will help you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life in political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff. Today, I'm focusing on last night's Donald Trump speech line. I felt surprisingly honest. It was admitted that Trump's plan to sort the US economy by tariffs was not painless. Once you become clear about how steep the tariffs are, you can see how much pain Trump is talking about.So, which is that? The past two days have been a continuous mix of signals. There are signs that tariffs…
In the middle of my daughter's first day at Disney World, I received the latest screen time report from Apple. Waiting for the rides, I reflexively checked my phone and tapped the app icon. Like many parents who are distracted, this caused a suffocating guilt that I was watching the screen rather than more for my little one. I do that at home too, and I want to stop. Ironically, I was once again distracted by the notification telling me to look at my phone to learn how to watch it.Screen Time Report – A weekly summary of the time…
Some things feel like facts of life. The sun rises in the morning and the set is in the evening. Winter changes to spring, it changes to summer, it changes to autumn. The deadline for obtaining the actual ID will then be pushed back. That last one may seem more fluid than the others, but that has been true for almost a quarter century. So, what keeps this 9/11 era law from fully enacting? And why didn't we give up implementing it? I'll answer that in this week's episode Please explain it to me.Our story begins in the aftermath of…
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court passed on a very short order, effectively demanding that the government pay as much as $2 billion in foreign aid contractors for work already completed. The court's orders are very narrow and unlikely to have many impacts on future cases.Shortly after President Donald Trump took office twice, his administration tried to suspend funding for the United States Organization for International Development (USAID). Wednesday's Supreme Court order is the latest chapter in an ongoing lawsuit over whether it is legal to cut the funds. In that order, the Supreme Court leaves a lower court decision…
After decades of lobbying, the US government has finally launched action to warn consumers about the dangers of ultra-processed foods, including your potato chips, granola bars, cereals, frozen pizzas, and more store-bought breads. As we reported last year, there is growing scientific evidence linking these ultra-high-processed foods, or UPF, ranging from obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression, anxiety, and autoimmune disorders. As my colleague Marina Borotnikova explained in December, exactly what is classified as UPF is not complete and the category may be too broad, but there is still a growing desire for consumers to clarify what we are buying and eating.…
Vox is set to kick off Good robotdelves into the potential horrors of hype and artificial intelligence, a storyline audio series hosted by acclaimed podcast host Julia Longoria. In four episodes, Longoria traces the rise of technology and the ideology of people, helping listeners understand their own life and their meaning for humanity. The series will air for more than two weeks Can't explainVox's Science and Mysteries Podcast, which will begin on March 12th. Longoria, the Murrow Award winner who has created some of the most acclaimed audio documentaries of the past decade, will become the permanent co-host of the…
After failing to consolidate a single message of resistance against President Donald Trump over the past six weeks, Democrats seem to finally be thinking about what to say, but they still have a hard time figuring out how to convey that message to Americans. The debate that Democrats made in response to Trump's first joint speech to Congress is still slightly cloudy. But one version looks like this: Trump cannot be trusted by the economy. He has led the country to dangerous territory and is not focused on the kitchen table issues that Americans care about.Even before Trump's speech on…