How Peanut the Squirrel became an unlikely right-wing celebrity
Despite the many freedoms New Yorkers are afforded, it turns out that having a squirrel as a pet isn’t legal in New York. In ...
What the final polls show about the 2024 presidential election
In 2016, Selzer’s final poll showed Trump up 7 in Iowa when other polls showed a closer contest. Trump won the state by more ...
What actually matters this week, according to our politics team
The election is here and the stakes are higher than ever. At Vox, we strive to bring clarity in uncertain times and help you ...
What counts as a landslide? Your biggest election questions, answered.
The election is here and the stakes are higher than ever. At Vox, we strive to bring clarity in uncertain times and help you ...
Nostalgia won’t fix the loneliness epidemic
At the time when I was coming into Fountain House and really struggling with loneliness … and just feeling really lost, ...
The world’s most mysterious psychedelic is already inside your brain
Perhaps an even more surefire way to land on the far side of that threshold is to tell them about your trip on one of the ...
The voters who could decide the 2024 election in Michigan
Arab American support for third parties could decide Michigan — and the presidency.
The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case
In Milligan, Alabama effectively asked the Supreme Court to abandon the legal framework governing racial gerrymandering cases brought under the Voting Rights Act, which the Court first announced in ...
How marijuana legalization played itself
In many ways, that’s emblematic of how marijuana legalization has spun wildly out of the control of states, more than two dozen of which have now legalized recreational use. States’ efforts to create ...
Are drug expiration dates meaningless?
The US Food and Drug Administration only began requiring drug manufacturers to put an expiration date on medications in 1979. However, they didn’t tell companies how to come up ...
What in the world is pink cocaine?
“Tucibi” — also called tusi or pink cocaine — is a Spanish phonetic play on 2C-B, a California-born synthetic psychedelic originally popular amongst Gen X psychonauts and ravers seeking a euphoric, ...
How weed won over America
In the 1990s, weed was illegal nationally and in every state. But marijuana’s since had a major rebrand: Three decades later, it’s legal for recreational adult use in nearly half of the 50 states. Now ...