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The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50 years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one...
What if I told you there was a way that the US could prevent 60,000 deaths, save American taxpayers $25 billion, and pay a deserving group of people...
Imagine a charity comes to you with an offer. If you give them a donation now, they’ll get it at least partially matched — so for every dollar you...
No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on you’re a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone you...
Today’s Congress is not exactly a well-oiled machine. Even picking a speaker has proven to be incredibly difficult for the House, which took as many...
I’ve written a lot about AI and the debate over whether it could kill us all. But I still don’t really know where I come down. There are people...
You can’t buy the Seagull in the US. But I bet you wish you could. A small hatchback around the size of a Mini Cooper, the Seagull is a...
It is oddly hard to file your income tax return in the US without working with a private company. Over 90 percent of returns are filed either by a...
One quote about AI I think about a lot is something that Jack Clark, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, told me last year:...
In 2021, Americans owed about $625 billion in taxes that they never paid. This number, called the “tax gap,” represented some 13.7 percent of all...
Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist and early web browser developer, thinks we’re giving too many insecticidal bednets to people...
The child tax credit has had a roller coaster of a decade so far. In 2021, the Democratic Congress and Joe Biden enacted the largest-ever expansion of...
In recent weeks, a major debate has gripped the field of economics, one with significant policy stakes. In one sense, the debate is about the nature...
On December 28 of last year, the Chinese firm EHang reached an important milestone. They flew a completely unmanned, autonomous passenger drone on its...
Few forces have killed off talented people before their time with quite the effectiveness of tuberculosis. There’s Chekhov, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka,...
Large sections of my brain that could contain useful knowledge are instead filled up with dumb tweets I saw years ago. One of my absolute favorites...
Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state who crafted foreign policy for Presidents Nixon and Ford, with an eye toward supporting friendly...
It’s Giving Tuesday, and it’s time for me to do what I do on Vox every Giving Tuesday: encourage people to give more money to effective charities....
Last week I read one of the most important statistics I’d seen in a while: Out of the $105 billion paid out in 2021 and 2022 as part of the...
Like many of you, I’ve been making myself miserable in recent weeks reading and thinking about the deaths of children in widely covered warzones....
The World Bank turns 80 next summer, which means eight decades of loans to fund infrastructure and other projects in poor countries. But it is...
For the past decade or so, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case have been promoting a particular story about death in America....
So it’s come to this: The US is facing another government shutdown. Unless the GOP-run House passes stopgap funding before Sunday, the federal...
On September 26, 1983, the planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet Union’s missile attack early warning system displayed,...
The US spends more, in absolute dollars, on foreign aid than any other rich nation. But a lot of development experts question whether the primary...
Everyone knows lead is bad for you. We’ve known this for a very long time: in the first century BCE, the Roman architect Vitruvius warned against...
If you read about the energy industry in the ’00s and ’10s, you probably caught some excited, hopeful stories about geothermal, the renewable...