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The breathtaking lifesaving impact of vaccines, in one chart

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...

25.04.2024 6

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Would you donate a kidney for $50,000?

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...

17.04.2024 20

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The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There’s a better way.

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...

15.04.2024 10

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Pig kidney transplants are cool. They shouldn’t be necessary.

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...

02.04.2024 10

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How AI could explode the economy

26.03.2024 30

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Congress can’t get anything done. Except on foreign aid.

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...

24.03.2024 10

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Why can’t anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be?

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...

13.03.2024 20

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Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

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...

04.03.2024 40

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I got to see the IRS’s free tax-filing software in action. Here’s what I learned.

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...

26.02.2024 30

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How a ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events

13.02.2024 9

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Can the courts save us from dangerous AI?

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:...

07.02.2024 4

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Biden invested big in more tax audits. A new IRS analysis claims it’s working.

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...

07.02.2024 70

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist and early web browser developer, thinks we’re giving too many insecticidal bednets to people...

25.01.2024 5

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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

17.01.2024 20

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How Congress is planning to lift 400,000 kids out of poverty

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...

16.01.2024 3

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Do we really live in an “age of inequality”?

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...

11.01.2024 6

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Are flying cars finally here?

On December 28 of last year, the Chinese firm EHang reached an important milestone. They flew a completely unmanned, autonomous passenger drone on its...

05.01.2024 5

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Tuberculosis kills more people than malaria or HIV. Why haven’t we found a vaccine?

Few forces have killed off talented people before their time with quite the effectiveness of tuberculosis. There’s Chekhov, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka,...

13.12.2023 5

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The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment

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...

01.12.2023 8

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What Henry Kissinger wrought

Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state who crafted foreign policy for Presidents Nixon and Ford, with an eye toward supporting friendly...

30.11.2023 5

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Christine Parthemore is training a generation to tackle a world of interlocking threats

29.11.2023 10

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I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too.

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....

28.11.2023 5

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Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

24.11.2023 5

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One stat that could spur a compromise on the child tax credit

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...

15.11.2023 3

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I’m getting malaria to help eradicate it (and you can too)

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....

27.10.2023 3

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The World Bank can bring the world’s poor into the clean energy revolution

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...

24.10.2023 7

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What a striking new study of death in America misses

For the past decade or so, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case have been promoting a particular story about death in America....

04.10.2023 5

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A simple way to prevent government shutdowns

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...

29.09.2023 100

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39 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

On September 26, 1983, the planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet Union’s missile attack early warning system displayed,...

26.09.2023 2

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The US hired a leading economist to fix how it allocates foreign aid. Here’s his plan.

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...

19.09.2023 9

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Lead poisoning could be killing more people than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined

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...

14.09.2023 3

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Is the future of energy ... pouring water on hot rocks in the ground?

If you read about the energy industry in the ’00s and ’10s, you probably caught some excited, hopeful stories about geothermal, the renewable...

13.09.2023 6

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