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On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has about 5,500 employees. On April 19, almost three-quarters of them voted to join the United Auto Workers. It’s the latest ...

Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Siversk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 1, 2024. Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images Ukrainian forces are having their best week in months, and it’s coming not on the muddy battlefields of the Donbas, but across the Atlantic. On Saturday, after months of delay, the US House...

Trump speaks at an event in Pennsylvania on April 13. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump is currently leading the 2024 presidential race, in no small part because voters trust him to combat inflation. This is a bit strange since Trump has for months now been advertising plans to drastically increase consumer pr...

Finnish activist Aiski Ryökäs at a My Voice, My Choice press conference. Varja Jovanovič An unprecedented effort to expand abortion rights throughout Europe launches today, led by groups that were already fighting for reproductive freedom at the national level in their eight home countries. The My Voice, My Choice c...

Hundreds of “Freedom Convoy” supporters march in downtown Ottawa on Canada Day, July 1, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images Canada has a growing populism problem. Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks so. Like many other countries — including the United States — Canadians have spent the last ...

In February, America’s most prominent conservative activist declared his opposition to having sex for fun. In a post on X, the “anti-woke” crusader Christopher Rufo wrote, “‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The poi...

A new study found that empathy among young Americans is rebounding after having reached worrying lows a decade ago. Getty Images/iStockphoto Think back to the United States as it was a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. Is the US a more caring or less caring nation now than it was back then? If you think Amer...

House Speaker Mike Johnson talks with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aid bills at the Capitol on April 20, in Washington, DC. Nathan Howard/Getty Images After months of uncertainty, the House has greenlit a $95 billion package with substantial aid for Ukraine, as well as funds for Isra...

A homeless man takes a break from clearing his belongings along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, California, on January 29, 2018. Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images The Supreme Court’s ultimate decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson probably isn’t going to end well for homeless people. The case,...

Rachel Hillis for Vox Today, on Earth Day, Vox launches a new editorial project, Home Planet, from the Climate, Even Better, and Future Perfect teams. Home Planet is a collection of feature stories that celebrate the unexpected ways our lives intertwine with the natural world and how humans can adapt to preserve our...

Water being sampled for PFAS testing in Salindres, France, in April 2024. Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images In 1992, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband Joel bought a house they loved in a wooded area near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Twenty-four years later, Joel abruptly died of liver cancer; the year after that, state au...

Former President Donald Trump greets Justices Neil Gorsuch (R) and Brett Kavanaugh (L), both of whom owe their jobs to him. Al Drago/Getty Images On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. United States, the case where former President Donald Trump claims that he is immune from prosecution f...

Climate change is personal. It is not abstract. The warming climate impacts our economies, influences our politics and culture, threatens the food we eat and the water we drink; it even affects our love lives. As climate change accelerates and extreme heat and climate disasters displace more people around the world,...

After about two years of dating, Matt Garville, 38, made some space in his closet for his girlfriend, Aloria Rucker, 31. At the time, Rucker was living with a roommate in Brooklyn but spending most nights with Garville at his roommate-less apartment in Hoboken, he says, so the move made sense. The couple agreed they...

A small tent encampment off of Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the most consequential case in decades concerning the rights of people experiencing homelessness. In Gr...

Journalist Fareed Zakaria speaks during the Ellis Island Medals of Honor ceremony at the Ellis Island Honors Society meeting in New York on May 13, 2017. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images What does it mean to say that we’re living in a revolutionary era? Even political scientists can’t agree on the meaning of a “re...

A crowd carrying a model of Iran’s first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a gathering to celebrate the IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024 Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Israel carried out a strike against Iran on Friday but, for now, appea...

Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on April 19 for jury selection in his hush-money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Curtis Means/Getty Images As the Manhattan district attorney’s case against Donald Trump got underway this week — with the former pres...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a tenuous balancing act over Ukraine aid. Bloomberg/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson could be facing the most perilous threat to his leadership yet as Congress votes on a Ukraine aid package this weekend. Johnson has staunchly backed the decision to send more aid to Ukrain...

Taylor Swift performs during the Eras tour at the National Stadium in Singapore on March 2, 2024. Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has spent the past two years on top of the world. Her worldwide Eras tour is the highest-grossing music tour of all time. It’s made her a billionaire...

Plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Getty Images Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of bad things keep happening to Boeing airplanes lately? Ever since the shocking January 5 incident in which a door plu...

Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour in Singapore. Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has always been a pop culture Rorschach test. Every song Swift releases, every single she performs or awards show she attends, every candid photo of her is up for everyone’s interpretation. What people s...

President Joe Biden visits the groundbreaking of a new Intel semiconductor plant on September 9, 2022, in Johnstown, Ohio. Andrew Spear/Getty Images American workers’ wages have been rising faster than prices for more than a year now. Their nation’s economy, meanwhile, is the envy of the wealthy world: Since the Cov...

Jontay Porter of the Toronto Raptors fights for a rebound during the game between the Raptors and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Toronto, Canada, March 22, 2024. Zou Zheng/Xinhua/Getty Images The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life after an internal investigation found that he placed bets on b...