Vox Archives Archive
Archives for October 2014
See the legacy of the 1930s in your neighborhood.
An interview with Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative, on the history behind Rand Paul’s worldview.
New York and New Jersey team up to punish people risking their lives to fight Ebola in West Africa.
Vox explains the biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history
We don’t remember this book from Burton’s television series.
The effect of endorsements on election results is modest, but real.
Plus bonus photo of Kim inspecting a pink teacup.
The sugar industry works really hard to make sure people don’t know their products are linked to some truly horrible health effects.
It was as big as a T. rex and even more graceless.
Many of the women who travel to the UAE to become domestic workers are horribly abused by their employers and recruiting agents.
One of the big points of contention in the conversation around #GamerGate is to what extent it’s about retrograde gender politics and to what extent it’s about the ethics of video game journalism.
When it comes to any part of wealth too many of today’s young people are worse off than their parents at the same age. That’s partly because current policies are structured to support wealth-building in ways that don’t work for millennials.
Some of the fastest growing areas of the economy are moving further away from predictable hours at predictable wages. That’s creating new challenges for a growing percentage of the U.S. workforce, particularly women and millennials.
The baby boomers who benefitted enormously from a system of free or highly affordable public colleges and universities have failed to maintain that societal bargain on behalf of their children.
Young people didn’t build this economy, but they’re paying the highest price for its failings.