Vox Archives Archive
Archives for October 2014


State and local politics are important and turnout is great, but this flier doesn’t make sense.


One chart that shows how female representation fell in computer science, even as it continued to climb in other professions dominated by men.


And either way, they’re a small part of America’s gun violence problem.


Members of Kenya’s parliament are paid 97 times the country’s median income.


Here’s where it costs the most to live on campus in every state.


We’re still waiting for a new poll in that race.


Investment managers and business school professors may have been getting their math wrong for decades


Turkey helps Kurds in their attempt to keep Kobane, Syria out of ISIS hands, while Ebola enters its fourth week in the United States.


One fun fact: America gets 37% of its calories from sugar and fat. China gets 11%.


By 2030, road-traffic deaths are expected to be the seventh leading cause of death worldwide.


The Open Access movement seems to be working.


The US treated a donkey better than it treated the people who risked their lives to help US troops.


What happens when a company advertises with a ribbon? Consumers read anything they want into it.


New fossil evidence shows that some of the oldest fish had parts for copulation.


Out of the ashes of the housing bubble, an apartment boom is sprouting.