Vox Archives Archive
Archives for December 2014
Plus, the Lima climate deal, Russia’s economic woes, and Ted Cruz’s inadvertent favor to Senate Democrats.
Polygraph tests are century-old pseudoscience. Why are we still using them?
What we know (and, crucially, don’t know) about the hostage situation in Sydney.
In most places, more homework correlates with higher scores on international tests. Not here.
The self-styled sheikh moved to Australia from Iran in 2009.
New regulators are hoping to clean up an industry that has at times used aggressive tactics on grieving families
The wealth gap between whites and blacks, as well as between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, is huge. Here’s how it got that way.
It’s based on Byron’s “Sennacherib”
Life is expensive on the coasts. More expensive than it has to be.
The problems with a deeply flawed analogy.
Plus, John Brennan kinda sorta defends the CIA torture program, and climate talks lag in Peru.
Why 88.7 percent of Darwin Award winners are male
Most Americans say guns help protect people from crime.