Vox Archives Archive
Archives for December 2014


A study compares Christmas past to Christmas present.


This is the cost of spending your valuable time typing 1,100 words of emails about an incorrect menu.


Why there is no place for torture in a free society.


This Wes-Anderson-style charity video seemed like a good idea. It wasn’t.


Cleveland Cavaliers star joins Kyrie Irving, Kevin Garnett, and others to call for justice for Eric Garner.


He turned “The Word” into “The Decree.”


Plus, updates on Congress’s spending bill drama and the botched special forces raid in Yemen.


Wealth inequality in Russia is higher than just about anywhere else in the world.


This chart explains how work is most likely to kill people in your industry


She still believes Jackie “went through a traumatizing sexual assault.”


A smaller and smaller percentage of Americans are fighting the country’s wars.


Plus, Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrests a political rival, and Rolling Stone backpedals from a story on rape at the University of Virginia.


It let the force of a 9,000-word story on a national problem rest entirely on the memories of a traumatized college student.


A previous apology said the magazine was wrong to trust Jackie.


As a lawyer, I learned what Rolling Stone didn’t.