Vox Archives Archive
Archives for June 2014
Have questions about what the Supreme Court’s ruling on the birth control mandate means? We have answers.
It’s not just your imagination — America’s air really has been getting cleaner over the past decade.
Physical currency is all about the Benjamins
If true, it’d explain why the Dutch are so tall — and Americans are surprisingly short.
Nonprofits already have a religious “accommodation” for birth control. We can give it to for-profits, too.
People are very upset with today’s Supreme Court decisions. Unfortunately, they are taking it out on the wrong people.
The craft chain “freely provides insurance that covers tubal ligation, birth control pills, condoms, diaphragms and contraception delivered via a patch or ring inserted into the cervix”
Venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen says that Bitcoin today has a lot in common with the internet two decades ago.
Uganda’s harsh anti-gay laws have been the focus of world-wide attention. John Oliver explains how they got there.
In the Supreme Court ruling, Justice Sam Alito did suggest that Obama administration could increase access to birth control in ways that would not violate corporations’ religious liberties.
You never know when a Supreme Court vacancy will emerge.
Textual analysis software is helpful, but has serious shortcomings — one which make Facebook’s study into “emotional contagion” difficult to believe.
If you’re looking for a more pocket-sized version of the ruling, here’s the decision summarized in three key points.
Brussels is a great town. So are Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, etc. But Belgium as a nation isn’t just America’s soccer enemy, it’s less than the sum of its parts. Why not just scrap it and default a win to Team USA?