Vox Archives Archive
Archives for August 2014


Indiana University political scientist Sumit Ganguly argues nuclear proliferation has prevented war between India and Pakistan, and that Iran getting nuclear weapons would be preferable to attacking them to prevent it.


Sundance Channel is sticking by this one, even though only 120,000 people watched its last episode. The network is right to.


Kent Brantly makes his first statement from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.


In 2000, Stephen Moore argued that government statistics overstated the true level of inflation. Today, he argues they understate it. Will the real Stephen Moore please stand up?


Around one-third of Americans were minorities in 2007, compared to one-quarter of cops.


Russia demands that Bulgaria stop the unknown artists who are stealthily turning Soviet statues into protests against Russian imperialism.


In poll after poll, Americans put the cutoff to become rich in the six figures, usually in the mid-$100,000s.


This chart puts the shootings in Ferguson and St. Louis in perspective.


The GOP’s top budget writer isn’t on board with Mike Lee’s new thinking on taxes.


Scientists have detected thousands of earthquakes around the area, a sign that magma may be on the move.


See how the current outbreak in West Africa is literally getting worse by the week.


Obama says “if they commit a crime, then they need to be prosecuted because every community has an interest in public safety.” Is he right?


The edit referred to Orange is the New Black actress Laverne Cox as “a real man pretending to be a woman.”


Settlements that come many years after the fact punish banks, but do they deter misdeeds?


Jenny Lewis is back to basics, and has finally found a way to make smart, catchy songs that still have a lot of heart. Let’s take a look at how she got here.