Amanda Taub
Former Vox staff
Latest articles by Amanda Taub


We can prevent more children from drowning in the Mediterranean. But we can’t do it by just writing a check.


Why is this happening now? Why won’t Europe take more? How did things get so bad in Syria?


This is a political crisis as well as a humanitarian one


The scandal that brought down Guatemala’s president has been brewing for decades.


America’s callous inaction is leaving refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.


Why Russia’s president took time out of his busy schedule to pump iron on camera.


Letting Syrian refugees stay in Germany to apply for asylum will help thousands of vulnerable people. It’s also a step toward solving the European Union’s biggest crisis.


The greatest trick the US ever pulled was convincing immigrants to have kids here.


Now that the repressive hereditary monarchy allows women the narrowest possible right to vote, here are some other empty reforms the kingdom might consider.


Xenophobic extremism appears to be on the rise in Germany as the country grapples with the largest influx of refugees it has experienced since World War II.