Amanda Taub
Former Vox staff
Latest articles by Amanda Taub


Reducing a person to roles like “Terrorist Number Four” is not good. Reducing an entire community to that is much worse.


The Home Office claimed the artist has a “criminal conviction.” That’s news to him.


Corruption is so widespread that companies need to make clean money dirty in order to do business.


He applied the lessons of America’s domestic struggles to the challenges of foreign policy. The result was something radically new — and very important.


Brazil’s growing political crisis, explained in fewer than 500 words.


Why are we so convinced that hard problems will have easy solutions?


“Buy one, give one” charities sound great. They’re not.


A political scientist explains the subconscious fears powering Trump’s success — and why his claim to speak for a “silent majority” is utter nonsense.



Some of these are rooted in real truth — but others are just nonsense.