You walk into the room and a whole crowd of people is belting out an uneven but spirited version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. A former lawyer dressed in a Beatles T-shirt taps his knees as if he were a professional drummer. Another guy, long and lanky in […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out of a job. What happened? Noem was fired on Thursday in a social media post by President Donald […]

You know what a pink ribbon signifies. Breast cancer, right? Now what about a red dress? Did you come up with heart disease? No? Don’t worry: You’re not alone. Heart disease is the leading killer of cisgender American women — and that trend shows no signs of slowing. New projections estimate the share of US women […]

It’s not necessarily the guys you might expect, Apollo Knapp told me. These are 6-foot-tall high-school athletes, guys who are social and popular. “They’re the type of people that are friends with everybody, who get dapped up in the hallway every two feet,” said Knapp, an 18-year-old high school senior in Ohio and a board […]

“Across party lines and demographic groups, young men are eager to be dads.” That’s the surprising conclusion that Anna North, my Vox colleague, uncovered when she dove into the data to find out young people’s views about forming families. Birth rates have been in free fall, and talk of a demographic crisis has increasingly filled […]