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Trump’s plan to win the House just took a big step forward

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: Texas is forging ahead with its plan to add five Republican seats to its congressional map at the behest of President Donald Trump, in preparation for […]

Stephen Miller is undercutting Trump’s war on democracy

In the public imagination, Stephen Miller is the dark heart of the Trump administration — a pulsing mass of anti-immigrant hatred behind its most aggressively authoritarian moves. But what if there’s a different story to be told — that Stephen Miller’s obsession with deportations isn’t helping President Donald Trump secure control over the country, but […]

Marc Maron says the Rogansphere has ruined comedy. Is he right?

“I think if Hitler were alive today, he’d probably appear on Theo Von’s podcast,” Marc Maron jokes toward the end of his new HBO special, Panicked. He then proceeds to imitate a half-baked, drawling Von, archbishop of the dudebro podcaster, softballing questions about drug use to a hypothetical Hitler. “On our podcast,” he snarks in […]

Is the alternative to going vegan…donating a lot of money to charity?

Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet.  Dwarkesh Patel, the influential tech podcaster, announced on his show that if his listeners donated a collective $250,000 to FarmKind, an organization that distributes money to anti-factory farming charities, […]

What kids don’t want you to know about Gen Alpha culture

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As long as youth culture has existed, adults have been mystified, perplexed, and even threatened by it. At least once a week I think about the scene in A Hard Day’s Night, a film released in 1964, in […]