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MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
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California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
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The Trump assassination attempt and many other public crimes in America are committed by isolated young men.
The GOP is still pretending that crime is spiraling out of control.
The Republican National Convention featured plenty of angry rhetoric about immigration. It might find a receptive audience.
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Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn't fix everything.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here's what happened.
A recent poll suggests a reversal in a decades-long trend of the public warming to immigrants. What’s causing the shift?
Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
Harris flopped in 2020, but a lot has changed in four years.
The “motherhood penalty” is more complicated than you think.
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important.
The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
Day care as public safety and public relations.
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
As the GOP’s voting base diversifies, conservative elites are doubling down on white identity politics.
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
The Court's Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
A proposed tax hike sparked unrest, but Kenya’s real problem is a debt crisis.
Some lessons from the two presidents who walked away.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
The case for somebody, anybody else.
It's a historic rematch, the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president.
Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai