Giving Tuesday is here. Future Perfect has always asked one question: how can we do the most good? Our 2025 Guide to Giving is live — practical, evidence-based advice on using your time, money, or blood for maximum impact. vox.com/charitable-giv…

America urgently needs to build — housing, clean energy, infrastructure, and the systems that make prosperity possible. Today, Vox launches The Case for Growth, a new editorial package on how the US can rebuild its capacity to grow: vox.com/policy/470890/…

I hope the next mayor fully pedestrianizes 18th Street between Kalorama Road and Columbia Road.

I simply will not allow AI to alter how I write. Total refusal means more than not using it myself, I also won’t let the fact that others use it shape my habits

Last week, at Faneuil Hall—America's so-called Cradle of Liberty—immigrants showed up to their naturalization ceremony. But instead of taking the oath of allegiance, they were plucked out of line by immigration officers. I wrote about it here: bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/opi…

The dumbest, most predictable outcome possible. No one asked for this!

🎧 Out now! NYC mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani talks his transition, legislative and political priorities, and how he ensures that this moment — days before he takes office — doesn’t become his high water mark. Listen to Today, Explained wherever you podcast

We’re launching a new newsletter! 🩺💛 Good Medicine, written by Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott, helps you navigate your own health and better understand the system and people shaping it today. Sign up here: vox.com/pages/good-med…

Excited to announce I’m now a senior editor for policy, politics, and ideas at Vox! I’ll be commissioning outside pieces, so email me if you have pitches or writers to recommend. Everything from quick hits off the news to opinion essays to reported features are welcome.

DC reduced traffic deaths by 52% in 2025. It did it using traffic cameras to find and target repeat dangerous drivers with fines, booting, and STEER Act lawsuits. Now, U.S. Department of Transportation plans to ban all traffic cameras in DC so reckless drivers aren't held accountable until it's too late.

The most striking thing to me is that the the CBP officer pushes a woman onto the ground and the man is trying to protect her from them and help her up when they tackle him and then shoot him. It’s one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever seen happen in America

“I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?’” theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

Adam Serwer on MAGA and Minnesota: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

We profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/…

Only in the Washington Post: Newly 18 and unemployed, Vika felt like her life was going nowhere fast. So when a stranger on Telegram offered her cash to make a delivery, she agreed. Then, she found out it was a bomb. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/…

cool here’s the city shaming pedestrians for using roads when the city is a) only plowing roads and b) not doing any enforcement of people or businesses who don’t clear their walks pedestrians are simply not going to have a choice at some points

The Israeli military says it now accepts that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll (currently over 71,000) is accurate. The Israeli government and its supporters spent the duration of the war accusing anyone who relied on the figures of duplicity or Hamas sympathy.

Not one thing about what's happening today at the The Washington Post makes sense. Such a staggering waste, and so much loss, from sports, tech, features, local, foreign, and prize-winning national coverage. Donate to the journalists who lost their jobs: gofund.me/e857a06af

If you're one of the Washington Post staff laid off (or leaving), feel free to email me at benjy dot sarlin at voxmedia dot com. Would love to hear about what you're interested in.

Did you catch these nods to Puerto Rican culture and history during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show? 👀🇵🇷 Vox’s deputy editor and Benito aficionado Izzie Ramirez breaks down some of the most important moments.