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What we’re getting wrong about 2024’s "moderate" voters

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A voter fills out their ballot in the New Hampshire primary at the Barn at Bull...
A voter fills out their ballot in the New Hampshire primary at the Barn at Bull Meadow on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. in Concord, New Hampshire. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images They constitute one of the most valuable, overlooked, and misunderstood chunks of the American electorate: the nation’s myt...
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The Supreme Court showdown over whether the military’s officer corps isn’t white enough, explained

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West Point cadets cheer at a football game between the Army Black Knights and the Navy...
West Point cadets cheer at a football game between the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen on December 9, 2023, at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last June, the Supreme Court handed down a sweeping decision abolishing race-conscious admissions prog...
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This camel has a very important job

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In the summer of 2020, the Dome Fire leaped across the Mojave National Preserve in southeastern...
In the summer of 2020, the Dome Fire leaped across the Mojave National Preserve in southeastern California, killing more than 1.3 million Joshua trees. Three years later in 2023, which would go on to become the hottest year on Earth since record-keeping began, the 93,078-acre York Fire more than doubled the acreage ...
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Nevada has both a GOP primary and caucuses. Why?

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Supporters of former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump watch his speech on a...
Supporters of former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump watch his speech on a screen outside a Commit to Caucus Rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 27, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Nevada is doing things differently this election season, and not necessarily for the better. For...
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Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword

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Why are Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj fighting?

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Megan Thee Stallion attends the Mean Girls New York premiere in 2023. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty...
Megan Thee Stallion attends the Mean Girls New York premiere in 2023. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion is embarking on a new, independent era. Following a long legal battle with her former record label and the trial of her former associate Tory Lanez for shooting her in the foot,...
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Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to.

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When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal, the editors at a Big Five...
When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal, the editors at a Big Five publishing house loved the idea. The problem came from the marketing department, which had an issue: She didn’t have a big enough following. With any book, but especially nonfiction ones, publishers want a guarantee that a write...
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Conservatives have long been at war with colleges

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis listens to activist and New College of Florida trustee Christopher Rufo before...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis listens to activist and New College of Florida trustee Christopher Rufo before signing three education bills on the school’s campus in Sarasota, Florida, on May 15, 2023. Photo by Thomas Simonetti for the Washington Post via Getty Images In the wake of the resignations of two university...
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The chances that Trump will be a convicted felon by Election Day have dropped

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Former US President Donald Trump departs after speaking to the press after attending the civil fraud...
Former US President Donald Trump departs after speaking to the press after attending the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York State Supreme Court, in New York City on January 11, 2024. John Lamparski/AFP via Getty Democrats perturbed about Donald Trump’s lead in 2024 polling have long had a c...
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From Gaza to Sudan, conflict is driving a rise in hunger worldwide

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The war in Gaza is the latest example of the recent rise in global conflict creating...
The war in Gaza is the latest example of the recent rise in global conflict creating humanitarian crises. Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images Over the long term, humanity has made great progress in eradicating hunger. Famines on the scale of the 20th century’s catastrophes — the Nazi starvation policies, social tra...
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What wearing Apple’s Vision Pro headset does to our brains

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The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale February 2, but it will take some time before...
The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale February 2, but it will take some time before people figure out what to do with it. Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images The tech world got very fired up in 2013 when Google released a video of a wild concept. It showed a first-person view of a guy walking around Manhattan, tex...
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Why conservatives are melting down over Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Eras Tour at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on...
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Eras Tour at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 24, 2023. Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images/TAS Rights Management The latest Taylor Swift conspiracy theory has nothing to do with a cryptic new novel or unproven speculation she’s secretly queer — and it’s certainly ...
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Why men are secretive about prostate cancer

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in October at the Pentagon. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images US Defense Secretary Lloyd...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in October at the Pentagon. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underwent surgery late last month to treat prostate cancer — a diagnosis and treatment plan he initially kept secret from his boss, and the American public. It wasn’t until several days after Austi...
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The allegations against the UN’s Palestinian refugee relief agency, explained

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Palestinian refugees gather outside the offices of UNRWA in Beirut, on January 30, to protest against...
Palestinian refugees gather outside the offices of UNRWA in Beirut, on January 30, to protest against some countries’ decision to stop funding the organization. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images The United States and about a dozen other countries have paused additional funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and ...
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How Boeing put profits over planes

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The bland allure of Hailey Bieber

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It wasn’t long ago that the Kardashians dictated nearly every beauty trend and spun up their...
It wasn’t long ago that the Kardashians dictated nearly every beauty trend and spun up their own beauty businesses alongside them. At the peak of their influence, the reality stars-turned-lifestyle moguls were borrowing aesthetics popularized by Black and brown women — and makeup techniques used by drag queens — and...
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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

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Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the...
Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous. What is Neuralink for? In the short term, it’s for helping people with paralysis. But that’s not the whole answer. Launched in 201...
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How the nation’s capital became an outlier on violent crime

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A DC police officer stands at the scene of a fatal daytime shooting near Washington’s baseball...
A DC police officer stands at the scene of a fatal daytime shooting near Washington’s baseball stadium, Nationals Park, in December. The city’s striking homicide rate has shaken residents — and drawn national attention. Craig Hudson for the Washington Post via Getty Images In 2020, during the pandemic and after the ...
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Zyn, the nicotine pouch at the center of a brewing culture war, explained

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Zyn nicotine cases are seen on a table on January 29, 2024, in New York City....
Zyn nicotine cases are seen on a table on January 29, 2024, in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images What in god’s name is a Zyn, and why can’t American politicians stop fighting about it? The brand of nicotine pouches has become a font of controversy in recent weeks. Think tobacco dip, minus (crucially) t...
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Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It is a witty, overstuffed campus satire

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Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Putnam Kiley Reid emerged on the literary scene at...
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Putnam Kiley Reid emerged on the literary scene at the end of 2019, when her debut novel Such a Fun Age released in a crescendo of buzz. The story of a Black babysitter accused of kidnapping her white charge, Such a Fun Age was a breezy, effortlessly compelling read, a juicy comedy of m...
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Bats have a unique superpower. Climate change is turning it into a liability.

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Getty Images Not all bats are unbelievably, overwhelmingly adorable, like the one below. Many of them...
Getty Images Not all bats are unbelievably, overwhelmingly adorable, like the one below. Many of them have wrinkly faces and large ears that help them “see” in the dark, using echolocation. But all bats are, without a doubt, exceptional creatures. Not only do bats pollinate our crops, prey on pests like mosquitos, a...
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Would the US intervene to defend Taiwan? Ask Japan.

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TOKYO, Japan — If we’ve got to pick a year, it’s 2027. Imagine China is harassing...
TOKYO, Japan — If we’ve got to pick a year, it’s 2027. Imagine China is harassing Taiwan with near-constant flyovers of fighter jets and drones. Beijing has increased the frequency and scale of its amphibious exercises, so much so that it is getting hard to know what is a run-of-the-mill military drill, and what mig...
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America no longer has a monopoly on deadly drones

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Iranians walk past a Shahed 129 drone displayed during celebrations in Tehran to mark the 37th...
Iranians walk past a Shahed 129 drone displayed during celebrations in Tehran to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 11, 2016. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images The US military has gotten used to owning the skies. American air superiority in recent conflicts has been so complete that no US...
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A guide to health care providers, from doctors to nurse practitioners

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In 2021, Nicole Barbosa, a media relations specialist in Austin, Texas, moved back to the US...
In 2021, Nicole Barbosa, a media relations specialist in Austin, Texas, moved back to the US after more than a decade abroad. Getting medical care established stateside was a priority for her — but when she tried to make an appointment with a primary care doctor at a local health care system she trusted, she was sur...
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