Compound Observer

Trump attacks Greta Thunberg during near-record Twitter binge

Published 2019-12-12 10:50:00 UTC

WeWork is shutting down a restaurant coworking startup it acquired only 4 months ago

Published 2019-12-12 12:04:06 UTC

Why German spies blew up this US island

Published 2019-12-12 12:00:00 UTC

The UK has the best voting tradition: dogs at polling stations

Published 2019-12-12 12:10:00 UTC

The robot revolution will be worse for men

Published 2019-12-12 12:16:40 UTC

Burger King is using Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spoilers to sell Whoppers

Published 2019-12-12 12:40:00 UTC

Joe Biden’s immigration plan, explained

Published 2019-12-12 12:50:00 UTC

Malevolent houseplants are coming for us in the horror film Little Joe

Published 2019-12-12 13:00:00 UTC

Trump wants to call Mexican drug cartels “terrorist organizations”

Published 2019-12-12 13:10:00 UTC

“Wall Street Pete”: Progressive protesters crash Buttigieg fundraiser

Published 2019-12-12 13:30:00 UTC

The House passed a bipartisan bill that could legalize 325,000 unauthorized immigrants

Published 2019-12-12 13:47:02 UTC

The commercialization of the commercialization of Christmas

Published 2019-12-12 14:00:00 UTC

The House just passed an ambitious bill to lower prescription drug prices

Published 2019-12-12 14:25:39 UTC

The founder of Bonobos was supposed to help reinvent Walmart. Two-plus years later, he’s leaving.

Published 2019-12-12 14:45:00 UTC

Gaetz’s effort to make the impeachment hearing about Hunter Biden’s problems backfired spectacularly

Published 2019-12-12 15:05:00 UTC

Scientists feared unstoppable emissions from melting permafrost. They may have already started.

Published 2019-12-12 15:20:00 UTC

Congressional Democrats’ last, long-shot attempt at climate progress this year

Published 2019-12-12 15:30:00 UTC

The turf war between Trump’s top 2 health care officials, explained

Published 2019-12-12 15:30:00 UTC

Kentucky’s new governor is giving the right to vote back to 140,000 ex-felons

Published 2019-12-12 16:38:07 UTC

Why Democrats just gave away their best chance at ending the trans military ban

Published 2019-12-12 17:20:00 UTC

Odd Job: a Q&A series about the weirdest ways people make money

Published 2019-12-12 17:50:00 UTC

Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime minister, explained in under 650 words

Published 2019-12-12 18:23:09 UTC

Boris Johnson is set to win major victory in UK elections

Published 2019-12-12 18:55:39 UTC

Vox Sentences: Weinstein wants to settle (again)

Published 2019-12-12 20:00:00 UTC

House Democrats maintain united front as impeachment vote looms

Published 2019-12-13 07:00:00 UTC

The past, present, and future of the singular “they”

Published 2019-12-13 07:10:00 UTC

Eggnog, the holiday season’s most divisive drink, explained

Published 2019-12-13 07:20:00 UTC

Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences

Published 2019-12-13 08:00:00 UTC

Is Trumpism a cult?

Published 2019-12-13 08:30:00 UTC

Paul Krugman’s 3-part test for deficit spending

Published 2019-12-13 09:00:00 UTC

How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health

Published 2019-12-13 09:10:00 UTC

Why people are freezing in America’s prisons

Published 2019-12-13 09:20:00 UTC

How Cats made Andrew Lloyd Webber the king of the Broadway spectacle

Published 2019-12-13 09:30:00 UTC

Jeremy Corbyn will resign as party leader after Labour’s crushing defeat

Published 2019-12-13 09:50:00 UTC

The fall of Jeremy Corbyn

Published 2019-12-13 10:00:00 UTC

The House Judiciary Committee just approved articles of impeachment against Trump

Published 2019-12-13 10:11:32 UTC

19 books from the 2010s we can’t stop thinking about

Published 2019-12-13 11:30:00 UTC

Amid impeachment, Trump and Giuliani are still coordinating on anti-Biden dirt

Published 2019-12-13 12:40:00 UTC

Trump is bragging about his trade truce with China. But it’s unclear what he won.

Published 2019-12-13 13:30:00 UTC

Megan Rapinoe just endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president

Published 2019-12-13 14:20:00 UTC

A faint, beautiful interstellar comet is whizzing by the Earth

Published 2019-12-13 15:10:00 UTC

YouTube just made sweeping positive changes to its harassment policy. So why all the backlash?

Published 2019-12-13 15:50:00 UTC

UN climate talks in Madrid have stalled. Countries are blaming the US.

Published 2019-12-13 16:00:00 UTC

2020 Democrats may skip the next presidential debate over a labor dispute

Published 2019-12-13 16:20:00 UTC

The Supreme Court takes up 3 crucial cases involving Trump’s financial records

Published 2019-12-13 16:51:32 UTC

Why Bernie Sanders just endorsed, then un-endorsed, a California congressional candidate

Published 2019-12-13 17:30:00 UTC

Pete Buttigieg is raising money from Silicon Valley’s billionaires — even as Elizabeth Warren attacks him for it

Published 2019-12-13 19:05:00 UTC

Vox Sentences: 2 important votes

Published 2019-12-13 20:00:00 UTC

Why schools refuse to treat Little Women as a great American novel

Published 2019-12-14 09:00:00 UTC

Mr. Feldman goes to Washington

Published 2019-12-14 10:10:00 UTC

Mississippi’s ban on abortions at 15 weeks gets shut down second time

Published 2019-12-14 12:02:23 UTC

Omar al-Bashir, deposed president of Sudan, has been sentenced to 2 years in a reform facility

Published 2019-12-14 15:54:28 UTC

A House Democrat who opposes impeachment is expected to switch political parties

Published 2019-12-14 18:23:45 UTC

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s 428 pardons are upsetting both Democrats and Republicans

Published 2019-12-14 18:22:46 UTC

How a Twitter war in 2010 helped change the way we talk about women’s writing

Published 2019-12-15 09:00:00 UTC

SNL tackles the political divide and the electoral college with a Christmas dinner spoof

Published 2019-12-15 10:03:57 UTC

UN climate talks in Madrid ended without resolving their toughest issue

Published 2019-12-15 11:40:31 UTC

Top Democratic candidates ask the DNC to change debate qualification rules

Published 2019-12-15 14:03:28 UTC

Senate Republicans have already made up their minds on impeachment

Published 2019-12-15 17:55:47 UTC

Senate Democrats want to subpoena four witnesses in the impeachment trial

Published 2019-12-15 19:16:28 UTC

5 questions about Watchmen’s season one finale

Published 2019-12-15 22:09:00 UTC

The Salvation Army says it doesn’t discriminate against LGBTQ people. Critics say that’s not true.

Published 2019-12-16 08:00:00 UTC

How a denial of tenure at Harvard became a national controversy

Published 2019-12-16 08:35:00 UTC

What’s going on with TikTok, China, and the US government?

Published 2019-12-16 08:40:00 UTC

The Social Network knew we’d spend the next decade moving our offline lives online

Published 2019-12-16 08:50:00 UTC

Most investors don’t want to touch media anymore. But Axios is going to raise another $20 million.

Published 2019-12-16 09:50:00 UTC

Trump boasted that his polls are “through the roof.” Fox News quickly proved him wrong.

Published 2019-12-16 11:05:00 UTC

Mitt Romney and Michael Bennet just unveiled a basic income plan for kids

Published 2019-12-16 13:40:00 UTC

The 20 best documentaries of the 2010s

Published 2019-12-16 14:20:00 UTC

India’s students are in full revolt against a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims

Published 2019-12-16 14:30:00 UTC

A new paper says candidates don’t pay a price for extremism

Published 2019-12-16 14:50:00 UTC

How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

Published 2019-12-16 15:00:00 UTC

The reason we’re talking about a government shutdown yet again, briefly explained

Published 2019-12-16 15:00:00 UTC

What makes Delhi’s air so deadly

Published 2019-12-16 15:15:00 UTC

Democrats’ new accusation that Trump violated federal bribery law, explained

Published 2019-12-16 15:10:00 UTC

Healthcare.gov glitches almost ruined the end of open enrollment. Is there a better way?

Published 2019-12-16 15:20:00 UTC

As impeachment looms, Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine conspiracies are getting more outlandish

Published 2019-12-16 16:00:00 UTC

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” finally hit No. 1 on Billboard, 25 years after its release

Published 2019-12-16 16:20:00 UTC

Vox Sentences: Climate talks left in the cold

Published 2019-12-16 20:00:00 UTC

We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.

Published 2019-12-17 07:00:00 UTC

Pete Buttigieg’s latest plan is an appeal to Latino voters

Published 2019-12-17 07:10:00 UTC

A CT scan costs $1,100 in the US — and $140 in Holland

Published 2019-12-17 08:00:00 UTC

To win reelection, Trump should try to deliver on his economic populist promises

Published 2019-12-17 08:10:00 UTC

Cory Booker on socialism, “identity politics,” and animal rights

Published 2019-12-17 08:20:00 UTC

Beyoncé’s Lemonade is one of the best movies of the 2010s

Published 2019-12-17 08:30:00 UTC

Netflix shows off the numbers behind its global growth story for the first time

Published 2019-12-17 09:00:00 UTC

Can monoculture survive the algorithm?