Compound Observer

Tax the land

Published 2022-03-04 10:10:00 UTC

There’s no good way to roll back mask mandates

Published 2022-03-04 13:30:00 UTC

Love Is Blind season 2 gave up on a happily ever after

Published 2022-03-04 16:20:00 UTC

The US took a key first step in welcoming Ukrainian refugees

Published 2022-03-04 16:50:00 UTC

Russia is strengthening its censorship regime by blocking Facebook

Published 2022-03-04 18:50:00 UTC

How the war in Ukraine could change history

Published 2022-03-05 08:00:00 UTC

Germany’s dramatic reversal on defense, explained

Published 2022-03-05 07:30:00 UTC

America can’t solve its gas price problem (or its Russia problem) with drilling

Published 2022-03-05 07:00:00 UTC

Why it’s more difficult to flee Ukraine if you’re not from Ukraine

Published 2022-03-05 06:30:00 UTC

Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in Ukraine

Published 2022-03-05 16:50:40 UTC

How war became a crime

Published 2022-03-06 08:00:00 UTC

The loss of insects is an apocalypse worth worrying about

Published 2022-03-06 07:00:00 UTC

An expert on the dismal state of nuclear treaties

Published 2022-03-06 17:10:00 UTC

Maternity wards are shuttering across the US during the pandemic

Published 2022-03-07 07:00:00 UTC

The Batman’s moral universe gets what Todd Phillips’ Joker misses

Published 2022-03-07 08:00:00 UTC

A grand Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering ends in a whimper

Published 2022-03-07 18:30:00 UTC

Why voting rights activists aren’t giving up

Published 2022-03-08 07:00:00 UTC

Why some Republicans are turning against the death penalty

Published 2022-03-08 07:30:00 UTC

A day in the digital life of an internet it-girl

Published 2022-03-08 09:00:00 UTC

The needlessly complicated Supreme Court fight over whether Navy SEALs have to obey orders

Published 2022-03-08 13:20:00 UTC

The nerdiest article you’ll read about the baseball lockout

Published 2022-03-08 14:40:00 UTC

Congress could finally pass appropriations bills after months of procrastinating

Published 2022-03-08 14:30:00 UTC

The troubling link between electric cars and ... flamingos?

Published 2022-03-09 06:00:00 UTC

Most animal cruelty is legal on the farm. A judge is questioning that.

Published 2022-03-09 07:00:00 UTC

The video essay boom

Published 2022-03-09 08:00:00 UTC

Morality in art, as considered by a fictional 50-something martini-drinking hostage taker

Published 2022-03-09 08:30:00 UTC

It took a war for Big Tech to take a side

Published 2022-03-09 09:50:00 UTC

How the left is reckoning with Russia’s war

Published 2022-03-09 12:20:00 UTC

The even harsher sanctions Congress is pushing for Russia, briefly explained

Published 2022-03-09 13:00:00 UTC

Rachel Cohen Is Joining Vox as a Senior Reporter Covering Domestic Policy

Published 2022-03-09 13:12:06 UTC

The unprecedented American sanctions on Russia, explained

Published 2022-03-09 13:30:00 UTC

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, explained in 8 moments

Published 2022-03-09 14:30:00 UTC

California wants to use electric cars to back up the power grid

Published 2022-03-09 14:40:00 UTC

Why some crypto fans are praising Joe Biden

Published 2022-03-09 17:10:00 UTC

Shipwrecks are cool. But not as cool as the deep-sea creatures living on them.

Published 2022-03-09 17:00:00 UTC

We have the best view yet of Covid-19’s origins. What should we do about it?

Published 2022-03-09 16:10:00 UTC

How to keep money from tearing your friendships apart

Published 2022-03-10 08:00:00 UTC

Why it costs money to get your own money

Published 2022-03-10 07:30:00 UTC

How high can gas prices go?

Published 2022-03-10 07:00:00 UTC

The toll Russia’s war is taking on Ukrainian civilians, in photos

Published 2022-03-10 06:30:00 UTC

The healing power of a parent’s touch

Published 2022-03-10 06:00:00 UTC

The impossibility of a “limited” no-fly zone

Published 2022-03-10 10:10:00 UTC

“My children love being Texans”: A father of a trans teen weighs whether his family can stay

Published 2022-03-10 14:40:00 UTC

Can Russian oligarchs influence Putin’s war?

Published 2022-03-10 15:10:00 UTC

She was the Agatha Christie of romance novels. You’ve probably never heard of her.

Published 2022-03-11 09:00:00 UTC

Inheriting bitcoin is harder than it sounds

Published 2022-03-11 08:00:00 UTC

“The alarmists were right all along”: A Moscow journalist on Putin and the new Russian reality

Published 2022-03-11 06:30:00 UTC

Senior Correspondent Emily St. James to Cover Shifting American Identity

Published 2022-03-11 10:04:39 UTC

Have we ceased to understand the world?

Published 2022-03-11 16:00:00 UTC

Russia continues its online censorship spree by blocking Instagram

Published 2022-03-11 17:45:15 UTC

How a no-fly zone would change the war in Ukraine

Published 2022-03-11 18:50:00 UTC

The dangerous new phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained

Published 2022-03-12 07:30:00 UTC

What we can learn from Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s TV presidency

Published 2022-03-12 08:00:00 UTC

The conversation about guns we’re not having

Published 2022-03-12 08:30:00 UTC

The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities

Published 2022-03-12 16:06:15 UTC

The best $4.99 I ever spent: A six-pack after my father’s funeral

Published 2022-03-13 08:00:00 UTC

Phones can be addictive. Sports betting, too. Now we’re combining them.

Published 2022-03-13 07:30:00 UTC

Could Putin actually fall?

Published 2022-03-13 07:00:00 UTC

Why the US scrapped Polish plans to give Ukraine fighter jets

Published 2022-03-13 17:54:05 UTC

Is booking Airbnbs really the best way to help Ukrainians?

Published 2022-03-14 09:00:00 UTC

Animal sounds are a marvel of evolution. We can’t afford to drown them out.

Published 2022-03-14 08:30:00 UTC

Can TV take down the cult of the tech founder?

Published 2022-03-14 08:00:00 UTC

A new Supreme Court case allows the justices to fix one of their worst anti-worker decisions

Published 2022-03-14 07:30:00 UTC

The danger of making the internet safe for kids

Published 2022-03-14 07:00:00 UTC

The intricate literary layers of Drive My Car

Published 2022-03-15 08:00:00 UTC

What happened the last time high gas prices dominated US politics

Published 2022-03-15 07:00:00 UTC

The Stop Asian Hate movement is at a crossroads

Published 2022-03-15 06:30:00 UTC

Where teen influencers go to become actors

Published 2022-03-15 09:00:00 UTC

The constitutional problem with Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

Published 2022-03-15 12:30:00 UTC

The Senate just voted to make daylight saving time permanent. Good.

Published 2022-03-15 17:50:00 UTC

Growing up Maasai and the art of healing the Earth

Published 2022-03-16 08:00:00 UTC

3 Oscar nominees, one little-seen musical about cheerleaders

Published 2022-03-16 09:00:00 UTC

Democrats’ fears about restricting mail-in voting were confirmed in Texas

Published 2022-03-16 10:00:00 UTC

Why we still don’t yet know how bad climate migration will get

Published 2022-03-16 11:30:00 UTC

The free speech search engine that never was

Published 2022-03-16 14:50:00 UTC

What Zelenskyy wants, America can’t give

Published 2022-03-16 14:40:00 UTC

The uncertain future of the bill formerly known as Build Back Better

Published 2022-03-16 14:30:00 UTC

Disney’s “Don’t Say Gay” stance wasn’t the first time it betrayed its LGBTQ fans

Published 2022-03-16 15:00:00 UTC

The surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and ... internet access

Published 2022-03-16 16:35:00 UTC

Pixar’s Turning Red is an unlikely culture war battleground

Published 2022-03-17 08:00:00 UTC

The biggest funder of anti-nuclear war programs is taking its money away

Published 2022-03-17 07:30:00 UTC

What’s the point of all these scammer stories?

Published 2022-03-17 09:00:00 UTC

Money Talks: Navigating unemployment two years into the pandemic

Published 2022-03-17 09:30:00 UTC

Are we done with face masks?

Published 2022-03-17 12:40:00 UTC

One Good Thing: The movie that first made me sit up and take note of Jessie Buckley

Published 2022-03-18 08:30:00 UTC

Elden Ring is almost impossible to explain, but so worth playing

Published 2022-03-18 08:00:00 UTC

The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

Published 2022-03-18 07:30:00 UTC

Why India isn’t denouncing Russia’s Ukraine war

Published 2022-03-18 07:00:00 UTC

The neon shortage is a bad sign

Published 2022-03-18 06:30:00 UTC

Covid-19 cases are exploding in Asia. Here’s what it means for the rest of the world.

Published 2022-03-18 14:00:00 UTC

Josh Hawley’s latest attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson is genuinely nauseating

Published 2022-03-18 13:20:00 UTC

Is Russia losing?

Published 2022-03-18 16:10:00 UTC

What it’s like to flee Ukraine

Published 2022-03-18 17:34:27 UTC

Deep Water is a movie for the mean and horny

Published 2022-03-19 09:00:00 UTC

How you can help all refugees — from Ukraine and beyond

Published 2022-03-19 08:30:00 UTC

Europe’s embrace of Ukrainian refugees, explained in six charts and one map

Published 2022-03-19 08:00:00 UTC

Standup comedy and the myth of cancel culture