Compound Observer

Pandemic-Proof

Published 2022-04-04 06:10:00 UTC

We need to be developing vaccines for the next pandemic — right now

Published 2022-04-04 06:00:00 UTC

Today, Explained, Vox’s Flagship Daily News Podcast, Debuts on Public Radio Through Partnership with WNYC Studios

Published 2022-04-04 08:46:06 UTC

Why everyone has this chair

Published 2022-04-04 13:02:08 UTC

The world has a new blueprint for tackling global warming

Published 2022-04-04 14:00:52 UTC

Europe’s other threat to democracy

Published 2022-04-04 14:50:00 UTC

Congress is cutting corners on Covid-19 funding. We may pay for it later.

Published 2022-04-05 08:00:00 UTC

The story of the internet, as told by the movies

Published 2022-04-05 07:00:00 UTC

Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic — and what we can do to stop it

Published 2022-04-05 06:00:00 UTC

Procrasti-shopping with NPR’s youngest podcast host

Published 2022-04-05 09:00:00 UTC

WarnerMedia’s ex-boss says you should be happy with Batman at theaters and rom-coms at home

Published 2022-04-05 11:30:00 UTC

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Everything

Published 2022-04-05 14:30:00 UTC

The Oklahoma legislature’s near-total ban on abortion, explained

Published 2022-04-05 19:10:00 UTC

What immunocompromised people need to know right now

Published 2022-04-06 07:30:00 UTC

Recode by Vox Launches “Peter Kafka on Media” Column

Published 2022-04-06 07:00:00 UTC

The New York Times’s old white Democrats problem

Published 2022-04-06 07:00:00 UTC

How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic

Published 2022-04-06 06:30:00 UTC

How to test and trace a virus we haven’t discovered yet

Published 2022-04-06 06:00:00 UTC

A new documentary looks at women who survived domestic violence — then faced jail time

Published 2022-04-06 08:00:00 UTC

Jerrod Carmichael’s new comedy special is everything Louis CK’s Sincerely is not

Published 2022-04-06 08:30:00 UTC

What’s the deal with the Iran nuclear deal?

Published 2022-04-06 12:10:00 UTC

The isolation of Vladimir Putin

Published 2022-04-06 14:30:00 UTC

A survey on global mental well-being shows that the kids are not all right

Published 2022-04-07 08:00:00 UTC

We want cheap stuff fast and don’t care who it hurts

Published 2022-04-07 07:00:00 UTC

The Noom paradox

Published 2022-04-07 06:30:00 UTC

America needs more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic

Published 2022-04-07 06:00:00 UTC

The wisdom of children

Published 2022-04-07 10:00:00 UTC

The good and bad news about the current Covid-19 wave

Published 2022-04-07 14:20:00 UTC

The paradox of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Published 2022-04-07 14:18:28 UTC

The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court

Published 2022-04-07 15:00:00 UTC

What Congress’s sanctions on Russia would do

Published 2022-04-07 19:00:00 UTC

One Good Thing: An unsolicited dik-dik pic

Published 2022-04-08 08:00:00 UTC

Can we 3D print a better face mask?

Published 2022-04-08 07:30:00 UTC

Ukraine’s disappeared

Published 2022-04-08 07:10:00 UTC

The endless debate about spoilers keeps us consuming boring art

Published 2022-04-08 07:00:00 UTC

How to future-proof your life from pandemics and other threats

Published 2022-04-08 06:30:00 UTC

Ezra Miller — and their recent volatility — explained

Published 2022-04-08 11:10:00 UTC

How Ukrainians are saving art during the war

Published 2022-04-08 13:51:23 UTC

The Democratic revolt over Biden’s border policy

Published 2022-04-08 15:10:00 UTC

Severance’s workplace brutality isn’t sci-fi. Neither is its worker power.

Published 2022-04-09 08:00:00 UTC

Pakistan’s political crisis, briefly explained

Published 2022-04-09 07:00:00 UTC

Here’s what the ICC can actually do about Putin’s war crimes

Published 2022-04-09 16:58:34 UTC

What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic

Published 2022-04-10 07:00:00 UTC

The best $3,000 I ever spent: Surgery for a cat I never wanted

Published 2022-04-10 08:00:00 UTC

Macron and Le Pen’s inevitable face-off exposes a major shift in French politics

Published 2022-04-10 17:20:31 UTC

With The Candy House, Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan makes her case for the novel

Published 2022-04-11 08:00:00 UTC

How much legal jeopardy is Hunter Biden in?

Published 2022-04-11 07:00:00 UTC

Where will abortion still be legal after Roe v. Wade is overruled?

Published 2022-04-11 11:20:00 UTC

Why was a Texas woman charged with murder over an abortion?

Published 2022-04-11 19:00:00 UTC

Congrats! You formed a union. Now comes the hard part.

Published 2022-04-12 07:30:00 UTC

Stop calling them “accidents”

Published 2022-04-12 07:00:00 UTC

The Supreme Court’s “praying coach” case, explained

Published 2022-04-12 08:00:00 UTC

They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one.

Published 2022-04-12 08:30:00 UTC

The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto

Published 2022-04-12 09:00:00 UTC

Elon Musk is no free speech messiah

Published 2022-04-12 16:20:00 UTC

The secrets hidden in sewage

Published 2022-04-13 07:30:00 UTC

Is it genocide?

Published 2022-04-13 07:00:00 UTC

How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong

Published 2022-04-13 06:30:00 UTC

Old-school homophobia is back

Published 2022-04-13 06:00:00 UTC

The CDC’s new Covid-19 guidelines are facing their first test with BA.2

Published 2022-04-13 08:00:00 UTC

This is as good as movies are going to get

Published 2022-04-13 09:50:00 UTC

The gas station of the future isn’t a gas station

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

Will this grim satire help you understand what’s happening in Ukraine? Kind of.

Published 2022-04-13 14:30:00 UTC

What Russia’s war means for the International Space Station

Published 2022-04-13 17:40:00 UTC

A new AI draws delightful and not-so-delightful images

Published 2022-04-14 08:00:00 UTC

A new Supreme Court case makes George W. Bush look like a racial justice crusader

Published 2022-04-14 07:30:00 UTC

How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love the gerrymander

Published 2022-04-14 07:00:00 UTC

Is Elon Musk really going to buy Twitter for $43 billion?

Published 2022-04-14 08:35:30 UTC

It’s now practically impossible to get an abortion in Kentucky

Published 2022-04-14 15:00:00 UTC

There are good reasons why Elon wants Twitter

Published 2022-04-14 20:31:05 UTC

The debate dividing the January 6 committee

Published 2022-04-15 07:30:00 UTC

How war in Ukraine is making people hungry in the Middle East

Published 2022-04-15 08:30:00 UTC

One Good Thing: 32 years after its debut, Microsoft Solitaire is still a blissful time-waster

Published 2022-04-15 09:00:00 UTC

The case for regret

Published 2022-04-15 10:10:00 UTC

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado knows where the bodies are buried

Published 2022-04-15 10:25:00 UTC

It’s time to think outside the mask mandate

Published 2022-04-15 10:50:00 UTC

Everything Everywhere All at Once and the multiverse, explained by a quantum physicist

Published 2022-04-15 11:30:00 UTC

The banned weapon Russia (and the US) won’t give up

Published 2022-04-15 13:10:00 UTC

How to handle a lopsided friendship

Published 2022-04-16 07:30:00 UTC

How China’s Zero Covid policy is failing Shanghai

Published 2022-04-16 17:34:41 UTC

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once

Published 2022-04-17 07:00:00 UTC

Will new weapons shipments change the war for Ukraine?

Published 2022-04-17 17:19:34 UTC

What if the future of work is exactly the same?

Published 2022-04-18 07:41:12 UTC

Work is broken. Can we fix it?

Published 2022-04-18 07:39:11 UTC

How to build a better battery

Published 2022-04-18 05:15:00 UTC

The hydrogen energy dream

Published 2022-04-18 05:10:00 UTC

The daunting task of making cryptocurrency climate-friendly

Published 2022-04-18 05:05:00 UTC

Tech Support: Solutions for a warming world

Published 2022-04-18 05:00:00 UTC

Who killed the expanded child tax credit?

Published 2022-04-18 08:30:00 UTC

One Good Thing: Garlic, a perfect food

Published 2022-04-18 09:00:00 UTC

Recode by Vox to Launch Week-Long Coverage on Tech’s Role in Combating Climate Change