AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarNowWhy buying a house feels impossible right nowverified_publisherVox - Amanda LewellynCan’t buy, won’t sell: Today’s housing market, explained. Buying a house just doesn’t feel possible right now. Home prices have doubled in the last decade, with much of that growth happening in just the last four years. By one measure, housing affordability has fallen to its lowest level since the …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar1 hour agoThe crisis that could bring down Benjamin Netanyahu, explainedverified_publisherVox - Zack BeauchampNetanyahu has till Sunday evening to present a fix to Israel’s controversial conscription law. If he fails, his government likely fails with him. This Sunday, Israel is scheduled for a political crisis. At midnight Israel time on April 1, the government will hit a deadline for changing its policy on …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar2 days agoThe Baltimore bridge collapse and its potential consequences, explainedverified_publisherVox - Li ZhouFrom search efforts to how a ship can knock down a bridge, here’s what you need to know. The shocking collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning has the region reeling. Thus far, two people who were working on the bridge have been rescued …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar1 day agoChicago’s inhumane migrant evictions are a symptom of a bigger problemverified_publisherVox - Li ZhouThey point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy. Chicago’s decision to move forward with a controversial migrant eviction proposal is underscoring ongoing gaps in immigration policy that continue to exist across the country — and the inhumane quick fixes that are being used in the …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar2 days agoEven the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills caseverified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserThe lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court. The Supreme Court appeared listless, even bored, during Tuesday’s oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the case asking the courts to ban the abortion drug mifepristone. Their frustration with the …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar3 days agoWhy IVF looks different in the US than in the rest of the worldverified_publisherVox - Rachel M. CohenWhat the debate over the fertility industry misses. Earlier this month the Atlantic ran an opinion piece describing the American fertility industry as “strangely undeveloped” from a regulatory perspective. The two authors — a conservative political analyst and an anti-abortion bioethicist — claimed …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar4 days agoThe Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?verified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserThe Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s. According to the Justice Department, Joseph Fischer texted his boss before the January 6 insurrection to tell him that he might need to post bail. The accused insurrectionist also allegedly warned …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar5 days agoCongress can’t get anything done. Except on foreign aid.verified_publisherVox - Dylan MatthewsMajor reform on how the US gives money to other countries is breezing through the House with bipartisan support. Today’s Congress is not exactly a well-oiled machine. Even picking a speaker has proven to be incredibly difficult for the House, which took as many floor votes on the matter in 2023 …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar6 days agoThe House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge giftverified_publisherVox - Eric LevitzRoughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions. Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant. Roughly 53 percent of Americans have an unfavorable …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarThe Supreme Court’s abortion pills case, explainedverified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserThe stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion. For more than a year, a specter named Matthew Kacsmaryk has loomed over abortion access in the United States. Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for Christian right causes who Donald Trump appointed to the federal bench, attempted …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarThe Supreme Court’s confusing new border decision, explainedverified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserIt is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion. The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration law to go into effect — although the law did not stay in effect for very long because of an order …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarHow a Mississippi case of police brutality emphasizes the need for more accountabilityverified_publisherVox - Li ZhouSix former police officers tortured two Black men. They’re getting sentenced this week. Six white former police officers, who pleaded guilty to civil rights offenses related to the assault and torture of two Black men in Mississippi, are being sentenced this week. Their pleas underscore the systemic …