The harrowing lives of animal researchers
I’m biased because I edited it, but: If you read only one thing today, let it be this magnificent feature (currently Vox member-exclusive, but available to everyone in a few weeks) by Vox fellow Celia Ford. Celia, a former monkey researcher herself, writes about the mental health toll of experimenting on animals.
What was childhood like before vaccines?
Last week, an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles. We’re only a few generations removed from a time when deaths by disease like this one were routine in children, leaving parents with unimaginable grief. Anna North, Vox’s correspondent on the American family, makes the case for bearing witness to that history in the public health choices we make today.
🎧 How to change your personality
Every story by the Atlantic’s Olga Khazan is incredibly (to use an official media industry term) cliiick. So I was delighted when she showed up in my podcast feed as a guest on this week’s episode of The Gray Area, where she offers funny, charming, vulnerable advice on something many of us might be embarrassed to talk about openly: upgrading our personalities.
Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war
Senior correspondent Eric Levitz is brilliant at political and policy analysis, and it shows in this piece taking apart President Trump’s varying, contradictory explanations for his tariffs and why they make no sense.
📹 Why the US has birthright citizenship
This explainer is a masterclass in what Vox’s video team does better than anyone else: visually breaking down what could be an arcane, overly complicated subject into a story so beautifully and simply presented you would think the history is naturally this digestible (it isn’t!).
