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Each week, a different Vox editor curates their favorite work that Vox has published across text, audio, and video. This week’s email is brought to you by senior editor of politcs, policies, and ideas Angela Chen.
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Each week, a different Vox editor curates their favorite work that Vox has published across text, audio, and video. This week’s email is brought to you by senior editor of politcs, policies, and ideas Angela Chen. |
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Happy Halloween, and happy (??) almost Daylight Saving Time. (Regardless of my personal feelings about the switch, we are falling back this Sunday.) In honor of the holiday and of us heading into the period when the sky gets dark at 4 pm, I have embraced the theme of gloom and picked articles that at least help us better understand the gloom.
One such article is Zack Beauchamp’s piece on the GOP’s antisemitism crisis. Zack isn’t just pointing out that some on the right are antisemites, he’s tracking the “real and growing recognition, at conservatism’s highest levels” of this problem. It’s an internal reckoning and factional fight that’s headed toward a “Republican civil war over Jews.” Zack traces the origins of this, as he puts it, market for antisemitism, pulling together everything from demographics to psychology to social norms. He explains the balance of influential forces inside the party; the role of Trump; and, if it needs to be said, the very, very high stakes.
—Angela Chen, senior editor of politics, policy, and ideas |
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If Obamacare works, why is my health care more expensive?
For some, open enrollment might be the spookiest part of this season. Health care premiums are up 6 percent on average for people with employer insurance and 30 percent on average for those who use the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Democrats have long made “defending the ACA” a key part of their platform, but what’s the point if costs are skyrocketing? As Dylan Scott writes, “It’s a complicated story with a complicated answer,” but he walks the reader through it beautifully.
The real reason why Democrats are so unpopular Speaking of Democrats, they’re not in a good place, and there is no shortage of theories as to why. The latest is a buzzy new report that (among other data points) draws on six months of polling — and concludes that one big problem is that the Democrats moved too far left. Eric Levitz interviews, and presses, pollster Simon Bazelon on the findings.
🎧 Why every website you used to love is getting worse On The Gray Area, Sean Illing speaks with author Cory Doctorow about “enshittification,” his now-famous and very useful term for the decay of the web. The two discuss why it began, why us users can’t just leave, and why it’s not just a problem with platforms.
How to be a better complainer
And finally, after a list of gripes about the right, the left, health care, and the web: Allie Volpe’s “guide to venting without annoying everyone you know.” |
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