Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. ILLUSTRATION: SAM RODRIGUEZ Just over a decade ago, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for Read More…
A Canadian company has begun drilling near the protected Okavango River Delta, promising jobs for locals and endless fossil fuel for investors. So far, there’s been no oil — but there have been big profits for the founders Mar 26, 2023 10:10 am AT THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land Read More…
Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health. Rebecca Jennings Photo by Christina Animashaun/Vox When I first downloaded TikTok, in the fall of 2018, it only took a few days for my algorithm to figure out that I have ADHD. To be fair, this isn’t all that impressive, as TikTok and the rest of Read More…
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth. By Ian Millhiser Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Read More…
The fashion industry has created a sprawling informal disposal network across the world—that brings with it money, conflict, and environmental destruction. This story originally appeared on Grist and was copublished with El País. It’s reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program Read More…
A majority of the Massachusetts congressional delegation is pushing President Biden to remove Cuba from a list of governments that sponsor terrorism, a designation issued in the waning days of the Trump administration. In a December letter not previously made public, the members panned Trump’s inclusion of Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list Read More…
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