Vox Quick Hits

Reporters from the Vox newsroom recount Joe Biden's latest round of presidential actions.

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Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff and film critic Alissa Wilkinson recommend Lupin, starring Omar Sy. It’s a five-episode French TV show based on a classic literary character who is a master of disguise and who delights in tricking criminals to bring justice. 

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Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the nationwide demonstrations in Russia in support of dissident opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who returned to the country this week from Germany, where he was recuperating from a poisoning believed to be an assassination attempt directed by the Kremlin. Navalny was immediately arrested upon his arrival, sparking protests across the country.

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Vox’s Emily Stewart explains how GameStop’s stock jumped by 1,700 percent this month.

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When Jo Livingstone got lost in a new city, they found a fortune teller and a path forward.

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Vox's Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it.

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth wants the military to do a better job of rooting out extremism in its ranks.

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Manifesting is the latest iteration of The Law of Attraction, the belief that you can make things happen through desire and attention. Vox's Rebecca Jennings explains how it works, and how it doesn’t.

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Matt Yglesias, Dara Lind, and German Lopez discuss the research and the evidence for the effects of the number of police officers on crime.

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One year after our first episode on the novel coronavirus, Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what we got right, what we got wrong, and what comes next.

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