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07.05.2021 - New York City - Jhon Sánchez (Image by Twitter, Tony Aiello) I also was raped. The word ‘also’ shouldn’t need to be written there, but it seems necessary to make my voice heard. The word ‘also’ issues a message: Not only women are raped. I was a soldier, 17 years old, serving mandatory military service in Colombia. What I remembered the most from the experience was the corporal on top of me saying, “I’m doing this to you s...

The Pandemic Playbook Dylan Scott © Ricci Shryock, Jacobia Dahm, Jun Michael Park, Linh Pham for Vox Senegal, Germany, South Korea, Vietnam (clockwise from top left). Before last March, the United States was considered better prepared than any country in the world to contain an infectious disease outbreak. Then came the novel coronavirus. The US response was slow, disorganized, and ineffective: The richest nation on Earth endured the most cases and deaths anywhere in the world, and it fared poorly even when adjusting for population. Chronic underinvestment in public heal...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s commissioner of public education, to be his Department of Education secretary, according to multiplesources. With his nomination, Biden will fulfill his promise to select a public school educator to head the department and further his goal of creating the most diverse cabinet in American history. Cardona began his career in Meriden, Connecticut, as an elementary school teacher who rose quickly to become a school principal and eventually the state’s first Latino commissioner of educat...