Today, Explained returns to Cramer Hill Elementary School to explore the challenges of vaccinating children against Covid-19....

The mass killing at Oxford High School in Michigan may seem comparable to those that preceded it, but the aftermath has taken several new turns....

The world’s most illustrious museums are finally having to reckon with the stolen art in their collections....

Big Bird got vaccinated, an Asian American Muppet moved in, and conservatives got really mad at Sesame Street....

A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her case is changing sports in China....

The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains how the Court could undo Roe v. Wade without overruling it....

Russia blew up a satellite and almost put the International Space Station in a precarious position. Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil explains how humans are trashing space. A space environmentalist (!) explains what cleanup might look like....

AA-muh-kraan or OH-muh-kraan...

A deadly salmonella strain is spreading through American poultry, and there’s not much the government can do to stop it. ProPublica’s Bernice Yeung explains....

After the Chicago Tribune’s Stacy St. Clair runs through the Rittenhouse trial and verdict, legal scholar Eric Ruben explains how “self-defense” can apply to shooting unarmed people in public....