Avishay Artsy

Los Angeles

Senior Producer at Today, Explained

Senior Producer at Vox

audio+print journalist, producing @today_explained @voxdotcom with a focus on climate (he/him)

Articles

Why Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s director of intelligence makes sense

2 months ago | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Sean Rameswaram

Former Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has had an unpredictable political career. But ending up as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence was still, to many, a surprising twist. Gabbard has never worked in the intelligence bureaucracy.
The roots of Donald Trump’s fixation with South Africa

2 months ago | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Noel King

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans.
How Greenland feels about Trump, explained by a Greenlander

2 months ago | msn.com | Avishay Artsy

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How Greenland feels about Trump, explained by a Greenlander

2 months ago | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Noel King

Greenland is the world’s largest non-continental island, and it takes up space rent-free in President Donald Trump’s head. Since 2019, Trump has floated the idea of the US acquiring Greenland, a sovereign Danish territory, in the name of American national security and economic interests. The idea was short-lived when Trump first raised it, but returned with force late last year.
Trump inauguration 2017 vs. 2025: What’s different

Jan 20, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Avishay Artsy

It’s a very cold day in the District of Columbia. The frigid temperatures have prompted the inauguration of Donald Trump and JD Vance to be moved into the US Capitol Rotunda. But that’s not all that’s changed between this day and Trump’s inauguration eight years ago. Trump’s Electoral College victory in 2016 shocked many, including the winner himself, according to many of his campaign staffers.
Why Trump’s second inauguration isn’t like the first

Jan 20, 2025 | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Noel King

It’s a very cold day in the District of Columbia. The frigid temperatures have prompted the inauguration of Donald Trump and JD Vance to be moved into the US Capitol Rotunda. But that’s not all that’s changed between this day and Trump’s inauguration eight years ago. Trump’s Electoral College victory in 2016 shocked many, including the winner himself, according to many of his campaign staffers.
Kyle Mooney’s “Y2K” film re-imagines the apocalypse that wasn’t

Dec 7, 2024 | vox.com | Sean Rameswaram |Avishay Artsy

Twenty-five years ago, millions of people were nervously looking ahead to New Year’s Eve. When the clocks struck midnight, they wondered, would they lose power? Would planes fall from the sky? Would banks collapse and the world order crumble? Such nightmarish fantasies were never truly based in reality, but the public genuinely feared that the computer systems society had become increasingly reliant on would fail at the stroke of midnight, ushering in a dark beginning to the year 2000.
Why Wisconsin Democrats are campaigning in places they can’t win

Oct 21, 2024 | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Sean Rameswaram

The Today, Explained podcast is taking a deep dive into the major themes of the 2024 election through the lens of seven battleground states. We’ve heard so far from voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and this week we turn to Wisconsin, where rural voters could make the difference.
An astronaut explains what it’s like to be stuck in space for months

Sep 2, 2024 | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Sean Rameswaram

Most people are now probably familiar with the story: Two American astronauts were sent to space on an eight-day test mission on a new Boeing spacecraft in June. Now, nearly three months later, NASA announced that they’ll bring the astronauts back on a SpaceX Dragon capsule — which will not arrive until February 2025 for the return flight.
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, explained

Apr 1, 2024 | vox.com | Gabriela Fernandez |Gabriela A. Fernández |Kyndall Cunningham |Alex Abad-Santos |Avishay Artsy

Coverage and analysis of the global superstar’s eighth studio album. Contributors: Kyndall Cunningham, Alex Abad-Santos, and Avishay Artsy Giddy up! Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s eighth studio album and long-awaited sequel to Renaissance, dropped on March 29. Notable collaborators include musicians like Linda Martell, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, and many others.