Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022, in Acton, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough. The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of birds, about 880 cases... Read more ›
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Six Supreme Court justices attend President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. | Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political. Young John Roberts was a funny guy. “The generally accepted notion that the court can only hear roughly 150 cases each term,” the future chief justice wrote while he was an early-career... Read more ›
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Flights to LaGuardia Airport were delayed last June due to smoke and poor visibility. | Getty Images Flying has gotten hellish. Consumers might finally get compensated. Under a new rule from the Biden administration, passengers could soon get relief for one of the most frequently cited travel grievances. The rule, which was announced in late April, would require airlines to provide automatic refunds for flight delays, an issue that’s been... Read more ›
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Jessica Gunning as “Martha” in Baby Reindeer. | Ed Miller/Netflix With the Baby Reindeer fallout, the paradox of true crime as entertainment strikes again. As a medium, autofiction has long been a source of controversy, but rarely has an autobiographical work of fiction come with as many built-in issues as Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer. The show, a seven-episode limited series from British comedian Richard Gadd, chronicles Gadd’s history of allegedly... Read more ›
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Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) and her tennis-playing, polyamorous twinks. | Challengers/Amazon MGM Studios The relationship style has been the topic of talky articles and books. Finally, it’s the sexiest element of the year’s sexiest movie. Much has recently been made out of polyamory in the media, to the point where the prospect of dating and ostensibly having sex with multiple people who are also attracted to you seems rather unsexy. Pieces... Read more ›
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Israeli and Palestinian flags on display in protests at UCLA on April 28, 2024 in Westwood, California. | Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images It’s time to take back the Israel-Palestine debate from the radicals on both sides. You may have heard of Shai Davidai, the Israeli professor at Columbia University who has launched a crusade against the school’s pro-Palestinian protestors. He’s rocketed to fame by calling students terrorists, comparing himself... Read more ›
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Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained. Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus in mid-April, inspiring demonstrations at other universities across the country as well as in Canada and France. But as those protests — many of which center on encampments and demands that universities divest from Israel — have grown, so too have intense crackdowns... Read more ›
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Andrew Huberman, a neurobiology professor and host of the Huberman Lab podcast, attending INBOUND 2023 in Boston, Mass. | Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot The Huberman Lab has credentials and millions of fans, but it sometimes oversteps medical fact. Sometimes, misleading information is easy to spot, traveling in the same conspiracy-theory-slicked grooves it has for decades. The same ideas that undermined belief in the safety of Covid-19 vaccines... Read more ›
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Canceling people’s debt from unpaid medical bills does not lead to improvements in their health or finances, according to a new study. | Getty Images The US leaves millions of people with outstanding medical bills. How do we help them? Four in 10 Americans carry some kind of medical debt, an affliction that is unique to the United States among wealthy nations. The country does not guarantee medical insurance to... Read more ›
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Nude images shared without consent can be traumatic, whether they’re real or not. | Getty Images/iStockphoto How do you stop deepfake nudes? There’s a lot of debate about the role of technology in kids’ lives, but sometimes we come across something unequivocally bad. That’s the case with AI “nudification” apps, which teenagers are using to generate and share fake naked photos of their classmates. At Issaquah High School in Washington... Read more ›
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Anne Hathaway as Solène and Nicholas Galitzine as Hayes in The Idea of You. | Courtesy of Prime From The Idea of You to viral essays, the discourse is rarely about the people inside the relationships. There’s something about age gaps right now. They’re all over the place. The Idea of You, out on Amazon Prime this week, features Anne Hathaway as a 39-year-old mom falling in love with a... Read more ›
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A nurse administers a dosage of the cholera vaccine during the launch of the campaign to immunize people in affected areas, at the Kuwadzana Polyclinic in Harare on January 29, 2024. | Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images “A billion people at risk”: How worldwide cholera outbreaks are threatening lives. Amid a global resurgence of cholera, the world is fighting with one hand tied behind its back. The global stockpile of... Read more ›
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Farmer protests in Nîmes, France, in March. According to reports, large tires were set on fire during the blockade. | Luc Auffret/Anadolu via Getty Images Road-clogging, manure-dumping farmers reveal the paradox at the heart of EU agriculture. In February 2021, in the midst of the deadly second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, Grégory Doucet, mayor of Lyon, France, temporarily took red meat off the menus of the city’s school cafeterias.... Read more ›
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A protester holds a sign reading “My body my choice” at a Women’s March rally where Arizona Secretary of State and then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs spoke outside the State Capitol on October 8, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona. | Mario Tama/Getty Images How conspiring doctors, questionable tonics, and twisted patriotism led to the 1864 Arizona abortion ban that has finally been repealed. Arizona lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal a Civil... Read more ›
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Federal law requires all research in federally funded laboratories to use only marijuana from a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. | Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty Images A potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses. The United States Department of Drug Enforcement and Administration (DEA) reportedly now plans to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, a change that could further destigmatize the substance’s use and have... Read more ›
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Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained. Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus in mid-April, inspiring demonstrations at other universities across the country as well as in Canada and France. The escalation has come in the face of intense crackdowns involving local law enforcement and university orders to shut down encampments, often without considering students’ central... Read more ›
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A piece of GOOD Meat’s cell-cultivated chicken cooks on a grill at the company’s California office in July 2023. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ban on cell-cultivated, “lab-grown” meat is about protecting Big Ag. On Wednesday, Florida became the first US state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown, or “cell-cultivated” meat. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said before signing SB 1084 into... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda Northrop For the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. You can also get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our crossword newsletter. Puzzles are... Read more ›
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Courtesy of Naureen Khan Khan joins from Cosmopolitan, will shape and edit culture features Today, Vox announced that Naureen Khan has joined the team as senior editor for culture and features. In addition to shaping the outlet’s culture coverage, Khan will lead its service journalism-focused vertical, Even Better, which is focused on helping people live better lives individually and collectively — from mental health to relationships of all kinds to... Read more ›
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George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on April 25, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century. Protests against the war in Gaza have spread to college campuses across the country in the days since students at Columbia University... Read more ›
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