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Tanya Pai @ Vox · 12/25/2025 08:21 EDT

The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

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 [
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Amanda Lewellyn @ Vox 3 place · 04/23/2024 07:15 EDT

Can Canada stave off populism?

Hundreds of “Freedom Convoy” supporters march in downtown Ottawa on Canada Day, July 1, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. | Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images Justin Trudeau’s true dough plans to fight populism with policy. Canada has a growing populism problem. Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks so. Like many other countries — including the United States — Canadians have spent the last several years dealing with pandemic restrictions, a rise... Read more â€ș

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Eric Levitz @ Vox 2 place · 04/23/2024 07:00 EDT

The “feminist” case against having sex for fun

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images American conservatives are cozying up to British feminists who argue that the sexual revolution has hurt women. In February, America’s most prominent conservative activist declared his opposition to having sex for fun. In a post on X, the “anti-woke” crusader Christopher Rufo wrote, “‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The point... Read more â€ș

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Jamil Zaki @ Vox 1 place · 04/23/2024 06:00 EDT

Compassion is making a comeback in America

A new study found that empathy among young Americans is rebounding after having reached worrying lows a decade ago. | Getty Images/iStockphoto A decade ago, research showed a troubling dip in empathy. A new study provides more hope. Think back to the United States as it was a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. Is the US a more caring or less caring nation now than it was... Read more â€ș

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Li Zhou @ Vox 3 place · 04/22/2024 17:55 EDT

Ukraine aid and a potential TikTok ban: What’s in the House’s new $95 billion bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson talks with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aid bills at the Capitol on April 20, in Washington, DC. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images It heads to the Senate this week, and could soon be law. After months of uncertainty, the House has greenlit a $95 billion package with substantial aid for Ukraine, as well as funds for Israel and US allies... Read more â€ș

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox 3 place · 04/22/2024 14:41 EDT

The Supreme Court doesn’t seem eager to get involved with homelessness policy

A homeless man takes a break from clearing his belongings along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, California, on January 29, 2018. | Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images Grants Pass v. Johnson is probably going to end badly for homeless people, but it’s not yet clear how broad the Court’s decision will be. The Supreme Court’s ultimate decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson probably isn’t going to... Read more â€ș

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Kyndall Cunningham @ Vox · 04/22/2024 13:23 EDT

Drake vs. everyone, explained

Rapper Drake at “Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert” at State Farm Arena on December 9, 2022, in Atlanta. | Prince Williams/WireImage Everyone involved in Drake’s latest — and biggest — feud. To borrow a phrase from our foremost cultural observer, Azealia Banks, the boys are fighting. Since the explosive drop of producer Metro Boomin and rapper Future’s first joint album, We Don’t Trust You, on March 22, a... Read more â€ș

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Vox Communications @ Vox · 04/22/2024 09:00 EDT

On Earth Day, Vox Releases Home Planet, A Project Highlighting the Personal Dimensions of Climate Change in our Daily Lives

Rachel Hillis for Vox Highlighting the unexpected ways our lives are connected with the natural world and how humans can deepen that connection and preserve our shared planet. Today, on Earth Day, Vox launches a new editorial project, Home Planet, from the Climate, Even Better, and Future Perfect teams. Home Planet is a collection of feature stories that celebrate the unexpected ways our lives intertwine with the natural world and... Read more â€ș

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Keren Landman, MD @ Vox · 04/22/2024 08:00 EDT

Do you need to worry about “forever chemicals”?

Water being sampled for PFAS testing in Salindres, France, in April 2024. | Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images A roadmap for PFAS risk, testing, and more. In 1992, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband Joel bought a house they loved in a wooded area near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Twenty-four years later, Joel abruptly died of liver cancer; the year after that, state authorities knocked on Sandy’s door to ask if they... Read more â€ș

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox 2 place · 04/22/2024 07:30 EDT

Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered

Former President Donald Trump greets Justices Neil Gorsuch (R) and Brett Kavanaugh (L), both of whom owe their jobs to him. | Al Drago/Getty Images This case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more. On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. United States, the case where former President Donald Trump claims... Read more â€ș

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Paige Vega @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

Climate change is disrupting our sense of home

Jordan Ruidas, of Lahaina Strong, an organization focusing on helping families affected by Lahaina wildfire, poses for a portrait with her children, La’iku and Waiaulia, in front of a temporary housing encampment in Lahaina, Hawaii, in December 2023. | Mengshin Lin/Washington Post via Getty Images As disasters displace more people around the world, our connection to place becomes more tenuous. Climate change is personal. It is not abstract. The warming... Read more â€ș

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Tracy Ross @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

My adult kids found themselves in nature. Will my youngest lose herself in her phone?

Hollis Edmondson, age 7. | Paige Vickers/Vox; photos courtesy of Tracy Ross My 12-year-old daughter will inherit a warmer world — and, I fear, a lonelier one. When my son Hatcher and I started our hike down Idaho’s Middle Fork of the Salmon River during the fall of 2023, we feared what we might see. We were backpacking through our favorite place, the Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness. It’s... Read more â€ș

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Vox Staff @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

Home Planet

Rachel Victoria Hillis for Vox Stories that celebrate life on Earth and deeper ways of connecting with our shared home. The news we get about the planet is often pretty depressing. The warming climate impacts our economies, influences our politics and culture, threatens the food we eat and the water we drink; it even affects our love lives and the education of our children. The climate crisis is increasingly disrupting... Read more â€ș

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Keren Landman, MD @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

The unexpected joy of the Squirrel Census

Danielle Kroll for Vox How a neighborhood project to count squirrels bound me to my wild kin. In September of 2012, when the internet was still mostly good and housing was still mostly affordable, a social media site served me a notice about something called “the Inman Park Squirrel Census Data Presentation and Spectacle.” The flyer, in tidy mid-century fonts overlaying a vintage illustration of a beaming man carpeted in... Read more â€ș

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Marina Bolotnikova @ Vox 1 place · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

I gave up meat and gained so much more

Christine Mi for Vox The delightful abundance of going vegan. Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, t Read more â€ș

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Allie Volpe @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

The indoorsy person’s guide to the great outdoors

Mary Kirkpatrick for Vox Nature is for everyone. Here’s how to enjoy it, no matter where you live. As a dog walker in Southern California, RubĂ©n Arteaga spends a lot of time outside — at nearby parks, the beach, and on mountain trails. Yet with all his attention on the dogs and his mileage tracker, he never really looked at his surroundings. “My whole life,” he says, “I’ve spent my... Read more â€ș

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Umair Irfan @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

Our appliances are more efficient than ever. Why doesn’t it feel like it?

Rachel Victoria Hillis for Vox You actually can use less energy and have more convenience in your home. Are you ready to defend the honor of your dishwasher? Are you prepared to fight for your stove? Are you stockpiling light bulbs? Because according to many Republicans, your kitchen, your laundry room, your bathroom, and more are now battlefronts in the Biden administration’s “war on appliances.” “First it was gas stoves... Read more â€ș

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Benji Jones @ Vox · 04/22/2024 07:00 EDT

The pests next door

Amina Martin rehabilitates pigeons and other birds in a small apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. | Benji Jones/Vox In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem. BAY RIDGE, New York City — One sunny afternoon in March, Amina Martin answered the phone in her small Brooklyn apartment. On the line was a taxi driver, who told her he had a pigeon in his backseat... Read more â€ș

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Brian Resnick @ Vox 2 place · 04/22/2024 06:57 EDT

Is the Earth itself a giant living creature?

Rachel Victoria Hillis for Vox An old, much-ridiculed hypothesis said yes. It’s time to take it seriously. In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis put forth a bold theory: The Earth is a giant living organism. When a mammal is hot, it sweats to cool itself off. If you nick your skin with a knife, the skin will scab and heal. Lovelock and Margulis argued that our... Read more â€ș

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Allie Volpe @ Vox · 04/21/2024 08:00 EDT

Why couples are choosing cohabitation over marriage

Naomi Elliott for Vox First comes love, then comes 
 moving in together. After about two years of dating, Matt Garville, 38, made some space in his closet for his girlfriend, Aloria Rucker, 31. At the time, Rucker was living with a roommate in Brooklyn but spending most nights with Garville at his roommate-less apartment in Hoboken, he says, so the move made sense. The couple agreed they were in... Read more â€ș

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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox 1 place · 04/21/2024 07:00 EDT

What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people

A small tent encampment off of Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images This week, the justices will hear the biggest case on homelessness in decades. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the most consequential case in decades concerning the rights of people experiencing homelessness. In Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court will decide whether... Read more â€ș

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