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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Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. | Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, don’t forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. No one is happy about the delivery apps. Not the customers, who feel gouged by an avalanche of fees. Not restaurants, who feel gut-punched by the commission apps take from them. Certainly not... Read more ›
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Menstruation has been understudied for decades. Scientists are trying to change that. | the_burtons via Getty Images Menstruation affects the body and mind in countless ways. A new study is just the beginning. PMS, food cravings, “period flu,”: Anybody who menstruates knows from experience that the monthly cycle can have a profound impact on the body and mind. But researchers are still only beginning to explore exactly how menstruation can... Read more ›
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Unhoused people photographed in San Francisco in February of 2024. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Grants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power. The Supreme Court will hear a case later this month that could make life drastically worse for homeless Americans. It also challenges one of the most foundational principles of American criminal... Read more ›
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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 ›
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Taylor Swift performs at Accor Stadium on February 23, 2024, in Sydney, Australia. | Don Arnold/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The government is slated to sue Ticketmaster’s parent company. Buying concert tickets is a drag, as Taylor Swift fans know all too well. When tickets first went on sale for her highly anticipated Eras Tour in November 2022, fans agonized over hours-long queues and frozen screens before Ticketmaster’s website... Read more ›
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Caitlin Clark and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert pose for a photograph after Clark was selected first overall pick by the Indiana Fever during the 2024 WNBA Draft at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. | Mike Lawrence/NBAE/Getty Images The WNBA draft puts pro basketball’s longstanding pay gap on stark display. Caitlin Clark, a college basketball phenom and the top pick at Monday’s WNBA draft, will make a staggeringly... Read more ›
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Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” screams “Freedom” inside the US Senate chamber after the Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters. The Supreme Court spent about an hour and a half on Tuesday morning arguing... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson speaks in Florida on April 2, 2024. | Ivan Apfel/Getty Images Carlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel. The New York Times once described Tucker Carlson’s Fox News hour as “the most racist show in the history of cable news.” In the past week, allegations of bigotry involving his new show on X have come... Read more ›
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James MacDonald/Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle. H5N1, or bird flu, has hit dairy farms — but the dairy industry doesn’t want us saying so. The current, highly virulent strain of avian flu had already been ripping through chicken and turkey farms over the past two years. Since it jumped to US dairy cows for the first time last... Read more ›
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Jennifer Pan at the time of her 2010 arrest. | Courtesy Ontario Police Jennifer Pan allegedly hired hitmen to kill her parents in 2010. But the case is in limbo. The end of Netflix’s new true crime documentary What Jennifer Did reveals a bombshell detail: After we’ve learned of the alleged culprits and the alleged motive for the horrific 2010 murder of Toronto mom Bich Pan and the attempted murder... Read more ›
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Pete Ryan for Vox It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers. If you’re a millennial, you may remember that specific moment in time around the late 2000s when streaming video technology had just gotten good but there weren’t that many legitimate streaming platforms available yet. So if you were a student without a TV and you wanted to watch a show, you would go... Read more ›
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Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2023. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children. The Supreme Court handed down a strange set of opinions on Monday evening, which accompanied a decision that largely reinstates Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ban was previously blocked by... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/AP Looking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent... Read more ›
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Rust’s chaotic production resulted in the death of a cinematographer when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun accidentally discharged. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins. By all accounts, it was an accident everyone saw coming, but the questions and chaos surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming the Alec Baldwin movie Rust have... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Paige Vickers/Vox What doulas, midwives, and policymakers are doing to end the maternal mortality crisis. Over the last 30 years, nearly every wealthy country in the world has made it much safer for people to have babies. Only one outlier has moved in the opposite direction: the United States, where the rate of people dying in childbirth continues, stubbornly and tragically, to rise. In 2021, 1,205 US women died... Read more ›
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A brain coral off the coast of Cambodia releases bundles of sperm and eggs during a rare spawning event. | Matt Glue/Fauna & Flora Scientists have declared a mass global bleaching event. But some reefs are still hanging on — and even thriving. Coral reefs around the world are turning white and dying. Today scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the world is currently experiencing its fourth... Read more ›
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Demonstrators march from Baton Rouge City Hall to the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling by a police officer on July 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas. The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Paige Vickers/Vox What doulas, midwives, and policymakers are doing to end the maternal mortality crisis. Over the last 30 years, nearly every wealthy country in the world has made it much safer for people to have babies. Only one outlier has moved in the opposite direction: the United States, where the rate of people dying in childbirth continues, stubbornly and tragically, to rise. In 2021, 1,205 US women died... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after a pretrial hearing on March 25, 2024, in New York City. | Justin Lane/Getty Images The trial on the least important topic may be the most important to the 2024 election. When former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York for falsifying business records last March, many anticipated that would be the prologue to the main event: charges over Trump’s... Read more ›
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Explosions are seen in the skies of Israel’s capital, following the retaliatory attack from Iran over the weekend. | Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images Iran’s Saturday attack on Israel was a military failure. But things could still get a lot worse. When Iran launched a large retaliatory drone and missile assault on Israel on Saturday night, it raised fears that the Middle East was on the precipice of a regional... Read more ›
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