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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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images It seems like every musician is being labeled an “industry plant” — does it actually mean anything? On TikTok, a dispute is brewing over the bona fides of hip-hop’s latest viral sensation. Twenty-two-year-old singer 4Batz, whose real name is Neko Bennett, rose to prominence as an independent artist in 2023 with only two (now three) streamable songs to his name. One of them, “Act II: Date... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Jews from the Arab and Muslim world had a radical vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace. “This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech last October, days into the Israel-Hamas war. Netanyahu has voiced that idea repeatedly, both before and after the Hamas attack on... Read more ›
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Pope Francis greets bishops during the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on April 10, 2024. | Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images As one expert put it, “This is the Newsmax version of Catholic theology.” A new Vatican document released April 8 details how the Catholic Church approaches human dignity, but it has raised concern among LGBTQ parishioners and their allies about how it describes gender-affirming... Read more ›
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Leah McSweeney on Watch What Happens Live on April 5, 2022. | Charles Sykes/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Reality stars are suing Bravo (and each other) while wrestling with their own reality. Suits may be having a moment, but when it comes to compelling legal drama, Bravo has had the TV genre on lock. The past few years have been rife with court cases: Jen Shah’s fraud case and... Read more ›
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Cars make their way heading east out of Los Angeles during the evening rush hour on January 25, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images You’re paying a lot more for car insurance than you were in 2020. Here’s why. If you pay for car insurance, you’ve probably noticed that rates are really high lately. You’re not alone. This week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — the government’s method... Read more ›
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Magneto’s team in X-Men ’97. | Courtesy of Marvel Animation Soapy, super-powered, and silly, X-Men ’97 is a Marvel masterpiece. The best thing about the X-Men is the deep, almost hilariously intense lore of Marvel’s merry mutants. In the comic books, Dark Phoenix (inhabiting the body of Jean Grey) ate an entire sun and doomed a race of aliens that look like broccoli. Magneto terraformed Mars, in large part to... Read more ›
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Melanie Lambrick for Vox America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched her local community struggle for years to add new homes. Casciani grew up in upstate New York, in a suburban town outside Rochester. She eventually started a family and raised her children there, and in the early 1990s,... Read more ›
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Getty Images Even the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers. The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream of poets, philosophers, and spiritual practitioners have pointed to this indescribability, the difficult fact that our experiences are ineffable, or larger than what words... Read more ›
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The 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe is revealed by General Motors. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images How much is too much to pay for a car? A few weeks ago, a TikTok user named Blaisey Arnold posted a video about her Chevy Tahoe. “After three years with my Tahoe, I’m finally getting rid of it,” Arnold said. It was her dream car, and she’d taken out a loan for the $84,000 — yes,... Read more ›
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A DC Metro transit train pulls into the Rosslyn Station in January. | J. David Ake/Getty Images What other cities can learn from DC’s transit recovery. If the United States had a public transit problem, Washington’s Metro was a good case in point. In the years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, DC’s transit system — widely considered to be one of the best in the nation — found itself... Read more ›
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A child waits in line at the Waco Regional Airport ahead of Donald Trump’s rally on the 30-year anniversary of the deadly standoff between Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement on March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images Plenty of data suggests Trump is making surprising gains with young Americans. The debate, explained. Are young voters abandoning Joe Biden? And, if so, are they flocking to Donald... Read more ›
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Protesters hold pennants during a rally before the European Court of Human Rights decides in three separate cases whether states are doing enough in the face of global warming, in Strasbourg, France, on April 9, 2024. | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images The European Court of Human Rights ruled Switzerland’s failures on climate are a human rights violation. On Tuesday, a group of 2,000 Swiss women won a significant ruling... Read more ›
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Anti-abortion activists demonstrated in Washington, DC, while Donald Trump spoke at the 2019 March For Life. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images To see what a second Trump administration would mean for reproductive rights, look to Arizona’s abortion ban, not Trump’s cheap words. Donald Trump has an abortion problem. The presumptive GOP nominee boasts an advantage over President Joe Biden on most of today’s most salient issues. In a recent ABC News/Ipsos... Read more ›
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Public health officials monitoring indoor air quality leave a home in East Palestine in February 2023. | Gene J. Puskar/AP Long after the disaster, residents of East Palestine still fear for their safety. Editor’s note, April 9, 1:15 pm ET: On April 9, the Norfolk Southern railway company announced that it agreed to pay $600 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a February 2023 derailment of a train... Read more ›
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Melanie Lambrick for Vox They’re great for the fast food industry — but not so great for us. Just outside St. Louis, in the inner-ring suburb of University City, there’s a little neighborhood often called the region’s unofficial Chinatown. Growing up in the area, it was one of my favorite places to be; reflective of the city’s diversity and vitality, it opened up the world to me. This past December,... Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest a proposed tuition increase at California State University in Long Beach, California, on September 12, 2023. | Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Minnesota found a way to make college a good deal. Jorge Vargas’s family has always wanted him to be the first to go to college. They left St. Paul, Minnesota, for their home country of Honduras last year, but Jorge stayed behind with... Read more ›
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Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Cynthia Nixon attend a screening of the season three premiere of Sex and the City on June 1, 2000, at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles. | Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Carrie Bradshaw is a menace. That’s the point. In another major licensing grab for Netflix, HBO’s juggernaut Sex and the City officially landed on the platform this week.... Read more ›
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Students, parents, teachers, and community members gather for a vigil at the Lake Point Community Church following a shooting at Oxford High School on November 30, 2021, in Oxford, Michigan. | Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images The Michigan school shooter begged for help. His parents laughed it off. Today, the parents of the 2021 Michigan school shooter will cross a grim legal threshold: They will be the first parents in American history... Read more ›
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Demonstrators participate in an abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A federal law requires hospitals to provide abortions when necessary to prevent serious health consequences. The justices could neutralize that law. Moyle v. United States should have been a very easy case. A federal law,... Read more ›
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a tenuous balancing act over Ukraine aid. | Bloomberg/Getty Images Ukraine aid — a growing point of contention — is at the heart of the recent GOP drama. House Speaker Mike Johnson could be facing the most perilous threat to his leadership yet as Congress once again debates Ukraine aid. Johnson recently made clear he wants to hold a vote on sending more funding... Read more ›
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