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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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 the mogul’s record and alliances. 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 poll, voters... Read more ›
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President Biden promotes student loan Plan B in Wisconsin. | Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Do you qualify? Nearly a year since the conservative majority on the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s sweeping attempt to forgive student loans, the White House is now announcing more specifics on its Plan B. This second attempt is less all-encompassing than the first, which would have forgiven up to $10,000 in debt... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio. His rallies have taken on a religious undertone as Trump tailors his message to conservative forces. | Getty Images These radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term. As president, Trump delivered for anti-abortion voters in the biggest way possible by appointing the three Supreme Court justices who cast... Read more ›
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You deserve better than Shein. There are countless articles and videos breaking down the abysmal labor practices, horrifying environmental toll, and overall mountain of waste produced by the fast fashion industry. Activists and even just large swaths of the general public have been raising the alarm about this for well over a decade, but it hasn’t stopped the rise of some of the worst offenders in the industry. For example,... Read more ›
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Melanie Lambrick for Vox Cancer used to be a disease of the old. Not anymore. For the past decade, doctors have been disturbed by a medical mystery: People all over the world are developing cancer at younger ages. Adults in the prime of their lives, often otherwise outwardly healthy, are dying of aggressive cancers that appear to develop more quickly and be more deadly than in the past, for reasons... Read more ›
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People react as the 2017 solar eclipse became visible through the clouds. | Alexandra Wimley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Eclipses inspire awe, create opportunities for science — and cause angst among energy-grid operators. Today, millions of people will gather to marvel at the total solar eclipse. The awe that eclipses inspire is profound. “You suddenly feel as though you can see the clockwork of the solar system. Where... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio. His rallies have taken on a religious undertone as Trump tailors his message to conservative forces. | Getty Images From a “Department of Life” to a “future regime” led by Christian men, their ideas could have an outsize influence on Trump’s policies. As president, Trump delivered for anti-abortion voters... Read more ›
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Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Don’t worry if you missed the 2024 eclipse. There will be more. Total solar eclipses like the one crossing America today are beautiful, but they’re fleeting. Totality, when the sun is completely covered by the moon, lasts just a few minutes. And the whole thing — from the start of the partial eclipse to the end — takes just a few hours. The experience... Read more ›
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Getty Images What multilevel marketing schemes are really selling. Have you ever been invited by a friend or a family member to a coffee shop or a lunch date, and when you get there you realize that they don’t just want to catch up? Instead, it turns out they’ve got a great business opportunity for you. All you have to do is spend a little money on the front end,... Read more ›
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Beyoncé/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Country music uses the West as a synecdoche for America. Beyoncé is here to disrupt that. Of all the pop stars currently working in America, Beyoncé is undoubtedly the most visually sophisticated. Every new album comes with a lush, rigorously staged set of images, dense with allusions and Easter eggs, that act as an elaboration and a commentary on the themes of the album. In the... Read more ›
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Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley in Netflix’s Ripley. | Courtesy of Netflix Ripley fails to capture what makes Highsmith’s book so compelling. First, the bad news: Netflix’s new show Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s immortal novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, is a snooze. It’s shot beautifully. Under the auspices of showrunner Steven Zaillian (the screenwriter for the movie Schindler’s List, among others) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, Ripley renders its... Read more ›
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Donald Trump introducing his shoe line at SneakerCon in Philadelphia on February 17, 2024. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A new book shows how conservative grift started long before branded bibles and $400 sneakers. During his time atop the Republican Party, Donald Trump’s lifetime habits of fraud and grifting have fused seamlessly with conservative politics. In 2024 alone, Trump debuted $399 gold sneakers emblazoned with the American flag, sold a $60... Read more ›
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Cities like New York rarely experience large earthquakes, but its older buildings are vulnerable when the ground starts shaking. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images What to do during an earthquake, for people who rarely experience them. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked the East Coast midmorning on Friday, sending high rises swaying in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Californians and other West Coasters may scoff at the alarm expressed by... Read more ›
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Why we’re all paying so much more for streaming, and what we can do about it. When streaming first came onto the scene, it seemingly came with a promise: the movies and TV that you love, without ads, for a much cheaper price than cable. Less than 20 years down the line, it feels like that promise has been broken. Streaming is more expensive than ever, and prices just keep... Read more ›
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A building lurches in Taiwan after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocked the island. | Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Scientists have drastically improved our understanding of seismic events. Here are eight things to know. Earthquakes can strike when and where we least expect them — as residents in the New York City and New Jersey area discovered on Friday morning, when an estimated magnitude 4.8 quake hit at 10:23 am... Read more ›
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Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Honeybees are too valuable to go extinct. Not every species will be so fortunate. One consequence of being a journalist since, oh, the 20th century, is that you accumulate a track record. In the hundreds and hundreds of stories I’ve published over the last 25 years, some look eerily prescient (like this cover story from 2017 warning about a coming pandemic). Some are weird. (Did... Read more ›
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A man pushes a bicycle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. | AFP via Getty Images Six months in. Just a few days after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took place six months ago this week,... Read more ›
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US solar power has more than doubled since the last solar eclipse. | Getty Images US solar power has more than doubled since the last eclipse. What will happen during this one? As the moon passes in front of the sun on April 8, its shadow will knock down solar power production in a sweeping band across the United States from Texas to Maine, home to more than 31 million... 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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Former President Donald Trump arrives for a rally at the I-80 Speedway in 2022 in Greenwood, Nebraska. | Scott Olson/Getty Images The state has an odd rule that gave Biden an electoral vote in 2020. Trump wants to change that. So far, he’s failed. Donald Trump wanted Nebraska Republicans to change the state’s electoral vote rules — in a way that would likely flip one electoral vote from Biden to... Read more ›
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