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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Xinmei Liu for VoxNeuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say. Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous. What is Neuralink for? In the short term, it’s for helping people with paralysis —... Read more ›
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Packages of mifepristone tablets at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion. For more than a year, a specter named Matthew Kacsmaryk has loomed over abortion access in the United States. Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for Christian right causes that Donald Trump appointed to the federal bench, attempted to ban the... Read more ›
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The subreddit r/wallstreetbets has thoughts on Reddit’s IPO. | Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesReddit could become the next meme stock — or flop. Reddit, the launchpad for many meme stocks, could now become one: The social media giant makes its debut on Wall Street Thursday in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the year. The nearly 20-year-old company has reportedly raised $748 million in its IPO,... Read more ›
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Supporters of former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. Riley, a nursing student, has become the face of immigration reform after her murder allegedly by an illegal immigrant on February 22, 2024. | Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via GettyWas her death an unusual tragedy — or a policy... Read more ›
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The EPA has finalized new emissions rules for light-duty vehicles like cars and medium-duty vehicles like transit vans that will push automakers to make cleaner vehicles like electrics and plug-in hybrids. | John Keeble/Getty ImagesHere’s what the federal rules mean for car companies, the climate, and you. The Environmental Protection Agency has officially cemented new pollution rules for cars, pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs that the Biden administration called the... Read more ›
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Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump’s favorability has ticked up with many Americans and soared with some traditionally Democratic groups. Something confounding is happening in America: Donald Trump, once the least liked presidential officeholder and reviled by nearly two-thirds of the country by the time he left office, is getting more popular. For the... Read more ›
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Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesNobody wins when creators fight over who is helping a poor family the most. Trying to keep track of controversies in today’s splintered online world feels like trying to analyze each of the bubbles in a perpetually boiling pot of water. Drama and discourse rockets off the bottom of the pot, breaking through the surface tension and catching our attention just as the steam above... Read more ›
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, attends a Christmas morning service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023, in Sandringham, England. | Stephen Pond/Getty ImagesCoverage, analysis, and updates of the royal family scandal. The world seems to be tuned into where exactly Princess Kate is. On March 18, 2024, after weeks of questions from the public, TMZ published footage of her walking out of a farm shop with Prince William. The appearance... Read more ›
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Francine McCarthy, center, of Brock University monitors core removal at Crawford Lake on April 12, 2023, in Ontario. McCarthy is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. | Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe battle proves that time is political, any way you cut it. Scientists have dealt the final blow in a long-running fight over one big question: Have humans messed up the Earth so badly that... Read more ›
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett (L) and Chief Justice John Roberts pause for photographs at the top of the steps of the west side of the Supreme Court following her investiture ceremony on October 01, 2021. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion. The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration... Read more ›
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Protesters march on the Rankin County sheriff’s office in July 2023, calling for police accountability for violence against Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. | Rogelio V. Solis/APSix former police officers tortured two Black men. They’re getting sentenced this week. Six white former police officers, who pleaded guilty to civil rights offenses related to the assault and torture of two Black men in Mississippi, are being sentenced this week.... Read more ›
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New roles at Vox will strengthen the brand’s growth and development. Vox Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Swati Sharma and Vox Chief of Staff Nisha Chittal announced today that Bill Carey has joined the brand as executive director of audience and membership and Elizabeth Price has joined as director of grant and foundation development. They will begin their new roles at the beginning of April and report to Chittal. “I am thrilled... Read more ›
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A realtors’ trade group has agreed to a major settlement that could mean lower fees for home sellers. | Getty ImagesWhat the National Association of Realtors settlement means for buyers and sellers. Are home prices about to fall? That’s the question many of us are asking after the National Association of Realtors, the trade group representing the industry, agreed to cough up $418 million as part of an antitrust lawsuit... Read more ›
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Piglets stand in their enclosure at a pig farm in western France. | Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/GettyImagesIt’s a lot sooner than you think. For years, climate scientists have called for a phase-out of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic global warming. Now, according to a first-of-its-kind survey of more than 200 environmental and agricultural scientists, we must also drastically reduce meat and dairy production — and fast. Global livestock emissions should peak by... Read more ›
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US Park Rangers stand at the closed gate to Joshua Tree National Park in California during the 2013 government shutdown. | Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty ImagesWhy we find ourselves on the precipice again and again … and again. These days, the threat of a government shutdown is as commonplace as lawmakers skipping town for recess. This congressional term alone, the US has faced fears of a government shutdown no fewer than four... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopAuthor Rhaina Cohen on what we can learn from people who choose a friend as a life partner. We live in a culture that privileges romance. Specifically, marriage. It’s not just that the fairy tales we grow up with end in some couple’s “happily ever after.” The reign of romance is in our laws, too. In America, married people get over 1,000 legal benefits that single people can’t access.... Read more ›
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The subreddit r/wallstreetbets has thoughts on Reddit’s IPO. | Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesReddit could become the next meme stock — or flop. Reddit, the launchpad for many meme stocks, could now become one: The social media giant makes its debut on Wall Street this week in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the year. The nearly 20-year-old company is seeking to raise up to $748... Read more ›
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Abortion rights activists stage a sit-in just outside of the White House security fence to denounce the US Supreme Court’s decision to end federal abortion rights protections, in July 2022. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesWhy abortion in the US has gone up To understand the evolving landscape for abortion in the United States, you have to consider two seemingly contradictory things. The first: The overturn of Roe... Read more ›
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David Huang for VoxPilates, a xylophone, and a wedding from hell. The concept of a tax refund is sort of a silly one, a reminder of the fact that despite some 250-ish years of existence, the US has yet to institute a system in which each citizen knows exactly how much money they owe the government. Every spring, Americans are subject to that uneasy feeling: “Am I committing a federal... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesBy inhibiting drug development, economic growth, and military recruitment, as well as driving doctors away from the places they’re needed most, bans almost certainly harm you — yes, you. Last year in Texas, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that, based on his read of some very bad science, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needed to withdraw its approval of the safe and widely used abortion drug mifepristone. He... Read more ›
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