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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Amber Desiree (AD) Smith, right, and Clay Gravesande, left, at the season six Love Is Blind reunion. | NetflixAD’s journey underscores the Netflix hit’s misogynoir problem. Netflix’s Love Is Blind is reigniting conversations about whether the show’s unique dating experiment — courting sight unseen — benefits Black women. Since season six of the hit show began airing on Valentine’s Day this year, all eyes have been on Amber Desiree (AD)... Read more ›
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Trevor is one of the Love Is Blind contestants this season who has been embroiled in offscreen drama. | Courtesy of NetflixThe offscreen drama of the Netflix reality hit, from Jeramey to Trevor, explained. It’s now a given for any major dating show that people aren’t really on there to find love. That pattern has become so prevalent that The Bachelor has coined a damning catchphrase for it. If a... Read more ›
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand as a witness during a hearing in the case of Georgia v. Donald Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Alyssa Pointer/Getty ImagesA judge wrote that Willis had a “tremendous lapse in judgment,” but didn’t disqualify her from the case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump will be allowed to... Read more ›
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Asia O’Hara performs during Werq the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour at the Peacock Theater on July 16, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. | Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty ImagesThis is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge. The Supreme Court will allow a public Texas university’s unconstitutional ban on drag shows to remain in effect, in a decision announced Friday. The Court’s decision... Read more ›
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Kategate, the royal scandal about the Princess of Wales’s disappearance from public view, is in full effect. | Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesWe’ve been trained to think of the royal family as a machine. Kategate upended that narrative. The British royal family is no stranger to scandal. From cheating rumors to actual affairs, divorces and abdications, unruly royals, phone recordings, rehab, and one prince’s dubious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein —... Read more ›
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand as a witness during a hearing in the case of Georgia v. Donald Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Alyssa Pointer/Getty ImagesA judge wrote that Willis had a “tremendous lapse in judgment,” but didn’t disqualify her from the case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of Donald Trump will be allowed to... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a meeting of the Reproductive Health Task Force at the White House on January 22, 2024. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesVoters who skipped the midterms are different. It’s no secret that Democrats are leaning hard into running on abortion rights for the 2024 cycle. Joe Biden has promised to bring back “the protections of Roe v. Wade in every state” and Congressional Democrats say abortion... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Westend61At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness? Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s ChatGPT will assure you that it’s not. “No, I’m not conscious,” it told me when I most recently posed the question. “I don’t have thoughts, feelings, or awareness. I can simulate conversations based on the... Read more ›
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National Transportation Safety Board Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | Getty ImagesFlying is still extremely safe. But Boeing’s safety issues are real. Another week, another series of bad news stories for Boeing. On Monday, 50 people were injured (none were killed) when a 787 “dropped abruptly” midflight from Sydney to Auckland. That... Read more ›
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Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty ImagesFewer kids are dying than ever before — but a lot of work remains. Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United Nations. The worldwide mortality rate for kids younger than 5 years old was slashed in half in 2022 compared to the turn of... Read more ›
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty ImagesAn exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New York... Read more ›
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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton hold a 2017 sheet of $1 dollar notes bearing Mnuchin’s name for a photograph at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC, in 2017. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFormer Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell. The Senate is... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. | GPO/Handout/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe US has ways to exert leverage. They all come with risks. Since the war in Gaza began in October, the Biden administration has mostly pursued what’s been called a “bear hug” strategy when it comes to Israel, avoiding public criticism and upholding... Read more ›
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People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.... Read more ›
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Supporters of the TikTok app demonstrate outside of the US Capitol before the House of Representatives votes to pass the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” that could ban TikTok in the US, on March 13. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe app skews younger, its users appear more politically polarized, and its user base is changing. The odds of a ban on TikTok becoming a... Read more ›
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And how does it even work? There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97 percent of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit... Read more ›
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Brian Scagnelli for VoxCurse words shift a lot over time. They’re in the middle of a big shift right now. One may as well begin with all the “cunts.” Over the past few years, my social media feeds have gradually filled up with people (largely American cis white women in their 30s) congratulating themselves on “serving cunt.” Cunty little librarian glasses are all the rage. “Can a historian tell me... Read more ›
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Justin Timberlake attending the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 10, 2024. | Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesA new kind of masculinity is dominating music — leaving little room for yesterday’s pop idol. In the year 2024, the name Justin Timberlake comes with a lot of baggage. His Super Bowl halftime show performance six years ago — which coincided with the release of his last album, Man of the Woods —... Read more ›
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From left to right, Princess Catherine; Prince William; Prince Harry; and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, greet well-wishers outside Windsor Castle on September 10, 2022, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. | Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty ImagesKategate, briefly explained. Have you heard the news? Princess Catherine of Wales, formerly Kate Middleton, seems to be missing. Kate hasn’t been seen in public since several weeks before she reportedly underwent abdominal... 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 & FloraScientists recently observed a rare phenomenon on a reef in Cambodia that left them in awe — and filled them with hope. Once a year, after dark, a bit of magic happens in the ocean. In tropical waters worldwide, large chunks of coral — those colorful rocklike... Read more ›
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