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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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe US House passed a bill that could ban the social video app, but sending TikTok into the ether won’t make social media any safer TikTok, like any place on the internet where a ton of people are watching and sharing and competing for attention, is best understood in terms of both/and. TikTok is both a vital platform for community building and plagued by... Read more ›
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A health worker sprays insecticide against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to combat the spread of dengue in Brazil. | Andressa Anholete/Getty ImagesDengue is erupting in South America — and has even found its way to the US. Dengue (pronounced DEN-gay), a mosquito-borne illness that has circulated to a limited degree for centuries, is now spreading with unprecedented speed around the world. It’s a worrying example of how a changing climate... Read more ›
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In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | NTSB/Getty ImagesA door plug falling mid-flight has renewed scrutiny of air travel and of Boeing’s planes. On January 5, the door plug of a commercial Boeing 737 Max 9 came off as the plane was climbing, opening a large... Read more ›
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People gather outside the Stonewall Inn on February 26, 2024, in New York City for a memorial and vigil for Nex Benedict, the Oklahoma teenager who died following a fight in a high school bathroom. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA trans teen is dead. The state he lived in made his life as hard as possible. Editor’s note, March 13, 5:30 pm: On March 13, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office released... Read more ›
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The Atlantic Ocean helps regulate global climate. Could we push it toward a catastrophic failure? | Mike Hill/Getty ImagesThe climate change scenario that could chill parts of the world, explained. Of all the potential consequences of global warming, one of the most unexpected is that temperatures in some parts of the world could plummet. A recent paper in Science Advances outlined a scenario where, given enough ice melting into the... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIs measles making a US comeback? Here’s what you need to know. So far this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 45 measles cases from 17 jurisdictions. That’s a lot compared with 2023, when 58 cases were reported over the entire calendar year. It’s been nearly 25 years since measles was officially eliminated in the US. The declaration meant the infection hadn’t been transmitted... Read more ›
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Ariel Henry attends a European Union and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in Brussels, Belgium, in 2023. | Thierry Monasse/Getty ImagesHow gang violence pushed out Ariel Henry — and what allowed it to fester. Haiti’s de facto president, Ariel Henry, announced his resignation Tuesday — the culmination of a political crisis at least two weeks in the making, but really three years or more. Henry issued his... Read more ›
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Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), one of the latest members to head for the exits, attends a hearing. | Getty ImagesRepublican Rep. Ken Buck, a critic of GOP impeachment efforts, is the latest to leave early. Colorado Republican Ken Buck, a Freedom Caucus member who has called out the party’s right flank on impeachment, is the latest in a string of GOP members to head for the exits. Buck had already... Read more ›
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In this photo illustration, an 11-year-old boy looks at the TikTok app on a smartphone screen in the village of St Jean d’Aulps on April 4, 2023, near Morzine, France. | Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesThe House passed a bill to ban TikTok on Wednesday. But it’s not over yet. The House passed an audacious bill on Wednesday that could potentially ban the social media app TikTok, generating a furor on Capitol... Read more ›
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A Durga Puja festival decoration inspired by fertility and menstruation. | Sudipta Das/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFrom wound healing to disease diagnosis, “this stuff is like gold dust.” Leah Hazard grew up in America in the 1980s and ’90s, and, as she remembers it, it was not a great time to be a menstruating person. “Back then it was very much just periods are gross,” she says, “I mean, not even... Read more ›
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Vicky Leta for VoxRaising an independent child is about empathy. While many kids refuse to accept help with anything, others want their caregivers to do everything for them. Put on their clothes. Brush their teeth. Spoon them food. Find the toy they were holding two seconds ago. Although it’s overwhelming to do everything for our kids, it feels amazing to know we’re needed. But there is a point when, if... Read more ›
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Ariana Grande performs “imperfect for you,” a song off her Saturn return-inspired new album, on Saturday Night Live. | Will Heath/NBC via Getty ImagesThe astrological phenomenon namechecked in new songs from Ariana Grande, Kacey Musgraves, and SZA, explained. Ariana Grande, Kacey Musgraves, and SZA couldn’t sound more different. But on their new and upcoming albums, all three women are singing about the same thing: Saturn. Sure, space is very intriguing,... Read more ›
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Workers on the Shell Vito offshore oil platform while under construction onshore in Texas, in April 2022. | Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBiden is not “waging war” on American energy. He’s boosting it. The US is the largest crude oil producer in the world, pumping out nearly 13 million barrels on average every day in 2023, an all-time record, according to new data from the US Energy Information Administration. That’s... Read more ›
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In 2003, more than half a million Hong Kong people took to the streets in a landmark protest, shown here, against a national security law. | Jonathan Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images21 years ago, half a million Hong Kongers took to the streets to stop Article 23. This month, Beijing finally won. Last week, the government of Hong Kong published the latest of a series of increasingly draconian... Read more ›
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David Huang for VoxHow the very rich lose money, overvalue art, buy very expensive life insurance, and somehow profit. Do you want to pay less taxes? Great. Step one, be a rich person. Then, buy a yacht. Or a sports team. Give a lot to charity. Lose some money in the stock market. Above all, make sure most of your money exists in the form of assets, not cash —... Read more ›
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Javier Zarracina/VoxResearchers tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work. I’ve written a lot about AI and the debate over whether it could kill us all. But I still don’t really know where I come down. There are people who deeply understand advanced machine learning systems who think they will prove increasingly uncontrollable, possibly “go rogue,” and threaten humanity with catastrophe or even... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesThe idea that young men and women inhabit different political realities is going viral. But is it true? When I was growing up in the 1990s, couples counselor John Gray penned a book on gender relations with an instantly memorable title: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. The book argued that men and women have fundamentally different communication styles, which can be major sources of tension in... Read more ›
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Former special counsel Robert K. Hur testifies alongside a video of President Joe Biden to the House Judiciary Committee on March 12 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe ex-special counsel testified Tuesday, but a transcript of his interview with the president undercut his claims. When special counsel Robert Hur released his report last month explaining why he wouldn’t charge President Joe Biden with mishandling classified documents, his claim that... Read more ›
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This man is no longer one of the most powerful policymaking officials in the United States. | Courtesy of the Senate Judiciary CommitteeThe federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges. Plaintiffs hoping to reshape federal or state policies will no longer be allowed to choose which judge will hear their case, at least in federal court. A new policy announced... Read more ›
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Buds on the Yoshino Cherry trees surrounding the Tidal Basin are silhouetted against sunrise on March 3, 2024, in Washington, DC. | J. David Ake/Getty ImagesWinter’s insanely early end, explained in one map. Whether it’s fewer snow days or disconcertingly hot temperatures, people across the US are experiencing an increasingly common phenomenon: a winter that doesn’t feel wintry. That’s the result of warmer conditions in many places driven both by... Read more ›
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