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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Sarah J. Maas, London. | GettyThe sexy subversions of A Court of Thorns and Roses. As BookTok goes, so goes publishing. The community of TikTokers who make videos about their favorite books is one of the only forces actively driving book sales in a contracting market — and right now, BookTok has a new favorite genre. Romantasy, the hybrid genre of romance-focused fantasy novels, has never been hotter. Every second... Read more ›
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court on June 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe justices look likely to reinstate Texas and Florida laws that seize control of much of the internet — but not for long. The Supreme Court appears inclined to reinstate Texas and Florida laws seizing control of much of the internet — both... Read more ›
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Bychykhin_Olexandr/Getty ImagesThere are 365.2422 days for every Earth orbit around the sun. Annoying! Mark your calendars: February 29 is on. Yes, 2024 is a leap year, which is usually momentous, and not just for the people born on February 29 who only get to celebrate their actual birthdate every four years. Leap years also typically coincide with the US presidential election and the Summer Olympic Games. This year, people in... Read more ›
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Activists collect petition signatures for the abortion rights ballot measure in South Dakota. | Courtesy of Dakotans for HealthSouth Dakota organizers want to repeal their total ban. On the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a law banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota took effect. This so-called trigger law was passed by South Dakota lawmakers in 2005 and immediately became one of the strictest... Read more ›
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Cows stand in the milking parlour at the Lake Breeze Dairy farm in Malone, Wisconsin, in 2016. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFactory farms are now so big that we need a new word for them. In a few generations, factory farming — the set of economic, genetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical innovations that enabled humanity to raise tens of billions of animals for food every year — has transformed America.... Read more ›
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Today, about 19 percent of Americans 65 and older are still working. | Getty ImagesHow long will baby boomers keep working? For some, the answer is forever. To grossly paraphrase Kim Kardashian, nobody stops working anymore. Just look at who’s in the running for the top job in the nation: a 77-year-old against an 81-year-old, both vying to keep working for another four years. Yet they’re in lockstep with a... Read more ›
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Chris Given, Direct File product lead at the IRS, shows a “fact map” of all taxpayer information the tax software has to know, during a presentation to journalists at the Treasury Department. | Dylan Matthews/VoxMeet Direct File, the federal government’s TurboTax alternative. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. It is oddly hard to file your income tax return in the US without working with a private company. Over 90... Read more ›
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The Chi-Lites (from left, David Doc Roberson, Robert Squirrel Lester, Marshall Thompson, and Eugene Record) perform “The Devil Is Doing His Work” on Soul Train in 1976. | Soul Train via Getty ImagesBlack creativity found a home on Soul Train — and made TV history. For 35 years, Soul Train was the beating heart of Black pop culture in America, considered appointment television for the millions of people who tuned... Read more ›
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Oatly oat milk at a grocery store in Chicago. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe unhelpful, distracting debate about whether oat milk is bad for you totally misses the point. Is oat milk good or bad for you? That’s the question a bunch of recent news headlines have asked. I really hate that question. Obviously, how the food we eat affects our health is very important. But most foods — including nondairy... Read more ›
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Trump speaks at a campaign rally. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTrump’s inevitable romp to victory in Nikki Haley’s home state reveals how strong his hold on the GOP is — and how dangerous he remains to democracy. Tonight, in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump defeated rival Nikki Haley in her home state. Ordinarily, this might feel like big news, as the Palmetto State tends to host... Read more ›
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What ever happened to a good old-fashioned snow day? | Getty Images/fStopVirtual learning means missing out on a different kind of education. We had many superstitions when I was a kid. Wear your pajamas inside out. Or wear your underwear on the outside of your PJs. Gargle a bit of saltwater right before bed. When you put your shoes away, make sure they’re backward; left shoe on the right-hand side,... Read more ›
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Trump speaks at a campaign rally. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTrump’s seemingly inevitable romp to victory in Nikki Haley’s home state reveals how strong his hold on the GOP is — and how dangerous he remains to democracy. Tonight, South Carolina will hold its Republican presidential primary, in which Donald Trump is all but certain to crush rival Nikki Haley in her home state. Ordinarily, this might feel like... Read more ›
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Nayib Bukele speaks at CPAC on February 22, 2024. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesJavier Milei, Nayib Bukele, and Donald Trump are all working out of the same populist playbook. Meet two of the hot speakers at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): Presidents Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Javier Milei of Argentina, two of Latin America’s most flamboyant right-wing populists. CPAC started in 1974 as... Read more ›
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Intuitive Machines employees cheer during a watch party moments after they became the first commercial company to softly land on the moon on February 22, 2024, in Houston. | Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle/Getty ImagesThe groundbreaking development speaks to the growing role of private companies in space. Houston, the US is officially back on the moon. On Thursday, an unmanned lunar spacecraft called Odysseus made the first US moon landing in 50... Read more ›
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu attends the funeral for First Sgt. Maj. Gal Meir Eisenkot in the Herzliya cemetery on December 8, 2023, in Herzliya, Israel. | Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesNetanyahu’s plan is wildly disconnected from US priorities — and reality. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled his most detailed plans yet for the future of Gaza. However, there is a problem: The plans are both wildly out of step... Read more ›
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Shane Gillis performs during the 17th Annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit at David Geffen Hall on November 6, 2023, in New York City. | Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bob Woodruff FoundationIt proves how effortlessly the comedy industry forgives racism. In 2016, three years before comedian Shane Gillis was hired and then immediately fired from Saturday Night Live, he told an interviewer that he was experimenting with his comedy to... Read more ›
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Biden addressing the nation’s governors on February 23, 2024. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt will be hard to convince the president that he isn’t the best of his party’s bad options. Joe Biden is very old. He was born closer to the Battle of Gettysburg than the 2024 election. He was an adult before the JFK assassination and a senator before the fall of Saigon. And it shows. The... Read more ›
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Carlo Giambarresi for VoxStimulants, hustle culture, and bodybuilding are shaping young men’s drift to the right. Users of Zyn, a brand of nicotine pouch that’s become a touchstone among right-wing commentators, extol its ability to free the mind, increase productivity, and even enhance sexual performance. “I use it every second I’m awake,” said Tucker Carlson on an episode of the Full Send comedy podcast in 2023. “Seconds before I fall... Read more ›
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A screenshot of a video generated by Sora, OpenAI’s generative video model. | Sora/OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanIf you want to know the future of OpenAI’s latest tool, take a look at Midjourney and DALL-E 2. Remember when AI art generators became widely available in 2022 and suddenly the internet was full of uncanny pictures that were very cool but didn’t look quite right on close inspection? Get ready for that... Read more ›
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The Mothers of Gynecology Monument Park located in Montgomery, Alabama. | Andi Rice/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe movement to treat embryos as full-fledged people is taking a victory lap. One week ago, Alabama’s Supreme Court issued a now (in)famous 131-page decision that invoked God to claim that frozen embryos count as “children” under state law. The unprecedented legal opinion, which came out of a tragic negligence case in which families... Read more ›
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