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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Wendy Williams speaks onstage during her celebration of 10 years of The Wendy Williams Show at the Buckhead Theatre, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2018. | Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesWendy Williams’s rise, reputation, and absence from her talk show, explained. Centuries ago, those accused of gossip, primarily women, were locked into metal headpieces that restrained the mouth. Imagine what those medieval haters would think about Wendy Williams. The host first started rattling... Read more ›
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Usher featured in a February 2024 Skims men’s campaign. | Donna Trope/Courtesy of SkimsThe internet loves Kim Kardashian’s shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more. Before hitting the stage at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogue’s 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasn’t totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publication’s guest of honor. The styling is tasteful... Read more ›
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Getty Images“There’s nothing inherently wrong with Black people. There is something very, very wrong with the systems that we are forced to live under or within.” In December 2023, I had surgery to remove my fibroids. Fibroids are benign tumors that grow in the uterine wall. I’d had the growths for nearly a decade and, even though they were benign, they certainly added difficulty to my life. Heavy periods had... Read more ›
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A North Atlantic right whale, entangled in fishing rope, next to her newborn, on December 2, 2021, near Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via APTwo simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why aren’t we using them? The story of the North Atlantic right whale, an icon of the East Coast, should be one of hope — a tale of recovery. Humanity’s... Read more ›
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Gordon Cormier stars as Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender. | Robert Falconer/NetflixThe hugely anticipated remake delivers on the drama, charm, and spectacle of the original. Reader, you can relax: They nailed it. Halfway through the third episode of Netflix’s tremendously anticipated live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, we’re treated to a slickly choreographed fight through a town square between our title character, Aang (Gordon Cormier), and his self-declared... Read more ›
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Ukrainian soldiers in the outskirts of Avdiivka on February 14, 2024. | Vlada Liberova/Libkos/Getty ImagesWhat Ukraine’s biggest setback in months tells us about the future of the war. This week, Russian forces made their most significant breakthrough in nine months — but at a heavy cost. They took the small Eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, ending a brutal battle that has been raging since October. While undoubtedly a setback for... Read more ›
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A driver is captured using a phone behind the wheel in New York in this 2016 in photo. The problem of distracted drivers has only gotten worse, one set of data from millions of drivers shows. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesDuring the pandemic, distracted driving increased, and it hasn’t gone down since. Until relatively recently, good data on the problem of distracted driving has been hard to find. The government estimates... Read more ›
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CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesOpenAI’s Sora is designed to be a “world simulator.” Right now it’s having trouble breaking a glass. A tiny fluffy monster kneels in wonder beside a lit candle. Two small pirate ships battle inside a churning cup of coffee. An octopus crawls along the sandy floor of the ocean. A Dalmatian puppy leaps from one windowsill to another. These are among a series of demo videos... Read more ›
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 AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts. We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods. This video explains the... Read more ›
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Getty/Paige Vickers for VoxCan new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds? If you take it for granted that nobody can listen in on your innermost thoughts, I regret to inform you that your brain may not be private much longer. You may have heard that Elon Musk’s company Neuralink surgically implanted a brain chip in its first human. Dubbed “Telepathy,” the chip uses neurotechnology... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn the conversation about open marriages and polyamory, America’s sexual anxieties are on full display. Everyone’s talking about polyamory. You might have read about it, at least if you pay attention to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, or New York magazine, or if you listen to podcasts like Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? and The Ezra Klein... Read more ›
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Cars make their way heading east out of Los Angeles during the evening rush hour on January 25, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesYou’re paying a lot more for car insurance than you were in 2020. Here’s why. If you pay for car insurance, you’ve probably noticed that rates are really high lately. You’re not alone. Last week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — the government’s method for... Read more ›
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Tarini Sharma for VoxThe revolutionary left’s theory of the climate crisis puts ideology above inconvenient truths. Seventeen years ago, the British novelist John Lanchester puzzled over a “strange and striking” fact: No one was blowing anything up to fight climate change. This was strange, Lanchester wrote, because “terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action.” What’s more, there was no shortage of... Read more ›
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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers speaks about funding for the I-535 Blatnik Bridge before a visit by US President Joe Biden on January 25, 2024, at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin. | Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesThey could break the GOP’s longstanding gerrymandered grip on the state legislature. Wisconsin now has legislative maps that align more closely with voters’ political preferences, a significant development that will fuel more competitive contests and could... Read more ›
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Permanent Representative of the US to the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield, center, votes against and vetoes the latest attempt at the UN Security Council to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, in New York on February 20, 2024. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe US vetoed another Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Tuesday and proposed a different one. For the third time since war broke out in Gaza... Read more ›
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Jens Kalaene/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesDid Alabama’s Supreme Court just ban IVF treatments? The moment the US Supreme Court released its decision overruling Roe v. Wade, pretty much everyone who closely follows constitutional law wondered which rights would be next on the chopping block. Justice Clarence Thomas stoked these fears with a concurring opinion calling for the Court to “reconsider” the rights to contraception, marriage for same-sex couples, and the... Read more ›
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, pictured during her meeting with Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib on February 19, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. | Didier Lebrun/Photonews via Getty ImagesYulia Navalnaya picks up her husband’s battle against Putin. Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, announced Monday that she would take up her husband’s crusade against President Vladimir Putin following his death while in prison.... Read more ›
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Former President George W. Bush speaks during the Struggle for Freedom Conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on November 16, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. | Richard Rodriguez/Getty ImagesIn a dissenting opinion, Alito takes a potshot at Bush’s signature racial justice program. The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will not hear Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, a lawsuit attacking a school admissions program that... Read more ›
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From left, Democratic Reps. Nydia Velázquez, Ilhan Omar, Jackie Speier, and Carolyn Maloney make their way to the Supreme Court for a sit-in to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, on July 19, 2022. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesWorsened anxiety and depression is a predictable (and costly) effect of abortion bans. The false idea that getting an abortion makes women irreparably depressed and anxious, that... Read more ›
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Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on February 11, 2024. | Ariel Schalit/AP PhotoThe conflict in Gaza has become “an era-defining catastrophe.” It’s increasingly clear what — and who — is to blame. At the end of November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning... Read more ›
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