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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Brittany Holloway-Brown for VoxHow America has made it harder for Black people to marry. Romantic relationships are in a weird place right now. Sure, I have anecdotal evidence; I could open my phone and see a dating app horror story in any one of my group chats. But I don’t have to take you through the dating woes of DC 30-somethings because data supports this too. Statistically, things are shifting.... Read more ›
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Carol Yepes via Getty ImagesDon’t think of love as a language. Experts say to think of love as a balanced diet instead. As Meyers-Briggs quizzes are to corporate bonding retreats, love languages are to Hinge profiles. They show up again and again on dating sites, and on relationship advice forums and social media memes and debunking podcasts. There is something about the idea of love languages that seems to make... Read more ›
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The Ford’s Maverick Hybrid pickup truck saw a huge jump in sales last year. | Umair Irfan/VoxIn the age of electric vehicles, the hybrid is still a contender. Are electric vehicles hitting a pothole? Ford announced last month that it was cutting production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. General Motors and Volkswagen last year said they would reduce electric vehicle manufacturing. All-electric and plug-in hybrid carmakers are struggling... Read more ›
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Exterior of Lakewood Church on February 12, 2024, in Houston. | Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle/Getty ImagesSome conservatives have seized on the shooting to frame trans people as threats. Following a Sunday shooting at a Houston megachurch that wounded two people, conservatives have seized on aspects of the perpetrator’s identity — and misinformation about it — to further their attacks on trans people and immigrants. Police have disclosed that the shooter previously... Read more ›
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Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhy Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bad Bunny have been muted on TikTok dance videos. At the end of January, when Universal Music Group (UMG) failed to negotiate a new licensing deal with TikTok, it removed its entire music catalog from the app. Just like that, thousands of videos featuring music by artists like Drake, Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny were suddenly silent. UMG said it... Read more ›
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New footage from cameras strapped to polar bears in Canada reveals what life is like in a warming world. | USGS/Washington State UniversityAs the Arctic warms, these iconic bears are spending more time on land. New videos reveal why that’s a problem. Global warming is famously bad for polar bears. The reason is simple: Sea ice provides a platform from which these hulking predators can hunt seals, their primary food... Read more ›
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Ben Hickey for VoxWhat the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future. The question before a group made up of some of the best forecasters of world events: What are the odds that China will control at least half of Taiwan’s territory by 2030? Everyone on the chat gives their answer, and in each case it’s a number. Chinmay Ingalagavi, an economics fellow at Yale, says 8 percent.... Read more ›
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Claire Merchlinsky for VoxGo ahead, get mad. It’s healthy. Anger is misunderstood. Unjustly maligned as a wholly negative emotion, anger contains multitudes: It can be both blinding yet clarifying, suffocating yet motivating. Anger serves as an internal alarm, calling attention to an unfairness or a wrong that needs righting, says psychologist Ryan Martin, author of How to Deal With Angry People and Why We Get Mad: How to Use Your... Read more ›
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A sign indicating the availability of a home to rent stands outside a building in Philadelphia on June 22, 2022. | Matt Rourke/APStates prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time. For more than a decade, researchers and advocates have argued that housing is a fundamental part of health care. Beginning this fall, for the first time, federal Medicaid dollars will start going toward paying some people’s... Read more ›
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Ukrainian border guards conduct training on patrolling the borderline in February. | Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Anadolu via Getty ImagesCongress should have approved Ukraine aid yesterday. As the Senate considered approving $61 billion to Ukraine this weekend, Donald Trump published an all-caps rant making his opposition clear. “FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, ARE YOU LISTENING U.S. SENATE(?), NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS... Read more ›
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George Santos is gone, and the race to replace him is a squeaker. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIs the situation really so dire for Democrats? Tuesday’s special election will give us a clue. Even the race to replace George Santos in Congress is packed with drama. The historic expulsion of Santos in December has prompted a rare special election in a swing congressional district that could prove a... Read more ›
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Supporters of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party celebrate Pakistan’s election results. | Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty ImagesImran Khan’s candidates won the most votes. He can’t be prime minister. What next? Pakistan’s parliamentary elections ended in a surprise upset, one that could make the transition to the next government a chaotic affair and that could leave the winning politicians without real governing power. Backed by Pakistan’s powerful and... Read more ›
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People inspect the damage to their homes following Israeli air strikes on February 12, 2024, in Rafah, Gaza. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesEverything is riding on what Israel does next in Rafah, Gaza. The world on Sunday got its first look at how devastating an Israeli invasion of Rafah — Gaza’s southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought safety amid Israel’s military operations — might be. At least... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures to members of the audience as he leaves a rally at Coastal Carolina University on February 10, 2024, in Conway, South Carolina. | Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever. The Supreme Court now has two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, the... Read more ›
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From Kelvin Kiptum’s country of Kenya to Angola, pictured here, car crash deaths have been on the rise across Africa. | Artur Cavalho/Getty ImagesCar crashes are killing too many young Africans like Kelvin Kiptum. Kelvin Kiptum, who set a world-record marathon time this past October at the Chicago Marathon and was expected to contend for gold at this summer’s Olympic Games, died Sunday in a car crash in his home... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures to members of the audience as he leaves a rally at Coastal Carolina University on February 10, 2024, in Conway, South Carolina. | Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever. The Supreme Court is about to have two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v.... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace.... Read more ›
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Xiao Hua Yang for VoxOpioid addiction doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to, but the crisis is as bad as ever. It doesn’t have to be. The opioid crisis doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to before Covid-19, but the news remains stubbornly, shockingly bad. Decades into the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in American history, people are dying at higher rates than ever. Between 2017 and... Read more ›
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President Biden is seen here responding to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on his mishandling of classified documents. | Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEven if voters or the establishment wanted to, there really isn’t a viable process to replace Biden as the nominee. That President Joe Biden is an old man is nothing new. It’s also not groundbreaking to say that he’s unpopular with broad swathes of Americans. But after... Read more ›
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European grocery chain Carrefour has delisted PepsiCo products from thousands of stores, citing price hikes. | Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty ImagesInflation is cooling, but food companies keep raising prices. In 2022, grocery prices rose more than they had in over four decades, since the “great inflation” of the 1970s. The hair-raising climb has finally stopped, but the pain remains: We’re still paying 25 percent more for groceries than we did... Read more ›
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