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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And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him. In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by the American Museum... Read more ›
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Houthi militants raise their weapons during a rally following a US and UK strike against their positions. | Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty ImagesIt’s an escalation in the region, but we’re not actually headed to outright war with Iran. President Joe Biden admitted on Thursday that continued US strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen over the past week have not stopped the group’s attacks on cargo vessels transiting the Red Sea — but... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThe 2024 election season may be defined by Trump’s legal troubles. Donald Trump may have won the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin. The question, though, is whether he can sustain his momentum through a primary season —... Read more ›
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The Traitors has a very big table where all the backstabbing happens! | Euan Cherry/PeacockSeason 2 of the Peacock series has some of the worst people you know fail a whodunit. There are some slight spoilers regarding the first three episodes of The Traitors season two. The first four episodes of The Traitors are streaming on Peacock. Comic book devotees have the Avengers. Sports geeks have All-Star Games. People who... Read more ›
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Much of the US is experiencing frigid cold temperatures, but winters have been warming across the country in recent decades. | Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesYes, it’s freezing now. But winters are actually warming dangerously fast. Bitter cold continues to grip the United States as unusual freezing temperatures stretch as far south as Florida this week. Even more chilly weather is in store through the weekend, putting more than 80... Read more ›
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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at the US Capitol ahead of the government funding deal. | Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCongress’s interminable shutdown cycle, explained. On Thursday, Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown, one day before a January 19 funding deadline. That’s welcome news: Government employees won’t be furloughed and programs won’t be delayed — but only for now. The deal does nothing to resolve the spending disagreements that put the government... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 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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A crowded campaign event for Donald Trump on November 11, 2023, in Claremont, New Hampshire. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesYou don’t just vote for Trump. You stan him. It’s a common observation that modern-day politics increasingly resembles fandom: Both feature communities created around and united by passion, and both are often heavily fixated on a single public figure. Many pundits are now calling right-wing voters “the Trump fandom,” as though there’s... Read more ›
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“People have this passionate enthusiasm for outer space, which is totally understandable. But the ocean is equally if not more exciting.” | Zhihong Zhuo/Getty ImagesAnd the adventures scientists go on to better understand our enigmatic seas. The Earth is mainly a water world — more than 70 percent of its surface is covered by oceans — and yet we know so little about what resides beneath the waves. The ocean,... Read more ›
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Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe New York Times v. OpenAI, explained. If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify and Apple Music, took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This did not escape the notice of the record companies, and in 2001, a... Read more ›
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Jared Bartman for VoxThe surprising connection among cybercrime, human trafficking, and a raging guerrilla war. Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China. This in itself was not unusual. Myanmar’s military government has faced insurgencies from ethnic and... Read more ›
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Bank of America has already slashed its overdraft fee from $35 to $10. | Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty ImagesNobody likes overdrafting their bank account. Biden wants to make it less painful. The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would curb overdraft fees incurred when consumers withdraw more than the available funds in their bank account. Banks currently collect about $9 billion annually in overdraft fees, and people... Read more ›
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett is escorted out after an investiture ceremony by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts at the Supreme Court on October 1, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesInside the Supreme Court argument asking if the justices should crown themselves kings and queens. Four justices appeared absolutely determined, on Wednesday, to overrule one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions... Read more ›
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Meat/Less, Vox’s new 5-day e-course, helps readers eat well and do good. | Chris Carfolite/VoxThe American diet is lopsided toward meat. Here’s how to incorporate more plant-based food into your life. There’s more awareness than ever about the problems associated with industrial meat production, from its contribution to climate change and pollution to the abysmal treatment of animals and workers in meatpacking plants. Yet many people find the idea of... Read more ›
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An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max-9 aircraft grounded at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 8, 2024. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRegulators need to take in the whole picture of risk — as they do with air travel — rather than just a narrow slice. The sight of a hole in the side of a Boeing 737 Max airplane earlier this month resurrected, among other... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThe 2024 election season may be defined by Trump’s legal troubles. Donald Trump may have won the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin. The question, though, is whether he can sustain his momentum through a primary season —... Read more ›
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The James Webb Space Telescope can produce “deep field” images that reveal the history of the cosmos. | NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology) and R. Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh). Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)Monsters lurk in the background of James Webb Space Telescope images. Scientists are scrambling to make sense of them. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers’ jaws... Read more ›
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An Alpine ibex at sunset in the Alps. | Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesClimate change and other human impacts are turning some animals nocturnal. A day in the life of a goat in the Alps is, perhaps, as idyllic as it sounds. Wake up when the sun rises. Eat some grass and wildflowers. Rest. Go to sleep when the sun sets, high up on the mountain, among protective rocks.... Read more ›
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Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota. | Vox; Gaelen Morse/Getty ImagesDean Phillips is trying to crash Joe Biden’s party. He picked a strange, strange place to start. Manchester, New Hampshire — “It makes me sick” to criticize President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips says in a windowless room of his campaign office, lined with “DEAN” posters as a perfect setting for filmed podcasts. “I’ve respected the president my whole life.... Read more ›
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Xinmei Liu for VoxCan special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts? As I write this article, I have a cold. At some point in the past couple of weeks, I managed to inhale a droplet of water suspended in the air that contained hundreds or thousands of copies of a virus (probably a rhinovirus, the kind that causes most common colds). That virus infected my throat and my... Read more ›
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