The first observance of what came to be known as Memorial Day was on May 30, 1868, when a Civil War general called on Americans to commemorate the sacrifices of Union soldiers. It was initially called Decoration Day, for the practice of decorating graves with wreaths and flags. And there were so many graves — […] Read more ›
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Nearly half of the eggs sold in the US today come from cage-free farms. That’s an astounding turn, considering that in the early 2000s, just a few percent did. But according to pledges made by many of the country’s largest food companies — from McDonald’s to IHOP to Starbucks — most of the 94 billion […] Read more ›
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Navigating the world right now can feel like running into that aunt who comments on your weight at Thanksgiving every single day: When you open up Instagram, take public transit, watch TV, or scroll through TikTok, weight loss and diet discussion is nearly impossible to escape. Marketing for weight loss-related products has become incessant, with […] Read more ›
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The United States has been chasing the rhetorical goal of energy independence — the ability to produce enough domestic energy to be essentially free of dependence on imports — since the energy crisis of the 1970s exposed the country’s reliance on Mideast oil. President Donald Trump has put his own spin on the idea, pushing beyond […] Read more ›
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You walk into the room and a whole crowd of people is belting out an uneven but spirited version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. A former lawyer dressed in a Beatles T-shirt taps his knees as if he were a professional drummer. Another guy, long and lanky in […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out of a job. What happened? Noem was fired on Thursday in a social media post by President Donald […] Read more ›
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You know what a pink ribbon signifies. Breast cancer, right? Now what about a red dress? Did you come up with heart disease? No? Don’t worry: You’re not alone. Heart disease is the leading killer of cisgender American women — and that trend shows no signs of slowing. New projections estimate the share of US women […] Read more ›
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It’s not necessarily the guys you might expect, Apollo Knapp told me. These are 6-foot-tall high-school athletes, guys who are social and popular. “They’re the type of people that are friends with everybody, who get dapped up in the hallway every two feet,” said Knapp, an 18-year-old high school senior in Ohio and a board […] Read more ›
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“Across party lines and demographic groups, young men are eager to be dads.” That’s the surprising conclusion that Anna North, my Vox colleague, uncovered when she dove into the data to find out young people’s views about forming families. Birth rates have been in free fall, and talk of a demographic crisis has increasingly filled […] Read more ›
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The dairy industry uses cows to make two things: milk and baby cows. The milk, we know its fate. But what of those 9 million babies born to dairy cows each year? Many get carted off — sometimes over great distances, typically at not more than a few days old — to live out their […] Read more ›
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AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death — machines are teaching themselves how to do your job. Over the past four years, chatbots have gone from neat […] Read more ›
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This is not how it was supposed to go for Iran. For years, the Islamic Republic worked to build up a network of allies throughout the Middle East, widely known as the “Axis of Resistance,” which, in the event Iran itself were attacked, could rain down destruction on Israel, the US military, and American allies […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is already starting to cost Americans money. What’s happening? Gas and diesel prices are rising as US strikes in […] Read more ›
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In the week leading up to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the Pentagon was waging a different battle: a fight with the AI company Anthropic over its flagship AI model, Claude. That conflict came to a head on Friday, when Trump said that the federal government would immediately stop using Anthropic’s AI tools. Nonetheless, […] Read more ›
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Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 percent of us live within an hour’s drive of the ocean. These shoreline regions generate a massive force in the global economy — in the US alone, coastal counties account for […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The primary elections in Texas yesterday weren’t just incremental partisan events; they were preliminary, real-world tests of several critical dynamics that will also influence the general election. On the Democratic side, a battle between […] Read more ›
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Driverless cars have the potential to substantially reduce the death toll from likely the most dangerous everyday activity in American life: driving. So it might surprise you to know that the very people who are working to make transportation safer, more pleasant, and more humane are actually pretty divided on them. That is because if […] Read more ›
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Readers and audiences have been falling in love with British romance stories for centuries. Books by authors like the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen still fly off the shelves, and they’ve been adapted for the big and small screen dozens of times. Wuthering Heights alone has been adapted over 30 times, and director Emerald Fennell’s […] Read more ›
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America’s AI industry isn’t just divided by competing interests, but also by conflicting worldviews. In Silicon Valley, opinion about how artificial intelligence should be developed and used — and regulated — runs the gamut between two poles. At one end lie “accelerationists,” who believe that humanity should expand AI’s capabilities as quickly as possible, unencumbered […] Read more ›
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One thing was clear before James Talarico’s win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate Democratic primary Tuesday night. This contest wouldn’t be about policy or ideology; it would be a choice between two very different types of “fighters,” decided along racially polarized lines. Talarico, a state representative and seminarian, offered grit paired with […] Read more ›
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Puzzle enthusiasts’ pleasure is measured in the smallest of details: the exact shade of pink on a peony’s petal, a small sliver of a man’s plaid shirt, the tiniest glint of sunlight reflecting off a wave’s crest. It’s in the knowledge that every piece has a proper place, and the idea that seemingly infinite chaos […] Read more ›
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