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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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesThere are, after all, already too many chatbots. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced an online storefront called the GPT Store that lets people share custom versions of ChatGPT. It’s like an app store for chatbots, except that unlike the apps on your phone, these chatbots can be created by almost anyone with a few simple text prompts. Over the past couple of months, people have created more than... Read more ›
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Selena Gomez tells her famous friend Taylor Swift a secret that might or might not involve Kylie Jenner forbidding her to take a pic with her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet! | Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty ImagesThe Selena Gomez-Timothée Chalamet-Kylie Jenner no-picture kerfuffle, explained. The open secret about — and half the fun of — the Golden Globes is that it’s the awards show that doesn’t really matter.... Read more ›
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A monthlong break from drinking was just the beginning for me. For more information on alcohol use disorder, including treatment options, check out this piece by Rachel DuRose. Read more ›
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Vox; Getty ImagesDespite big changes to the migraine playbook, many sufferers aren’t getting adequate treatment. Back when I was in medical training, I saw patients in a primary care clinic twice a week. Many mentioned they had headaches, and the first question I asked each of them, as I was trained to do, was “Are you a headache person?” I always opened with that because while everybody gets a headache... Read more ›
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These rich people are in the UK but this article is about inequality in the US. | In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty ImagesWhy economists are reconsidering the scale of the rise in US inequality. In recent weeks, a major debate has gripped the field of economics, one with significant policy stakes. In one sense, the debate is about the nature and extent of inequality in the US: are the rich... Read more ›
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Aerial photo taken on September 1, 2017, shows flooded houses after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas. | Yin Bogu/Xinhua News Agency via Getty ImagesA core issue raised in the Colorado case seeking to disqualify Trump from the presidency is also present in a much more obscure case being argued next week. On the surface, the issues presented by Devillier v. Texas — a Supreme Court case brought by Texas landowners... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, on December 17, 2023. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTrump says he’d be better for the economy. Voters do, too. But would he? 2024 is here and, with it, elections. Wild, frankly! Must we? We must. Given this less-than-fun fact, it would probably be useful to understand what the front-running presidential candidates — President Joe Biden and former President... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University on January 10, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe battle onstage was something of a draw. But one candidate needed to do better than that. If you somehow avoided watching the Ron DeSantis-Nikki Haley debate Wednesday night, you missed an... Read more ›
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Vox; Associated Press; Getty ImagesThe GOP field is thinning as Trump maintains his dominance. Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other candidates from staying in the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can somehow dethrone him. The former president, who announced his candidacy in November, has been increasingly dominant in polling. His closest competitors, Florida Gov. Ron... Read more ›
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Selena Gomez tells her famous friend Taylor Swift a secret that might or might not involve Kylie Jenner forbidding her to take a pic with her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet! | Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty ImagesThe Selena Gomez-Timothée Chalamet-Kylie Jenner no-picture kerfuffle, explained. The open secret about — and half the fun of — the Golden Globes is that it’s the awards show that doesn’t really matter.... Read more ›
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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. | Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty ImagesShe’s emerged as anti-Trump Republicans’ best (and only) hope to take him down. Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various other candidates never got off the ground.... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesThe very confusing landscape of advanced AI risk, briefly explained. In 2016, researchers at AI Impacts, a project that aims to improve understanding of advanced AI development, released a survey of machine learning researchers. They were asked when they expected the development of AI systems that are comparable to humans along many dimensions, as well as whether to expect good or bad results from such an achievement. The headline... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIt sounds too good to be true, but there’s serious science behind the hypothesis. If I told you psychedelics might help people with everything from depression to blindness to anorexia to autism to stroke, you might think that’s just pure hype. Fair enough. The claim does sound hyperbolic. Yet there’s scientific evidence pointing in that direction. For the past few years, Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Gul Dolen has been busy... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesTikTok is full of millennial gray, competitive hygiene, and bleach. It stinks! In November, a woman put her prepackaged Christmas tree in the tub and washed it. “Unpopular opinion: You need to clean your Christmas tree,” she wrote on the TikTok video devoted to documenting the experience, during which viewers can see perfectly clear water circling the drain, as if it wasn’t obvious enough that nobody actually needs to... Read more ›
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Justice Clarence Thomas (right) laughs. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe justices are threatening to put themselves in charge of every single federal agency. They should resist that temptation. On January 17, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce — which ask the justices to seize control of much of federal policymaking. Both cases involve the kind of... Read more ›
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Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesIt’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for. While most people were enjoying the holidays, extremely online conservatives were fighting about a pinup calendar. Last month, Ultra Right Beer — a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light — released a 2024 calendar titled “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America... Read more ›
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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. | Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty ImagesHow Haley is trying to reject — and co-opt — Trumpism. Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various other candidates never got off the ground. But if... Read more ›
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on December 4, 2023. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWhy it’s a big deal that the president didn’t know his defense secretary was in the hospital for three days. Even the most powerful people in the world are still humans with bodies and families. They sometimes need to take time off, whether for medical reasons, personal matters, or just to recharge. But the people... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images; StanleyThe Stanley brand is selling more than a tumbler. According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup is the highest possible accomplishment — proof of hard work and teamwork coupled with enormous fortune. It’s the achievement of a lifetime that only a select few get to experience. According to the internet, the Stanley™ Cup may be even better.... Read more ›
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Vox/Everett Collection; Bantam BooksLeon Uris’s bestselling epic Exodus — and its hit movie adaptation starring Paul Newman — influenced generations of Americans, from the suburbs to the State Department. When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus in my synagogue’s library. I stood amid the shelves, surreptitiously reading a sex scene (did the book just fall open right to it, the way... Read more ›
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