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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Vartika Sharma for VoxMedications can help the 1 in 12 people who suffer from alcohol use disorder. But most will never be treated. There is something that kills more Americans every year than drug overdoses, than guns, than car accidents. It’s legal, doesn’t require a background check to buy, is widely advertised, and if you’re 21, you can probably buy it at your corner store. It’s called alcohol. While cold... Read more ›
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Holly Stapleton for VoxWe shouldn’t give up on others so easily. Would you give your mother nearly $10,000 to help her avoid catastrophe? The question wasn’t rhetorical for comedian and writer Ashley Ray-Harris when, in September, the 32-year-old got a call from her mom. The family had a week to come up with close to $10,000 or else Ray-Harris’s mother would lose the house that once belonged to her parents.... Read more ›
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People stand by tents at a homeless encampment under a viaduct near the intersection of Clinton Street and Milwaukee Avenue in the West Loop in Chicago on November 14, 2023. | Chicago Tribune via Getty ImagesAnd a new way to understand cities’ response to tent encampments. Earlier this month, the federal government released new data estimating that more than 650,000 people experienced homelessness in America on a single night in... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThe 21 forecasts we made in 2023, revisited. Though the name might suggest otherwise, we are not technically in the “predicting the future” game at Future Perfect. We usually leave that to the pundits and analysts who will confidently tell you about who the next Republican nominee for president or NBA champion will be — and then conveniently forget should those predictions fail to come true. But there is... Read more ›
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An Israeli flag hangs in a destroyed house on December 20, 2023, in Be’eri, Israel. | Maja Hitij/Getty ImagesOne year into Netanyahu’s latest tenure, Israel’s state and society are truly weakened. A year ago today, Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth government was inaugurated with a clear majority, ushering in what Israelis hoped would be a new period of stability after more than three years of political turmoil. Reality quickly proved otherwise. Instead,... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThis was a hard year. But these 10 news stories remind us a better future is possible. I’m not going to lie to you: 2023 was an ugly year. War rages in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, with millions displaced, injured, or dead. On top of global strife, AI-fueled misinformation runs rampant, we’re barreling past climate goals, and abortion access dwindles. But when the world is mired in horrible things,... Read more ›
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Jess Hannigan for VoxHinge has tried its darnedest to fix online dating. Is the real problem us? Online dating has taken over our love lives: One in two Americans who’ve never been married — as well as 30 percent of all US adults — have used a matchmaking app or site. If you’re looking to date, you’re almost certainly looking on your phone, and the app Hinge is this massive... Read more ›
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US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside of his office after arriving at the US Capitol Building on October 2, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesEven by House GOP standards, 2023 was absurd. There’s nothing quite like starting the year with 14 consecutive rounds of failed speaker votes. Just one week into 2023, House Republicans had already endured a humiliating leadership race full... Read more ›
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2023 is now the hottest year on record. | Chuchart Duangdaw/Getty ImagesWhat it’s like to study a world facing unprecedented changes. 2023 is the hottest year in at least 174 years and recent months have been the hottest in 125,000 years. All of that warming led to deadly heat waves, disease outbreaks, floods, droughts, and record low ice levels around Antarctica. The extreme weather this year stems in part from... Read more ›
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Richard A. Chance for VoxRavenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved. Silicon Valley is embracing a new era of masculinity. Its leaders are powerful, virile, and swole. They practice Brazilian jiujitsu and want to fight each other in a cage. They can do 200 push-ups while wearing a 20-pound weighted vest. They can spend $44 billion on a website as a sort of elaborate joke. They... Read more ›
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Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy and manage early miscarriage. | Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesHow activists, clinicians, and businesses are getting abortion medication to all 50 states. Eighteen months after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, and with a new Supreme Court challenge pending against the abortion... Read more ›
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House Speaker Mike Johnson talks to reporters after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the US Capitol on December 12, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesEverything Congress has procrastinated on and needs to do in the new year, explained. It has not been a very productive year for the House, even when it wasn’t outright humiliating for its dwindling Republican majority. The body passed historically little in the way of... Read more ›
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Ross Perot, then an undeclared candidate for president, at a press conference in early 1992. | Arnold Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty ImagesWhy did Ross Perot do so well in 1992? And could something like that happen again in 2024? Americans were dissatisfied with both major-party options for president. The incumbent was viewed as prioritizing foreign affairs while failing to address voter dissatisfaction with the economy back home. The challenger was dogged... Read more ›
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Pssst ... there’s a case for feeling good about money in 2024. | PM Images via Getty ImagesA recession didn’t come in 2023 and it might not in 2024, either. I’m going to throw out a wild idea here: What if the economy is good in 2024? I know, I know, prices are still too high. Everybody hates everything so much that we’ve coined the term “vibecession.” The pandemic fallout... Read more ›
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Young Celie (Phylicia Pearl Mpasi) and Nettie (Halle Bailey) in The Color Purple. | Warner Bros.The Color Purple is a melodrama — and the new movie musical keeps its traditions alive. Going to see The Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule’s 2023 musical adaptation of Gary Griffin’s 2004 Broadway musical adaptation of director Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel — what a mouthful — was a rich experience... Read more ›
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A Red Cross volunteer brings hot food and blankets to people during the night service to assist the homeless on November 13, 2022, in Catania, Italy. | Fabrizio Villa/Getty ImagesAnd not just at the holidays I’ve been covering America’s homeless crisis at Vox all year. Last month, a reader reached out to ask what practical step they could take to help the people they see sleeping on the streets, besides... Read more ›
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Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) has a lot on his mind in Michael Mann’s Ferrari. | Lorenzo SistiDirector Michael Mann loves fast cars, experts at work, and authentic filmmaking, and it shows. Christmas Day marks the release of the 12th movie from 80-year-old director Michael Mann, Ferrari. Focused on a tumultuous period in the life of Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) in the late 1950s, the film follows the founder as he... Read more ›
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Getty Images“We don’t avoid conversations because they don’t matter. We avoid them because they do matter.” We humans love to talk. Conversations serve many purposes: to pass the time, to learn about people and the world, to exchange information, to share a laugh. Sometimes the function of discourse is to get what we want: a change in behavior, a raise, a resolution to some disagreement. These higher-stakes conversations can be... Read more ›
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Chief Eddie Garcia of the Dallas Police Department poses for a portrait at DPD headquarters in Dallas, Texas, on February 16, 2022. | Cooper Neill/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThree years after demands for police reform, police are solving fewer crimes. What happened? In 2020, after the police-involved killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, millions of Americans took to the streets for months to demand police reform. Almost three and... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxPlus, how to make sure you get your fair share of a mortgage investment in the case of a divorce. On the Money is a monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your question on this form. Here, we answer two... Read more ›
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