President Biden promotes student loan Plan B in Wisconsin. | Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Do you qualify? The Biden administration is canceling even more student debt. On Friday, the White House announced that an additional 277,000 borrowers will see their student loans eliminated, amounting to about $7.4 billion in forgiven debt. Those borrowers qualified for that relief because they were enrolled in one of the loan repayment or forgiveness... Read more ›
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Paola Saliby for Vox Our obsession with self-improvement is making us miserable. Recently, psychologist Maytal Eyal has observed what she calls an “epidemic of self-hatred.” Both within her work as a therapist and in her wider community, Eyal noticed how the weight of self-criticism and self-loathing wears on people’s souls. “It’s become sort of normalized,” she says. “And when people feel that way, they want to buy products to self-improve.”... Read more ›
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Getty Images The internet is far less secure than it ought to be. One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a small, one-person open source project. A user had submitted a complex bit of code that was now waiting for the maintainer to review. But a different user with the name Jigar... Read more ›
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Students head to class on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. | John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The number of first-time filers has dropped 40 percent since the new FAFSA’s bungled rollout. A report released earlier this year from the National Clearinghouse Research Center found that higher education is finally experiencing a reversal in enrollment declines for the first time since the pandemic began. In... Read more ›
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Cailee Spaeny (left) and Wagner Moura as journalists in Alex Garland’s Civil War. | Murray Close/A24 You might think a movie about a second American civil war would be a thinly veiled Trump story. It’s not — and it’s better for it. You might think the new movie Civil War is a warning about America’s deepening political divide. The film’s trailer certainly suggests so, and director Alex Garland seemingly confirmed... Read more ›
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A pivotal scene from Netflix’s 3 Body Problem shows the violence of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. | Ed Miller/Netflix It says more about Netflix than it does about China. Netflix is banned in China — part of the government’s ongoing efforts to limit both foreign influence and Chinese citizens’ access to information about their own country. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese viewers, as well as Chinese state media, from weighing... Read more ›
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The Zoomer tween in their natural habitat. | Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. The kids are not all right — and the device you are probably reading this on is to blame. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental... Read more ›
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O.J. Simpson at a Buffalo Bills football game against the Denver Broncos at Rich Stadium on October 5, 1975, in Orchard Park, New York. | George Gojkovich/Getty Images O.J. Simpson is dead. His infamous story has become an American myth. The news of O.J. Simpson’s death — of cancer at the age of 76 — falls uneasily. O.J. Simpson is an uneasy figure. Thinking of him, you think of the... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for Vox Plus, how to think about building your legacy. 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. Curious about what a financial expert would suggest about planning for the future.... Read more ›
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According to a study by the US Geological Survey, nearly half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with “forever chemicals” that are considered dangerous to human health. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A new EPA rule imposes federal regulations for the first time. Here’s what you can do on your own. The Environmental Protection Agency has set the country’s first federal limits on forms of PFAS in... Read more ›
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Despite progress, including bans on lead in gasoline, lead remains a public health threat all over the world. | Robert Alexander/Getty Images What lead-tainted Lunchables reveal about the persistent threat of lead exposure. Lead keeps showing up where it’s not supposed to be. In 2024, one of the most potent neurotoxins known to humanity persists all over the world as a public health threat. For the third time in six... Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest outside the US Supreme Court on March 26, 2024. | Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The judges aren’t done. The attacks on legal abortion in the last two weeks alone have been staggering. Since the beginning of April, state Supreme Courts in Florida and Arizona have both issued rulings that will effectively ban abortion care in the third and 14th most populous states. While both states already... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images It seems like every musician is being labeled an “industry plant” — does it actually mean anything? On TikTok, a dispute is brewing over the bona fides of hip-hop’s latest viral sensation. Twenty-two-year-old singer 4Batz, whose real name is Neko Bennett, rose to prominence as an independent artist in 2023 with only two (now three) streamable songs to his name. One of them, “Act II: Date... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Jews from the Arab and Muslim world had a radical vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace. “This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech last October, days into the Israel-Hamas war. Netanyahu has voiced that idea repeatedly, both before and after the Hamas attack on... Read more ›
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Pope Francis greets bishops during the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on April 10, 2024. | Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images As one expert put it, “This is the Newsmax version of Catholic theology.” A new Vatican document released April 8 details how the Catholic Church approaches human dignity, but it has raised concern among LGBTQ parishioners and their allies about how it describes gender-affirming... Read more ›
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Leah McSweeney on Watch What Happens Live on April 5, 2022. | Charles Sykes/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Reality stars are suing Bravo (and each other) while wrestling with their own reality. Suits may be having a moment, but when it comes to compelling legal drama, Bravo has had the TV genre on lock. The past few years have been rife with court cases: Jen Shah’s fraud case and... Read more ›
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Cars make their way heading east out of Los Angeles during the evening rush hour on January 25, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images You’re paying a lot more for car insurance than you were in 2020. Here’s why. If you pay for car insurance, you’ve probably noticed that rates are really high lately. You’re not alone. This week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — the government’s method... Read more ›
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Magneto’s team in X-Men ’97. | Courtesy of Marvel Animation Soapy, super-powered, and silly, X-Men ’97 is a Marvel masterpiece. The best thing about the X-Men is the deep, almost hilariously intense lore of Marvel’s merry mutants. In the comic books, Dark Phoenix (inhabiting the body of Jean Grey) ate an entire sun and doomed a race of aliens that look like broccoli. Magneto terraformed Mars, in large part to... Read more ›
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Melanie Lambrick for Vox America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched her local community struggle for years to add new homes. Casciani grew up in upstate New York, in a suburban town outside Rochester. She eventually started a family and raised her children there, and in the early 1990s,... Read more ›
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Getty Images Even the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers. The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream of poets, philosophers, and spiritual practitioners have pointed to this indescribability, the difficult fact that our experiences are ineffable, or larger than what words... Read more ›
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