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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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You, a movie about Bostonians falling in love in Australia. | Sony PicturesPoweeney deserves a better rom-com. The most compelling reason to sit through all 104 minutes of Anyone But You is closure. I’m not referring to finishing the uneven movie, but the opportunity to finally witness the “are they or aren’t they?” chemistry between the movie’s extremely good-looking blonde leads Glen... Read more ›
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Madison Ketcham for VoxCorporate feminism will not save us. The buzzy new drug Ozempic was designed in a lab to treat diabetes, but sometimes it seems like it was also designed in a lab to spark bad-faith corporate conversations about body positivity. Ozempic and its generic name, semaglutide, are such provocations: After years of brands selling feel-good taglines about how all bodies are beautiful, the arrival on the scene of... Read more ›
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The new Journal app is now available in the iOS 17.2 update. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFinally, a way for your phone to know even more about your personal life. My wife was in her first trimester when my mom made the suggestion: “I hope you’re journaling. Your baby will get a real kick out of learning about these early days.” And then it was my therapist in the... Read more ›
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Yelena Bryksenkova for VoxFinally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season — and a way of life — melting before our eyes. A snowy winter in New York City brings with it a kind of magic. The air goes crisp, then bitter, and fragile snowflakes sift down in the early dark, silvering the trees and blanketing the sledding hills in the parks. After the first big snow,... Read more ›
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A screen grab captured from a video shows Yemen’s Houthi fighters’ takeover of the cargo ship Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea on November 20, 2023. | Houthi Movement via Getty ImagesThe Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, explained. Container ship captains who make the run between Europe and Asia are about to become reacquainted with the Cape of Good Hope, making a long swing around Africa in a route... Read more ›
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Lambs several days after birth at a sheep farm in Poland. | Andrew Skowron / We Animals MediaWool’s cozy image masks a polluting, violent reality. We’ve been banging this drum at Future Perfect for a long time: Animal agriculture is terrible not just for animals, but also for the planet. And despite the meat industry’s ferocious greenwashing efforts, that message is finally, if haltingly, breaking into mainstream climate discourse. But... Read more ›
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Former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Colorado Supreme Court’s decision is unlikely to be upheld by the US Supreme Court, but this issue is not going away. The Supreme Court is now almost certain to hear a case about whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxFrom buzzy novels to literary biographies, Vox’s book critic breaks down the year in reading. Every year, I recommend the best books out of the hundreds that have crossed my desk in my work as Vox’s book critic. These are the books I can’t stop thinking about months after I’ve read them, the books I’ve pressed on my friends along with demands that they tell me all their thoughts... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxIn Central Mexico’s forests, armed community members defend an iconic butterfly from cartel-backed logging. This story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of monarch... Read more ›
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Sean “Diddy” Combs, pictured at Howard University in October, was accused of trafficking and rape a month later by singer Cassie in a civil lawsuit that later inspired other women to come forward. | Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean “Diddy” CombsNew York’s survivors laws have helped spur a reckoning in music — one that some say is long overdue. Especially in the 1990s and 2000s, Diddy was a figure of... Read more ›
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A marcher holds a sign that says, “Not My Dictator” with a picture of Donald Trump in front of Trump International Tower on January 18, 2020. | Ira L. Black/Corbis via GettyThe Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be taken off the ballot. Could this save democracy from a dangerous threat? Or would it imperil democracy further? Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024? The... Read more ›
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Buddhist devotees meditate at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist temple near Bangkok, Thailand, on June 3, 2023. | Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty ImagesAmericans embraced meditation. So did corporations. Capitalism has a way of hijacking our culture’s best ideas. Regardless of the domain, industry turns almost every promising movement into a product. Mindfulness meditation is an interesting example of this phenomenon. The number of Americans who’ve tried meditation has tripled since 2012, which,... Read more ›
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Hallmark’s Never Been Chris’d features a home-for-the-holidays love triangle. | HallmarkIt’s the most ... romantic time of the year? This year alone, 116 new holiday movies were released to TV and streaming. Conservatively, I’m going to estimate that 115 of them were romantic comedies. Starting with Destined 2: Christmas Once More, which premiered on Great American Family back in October, the season saw cinematic offerings with titles like How to... Read more ›
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Meghan Curry O’Connell, chief public health officer at the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board, in front of the organization’s Rapid City, South Dakota, headquarters in December 2023. O’Connell has been leading the fight to get Indigenous Americans’ public health data into tribal hands. “These are real people — these aren’t just numbers,” she says. | Tara Rose Weston for VoxA decades-long digital turf war’s consequences for Indigenous communities, explained.... Read more ›
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Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe once-rising star has been dropped by Marvel and faces up to a year in jail. After a three-week trial and two days of jury deliberation, Jonathan Majors, the Emmy-nominated star of Lovecraft Country and Creed III, has been found guilty on charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment.... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Wright as Monk in American Fiction. | Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLCJeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire. Early on in American Fiction, a deceptively biting and warmly funny new satire, a writer (played by Jeffrey Wright in a career-crowning performance) sneaks into a book fair event celebrating the hot new book of the season. His eyebrows arch at the... Read more ›
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Eleanor Taylor for VoxGood God, give this US agency a few more dollars to stop a mass extinction. Exactly five decades ago, Congress did what would be unimaginable today: It passed a powerful environmental law with almost unanimous support. In 1973, the House voted in favor of the Endangered Species Act, 390 to 12. “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life... Read more ›
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The government might be in a smidge of a pickle with deficits and debt. | PM Images via Getty ImagesAmerica rarely has its financial ducks in a row. Does it finally matter? As though there were not enough things in the world to worry about at the moment, a perennial issue has once again been percolating: Is the United States’ financial house in order? Talk about the federal government’s deficit... Read more ›
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APCould it work in the US? A massive social policy experiment is unfolding in Canada to provide families throughout the country with child care for an average of $10 a day. The plan, which was introduced in 2021 amid the turmoil of the pandemic, aims to spend up to 30 billion Canadian dollars by 2026 to bring down child-care costs for parents and to create 250,000 new slots. The federally... Read more ›
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President Javier Milei gives a speech after his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace on December 10, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Tomas Cuesta/Getty ImagesTo understand the anarcho-capitalist leader, you have to understand Argentina’s past. If you know nothing else about Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, you probably know two things: He has weird hair, and he’s a self-described anarcho-capitalist who believes the government should have as little role... Read more ›
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