Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Don’t worry if you missed the 2024 eclipse. There will be more. Total solar eclipses like the one crossing America today are beautiful, but they’re fleeting. Totality, when the sun is completely covered by the moon, lasts just a few minutes. And the whole thing — from the start of the partial eclipse to the end — takes just a few hours. The experience... Read more ›
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Getty Images What multilevel marketing schemes are really selling. Have you ever been invited by a friend or a family member to a coffee shop or a lunch date, and when you get there you realize that they don’t just want to catch up? Instead, it turns out they’ve got a great business opportunity for you. All you have to do is spend a little money on the front end,... Read more ›
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Beyoncé/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Country music uses the West as a synecdoche for America. Beyoncé is here to disrupt that. Of all the pop stars currently working in America, Beyoncé is undoubtedly the most visually sophisticated. Every new album comes with a lush, rigorously staged set of images, dense with allusions and Easter eggs, that act as an elaboration and a commentary on the themes of the album. In the... Read more ›
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Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley in Netflix’s Ripley. | Courtesy of Netflix Ripley fails to capture what makes Highsmith’s book so compelling. First, the bad news: Netflix’s new show Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s immortal novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, is a snooze. It’s shot beautifully. Under the auspices of showrunner Steven Zaillian (the screenwriter for the movie Schindler’s List, among others) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, Ripley renders its... Read more ›
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Donald Trump introducing his shoe line at SneakerCon in Philadelphia on February 17, 2024. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A new book shows how conservative grift started long before branded bibles and $400 sneakers. During his time atop the Republican Party, Donald Trump’s lifetime habits of fraud and grifting have fused seamlessly with conservative politics. In 2024 alone, Trump debuted $399 gold sneakers emblazoned with the American flag, sold a $60... Read more ›
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Cities like New York rarely experience large earthquakes, but its older buildings are vulnerable when the ground starts shaking. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images What to do during an earthquake, for people who rarely experience them. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked the East Coast midmorning on Friday, sending high rises swaying in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Californians and other West Coasters may scoff at the alarm expressed by... Read more ›
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Why we’re all paying so much more for streaming, and what we can do about it. When streaming first came onto the scene, it seemingly came with a promise: the movies and TV that you love, without ads, for a much cheaper price than cable. Less than 20 years down the line, it feels like that promise has been broken. Streaming is more expensive than ever, and prices just keep... Read more ›
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A building lurches in Taiwan after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocked the island. | Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Scientists have drastically improved our understanding of seismic events. Here are eight things to know. Earthquakes can strike when and where we least expect them — as residents in the New York City and New Jersey area discovered on Friday morning, when an estimated magnitude 4.8 quake hit at 10:23 am... Read more ›
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Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Honeybees are too valuable to go extinct. Not every species will be so fortunate. One consequence of being a journalist since, oh, the 20th century, is that you accumulate a track record. In the hundreds and hundreds of stories I’ve published over the last 25 years, some look eerily prescient (like this cover story from 2017 warning about a coming pandemic). Some are weird. (Did... Read more ›
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A man pushes a bicycle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. | AFP via Getty Images Six months in. Just a few days after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took place six months ago this week,... Read more ›
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US solar power has more than doubled since the last solar eclipse. | Getty Images US solar power has more than doubled since the last eclipse. What will happen during this one? As the moon passes in front of the sun on April 8, its shadow will knock down solar power production in a sweeping band across the United States from Texas to Maine, home to more than 31 million... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/AP Looking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump arrives for a rally at the I-80 Speedway in 2022 in Greenwood, Nebraska. | Scott Olson/Getty Images The state has an odd rule that gave Biden an electoral vote in 2020. Trump wants to change that. So far, he’s failed. Donald Trump wanted Nebraska Republicans to change the state’s electoral vote rules — in a way that would likely flip one electoral vote from Biden to... Read more ›
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Rescue teams demolish a building which collapsed following an earthquake on April 3, 2024 in Hualien, Taiwan. | Annabelle Chih/Getty Images From Taiwan to South Korea to Silicon Valley, some of the most important nodes in the global tech economy are in disaster-prone places. When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan’s eastern coast on April 3, the first concern involved the risk to people and property. Here, the news was not... Read more ›
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The upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 should be viewed through eclipse glasses, no matter where you’re watching it from. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images More people will travel for this event than for one of the country’s biggest games. The biggest US travel event of this year might not be Taylor Swift’s sold-out concert tour or a long-awaited March Madness face-off. Instead, it could well be the upcoming solar... Read more ›
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Truth Social’s big shareholders pose potential conflicts of interest for Trump. | Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images With Truth Social going public, big investors could easily buy influence in a second Trump term. Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social media platform, has not exactly been a resounding business success story, but it recently made the former president a whole lot richer. That’s because Trump Media, the network’s parent company, went... Read more ›
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A total solar eclipse in Belitung, Indonesia, on March 9, 2016. | Donal Husni/NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images This scientist has seen nearly 20 solar eclipses. She’s trying to solve a mystery that could help protect Earth. On Monday, April 8, millions of people will get to see the Great North American Eclipse. Most people on the continent will see a partial solar eclipse, the sun gradually getting smaller as the... Read more ›
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Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal’s youngest president, was sworn in on April 2, 2024. | Senegalese Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images When so much of the world is backsliding on democratic norms, Senegal’s election reveals a trend toward democracy in Africa. 2024 is the biggest global election year in history and the future of democracy is on every ballot. But amid an international backsliding in democratic norms, including in countries with a... Read more ›
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SerranĂa de Chiribiquete, a mountainous region in the Colombian Amazon. New data from the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland reveals forest loss declined last year in Colombia, among other countries. | Guillermo Legaria/AFP via Getty Images In a grim new analysis of tropical forests, there are a few important glimmers of hope. Last year, the planet lost 9.2 million acres of its tropical forest, an area a... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump arrives for a rally at the I-80 Speedway in 2022 in Greenwood, Nebraska. | Scott Olson/Getty Images The state has an odd rule that gave Biden an electoral vote in 2020. Trump wants to change that. Can he? On Tuesday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) urged his state’s legislature to change its rules for this year’s presidential election — a change that, if passed, would be... Read more ›
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