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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Some have turned to multipurpose chatbots like ChatGPT for therapy. | StudioM1/Getty ImagesGetting AI to improve mental health outcomes is not as simple as firing up ChatGPT. I didn’t find a therapist when I first felt I might need one, nor when I finally found the energy to start Googling the therapists with offices near me. I didn’t find one months later when, after glancing at the results of my... Read more ›
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A handful of federally endangered Hawaiian snails called Achatinella fulgens.Our planet faces a mass extinction. I visited ground zero. PEARL CITY, Oahu — On a warm November afternoon in a trailer not far from Pearl Harbor, a scientist named David Sischo popped open the lid to a small plastic tank. From a jumble of leaves, he pulled out something precious. “I would argue that they’re one of the rarest animals... Read more ›
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Throughout the 1990s, tampons were routinely advertised using blue liquid, not red. | Eva Claycomb for VoxFrom blue liquid to glass vaginas, period stigma shapes our products — and hurts our health. If you’ve ever had a period — or if you just watched a lot of TV in the 1990s — you probably remember the blue-liquid ads. In one example from 1995, an actor extols the virtues of Always... Read more ›
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Siobhán Gallagher for VoxHow the new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop. The first time I opened the app for Temu, the viral Chinese shopping site, a pop-up greeted me: I could spin a wheel to win $200. The spinner landed on “1 more chance.” I spun again, and this time, I won $200. But wait, there was more — if I... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden walks along the US-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023. | Jim Watson/AFP via GettyIt’s partly about Ukraine aid. But the politics of immigration have also changed for Democrats. In exchange for approving more aid to Ukraine, congressional Republicans want Democrats to agree to dramatically limit the options migrants have to claim asylum from the United States and to ramp up detention and... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs a House Republican Conference meeting on November 14, 2023, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. | Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesHouse Republicans voted to launch an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing. This week, House Republicans voted to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, a decision that comes despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden at this... Read more ›
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Protests are banned in the UAE, where public forms of dissent are seen as a threat to national security. Climate activists showed up anyway. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesClimate activist Bill McKibben on how to make sense of COP28: “Let’s make that concession hurt.” For nearly three decades, the United Nations convening of the parties on climate change, known as COP, has failed to do much about the climate crisis. Since... Read more ›
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Pumpkin Spice season was great for Starbucks. The holiday season not so much. | Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesStarbucks’s messy December, explained. Starbucks’s value is down billions of dollars. People online are calling for a boycott of Starbucks. The extent to which these two things are related, if they are at all, is not clear. One thing is true here: The Seattle-based coffee company is not having a bang-up time... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxWas Cop28 the beginning of the end of fossil fuels? Kinda. The largest international climate change conference in history closed Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates in the waning days of the hottest year on record with yet another limp agreement between countries to do more to address global warming as the problem gets worse. The accord did, for the first time, explicitly call for countries to... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking 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 peace.... Read more ›
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David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor — or is it the Fourteenth? | Disney PlusDoctor Who has to learn to let go of David Tennant. In its most recent episode, Doctor Who broke one of its oldest and most fundamental rules. On the one hand, it can be exciting when a long-running pop culture property breaks a rule it has set for itself; it means something interesting is about to... Read more ›
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Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system. Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons. Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed... Read more ›
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Pumpkin Spice season was great for Starbucks. The holiday season not so much. | Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesStarbucks’s messy December, explained. Starbucks’s value is down billions of dollars. People online are calling for a boycott of Starbucks. The extent to which these two things are related, if they are at all, is not clear. One thing is true here: The Seattle-based coffee company is not having a bang-up time... Read more ›
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Two hens who survived ventilation shutdown plus, a method that’s been used to kill millions of poultry birds via heatstroke during the current bird flu outbreak, huddle together in a small battery cage at a factory farm in Iowa in 2022. | Direct Action EverywhereWe failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price. The 2022-2023 spread of bird flu has been the most catastrophic on record in the... Read more ›
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Misoprostol, pictured, is a common ulcer drug that has been used for years in tandem with mifepristone. It can work on its own, too. | Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesLegal challenges are aiming to take mifepristone off the market. An alternative, however, exists. A series of legal challenges working their way through the federal courts and now taken up by the Supreme Court has raised questions about the future... Read more ›
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Abortion rights activists march to the Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. The rally was held to mark the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesThe justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions. The Supreme Court... Read more ›
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People document an evening prayer dedicated to Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on October 18. | Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever. For the past month, TikTok has tried to assure business leaders, influencers, and Jewish organizations that it isn’t promoting anti-Israel or antisemitic speech on its platform. CEO Shou Chew has reportedly met with executives at Tinder, Facebook, and the Anti-Defamation... Read more ›
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Kris Connor/WireImageThe House is voting on an impeachment inquiry. But they’ve turned up little so far. Whatever you may think about the impeachments of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, they were at least impeached for things they verifiably did. But Joe Biden may become the first president to be impeached entirely because of an unproven theory. The House of Representatives plans to vote Wednesday to officially authorize an impeachment inquiry... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden signs an executive order with Vice President Kamala Harris (right) during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPresident Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence was criticized by many for overreaching, but the danger from uncontrolled AI progress is real. President Joe Biden’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence made an unexpectedly... Read more ›
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Rescue workers at a police station that was destroyed after a battle between Israeli troops and Hamas militants on October 8, 2023, in Sderot, Israel. | Amir Levy/Getty ImagesTwo decades after 9/11, extremist groups continue to pull off surprise attacks. Why? On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush was given what may be the most infamous daily intelligence brief ever received by a US president. It was titled “Bin Ladin... Read more ›
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