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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A doctor examines the X-rays of a tuberculosis patient. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesVolunteers could speed up the race for a cure that works for adults as well as children. Few forces have killed off talented people before their time with quite the effectiveness of tuberculosis. There’s Chekhov, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka, Keats, Thoreau, Emily Brontë — all brought down by the bacterium before they reached the age of 50. Their ranks... Read more ›
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A protester in Marseille, France, tags a wall with the anarchy sign during a demonstration against pension reform. | Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhy it isn’t the same as chaos. When you think of anarchism, what comes to mind? Maybe you have some vague image of a punk rocker with the Circle-A symbol scratched into her jeans. Or some comic-book supervillain out to destroy the world that spurned him.... Read more ›
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Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSavings won’t save the economy for much longer, but higher wages might. A few years ago, Americans saved a lot of money at an unprecedented speed. When the pandemic hit, household spending plummeted as people stayed home and businesses temporarily shut down. At the same time, many of those households saw a dramatic increase in income because of massive federal government spending: higher unemployment payments, universal... 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 are set to vote on an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing. This week, House Republicans are set to continue their pursuit of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, a decision that comes despite there being no evidence... Read more ›
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Joss FongStudents and teachers grapple with the rise of the chatbots. There’s no getting around the fact that students are a major user group for ChatGPT and the other AI language models that have come online in the past year. While schools and teachers would generally prefer to avoid the contortions involved in banning and policing AI use, it’s not clear what “embracing” the technology leads to, either. In this... Read more ›
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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has fought tooth and nail to keep Kate Cox from having a medically necessary abortion. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe court’s opinion reads like something out of Franz Kafka, or maybe something out of Jim Crow. On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, a woman who says she is “at high risk for severe complications threatening her life and future... Read more ›
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The Texas Supreme Court blocked Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas woman, from obtaining an abortion after a lower court judge allowed it. | Kate CoxKate Cox’s case speaks to the “hellish” legal limbo these bans put patients, and providers, in. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman who sought an abortion in the state. Previously, Cox argued that the lethal condition impacting her fetus and... Read more ›
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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) after a romp with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). | Searchlight PicturesIn Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Passages, and more, sex on screen drove the plot Earlier this year a TikToker posted a video explaining how she and her husband “prepared” themselves for the sex scenes in Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh. The influencer described how her husband would close his eyes every time there was nudity... Read more ›
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Getty Images/CSA Images RFBecause your big day should still feel like you. Planning a wedding is like doing a group project, becoming a travel agent, and mastering logistics all at once. It’s an unbelievably exciting thing to plan your future together and coordinate an event that unites all your favorite friends and family. A time with lots of champagne and presents and well wishes. But with both of you facing... Read more ›
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The meat counter at an Iowa grocery store. Around 1 out of 4 animals raised for food end up as food waste. | Katrina Wittkamp/Getty ImagesFrom farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted. Almost 1 in every 4 animals raised on a factory farm never actually makes it to your plate. Instead, they die for nothing. That’s according to a study published earlier this... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxCyclone Freddy destroyed the small East African country. Targeted reparations can alleviate poverty and help communities recover. For several days in March, the record-breaking Tropical Cyclone Freddy poured heavy rains onto the city of Blantyre in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa no bigger than Pennsylvania. Freddy roared in the Indian Ocean for over a month, longer than any other recorded tropical cyclone, while also becoming the... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty imagesFor many Jews, the October 7 attacks discredited both the Zionist right and the anti-Zionist left — paving the way for the resurrection of a seemingly dead political tradition. The massacre by Hamas on October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza has created the conditions for something surprising: a resurrection of the liberal Zionist political tradition. Liberal Zionism is the insistence that there is no necessary contradiction... Read more ›
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A flare burns off methane in an oil field. Oil and gas companies meeting at COP28 agreed to end flaring to control emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. | Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSpolier: Cows. Negotiators from around the world meeting at the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week agreed to put more money behind pledges to cut methane pollution. If met, these commitments... Read more ›
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Vin Testa, of Washington, DC, waves a pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesDo therapists have a right to tell patients to “pray away the gay”? The Court is leaving that question open. In an unexpected move, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s restrictions on an anti-LGBTQ practice known as “conversion therapy” — meaning... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxTo clean up poisoned streams, Appalachian researchers are turning acid mine drainage into something unexpected. 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. The most striking thing about the water tumbling out of the ground behind a small cluster of houses in southeastern Ohio... Read more ›
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Mary Kirkpatrick for VoxMaybe your cat loves you. Maybe it would kill you if it could. I have absolutely no idea what makes Vincenzo a good cat. It’s a fact I keep to myself when I meet his owner, Donna Dzurishin, at the Garden State Cat Expo in New Jersey in mid-July. At one of the biggest cat shows in the country, my ignorance puts me in the minority. Plus,... 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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Karlotta Freier for VoxDengue, drought, and floods are hammering Peru and Bolivia this year. At the UN climate talks, they’re seeking justice. 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. For centuries, off the coast of what’s now Peru and Ecuador, fishers noticed that every few years,... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopAdapting to change is never easy, but you can shift how you respond to stress. When Luana Marques was growing up in Brazil, life was not easy. Her parents had her when they were very young, and they didn’t know how to take care of themselves, much less their children. Drugs and alcohol were also a problem. “Between the many instances of domestic violence, I often felt scared, wondering... Read more ›
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US Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) listen during a news conference calling for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the US Capitol building on November 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe party is fractured over President Joe Biden’s unequivocal support for Israel as it continues its military campaign in Gaza ahead of 2024. Democratic divisions over the war in Gaza have spilled... Read more ›
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