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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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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Natalie Portman and Charles Melton in May December. | Courtesy of NetflixMay December isn’t camp. So what is it? In the opening moments of Todd Haynes’s May December, scandalous tabloid subject-turned-homemaker Gracie (Julianne Moore) opens a refrigerator, dramatically accompanied by a sudden piano sting and an ominous camera zoom. The twist? They might not have enough hot dogs for their upcoming cookout. If that strikes you as funny, you’re not... Read more ›
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) walks to the House Floor on Capitol Hill on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty ImagesFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins a growing number of lawmakers who are eyeing the exits. Wednesday, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became the latest lawmaker to announce his departure, adding to a wave of retirements and resignations... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023 in Wilmington, Delaware. | Mark Makela/GettyWhat prosecutors are alleging — and what it means for the larger political battle over the president’s son. Just six months ago, Hunter Biden had reason to think his legal woes would soon be over — and now, they’re more serious than ever.... Read more ›
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Relatives and colleagues of two Palestinian journalists, Hasouna Slim and Sari Mansoor, killed in an Israeli strike, mourn over their bodies during their funeral in Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 19, 2023. | Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty ImagesWith dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in “the Middle East’s only democracy.” The Gaza... Read more ›
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Fun-Land Farms, the farm in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, turns out to not be so fun for the chickens. | NetflixThe mixed messages kids get about meat — and how we should think about them. The 2000 children’s movie Chicken Run is one of the darker and more subversive films made for kids: The story follows a flock of lovable, though quite miserable, chickens who conspire to escape... Read more ›
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*whispering to date* That’s the boy and that’s the heron | GKIDSThere’s an elegiac sense of magic to Studio Ghibli’s latest film. The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from Studio Ghibli and its masterful director Hayao Miyazaki, was originally hailed as the 82-year-old artist’s final act of filmmaking. Given that a similar proclamation was made about 2013’s The Wind Rises, it doesn’t come as much of a shock... Read more ›
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Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. | Atsushi Nishijima via Searchlight PicturesStone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers. Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is famous for making strange and chilly movies: 2016’s eerie dramedy The Lobster; 2018’s The Favourite, a cynical comedy; movies about power games and humans hurting each other and brutal, unforgiving worlds, shot through with... Read more ›
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Cameo star George Santos. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe expelled rep used his time in Congress like a Real Housewife, and now he’s found his true calling making bank on Cameo. Despite facing 23 federal charges for a litany of crimes, including the kind that involve stealing — wire fraud, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft — people, including at least one sitting US Senator, cannot give former... Read more ›
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Parents gathered outside of the University of Nevada, where police confirmed multiple shooting victims and a suspected shooter is dead at the campus, on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. | Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. Three people were killed and another injured... Read more ›
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Charting America’s homeownership problem. Homeownership in the US is basically synonymous with the idea of the American Dream. Owning your own home, the story goes, confers both self-determination and security — instead of paying a landlord, you own a growing asset that will form the base of your wealth. Homeownership is ingrained in US society; the majority of American adults are homeowners. But somewhere along the line, something changed. Homeownership... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxYou can say no to the tipping tablet. That doesn’t mean you should. If you haven’t heard it or felt it yourself, people are angry about the state of tipping. Consumers have noticed that they’re being asked to tip more often and for higher amounts than before. They buy their morning coffee and the barista flips around a screen that nudges them to add on a little more, or... Read more ›
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A four-hour video released on YouTube this week attempted to make viewers care about plagiarism on the platform. | NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content. Copying has always been a part of internet culture. Sometimes it’s ethical, sometimes not. It’s almost always incentivized: Once social media began reshaping online life, copying became a go-to tactic for getting views.... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participates in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on December 6, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA Haley-Christie alliance emerged. But it’s a long way away from threatening Trump. Time is running out for the Republicans who want to stop Donald Trump. The Iowa caucuses are six weeks away, and the former... Read more ›
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Residents and civil defense teams conduct a search and rescue operation around the rubble of the building that collapsed following an Israeli attack on houses belonging to the Abu Hubeyze and Abu Ayesha families at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on December 6, 2023. | Doaa Albaz/Anadolu/Getty ImagesIncreasingly, civilians are running out of safe places to go. Following a seven-day ceasefire, Israel resumed its bombing campaign in... Read more ›
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IBM’s Quantum System Two. | IBM ResearchThe quantum computing industry has a road map to the future — but can it reach its destination? A couple of weeks ago, I navigated the holiday traffic from New York to the town of Yorktown Heights in suburban Westchester County, the location of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, to stand before perhaps the most advanced quantum computer in the world. The IBM... Read more ›
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Joudeh Hirbawi inspects a machine sewing iconic black-and-white keffiyehs at his small factory in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 17, 2011. | Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty ImagesThe iconic Palestinian scarf started out as a practical garment. It became an emblem of an aspiring nation. There’s a scene in Home Alone 2 that stood out to me when I was a kid. It’s the one where Kevin McCallister gets chased... Read more ›
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Lone warrior Mizu (Maya Erskine) faces off against a gang of assassins in Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai. | NetflixNetflix struggled for years to land a mainstream anime hit. Enter Blue Eye Samurai. The criteria for success on Netflix have always been slippery, particularly regarding the platform’s hit-and-miss efforts with anime. Yet in the month since its November 1 release, Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai has established itself as a bona fide... Read more ›
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In October, 92NY, one of New York’s best-known arts and culture spaces, drew fire after trying to postpone a visit from author Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen had signed an open letter criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. | Noam Galai/Getty ImagesArtists are protesting Israel’s offensive. The art and literary worlds are struggling to respond. Artists are pulling their work from the National Gallery of Art, which receives funding from Congress, in... Read more ›
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On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there. Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single,... Read more ›
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