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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Lauren Tamaki for VoxWhittaker, the CEO of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence. New technologies can help connect us, but too often they come at a steep price: our privacy. The cost of constant interconnection is the threat of unwanted surveillance. Meredith Whittaker knows that all too well. A little over a year ago, she became the president of Signal, which runs a messaging app with end-to-end... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks wants us to be better prepared for overlapping existential risks. The policy world in Washington, DC, is big on specialization. Either you’re a nukes person or a bioweapons person; a climate person or an AI person. All these people will, of course, concede that their area of specialization intersects deeply with others, that the future of pandemics, say, is... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxRitchie believes we can be the first generation to build a sustainable world. In many ways, 2023 has been a record-breaking year. Since January, the world experienced the hottest day on record, the continent of Africa faced its deadliest flood in over a century, and Canada withstood its most destructive wildfire season ever. This series of tragic headlines paints a dire picture. Yet, a wholly pessimistic view... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxDonti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis. When Priya Donti was asked to choose any superpower, she responded: “Maybe the ability to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into basalt.” Short of that, she’s working on turning a different kind of superhuman power into reality: using AI and machine learning to tackle climate change... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxA reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work. It’s hard enough to understand quantum computing, the potentially transformative next generation of computing. Unlike classical computers, which are powered by chips packed with billions of tiny transistors that process information in the binary form of a bit — either 0 or 1 — quantum computers... Read more ›
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Elon Musk laughs during an in-conversation event with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023, following the UK Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit. | Kirsty Wigglesworth/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesReed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary. Twitter (the company that Elon Musk insists upon calling “X”) appears to be hemorrhaging advertisers. And it’s responded to this lost revenue by suing... Read more ›
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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) walks back to his office after debate on the House floor on a resolution to expel him from Congress, at the US Capitol on November 1, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhy the scandal-plagued Congress member could get expelled from the House this time. This week, scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will likely face another House expulsion vote. He’s been here before. In May... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden greets Chinese leader Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI. The big news from the summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is definitely the pandas. Twenty years from now, if anyone learns about this meeting... Read more ›
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Your beloved Diet Coke is indeed pricier than it used to be. | George Frey/Getty ImagesThe economy, explained by Diet Coke, kind of. Graham Starfelt has always been a Diet Coke drinker. He describes it as a “family tradition” — he picked it up from his mom. He doesn’t drink coffee, so it’s his only source of caffeine. He figures it’s healthy enough, or at least his doctor has never... Read more ›
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Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, and their Scream 6 castmates attend the world premiere in March 2023. | Jamie McCarthy/WireImageMelissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her support of Palestine. Then Jenna Ortega left too. The revamped and ultra-successful Scream franchise may be dead. Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, actresses Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega reportedly left Scream 7 — one fired and one on her own accord. Spyglass, the... Read more ›
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How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is one of the most powerful political figures in the world. By initiating an unprecedented third term as China’s leader in October 2022, Xi has signaled that he may plan to remain in power for life — making him the first Chinese leader since... Read more ›
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President Ronald Reagan signs a 1982 law expanding the Voting Rights Act — back when Republicans still supported such things. | Getty ImagesAt the very moment the Supreme Court appears to be moderating on voting rights, GOP judges are going after America’s most important voting rights law. The Supreme Court, after a long period of hostility toward any claim brought under the federal Voting Rights Act, recently signaled that this... Read more ›
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Antsokia Woreda, a boy in Mekoy, Ethiopia, carries bednet packaging. Insecticidal bednets are one of the most cost-effective ways to save a human life. | Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty ImagesRegular giving, even in small amounts, can save lives. It’s Giving Tuesday, and it’s time for me to do what I do on Vox every Giving Tuesday: encourage people to give more money to effective charities. Over years of doing this,... Read more ›
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Staff members of the Red Cross transfer released hostages to the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 25, 2023. | Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via Getty ImagesMonday’s extension is good news for anyone concerned about the humanitarian situation, but the bigger questions about the future of the war remain. Israel and Hamas agreed Monday to extend a temporary ceasefire under which dozens of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners have... Read more ›
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Three Palestinian American college students — from left, Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani — were shot in Vermont this past weekend. | Institute for Middle East UnderstandingAuthorities are investigating whether the shooting was a potential hate crime. On Saturday, three college students of Palestinian descent were shot in Burlington, Vermont, an incident authorities are now investigating as a possible hate crime. The shooting took place as fears... 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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Christina Animashaun/VoxThese are 11 of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them. If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has started to make some progress on it, our global response is still extremely lacking. The trouble is, it can be genuinely hard to... Read more ›
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DeSantis and Newsom could do a live debate on Fox News later this fall. | Getty ImagesThe thirst for attention is real. In what appears to be a blatant attention grab by both politicians, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to debate one another on live television this week. Given the fact that the two aren’t actually competing head-to-head in an election, it’s a somewhat... Read more ›
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AFP via Getty ImagesThese countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion trying to get its citizens to have more children. In 2009, after decades of falling birth rates, it began offering six months of paid parental leave, reimbursed at 60 percent of a new parent’s salary — then recently increased that... Read more ›
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ShutterstockA SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could lead to chaos for the federal government’s finances. The Supreme Court will soon hear a lawsuit that seeks to kill a leading proposal to reduce wealth inequality in the United States, even before that proposal becomes reality. During her 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposed a 2 percent wealth tax on Americans worth over $50 million. The... Read more ›
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