President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a meeting of the Reproductive Health Task Force at the White House on January 22, 2024. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesVoters who skipped the midterms are different. It’s no secret that Democrats are leaning hard into running on abortion rights for the 2024 cycle. Joe Biden has promised to bring back “the protections of Roe v. Wade in every state” and Congressional Democrats say abortion... Read more ›
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Getty Images/Westend61At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness? Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s ChatGPT will assure you that it’s not. “No, I’m not conscious,” it told me when I most recently posed the question. “I don’t have thoughts, feelings, or awareness. I can simulate conversations based on the... Read more ›
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National Transportation Safety Board Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | Getty ImagesFlying is still extremely safe. But Boeing’s safety issues are real. Another week, another series of bad news stories for Boeing. On Monday, 50 people were injured (none were killed) when a 787 “dropped abruptly” midflight from Sydney to Auckland. That... Read more ›
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Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty ImagesFewer kids are dying than ever before — but a lot of work remains. Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United Nations. The worldwide mortality rate for kids younger than 5 years old was slashed in half in 2022 compared to the turn of... Read more ›
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty ImagesAn exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New York... Read more ›
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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton hold a 2017 sheet of $1 dollar notes bearing Mnuchin’s name for a photograph at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC, in 2017. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFormer Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell. The Senate is... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. | GPO/Handout/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe US has ways to exert leverage. They all come with risks. Since the war in Gaza began in October, the Biden administration has mostly pursued what’s been called a “bear hug” strategy when it comes to Israel, avoiding public criticism and upholding... Read more ›
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People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.... Read more ›
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Supporters of the TikTok app demonstrate outside of the US Capitol before the House of Representatives votes to pass the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” that could ban TikTok in the US, on March 13. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe app skews younger, its users appear more politically polarized, and its user base is changing. The odds of a ban on TikTok becoming a... Read more ›
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And how does it even work? There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97 percent of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit... Read more ›
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Brian Scagnelli for VoxCurse words shift a lot over time. They’re in the middle of a big shift right now. One may as well begin with all the “cunts.” Over the past few years, my social media feeds have gradually filled up with people (largely American cis white women in their 30s) congratulating themselves on “serving cunt.” Cunty little librarian glasses are all the rage. “Can a historian tell me... Read more ›
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Justin Timberlake attending the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 10, 2024. | Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesA new kind of masculinity is dominating music — leaving little room for yesterday’s pop idol. In the year 2024, the name Justin Timberlake comes with a lot of baggage. His Super Bowl halftime show performance six years ago — which coincided with the release of his last album, Man of the Woods —... Read more ›
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From left to right, Princess Catherine; Prince William; Prince Harry; and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, greet well-wishers outside Windsor Castle on September 10, 2022, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. | Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty ImagesKategate, briefly explained. Have you heard the news? Princess Catherine of Wales, formerly Kate Middleton, seems to be missing. Kate hasn’t been seen in public since several weeks before she reportedly underwent abdominal... Read more ›
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A brain coral off the coast of Cambodia releases bundles of sperm and eggs during a rare spawning event. | Matt Glue/Fauna & FloraScientists recently observed a rare phenomenon on a reef in Cambodia that left them in awe — and filled them with hope. Once a year, after dark, a bit of magic happens in the ocean. In tropical waters worldwide, large chunks of coral — those colorful rocklike... Read more ›
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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe US House passed a bill that could ban the social video app, but sending TikTok into the ether won’t make social media any safer TikTok, like any place on the internet where a ton of people are watching and sharing and competing for attention, is best understood in terms of both/and. TikTok is both a vital platform for community building and plagued by... Read more ›
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A health worker sprays insecticide against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to combat the spread of dengue in Brazil. | Andressa Anholete/Getty ImagesDengue is erupting in South America — and has even found its way to the US. Dengue (pronounced DEN-gay), a mosquito-borne illness that has circulated to a limited degree for centuries, is now spreading with unprecedented speed around the world. It’s a worrying example of how a changing climate... Read more ›
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In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | NTSB/Getty ImagesA door plug falling mid-flight has renewed scrutiny of air travel and of Boeing’s planes. On January 5, the door plug of a commercial Boeing 737 Max 9 came off as the plane was climbing, opening a large... Read more ›
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People gather outside the Stonewall Inn on February 26, 2024, in New York City for a memorial and vigil for Nex Benedict, the Oklahoma teenager who died following a fight in a high school bathroom. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA trans teen is dead. The state he lived in made his life as hard as possible. Editor’s note, March 13, 5:30 pm: On March 13, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office released... Read more ›
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The Atlantic Ocean helps regulate global climate. Could we push it toward a catastrophic failure? | Mike Hill/Getty ImagesThe climate change scenario that could chill parts of the world, explained. Of all the potential consequences of global warming, one of the most unexpected is that temperatures in some parts of the world could plummet. A recent paper in Science Advances outlined a scenario where, given enough ice melting into the... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIs measles making a US comeback? Here’s what you need to know. So far this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 45 measles cases from 17 jurisdictions. That’s a lot compared with 2023, when 58 cases were reported over the entire calendar year. It’s been nearly 25 years since measles was officially eliminated in the US. The declaration meant the infection hadn’t been transmitted... Read more ›
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