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 woman washes clothes using the water from the valley on September 20, 2023, in Metche, Chad. Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese people have sought refuge across the border in Chad. | Abdulmonam Eassa/Getty ImagesWhile attention is rightly focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, millions elsewhere are suffering — and the world doesn’t seem to care. Back in May, Al Jazeera published a story about a Palestinian man named Adel... Read more ›
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Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist known for her work detecting photo manipulation in scientific publications, points out image duplications she found in a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS One, on June 15, 2021. | Amy Osborne/AFP via Getty ImagesElisabeth Bik has made a career of being a data vigilante. What should mainstream scientific journals learn from her? Elisabeth Bik did not start out her career as a... Read more ›
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Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in Pain Hustlers. | NetflixFrom Pain Hustlers to Dopesick to The Fall of the House of Usher, filmmakers are fascinated by the epidemic. But what are they saying? From its first moments, Pain Hustlers sets out to distinguish itself from the pack of recent series and movies about the opioid crisis with one simple declaration: This is the one that isn’t about the Sacklers. The... Read more ›
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Prices aren’t going up as fast as they were ... they’re also aren’t really moving downward. | OsakaWayne Studios via Getty ImagesWhat goes up may not come down. Like, ever. Life in 2023 means being in a constant state of sticker shock. You walk out of the grocery store feeling like you’re not really sure what happened, but somehow, your normal fare ran you $50 more than you swear it... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden (right) and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear participate in a briefing on response efforts to the flooding at Marie Roberts Elementary School, in Lost Creek, Kentucky on August 8, 2022. | Jim Watson/AFP via GettyDemocrats had a good night. So did abortion rights. Glenn Youngkin, not so much. The 2023 general election on Tuesday, November 7, featured only a grab-bag group of contests, but there was one... Read more ›
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Incumbent Democratic governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear speaks to a crowd on his last campaign stop before the election on November 6, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesAndy Beshear offers Democrats some lessons for how to win in Trump country. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has just won reelection in Kentucky, beating his opponent, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, in a state that voted for former President Donald Trump by... Read more ›
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Campaign signs outside a polling location in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 7, 2023. | Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesVoters in several states will head to the polls in Tuesday’s off-year general election that will determine abortion access in Ohio, the next governor in two states, and whether Republicans in Virginia will gain full control of their state legislature. In Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is fending off a Republican... Read more ›
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Activists rally outside the US Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in the United States v. Rahimi Second Amendment case in Washington on November 7, 2023. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesReason and basic human decency seemed to prevail at the Supreme Court’s big argument about whether domestic abusers should be armed. About 40 minutes into Tuesday’s Supreme Court argument asking whether a federal law prohibiting... Read more ›
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A French police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris, on October 11, 2023. | Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty ImagesAntisemitic incidents are on the rise in France, Germany, and the UK. In Lyon, France, this weekend, a Jewish woman was stabbed in her home. The authorities said they found a swastika painted on her door. In Berlin last month, assailants threw... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit at the White House in November 2021. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesRare arms control talks come ahead of an anticipated summit this month between Biden and Xi. On Monday, the United States and China talked nukes — a rare bit of engagement that offers a teeny, tiny glimmer of optimism amid tensions between the two powers.... Read more ›
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A Students for Life Action volunteer canvasses a neighborhood in the Republican primary election for the Virginia House of Delegates in June 2023. Abortion is a major issue in Virginia’s state legislative elections this year. | Bastien Inzaurralde/AFP via Getty ImagesVoters in Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky will shape reproductive health care in their states — and provide a preview of 2024. Few states have major elections today. But in those... Read more ›
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And why brutalism dominates US college campuses. When you look at college campuses across the US, you’ll see massive concrete buildings everywhere. Many of these are designed in a style of architecture called “brutalism,” and it’s as divisive as it is distinctive. Brutalist buildings strive for honesty and transparency in their form and materials. This often means using simple materials like raw untreated concrete as well as using bold geometry.... Read more ›
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Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone in The Curse. | Beth Garrabrant/A24/Paramount+ with SHOWTIMEWhat to know about the new collaboration between Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone. Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to be solved instead of a story to be savored. But sometimes a close reading is... Read more ›
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A wounded girl waits for treatment at al-Shifa hospital on November 5, 2023. | Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty ImagesMultiple hospitals have closed due to airstrikes and lack of fuel. Others are struggling to stay open. As Israel steps up its air raids and ground assault in its ongoing war against Hamas, the medical situation in Gaza is growing more and more dire, with the north’s major remaining hospitals warning they’ll soon run... Read more ›
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A guest looks at a rifle at the Palmetto State Armory booth during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on April 16, 2023. | Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDemocrats need to be smarter while the GOP controls the Supreme Court. Every now and then, the Supreme Court takes up a case involving a public official who acted so foolishly —... Read more ›
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Supporters of Hezbollah wave flags as they watch a televised speech by its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2023. | Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty ImagesHezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas but haven’t opened new fronts. In his first public statement about Israel’s war with Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday indicated that the Shia militant group — though supportive of Hamas’s bloody October... Read more ›
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Actor Lily Gladstone and director Martin Scorsese on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon. | AppleTV+For Indigenous people, there are few simple feelings about Scorsese’s take on the Reign of Terror. Growing up, Welana Queton never talked about the Reign of Terror with outsiders. As a young girl, Queton learned about the protracted murder spree which saw the deaths of more than 60 Osage Natives between 1918 and... Read more ›
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Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWorldwide protests denounced Israel’s strikes on Gaza, which hit refugee camps and ambulances The Israel Defense Forces have attacked multiple civilian targets in the last week — including refugee camps and an ambulance convoy — killing more than 200 Palestinians, according to government sources in Gaza, as Israel prosecutes its war against Hamas. The IDF targeted the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, which has... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopMore American adults than ever say they likely won’t have kids, although we’re still a minority. I’m what researchers call an “early decider” when it comes to kids: I’m one of the lucky ones who has always known I don’t want them. The sound of a baby crying makes my muscles tense, and whenever someone passes me their toddler, I hold them out in front of me with rigid... Read more ›
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Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war call for a ceasefire in Gaza. | Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesA First Amendment lawyer argues the university’s role in a crisis should be shutting up. The Israel-Hamas war has brought the long-simmering debates over free speech on college campuses to a boiling point. If school leaders released statements, they were criticized — for not denouncing Hamas and antisemitism or for ignoring the Palestinian... Read more ›
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