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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Three justices attend an event at the Trump White House. | Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe justices appear to have no idea when they should get involved with online disputes between government officials and their constituents. A pair of Supreme Court cases asking what limits the First Amendment places on government officials who use social media seemed to perplex the justices on Tuesday. The arguments in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and... Read more ›
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Families and friends of hostages cry and embrace while visiting the Lights of Hope installation featuring photos of the hostages on October 30, 2023, in Jerusalem, Israel. | Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesMore than 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas. Here’s what we know. Pressure is mounting on the Israeli government to find a way to retrieve over 200 hostages currently held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as the... Read more ›
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The Warren’s case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe. There are franchises, and then there are shared universes. Movies like Halloween, Scream, and The Exorcist are all successful horror franchises. For the most part, they follow one continuous story. Their sequels, re-quels, and reboots all tend to center around the same villain we’ve known since the beginning. But The Conjuring is different. Every new film pulls on... Read more ›
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President Biden hands his pen to Vice President Harris after signing the Artificial Intelligence Safety, Security, and Trust executive order on October 30, 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNow comes the hard part: Congress. Since the widespread release of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, there’s been an increasingly loud call to regulate them, given how powerful, transformative, and potentially dangerous the technology can be. President Joe Biden’s long-promised Executive Order on... Read more ›
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Community members attend a vigil at the Prairie Activity and Rec Center for 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadea al-Fayoume on October 17, 2023, in Plainfield, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThere’s a surge in reports of assaults, vandalism, harassment, and intimidation. Deadly violence in the Middle East is spurring attacks and heightening fear in Muslim, Jewish, and Arab (especially Palestinian) communities across the United States. In Illinois, about a week after Hamas... Read more ›
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Fayyad named policy correspondent; Just joins as editorial director of audio. Today, Vox announced that Pulitzer Prize finalist Abdallah Fayyad is joining Vox as a correspondent on the policy team, and Jorge Just will join Vox as editorial director of audio. In his new role, Fayyad will examine the impact of domestic and social policies past, present, and future, including reporting on poverty, housing, criminal justice, and questions of democracy.... Read more ›
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March 2023. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesIsraelis aren’t rallying around their prime minister. They’re rallying against him. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble. As in, facing a non-zero risk of losing his job trouble. And this political drama could have a profound effect on Israel’s approach to the conflict with Palestine. Netanyahu’s poll numbers since the October 7 Hamas massacre have been grim:... Read more ›
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Ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren may not have been the wholesome religious examples of pop culture fame. | Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Media via Getty ImagesThe onscreen version of exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren is a far cry from their real-life counterparts. The reputation of cute cuddly exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren has grown outsized in 21st-century pop culture. That’s mainly thanks to the juggernaut Conjuring franchise, loosely based on their... Read more ›
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A Tesla charging station in Skei, Norway. The country has the world’s highest rate of electric car adoption. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesElectric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options. OSLO, Norway — With motor vehicles generating nearly a 10th of global CO2 emissions, governments and environmentalists around the world are scrambling to mitigate the damage. In wealthy countries,... Read more ›
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Community members attend a vigil at the Prairie Activity and Rec Center for 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadea al-Fayoume on October 17, 2023, in Plainfield, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThere’s a surge in reports of assaults, vandalism, harassment, and intimidation. Deadly violence in the Middle East is spurring attacks and heightening fear in Muslim, Jewish, and Arab (especially Palestinian) communities across the United States. In Illinois, about a week after Hamas... Read more ›
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai leaves the court after testifying in his company’s defense on October 30, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhich search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide. The first big trial of the modern Big Tech antitrust movement is here: On September 12, the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google’s search engine monopoly began. What’s at stake? Oh, nothing much —... Read more ›
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General Motors workers show President Joe Biden an electric vehicle assembly line. | Magdel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesThe auto industry strike is one facet of the mounting tension between the energy transition and workers who could lose their jobs. Auto unions and US carmakers recently smoothed over a huge pothole on the road to electric vehicles, but workers are facing much bigger ruts ahead on the route to clean energy.... Read more ›
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Vox; Associated Press; Getty ImagesThe GOP field is growing slightly less crowded as Trump maintains his dominance. Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped more than a dozen candidates from staying in the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can dethrone him — or at least vie for a position in a potential second Trump administration. The former president,... Read more ›
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A marcher holds a sign that says, “Not My Dictator” with a picture of Donald Trump in front of Trump International Tower on January 18, 2020. | Ira L. Black/Corbis via GettyCould this save democracy from a dangerous threat? Or would it imperil democracy further? Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024? Some of the country’s most prominent legal experts, and a small number of activists... Read more ›
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Walter Hickey’s new book You Are What You Watch explores how entertainment shapes the world we live in. | Hachette Book GroupEntertainment isn’t frivolous. Walter Hickey’s new book You Are What You Watch explains why. I’ve been writing about movies for a long time, but even I find myself with a lot of questions that go unanswered. Why do my palms get sweaty when I watch a horror film, even... Read more ›
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Israel accompanied its ground incursion of the Gaza Strip with increased bombardment, the result of which is seen here in an image taken from Israel’s southern city of Sderot. | Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty ImagesThe “new phase” of Israel’s war on Hamas, explained. Israel has begun a prolonged ground operation in northern Gaza, accompanied by aerial bombardments throughout the territory and a communications blackout that lasted almost two... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the conflict between Israel and Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 19, 2023. | Photo by JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesWhile the Israeli military is carrying out this attack, much of the world views Israel’s assault on Gaza as enabled by the United States. Even before Israel began its... Read more ›
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Newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), left, speaks with Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesNew House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a long to-do list and a caucus with short patience for compromise. On Wednesday, Congress finally reopened. After more than three weeks without a speaker, the elevation of the previously obscure Mike Johnson of Louisiana to lead the House was a signal... Read more ›
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Israel declared war on Hamas, one day after the Palestinian militant group conducted a brutal attack. Israel has already launched what it describes as one of its largest aerial bombardments ever on the Gaza Strip. | Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWhat will “full” war between Israel and Hamas mean? And 6 other questions about the conflict. Israel has launched what appears to be a growing ground invasion of Gaza, after... Read more ›
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Shadowbanning dates back to the early days of the internet. | Vox; MirageC/Getty ImagesShadowbanning and the Israel-Hamas war, explained. “Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get picked up by AI-powered filters. People might refer to dead as “unalive,” or sex as “seggs,” or porn as “corn” (or simply the corn emoji). There’s... Read more ›
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