Chris Given, Direct File product lead at the IRS, shows a “fact map” of all taxpayer information the tax software has to know, during a presentation to journalists at the Treasury Department. | Dylan Matthews/VoxMeet Direct File, the federal government’s TurboTax alternative. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. It is oddly hard to file your income tax return in the US without working with a private company. Over 90... Read more ›
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The Chi-Lites (from left, David Doc Roberson, Robert Squirrel Lester, Marshall Thompson, and Eugene Record) perform “The Devil Is Doing His Work” on Soul Train in 1976. | Soul Train via Getty ImagesBlack creativity found a home on Soul Train — and made TV history. For 35 years, Soul Train was the beating heart of Black pop culture in America, considered appointment television for the millions of people who tuned... Read more ›
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Oatly oat milk at a grocery store in Chicago. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe unhelpful, distracting debate about whether oat milk is bad for you totally misses the point. Is oat milk good or bad for you? That’s the question a bunch of recent news headlines have asked. I really hate that question. Obviously, how the food we eat affects our health is very important. But most foods — including nondairy... Read more ›
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Trump speaks at a campaign rally. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTrump’s inevitable romp to victory in Nikki Haley’s home state reveals how strong his hold on the GOP is — and how dangerous he remains to democracy. Tonight, in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump defeated rival Nikki Haley in her home state. Ordinarily, this might feel like big news, as the Palmetto State tends to host... Read more ›
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What ever happened to a good old-fashioned snow day? | Getty Images/fStopVirtual learning means missing out on a different kind of education. We had many superstitions when I was a kid. Wear your pajamas inside out. Or wear your underwear on the outside of your PJs. Gargle a bit of saltwater right before bed. When you put your shoes away, make sure they’re backward; left shoe on the right-hand side,... Read more ›
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Trump speaks at a campaign rally. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTrump’s seemingly inevitable romp to victory in Nikki Haley’s home state reveals how strong his hold on the GOP is — and how dangerous he remains to democracy. Tonight, South Carolina will hold its Republican presidential primary, in which Donald Trump is all but certain to crush rival Nikki Haley in her home state. Ordinarily, this might feel like... Read more ›
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Nayib Bukele speaks at CPAC on February 22, 2024. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesJavier Milei, Nayib Bukele, and Donald Trump are all working out of the same populist playbook. Meet two of the hot speakers at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): Presidents Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Javier Milei of Argentina, two of Latin America’s most flamboyant right-wing populists. CPAC started in 1974 as... Read more ›
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Intuitive Machines employees cheer during a watch party moments after they became the first commercial company to softly land on the moon on February 22, 2024, in Houston. | Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle/Getty ImagesThe groundbreaking development speaks to the growing role of private companies in space. Houston, the US is officially back on the moon. On Thursday, an unmanned lunar spacecraft called Odysseus made the first US moon landing in 50... Read more ›
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu attends the funeral for First Sgt. Maj. Gal Meir Eisenkot in the Herzliya cemetery on December 8, 2023, in Herzliya, Israel. | Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesNetanyahu’s plan is wildly disconnected from US priorities — and reality. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled his most detailed plans yet for the future of Gaza. However, there is a problem: The plans are both wildly out of step... Read more ›
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Shane Gillis performs during the 17th Annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit at David Geffen Hall on November 6, 2023, in New York City. | Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bob Woodruff FoundationIt proves how effortlessly the comedy industry forgives racism. In 2016, three years before comedian Shane Gillis was hired and then immediately fired from Saturday Night Live, he told an interviewer that he was experimenting with his comedy to... Read more ›
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Biden addressing the nation’s governors on February 23, 2024. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt will be hard to convince the president that he isn’t the best of his party’s bad options. Joe Biden is very old. He was born closer to the Battle of Gettysburg than the 2024 election. He was an adult before the JFK assassination and a senator before the fall of Saigon. And it shows. The... Read more ›
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Carlo Giambarresi for VoxStimulants, hustle culture, and bodybuilding are shaping young men’s drift to the right. Users of Zyn, a brand of nicotine pouch that’s become a touchstone among right-wing commentators, extol its ability to free the mind, increase productivity, and even enhance sexual performance. “I use it every second I’m awake,” said Tucker Carlson on an episode of the Full Send comedy podcast in 2023. “Seconds before I fall... Read more ›
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A screenshot of a video generated by Sora, OpenAI’s generative video model. | Sora/OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanIf you want to know the future of OpenAI’s latest tool, take a look at Midjourney and DALL-E 2. Remember when AI art generators became widely available in 2022 and suddenly the internet was full of uncanny pictures that were very cool but didn’t look quite right on close inspection? Get ready for that... Read more ›
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The Mothers of Gynecology Monument Park located in Montgomery, Alabama. | Andi Rice/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe movement to treat embryos as full-fledged people is taking a victory lap. One week ago, Alabama’s Supreme Court issued a now (in)famous 131-page decision that invoked God to claim that frozen embryos count as “children” under state law. The unprecedented legal opinion, which came out of a tragic negligence case in which families... Read more ›
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Wendy Williams speaks onstage during her celebration of 10 years of The Wendy Williams Show at the Buckhead Theatre, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2018. | Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesWendy Williams’s rise, reputation, and absence from her talk show, explained. Centuries ago, those accused of gossip, primarily women, were locked into metal headpieces that restrained the mouth. Imagine what those medieval haters would think about Wendy Williams. The host first started rattling... Read more ›
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Usher featured in a February 2024 Skims men’s campaign. | Donna Trope/Courtesy of SkimsThe internet loves Kim Kardashian’s shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more. Before hitting the stage at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogue’s 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasn’t totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publication’s guest of honor. The styling is tasteful... Read more ›
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Getty Images“There’s nothing inherently wrong with Black people. There is something very, very wrong with the systems that we are forced to live under or within.” In December 2023, I had surgery to remove my fibroids. Fibroids are benign tumors that grow in the uterine wall. I’d had the growths for nearly a decade and, even though they were benign, they certainly added difficulty to my life. Heavy periods had... Read more ›
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A North Atlantic right whale, entangled in fishing rope, next to her newborn, on December 2, 2021, near Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via APTwo simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why aren’t we using them? The story of the North Atlantic right whale, an icon of the East Coast, should be one of hope — a tale of recovery. Humanity’s... Read more ›
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Gordon Cormier stars as Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender. | Robert Falconer/NetflixThe hugely anticipated remake delivers on the drama, charm, and spectacle of the original. Reader, you can relax: They nailed it. Halfway through the third episode of Netflix’s tremendously anticipated live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, we’re treated to a slickly choreographed fight through a town square between our title character, Aang (Gordon Cormier), and his self-declared... Read more ›
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Ukrainian soldiers in the outskirts of Avdiivka on February 14, 2024. | Vlada Liberova/Libkos/Getty ImagesWhat Ukraine’s biggest setback in months tells us about the future of the war. This week, Russian forces made their most significant breakthrough in nine months — but at a heavy cost. They took the small Eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, ending a brutal battle that has been raging since October. While undoubtedly a setback for... Read more ›
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