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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Getty ImagesFrom the politics of US health care to assistance for selecting a Medicare Advantage plan. Health care open enrollment is here and we’re here to help guide you through it. During this baffling annual ritual, Americans encounter our health care system’s most confounding questions. Why am I stuck with my employer’s health plan? Who thought flexible spending accounts were a good idea? Why do I have to make so... 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 and Hamas are involved in their worst outbreak of violence in decades, one... Read more ›
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Hezbollah supporters rally ahead of the 2022 elections, raising flags and a portrait of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. | AFP/Getty ImagesWhy would Hezbollah enter the fight against Israel? As Israel begins ground operations in Gaza, the potential for the conflict to expand regionally — including to Lebanon, the home of Israel’s longtime enemy Hezbollah — has heightened. In recent days, Israel has increasingly traded fire with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed... Read more ›
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-KY), in the Capitol Rotunda in 2022. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAre GOP leaders more aligned with Democrats than with the MAGA right? Mostly no — but sometimes yes. As Republican hardliners tossed Speaker Kevin McCarthy out of office and attempted to dictate his replacement, one word kept recurring in their complaints about... Read more ›
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Protestors in Melbourne, Australia, hold a banner promoting the boycott of Israel at rally on October 10. The nearly 20-year-old movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel, called BDS for short, has re-emerged this month after an attack violence by Hamas spurred retaliatory strikes by Israel. | Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesMcDonald’s and Starbucks are among the targets of the nonviolent, but controversial, global protest. An unprecedented attack on Israel by... Read more ›
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It’s time to redesign cities for climate change. From rising sea levels in Mumbai to unbearable heat in Houston, cities around the world are feeling the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, they don’t always have the right infrastructure to handle its impacts — which is one reason why cities are beginning to reimagine urban design. Dozens of urban areas are experimenting with “spongey” infrastructure as a potential solution. It goes... Read more ›
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A child receives a shot during the launch of the extension of the world’s first malaria vaccine (RTS, S) pilot program for children at risk of malaria at Kimogoi Dispensary in Gisambai, Kenya, on March 7, 2023. | Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty ImagesPowerful new vaccines — and challenge trials around new drugs — are taking the fight to one of the world’s biggest killers. Like many of you, I’ve been... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden confers with national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building October 11, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA viral essay by Biden’s foreign policy adviser shows why Israel is more of a liability to the US than anyone’s ready to admit. On September 29, at a festival put on by... Read more ›
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Palestinians seek refuge on the grounds of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) center in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. | Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ImagesIn Israel, calls to expel Palestinians have become increasingly mainstream. Many believe an expulsion like the 1948 Nakba is possible. Since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 1.4 million people have been displaced in Gaza following... Read more ›
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In this photo illustration, a notification from Twitter appears on tweet by former President Donald Trump that the social media platform says violated its policy on May 29, 2020. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe justices risk miring the entire federal judiciary in the content moderation wars. The Twitter Wars have arrived at the Supreme Court. On Halloween, the Supreme Court will hear the first two in a series of five cases... Read more ›
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An incoming Israeli military strike on buildings in Gaza City, as seen from the border area on October 23, 2023, near Sderot, Israel. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesThe US is warning about the difficulties of an invasion while preparing for a broader conflict. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops on Wednesday night carried out a raid in northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have evacuated and where Israel is likely... Read more ›
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Carlos Alvarez/Getty ImagesShe spent her life at the mercy of toxic media narratives. Her new memoir, The Woman In Me, clears the air. If there’s a true, final boss villain of Britney Spears’s long-awaited memoir, The Woman In Me, it isn’t her alcoholic and abusive father, who made millions off her conservatorship and at one point claimed “I’m Britney Spears now.” Nor is it Lou Taylor, the architect of that... Read more ›
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Jared Bartman for VoxElectric school buses are better for kids’ health. The propane industry has other ideas. Last year, the popular children’s magazine The Week Junior advertised a contest called “Be Like Jack” that would award $2,000 to the preteens or teens who submitted the winning ideas for an environmental project. A few dozen kids from around the country participated, submitting proposals meant to boost sustainability in their elementary or... Read more ›
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Factory workers and UAW members on a picket line outside of Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 14, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesThe UAW strike isn’t over, but it might be soon. Forty days after the United Auto Workers went on strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers, the union has reached a tentative agreement with one of the companies in question — Ford. It means deals with... Read more ›
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Hurricane Otis went from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day. | NOAAHurricane forecasts have improved, but Otis still surprised meteorologists with how rapidly it intensified. On the morning of October 24, Otis was a mere tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. Six hours later, the storm’s wind speed had nearly doubled and soon after it slammed into southwest Mexico... Read more ›
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Police search for the shooter in the Lewiston, Maine, killings, on October 25. | Robert F. Bukaty/APThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Lewiston shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. At least 18 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the northern state’s second-largest city. The shooter wasn’t immediately apprehended and appears to have opened... Read more ›
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A trio of large animatronic animals from Five Nights at Freddy’s | Universal/BlumhouseHow a collection of jump scares and killer animatronics shaped a decade of gaming culture. You might not think a story about a bunch of terrifying animatronic pizza joint robots who routinely kill children would make for a hot-ticket movie, but Five Nights at Freddy’s is finally getting a hotly anticipated theatrical release on October 27. The movie,... Read more ›
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A man views rifles for sale in Carpentersville, Illinois. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Lewiston shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. At least 16 people have been killed, and several dozen injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine — the northern state’s second largest city. The shooter wasn’t immediately apprehended, and appears to have opened... Read more ›
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) hands the gavel to newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) after the House of Representatives held an election in the US Capitol on October 25, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/GettyRight-wing hardliners ultimately triumphed by making Rep. Mike Johnson speaker. The winner of the game of House Speaker musical chairs is … Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), who won the job... Read more ›
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Hurricane Otis went from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day. | NOAAHurricane forecasts have improved, but Otis still surprised meteorologists with how rapidly it intensified. On Tuesday morning, Otis was a mere tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. Six hours later, the storm’s wind speed had nearly doubled, and hours later it slammed into southwest Mexico as a Category... Read more ›
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