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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Fran Lebowitz | Brigitte LacombeAnd that you should probably wear shoes. Does anyone have it figured out as well as Fran Lebowitz? She spent the 1970s hanging out with Andy Warhol and writing two books that made her the toast of her generation (1978’s Metropolitan Life and 1981’s Social Studies). Then she claimed writer’s block, hung it all up, and declined to publish anymore. Now she’s in the amorphous career... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden joins Israel’s prime minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. | Miriam Alster/AFP via Getty ImagesBiden has avoided Middle East peacemaking. Now, it’s the only path forward. President Joe Biden’s quick visit on Wednesday to wartime Israel was designed as a show of support for the close US ally, one that inspired confidence in Israel as... Read more ›
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Smoke from a fire that broke out after a rocket attack from Gaza fills the streets of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on October 11, 2023. | Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesMisinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is easy to find online. Here’s how to avoid spreading it. After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,000 and taking at least 150 hostages,... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks briefly to reporters at the US Capitol on October 16, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBut he’s going to keep trying to flip GOP holdouts. Speaker Jim Jordan. The phrase would have long been unthinkable, even laughable, to most Republicans in the House of Representatives. But though he’s long been considered a firebrand, an attack dog, and even a “legislative terrorist” (per former Speaker John Boehner),... Read more ›
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Noah Kahan performing at the Austin City Limits festival in October 2023. | Tim Mosenfelder/FilmMagicYoung Vermonters are, for maybe the first time ever, at the precipice of culture. Two years ago, in a post bemoaning a certain style of Obama-era music made by men who used mustache wax and played the banjo, someone on Twitter wrote, “i like to call it stomp clap hey. that shit sucked lmao.” The Lumineers... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAI will play a major role in how children born today experience the world. It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse. My family is expecting our third child in just a few days. For my part, welcoming a new baby presents an occasion to reflect on the world that I’m bringing them into. I’ve never agreed with the perspective — worryingly common among some... Read more ›
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A herd of buffalo shares the plains of The Nature Conservancy’s Tall Grass Prairie Preserve with pump jacks on March 30, 2007, in Osage County, Oklahoma. The discovery of oil in the region in the late 1890s set the stage for one of the most horrific periods in American history: The Osage Murders. | Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesA century later, we still don’t know the full, stomach-churning extent... Read more ›
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Pete Gamlen for VoxWe finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it? If I gave you $5,000 right now and asked you to spend it in whatever way would help people the most, what would you do? That amount of money can buy 1,000 malaria-preventing bed nets that will, on average, end up saving one kid’s life. Or it can boost the... Read more ›
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Claire Merchlinsky for VoxLots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? Is the world facing a “polycrisis”? Is there even such a thing? First coined in the late 1990s, the term entered the zeitgeist earlier this year, when “polycrisis” became the neologism du jour at the most recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Its use evoked the world’s current tangled mess of problems — pandemic,... Read more ›
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Factory workers and UAW union members outside of a Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky on October 14, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesWhat “hot strike summer” celebrations miss. This is Joe Travers’s second time being on strike in four years. He walked out in 2019, when the United Auto Workers undertook a 40-day work stoppage against General Motors, where he’s worked since 2015. Now, the plant he works at in Wentzville,... Read more ›
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Medicine has historically been a high-stress profession, but the pandemic amplified that risk. | Getty Images/iStockphotoWhy doctors are so stressed out, depressed, and suicidal — and what can be done about it. Twice a week, Boston-area psychiatrist Elissa Ely volunteers at a US anonymous help line for physicians in crisis. The calls she takes are often from people in deep distress — physicians having panic attacks, abusing substances or alcohol,... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on October 17, 2023, enroute to Israel. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe stakes of Biden’s Mideast trip are enormous. Can he pull the region back from the brink? Biden’s team has gone to the Middle East. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Israel, Jordan, and much of the region in a marathon trip. Secretary of... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives for his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on October 17, 2023, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesWhy a gag order has been issued — and the penalties Trump could face if he violates it. Former President Donald Trump will now face certain restrictions on one of his signature pastimes: attacking his perceived... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is the first company to face an EU investigation under a new law designed to hold online platforms more accountable for harmful content. | Chesnot/Getty ImagesEurope’s probe into harmful content on X about the Israel-Hamas war tests a new law that could reshape the internet. It’s no mystery that after buying Twitter, now known as X, Elon Musk has taken steps to weaken the platform’s... Read more ›
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Street art graffiti on the Israeli separation West Bank wall in Bethlehem features a portrait of George Floyd, symbolizing the links between Black American and Palestinian activists. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesHow Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine. As violence and reprisals in Israel and Gaza have intensified since Hamas’s attack on October 7, reactions (or non-reactions) from Black Lives Matter and related groups in the... Read more ›
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Illegal and ghost guns are seen on display at New York Attorney General Letitia James’s offices in downtown Manhattan on March 15, 2023. | Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesWhy the Supreme Court just smacked down one of the judiciary’s worst GOP partisans. Late Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down a very brief order establishing that sellers of “ghost guns,” weapons that are... Read more ›
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Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at The Late Show With Stephen Colbert at the Ed Sullivan Theater on October 16, 2023, in New York City. | James Devaney/GC ImagesJada Pinkett Smith is talking about her marriage, and Americans are hearing what they want to. In a span of a week, many of us have learned more about Jada Pinkett Smith than we previously imagined knowing about the actor, producer, author, metal... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks briefly to reporters at the US Capitol on October 16, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe right has taken over the GOP, and Jim Jordan is the champion of the right. Speaker Jim Jordan. The phrase would have long been unthinkable, even laughable, to most Republicans in the House of Representatives. But it’s now on the verge of being a reality. Long considered a firebrand, an... Read more ›
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Puzzlewright PressAvailable now wherever you get your print media. In fall 2019, we launched our daily crossword puzzles on Vox, initially as an experiment. We wanted to see: Did our audience like solving crossword puzzles? Turns out, they absolutely did. Over the past few years, crossword puzzles quietly grew and became one of the most consistently popular pages on Vox.com. That’s why we’re really excited that, just over four years... Read more ›
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Rose Matafeo and Nikesh Patel as Jessie and Tom on Starstruck. | Mark Johnson/MaxIn its final episodes, the show becomes a case study in the pleasures and perils of the TV romantic comedy. The third and final season of Starstruck, Rose Matefeo’s fizzy HBO romcom, is different from the other two. It’s darker and sadder and messier. It has the only ending it could possibly have, and yet I found... Read more ›
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