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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Pete Gamlen for VoxThree mind-bendy conversations about glass later, I see the sublime in my windowpanes. There’s a myth about glass you might have read about in high school: If you go to a church that’s hundreds of years old and look at the glass windows, you’ll find that the panes are thicker at the bottom of the frame than at the top. That’s because, according to lore, glass is... Read more ›
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Protests against the UK’s announced American XL bully dog ban. | Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhy the UK is banning the American XL bully. In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks. “These dogs are dangerous,”... Read more ›
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Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesWhy did so many people believe in SBF — and what should we think now? On October 3, the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried began at a federal court in New York City. SBF (as he’s more commonly known) is the disgraced founder of the crypto trading firm FTX. He was indicted last December by the FBI for defrauding customers to the tune of billions of dollars. Before... Read more ›
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon. | Paramount PicturesMartin Scorsese knows that who gets to tell the story matters as much the story that gets told. There are many ways to tell a story, especially one that really happened, and this fact has lately tugged at Martin Scorsese’s mind. In movies like The Irishman and The Wolf of Wall Street, he carefully remolds his protagonists’... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting before he was voted to be the party’s nominee for speaker of the House on Friday, October 13, 2023. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesSince Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was deposed as speaker on October 3, House Republicans have been in turmoil trying to elect his replacement. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and... Read more ›
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For decades, Israel has prioritized illegal settlement for Jewish Israelis in the West Bank. In the early hours of Saturday, October 7, Israelis living near the border with Gaza awoke to the sounds of Hamas fighters killing and kidnapping their neighbors. As the hours stretched on and they hid, terrified, their frantic text messages contained versions of this question: where is the army? To answer that question, we need to... Read more ›
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Evan Vucci/AP PhotoClean hydrogen can be a lot dirtier than it seems, especially when the fossil fuel industry gets involved. One of the biggest bets of the Biden administration is that clean hydrogen will help the United States reach its climate goals, revitalize domestic manufacturing, and bolster a shrinking fossil fuel workforce. That’s a lot riding on an industry that barely exists today. The term “clean hydrogen” can mean many... Read more ›
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American Fiction and Perfect Days are two standouts on the fall festival circuit. | Toronto International Film FestivalIt’s a great time to be at the movies. Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first, whether they’re... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxInside the package: A useful guide to what open enrollment is, how to navigate it, why it’s so difficult, and the history behind our health care system. It’s time for one of the most confusing, frustrating rituals of the year: health care open enrollment. Over the coming weeks and months, people across the country will consider many questions: Is it better to have a high premium and... Read more ›
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Donald Tusk, the leader of Civic Platform (PO) opposition alliance, attends an election convention in Katowice, Poland, on October 12, 2023. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe high stakes of Poland’s elections, explained. Editor’s note, October 16, 9 am ET: Poland’s opposition appears poised for victory after a record turnout in parliamentary elections, according to early exit polls. If the results hold, this could unseat the ruling Law and Justice... Read more ›
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Xinmei Liu for VoxThe brain implant company Neuralink is pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say. Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous. What is Neuralink for? In the short term, it’s for helping people with paralysis. But that’s not the whole answer. Launched... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxEvery year, picking a health plan is a frustrating guessing game. Here’s how to navigate your choices — and understand the system that built them. It’s time for one of the most confusing, frustrating rituals of the year: health care open enrollment. Over the coming weeks and months, people across the country will consider questions that we try to avoid the other 11 months of the year:... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxMore than half of seniors will sign up for a private version of Medicare this open enrollment. What happened? If you’re signing up for Medicare benefits this open enrollment, odds are you aren’t actually enrolling in the traditional government program that people may envision. More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are now choosing an alternative version of the program administered by private companies. Medicare, the paragon of... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxOnce a year, the absurdities of our health care system are laid bare for everyone to see. Open enrollment is a headache. Health insurance and FSAs can be a hassle. The American system for providing insurance benefits is as much an accident of history as the result of careful planning, and it is protected as much by inertia and special interests as by any evidence that it... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxChoosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help. It isn’t in your head: Selecting a health insurance plan in the US is notoriously difficult, regardless of whether you’re choosing a plan through your employer or you’re shopping on the health insurance marketplace. From needing to learn a variety of terms — HMO, PPO, deductible, premium, coinsurance — to familiarizing yourself with a... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxHow we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up. The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun. In the... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxThe most befuddling tax break in the US health care system, explained. Filling up a flexible spending account for health care can feel like a perverse game of The Price Is Right: Quick, guess how much money you’re going to spend on doctor’s visits, prescriptions, and unforeseen medical emergencies next year. Guess correctly, and you’ll save a little money. Overestimate, and you could lose it (or find... Read more ›
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Sebastian König for VoxNobody would build a health insurance scheme like America’s on purpose. In the coming weeks, the majority of Americans will engage in a bizarre, mildly terrifying, distinctly American seasonal ritual. I refer, of course, to open enrollment — the time when you sign up for your health insurance plan. If you’re covered by your employer, it’s time for confused emails and phone calls to your human resource... Read more ›
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Donald Tusk, the leader of Civic Platform (PO) opposition alliance, attends an election convention in Katowice, Poland, on October 12, 2023. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe high stakes of Poland’s elections, explained. Editor’s note, October 16, 11:00 am CET: Poland’s opposition appears poised for victory in parliamentary elections, according to early exit polls. If the results hold, this could unseat the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), which, in... Read more ›
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A Palestinian man and his children arrive at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on October 14, 2023. | Abed Rahim Khatib/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesThe legacy of past conflicts is holding up aid at the Gaza border with Egypt. Under conditions that the United Nations has already labeled a “humanitarian catastrophe,” hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled south in preparation for a potential major... Read more ›
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