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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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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Palestinians injured during Israeli raids are treated at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesIsrael’s evacuation order is creating chaos in Gaza. A ground invasion will be worse. An airstrike on Friday hit a convoy of Palestinians, killing at least 12, including women and young children, as they tried to flee northern Gaza at the direction... Read more ›
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An abandoned mattress on a sidewalk in Marseille, France, on October 9. | Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it. On a brisk morning last month, the deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, stood in front of a French TV camera with a serious look on his face and said: “No one is safe.” He wasn’t talking about the threat of climate... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxOther people’s money decisions affect your own. Here’s how to talk boundaries. On the Money is a new monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your question on this form. Here, we answer two questions asked by Vox readers,... Read more ›
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Palestinians injured during Israeli raids at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023, in Gaza City, Gaza. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesIsrael’s evacuation order is creating chaos in Gaza. A ground invasion will be worse. An airstrike on Friday hit a convoy of Palestinians, killing at least 12, including women and young children, as they tried to flee northern Gaza at... Read more ›
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In Tehran, Iran, pro-government demonstrators rally against Israel, on October 13, 2023. | Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesIran likely won’t launch direct attacks against Israel, but the possibility of a regional conflagration is real. Speculation around Iran’s involvement in Hamas’s gruesome attack on Israel has been rampant over the past week — along with questions about whether the Islamic Republic or any of its regional proxies will get... 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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An artist draws the Palestinian flag on a wall on the southern Lebanese border with Israel near Fatima’s Gate on December 17, 2017. | Ali Dia/AFP via Getty ImagesProtests in the Middle East show the centrality of Palestine. Demonstrations of solidarity with Palestinians have broken out across the Arab world this week, as Israel reels from Hamas’s massive attack and Palestinians in Gaza come under bombardment. Moroccans, Jordanians, and Egyptians... 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. WARSAW, Poland — “We have been talking that these are the most important elections since 1989, which was the first partly free elections since the fall of communism,” Jakub Kocjan, a rule of law campaigner for Akcja... Read more ›
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California this week passed two laws that would force big businesses to report their contributions to climate change and the impacts of warming on their bottom lines. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesCalifornia wants to find out. If you order a company to reveal how much it pollutes, would it clean up its act? And if a business has to chalk out all the ways extreme weather and rising... Read more ›
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Candles are lit during a vigil at the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles following Hamas’s attack on Israel. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesAttitudes toward Israel were already changing. The unfolding violence is making it even more complicated. When the terror attacks unfolded this weekend in Israel, the first instinct of many Jewish Americans was to reach out to family and friends. Israel is a small country — you... Read more ›
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Then-US Vice President Joe Biden (left) sits with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before dinner at the prime minister’s residence on March 9, 2010, in Jerusalem, Israel. | Baz Ratner-Pool/Getty ImagesThe US has stood with Israel throughout history. What does it mean for the Gaza war? Despite political differences that at times strained relations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, the outbreak of war in... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to reporters as House Republicans hold a caucus meeting at the Longworth House Office Building on October 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesJordan got the GOP nomination. But he’s a long way from the support he needs on the House floor. If at first you don’t succeed, get the guy who succeeded to quit, and then try again. That’s how Rep. Jim... Read more ›
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow over parts of the Earth and blocking the face of the sun for observers in some locations. | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterHere’s why it’s happening — and how to watch. On Saturday, October 14, the moon will pass directly between the Earth and the sun, casting its shadow across Earth’s surface. Those in... Read more ›
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Salt Lake City, Utah, is a surprising success story for downtown recoveries. | Jim Urquhart/Washington PostSalt Lake City could be a model for downtown development — if it figures out how to address its environmental problems. For the past three years, the University of Toronto has published a graphic that encapsulates the grim state of America’s downtowns in a post-pandemic world. Its Downtown Recovery project ranks 51 US cities based... 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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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft now owns Activision Blizzard, after dodging roadblocks from several government agencies around the world. Editor’s note, October 13, 11:10 am ET: After finally winning approval from British regulators, Microsoft has closed its purchase of Activision Blizzard. It’s unclear how this will affect Xbox owners and other gamers, but the completion of the deal represents a major blow... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesA world with basic income is one of less poverty and higher taxes, not utopia or collapse. I’ve been following debates on guaranteed income for almost a decade, and one thing that’s stood out is that universal basic income (UBI), a regular cash payment to all citizens with no strings attached, is like a Rorschach test. Some people see UBI as a “capitalist road to communism” or a world... Read more ›
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Bita Honarvar/Vox; Getty ImagesThe CDC is getting close to recommending it to prevent STIs like chlamydia and syphilis. Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is now closer than ever to entering mainstream medicine. That tool is doxyPEP, an antibiotic that works like a morning-after pill — but instead of preventing pregnancy within hours of unprotected sex, it prevents STIs... Read more ›
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Carla Gugino as the Red Death in Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher. | Eike Schroter/NetflixI’m not convinced any of these people have ever behaved inappropriately with a corpse! What does it mean to adapt Poe for the modern age? Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, The Fall of the House of Usher, a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, certainly fits in many of the... Read more ›
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