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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After being paused in March 2020, student loan payments are back as of October 2023. | Getty Images / filoPeople aren’t only cutting streaming subscriptions and cooking at home — they’re dipping into 401(k)s and postponing retirement. This October, 28 million Americans are facing a monthly expense they haven’t seen in over three years: student loan payments. Three months after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student debt... Read more ›
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Travis Kelce. | Dustin Satloff/Getty ImagesWhat’s a tight end? And other burning questions about Taylor’s new fling. If you’re a football fan, you’ve probably heard more about Taylor Swift in the last two weeks than you have in your life to date. If you’re a Swiftie, you’ve probably heard more about tight ends, offensive linemen, and Kansas City than you ever dreamed you would. Arguably the two biggest monocultures left... Read more ›
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A group of Venezuelan migrants look for a path to cross the Rio Grande river along the border wall separating the US from Mexico on September 21, 2023 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. | Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBiden is skeptical that a border wall works. He’s still building a new one. The Biden administration has authorized the construction of a new section of border wall in Texas’s... Read more ›
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The UN authorized a multilateral intervention in Haiti to help train and support the island nation’s police, pictured here in April, in combatting gang-related violence. | Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe world is intervening in Haiti — again. Once again, the international community will intervene in Haiti, this time to stabilize the security situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs have terrorized civilians for the past two years. The... Read more ›
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More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers are on strike this week. | Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe US health care system doesn’t value hospital support staff who are essential to patient care. The relationship between the workforce that treats America’s patients and the health systems that employ them is fraying, and the more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers on strike this week are just the latest example. The... Read more ›
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A caged female breeding pig at a farm in Spain. | Jo-Anne McArthur/Lauren Veerslaat/We Animals MediaThe EU could backslide on its cage-free farming initiative and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance. Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution. In the summer of 2021, European Union policymakers promised to phase out cages for 300 million farmed pigs, egg-laying hens, rabbits, and other species, which Vox contributor... Read more ›
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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman speak during a press conference after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 2, 2023 in Philadelphia. | Mark Makela/Getty ImagesKatalin Karikó co-won a Nobel Prize this week for her groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines — but she had to fight against professional science to do it. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded on Monday to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, for... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThe baffling structure of rental car taxes and fees, explained. The experience of renting a car can give you some trust issues. You’re booking on some travel website, where you start at Price A. Then, by the time you get to the checkout, you’re at a higher Price B that wasn’t the one you saw prominently advertised — maybe it was in small letters, but you didn’t notice. When... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxCastor oil won’t dissolve cysts and tumors. Some creators on TikTok Shop are earning commissions by suggesting otherwise. For the past few weeks, TikTok creator Busy Belle has been telling her nearly 30,000 followers that castor oil, if applied to the belly button, can fight bacterial infections and dissolve tumors. She’s posted several videos to TikTok Shop, the platform’s new e-commerce tool, promoting Aliver Jamaican Black Castor Oil. One... Read more ›
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Jenna Lyons is not a Real Housewife. She is just on a show that is called Real Housewives. | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for NYFW: The ShowsThe former J.Crew president has no idea how to be on reality TV, and it’s fantastic reality TV. Jenna Lyons is the most reluctant Real Housewife that’s ever been on television. She doesn’t yell. She doesn’t dress in gaudy gowns. She doesn’t have a catchphrase.... 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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Protesters hold up cutouts of gerrymandered districts outside the Supreme Court. | Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs. On October 11, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to racially gerrymandered congressional maps in South Carolina that could tell us a lot about where the Court stands on voting rights. The lower court in this case, known... Read more ›
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Then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks through the Capitol on the eve of his ouster. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow McCarthy got into this mess, who’ll be speaker next, and more. House Republicans are in disarray after ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy in an unprecedented vote, scrambling to pick a replacement who can unify a caucus that has recently struggled to agree on key legislative priorities. The party’s more conservative... Read more ›
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An Amazon driver delivers some Prime packages. Amazon’s shipping service is one of several things the FTC says Amazon uses to squeeze sellers and raise prices for customers. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty ImagesWhy the FTC is going after your Prime subscription (and a few other things). The Big Tech antitrust reform movement has come for Amazon. On September 26, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued... Read more ›
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FTC chair Lina Khan gained widespread notoriety for criticizing how Amazon uses its power to harm competition and consumers. | Vox; Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move. The Federal Trade Commission thinks the Everything Store is an illegal monopoly, and it’s suing the company to stop it — which could mean breaking up the company. In its lawsuit filed... Read more ›
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Dune grossed $400 billion at the box office, despite being released during the pandemic. | Warner Bros.Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021. Would you like to watch Dune, the big, sweeping sci-fi epic, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya? If so, you can head over to Netflix, which started streaming the 2021 movie this week. Then again, if... 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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Justice Amy Coney Barrett (left) and Chief Justice John Roberts pause for photographs at the top of the steps of the west side of the Supreme Court following her investiture ceremony on October 1, 2021. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA SCOTUS case about disabled travelers is likely to end in a whimper. That’s probably the best possible outcome. Pretty much no one thinks that Deborah Laufer, the plaintiff in a civil... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift and the NFL, the ultimate capitalist crossover event. | Elsa/Getty ImagesEven Travis Kelce thinks it’s a bit much. Whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are a match made in heaven, Taylor Swift and the NFL certainly are, commercially speaking. As Swift makes appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games and rumors swirl that the pop star is dating the tight end, a marketing gold mine has sprung... Read more ›
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Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attends a House Republican Conference news conference on January 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe House voted to remove McCarthy as speaker. The search for a successor is on — and could drag on for days. Now that California Rep. Kevin McCarthy has been removed as speaker of the House, the search is on for... Read more ›
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