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 Images/iStockphotoSocial media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate. Oversharing in conversation is nothing new. Throughout thousands of years of social interaction, people have divulged certain secrets, vulnerabilities, and desires to perhaps the wrong listener, with results ranging from mild embarrassment to shattered reputations. Thanks to social media, the ability to make these confessions to a potentially much wider audience is easier than ever. What... Read more ›
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A demonstrator kicks a tear gas shell during clashes with the police outside the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, on June 26, 2013. | Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty ImagesJournalist Vincent Bevins grapples with failed revolutions from Egypt to Brazil to Hong Kong. When a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in protest of the Tunisian government in 2010, he inspired a revolution in his country and ultimately a cascade of... Read more ›
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Kevin McCarthy teamed with Democrats to keep the government open. Will he keep his job? | Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesKevin McCarthy faced either a shutdown or a right-wing push to kick him out of his job. He chose the latter. With only hours to spare, Congress on Saturday narrowly avoided a government shutdown. The Senate approved a bill to keep the government open for the next 45 days by... Read more ›
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New Yorkers attempt to clear storm drains in Brooklyn on September 29 | Michael M. Santiago / Getty ImagesThe flooding on September 29 was bad. The future will be, too. Apocalyptic flooding brought New York City to a standstill Friday, with subway service suspended and murky rainwater seeping into buses attempting to navigate the city’s flooded roads. The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, did not directly address the public till nearly... Read more ›
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Niv Bavarsky for VoxThe world banned chemical weapons in 1997. Here’s why it took so long for the US to eliminate its arsenal. The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents... Read more ›
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These two guys probably said something about their friend during brunch. And that’s normal! | Getty Images/iStockphotoCan all the TikTok tattletales please calm down? When I asked Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan — the hosts of the I’ve Had It, a podcast about best friends who complain — if they’ve ever complained about each other, they said, with 100 percent certainty and almost in unison, that they absolutely did.... Read more ›
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Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop“Get outside more” seems like simple advice. The reality can be much more complicated. Like a lot of people who sheltered in place in the early days of the pandemic, I dreamt of moving out of the city and closer to nature. So when lockdown orders finally lifted in the European city I had called home for nearly two decades, I headed for the mountains. I chose my... Read more ›
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Access to the Charlton Flat campground is blocked by a locked gate in the Angeles National Forest on October 2, 2013 in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles, California, during a partial government shutdown that year. | David McNew/Getty ImagesWhat is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown. The US government sure looks like it’s on track for another shutdown. Currently, the House of Representatives has... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in the House Chamber after Gaetz for a fourth time held up McCarthy’s election as speaker, on January 6, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA rundown on the factions involved in the disarray. This month, due to House Republican in-fighting, the US government is on the verge of a shutdown yet again. It’s clear Congress doesn’t have time... Read more ›
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Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty ImagesThe latest struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, will ripple throughout the region. A decades-long conflict in the Caucasus flared up last week — only to seemingly finally be decided. Azerbaijan on September 19 launched an “anti-terror” strike aimed at Nagorno-Karabakh, the semi-autonomous, majority-Armenian region within its internationally recognized borders. One day later, the breakaway government agreed to disarm and dissolv Read more ›
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A first edition of Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith’s book The Wealth Of Nations is displayed at the Dutch House of Representatives library in the Hague on May 31, 2018. | Bart Maat/AFP via Getty ImagesToday, Explained looks at how Americans lost faith in capitalism — and whether we can get it back. My interest in capitalism began with an observation. I worked as an economics reporter for six... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a May Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFeinstein died as a new generation of leadership was preparing to take power in California. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the US Senate and a vocal advocate for gun control measures, died Thursday night. She was 90. Her death brings to an end a messy, long-running chapter of national politics centered on... Read more ›
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A biker attempts to navigate New York City’s flooded streets in September 2023. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesClimate change is contributing to heavier precipitation, a major factor in flooding. Parts of the United States’s eastern seaboard have been hit with massive floods this year, a phenomenon that’s expected to grow more common — and worse — as climate change warms the planet. “It’s worse than a new normal. I call... 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 ban 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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Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the Carolina Panthers football team. | Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesMichael Oher says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him. The 2009 film The Blind Side tells the story of a white family on a heartfelt mission: to... Read more ›
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Soul City was meant to be a Black-led utopia. In the 1960s, Floyd B. McKissick, a prolific civil rights activist, embarked on an ambitious idea: What if Black Americans could build and lead their own city? A place centered on the idea of racial equality and economic power, where everyone, especially people of color and the poor, could thrive? That idea turned into Soul City, North Carolina: the Black-led capitalist... Read more ›
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A pharmacy manager shows off a package of Pfizer Paxlovid pills in January 2022. | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesUS providers are underusing the drug — and not just in high-risk people. A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine got Covid-19. She was scheduled to board a cross-country flight the following week, with important meetings in two cities on her schedule. She really wanted to make... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a May Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFeinstein died as she was preparing to pass the torch to a new generation of leadership. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the US Senate and a vocal advocate for gun control measures, died Thursday night. She was 90. Her death brings to an end a messy, long-running chapter of national politics centered... Read more ›
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Access to the Charlton Flat campground is blocked by a locked gate in the Angeles National Forest on October 2, 2013 in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles, California, during a partial government shutdown that year. | David McNew/Getty ImagesWhat is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown. The US government sure looks like it’s on track for another shutdown. Currently, the House of Representatives has... Read more ›
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Caleb Luke Lin for VoxHungry for money, hackers in Vietnam have hacked into thousands of Meta accounts. Jessica Sems was on Facebook at 2 am when hackers struck in a series of attacks. First, she was locked out. Then, her account data — photos, posts, even her name — were all gone. Within a few minutes, the entire profile looked like it belonged to celebrity portrait photographer Jerry Avenaim. Feeling... Read more ›
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