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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A woman checks her cellphone as she waits in line to enter the US Supreme Court. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesA rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess. About a year ago, an especially right-wing panel of the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that Texas’s state government may effectively... Read more ›
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Paul Dano as Keith Gill a.k.a. Roaring Kitty, the de facto king of the GameStop traders. | Sony PicturesWait, were the short sellers right about GameStop? This is the type of simple story I’d love to be able to tell about GameStop: In early 2021, a ragtag group of everyday traders, led by a Massachusetts dad going by — depending on your social media platform — Roaring Kitty or DeepFuckingValue,... 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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The last time the government shut down, in 2018, the Statue of Liberty closed to visitors. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty ImagesIt doesn’t have to be like this. So it’s come to this: The US is facing another government shutdown. Unless the GOP-run House passes stopgap funding before Sunday, the federal government will stop paying millions of workers and military servicemembers. Some services, like parks, will stop entirely, while other federal... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoUniversity of Texas researchers, with help from Mark Cuban, find price transparency still has a long way to go. When Dr. Peter Cram, the University of Texas Medical Branch’s chair of internal medicine, heard billionaire Mark Cuban bemoaning how difficult it is to figure out the cost of routine medical services, he thought he had good news to share. Cram was listening to Cuban’s interview on Jon Stewart’s podcast,... Read more ›
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Young children play at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in Baltimore in 2021. | The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe “child care cliff” marks the end of one of the last pandemic-era safety nets. This weekend, parents and child care providers across the nation are bracing for the end of an instrumental federal program that has stabilized child care programs and reduced costs for families over the past... 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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She’s Barbie. He’s just Jaws. Summer 2023 was the summer of Barbie. Warner Bros. Barbie, towering over our lives in 2023.Everywhere you looked there was marketing — posters, ads, trailers. There were Barbie cafés, Barbie Progressive commercials, everyone was wearing pink! It was a delightful wave of cinematic energy. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Burger King Barbie Burger. And it was also completely overwhelming. At times it felt inescapable. Barbie’s marketing... Read more ›
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Protesters hold signs at the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on September 17, 2023. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images“Die-ins,” Krazy Glue, and gridlock: The climate movement is embracing civil disobedience. In the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a group of young climate activists get together to blow up a pipeline in Texas. The movie is fictional, but the book it’s adapted from... Read more ›
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A traffic barrier is seen in front of the dome of the US Capitol as a government shutdown looms in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US government will shut down at 12:01 am ET on Sunday, October 1, 2023, if Congress doesn’t pass a short-term bill to keep the government funded while negotiations on spending for the next year continue. The threat of... Read more ›
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An Armenian tank is displayed in an open-air museum in Azerbaijan called the War Trophy Park, where weapons and armored vehicles captured by the Azerbaijani army during the Second Karabakh War are exhibited. | Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency 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... 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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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer, on September 27, 2023, in Clinton Township, Michigan. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesTrump is exaggerating his union support. Donald Trump has long made it clear that he sees himself as not just the true voice of the working class, but also the rightful standard-bearer of the union vote. His rally Wednesday night in a Detroit, Michigan suburb... Read more ›
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Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino, on stage at the 2023 Code Conference. | Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox MediaLinda Yaccarino used to sell TV advertising. Selling Elon Musk is a whole different deal. Linda Yaccarino is angry. Not at Elon Musk, the man who hired her to be the CEO of Twitter, the company he subsequently renamed X. Yaccarino says he’s a brilliant leader who is turning his company into something... Read more ›
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The longest labor strike in Hollywood history is ending. | Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty ImagesHere’s what’s coming in the WGA’s new contract. Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strike has ended. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 — after 146 days of labor stoppage, the longest strike in Hollywood history by a long shot — the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents Hollywood’s... Read more ›
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“People have this passionate enthusiasm for outer space, which is totally understandable. But the ocean is equally if not more exciting.” | Zhihong Zhuo/Getty ImagesAnd the adventures scientists go on to better understand our enigmatic seas. The Earth is mainly a water world — more than 70 percent of its surface is covered by oceans — and yet we know so little about what resides beneath the waves. The ocean,... Read more ›
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The US power grid managed to survive its highest demand day ever. | Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDespite record power demand, the grid largely avoided blackouts. Don’t take this for granted. With little acknowledgment and no applause, the power grid across the continental United States this summer quietly pulled off what may have been its most impressive feat ever. On July 27, the US power grid served nearly 15 million... Read more ›
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Kris Connor/WireImageThe House is having its first impeachment hearing. What they don’t have is proof of their allegations. Whatever you may think about the impeachments of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, they were at least impeached for things they verifiably did. But Joe Biden may become the first president to be impeached entirely because of an unproven theory. Republicans, and allies of Donald Trump in particular, have spent five years... Read more ›
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Jessica Rosenworcel at a net neutrality rally in 2017. Rosenworcel is now the FCC chair and just moved to restore net neutrality. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt’s a lot more than Verizon treating all broadband traffic equally. Five years after net neutrality’s (temporary) demise, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to fulfill the Biden administration’s vision of re-implementing the Obama-era policy. That means the effort to reclassify broadband internet from... 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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