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Courtney Tenz @ Vox 2 place · 02/19/2024 08:00 EDT

How to look at art — and really see it

You don’t have to be an expert to get a lot out of art. | Getty Images/fStopArt is for everyone. Here’s how to approach your next trip to a gallery or museum. “If you tried to reimagine your life without art ... it would look radically different,” says Karen K. Ho, a writer for ARTNews. “Art intersects with more things than people think.” It’s not just the van Goghs and... Read more ›

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Constance Grady @ Vox 2 place · 02/19/2024 07:30 EDT

Jon Stewart is as funny as ever. But the world has changed around him.

Jon Stewart hosting The Daily Show last time around, on August 6, 2015. | Brad Barket/Getty Images for Comedy CentralThe host’s return to The Daily Show is a coda to a golden age. Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has been, on the metrics, a success. According to Comedy Central, his first episode back on February 12 was watched by 1.85 million total viewers across premiere simulcasts and encores,... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox 2 place · 02/19/2024 07:00 EDT

The Supreme Court will decide whether to let civilians own automatic weapons

A bump stock device, at left, which fits on a semi-automatic rifle to allow it to fire much like a fully automatic rifle, is installed on an AK-47 at a Utah gun store in 2017. | George Frey/Getty ImagesGarland v. Cargill asks whether gun makers can evade the ban on machine guns with a device called a bump stock. On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a case that... Read more ›

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Aja Romano @ Vox 3 place · 02/18/2024 22:20 EDT

An attempt to reckon with True Detective: Night Country’s bonkers season finale

Kali Reis explores the ice in True Detective: Night Country. | Michele K. Short/HBOWhat True Detective’s fourth season gets wrong about True Detective. To be a True Detective fan is to wrestle with uncomfortable contradictions. The first season is both a masterpiece of cosmic horror noir and a piece of art that feels like it was created not just by, but for men. It was a gritty treatise against toxic... Read more ›

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Nicole Dieker @ Vox 2 place · 02/18/2024 08:00 EDT

I was laid off from a high-paying job. Is it ethical to apply for government aid?

Paige Vickers/VoxPlus, a suggestion for what to do if you come into a windfall. On the Money is a 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, which have... Read more ›

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Eric Levitz @ Vox 2 place · 02/18/2024 07:00 EDT

How NIMBYs are helping to turn the public against immigrants

If you don’t build housing, they’ll build the wall. | Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesIn this house, we believe that high rents fuel nativist backlashes. The United States needs more immigrants. But at the moment, it does not especially want them. The country’s fertility rate has fallen far below the replacement level. Absent immigration, our nation will grow older and smaller simultaneously. In that scenario, a... Read more ›

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Sean Illing @ Vox 1 place · 02/17/2024 08:00 EDT

Why we fear uncertainty — and why we shouldn’t

Jorm Sangsorn/Getty ImagesExpert knowledge is useful for problem-solving. So is adapting to new challenges. One of the things that human beings seem to fear is uncertainty. Most of us like to know things, and when we don’t know things, we get uncomfortable. And when we’re forced to face the unknown, our response is often to retreat into old ideas and routines. Why is that? What’s so unnerving about ambiguity? Maggie... Read more ›

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Kyndall Cunningham @ Vox 1 place · 02/17/2024 07:00 EDT

This Is Me… Now is the most J. Lo thing J. Lo’s ever done

Jennifer Lopez singing in the film This Is Me... Now: A Love Story. | Courtesy of Prime Video - © Prime VideoThe bonkers, star-studded musical-biopic-fantasia-mess proves Jennifer Lopez can do whatever she wants. Throughout her career but particularly over the last decade, Jennifer Lopez has earned the title of one of the busiest people in the entertainment industry. From performing at the Super Bowl halftime show to churning out rom-com... Read more ›

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Jessica Furseth @ Vox 2 place · 02/17/2024 06:00 EDT

How to handle the winter blues, no matter where you live

Chasing the light isn’t the only way to enjoy winter. Cecilia Blomdahl documents her life on Svalbard, a Norwegian island close to the North Pole. | Photo courtesy of Cecilia BlomdahlWhat seasonal affective disorder can tell us about ourselves. “I get emotionally down with the short days and feel like hibernating,” says Annabel Lagasse. So she gets on her bicycle and heads up the hill to London’s Hampstead Heath, where... Read more ›

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 02/16/2024 18:35 EDT

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death, explained

A vigil for Alexei Navalny in Krakow, Poland, on February 16, 2024. | Omar Marques/Anadolu/Getty ImagesNavalny’s death is the end of an era for Russia — and cements Putin’s grip on power. Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition figure and President Vladimir Putin’s most effective rival, has been reported dead. Russian state media — which is loathe to even say Navalny’s name — reported the death on Friday. Prison authorities... Read more ›

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Abdallah Fayyad @ Vox 1 place · 02/16/2024 15:50 EDT

Trump is suddenly in need of a lot of cash. That’s everyone’s problem.

Donald Trump attending his trial on fraud charges at the New York State Supreme Court on October 3, 2023. | Shannon Stapleton/AFP via Getty ImagesThe former president was just ordered to pay $355 million in his New York fraud case, bringing the tally this year to nearly half a billion dollars. Two recent verdicts have now left Donald Trump on the hook for nearly half a billion dollars. On Friday,... Read more ›

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Bryan Walsh @ Vox · 02/16/2024 09:00 EDT

Can California show the way forward on AI safety?

Moor Studio/Getty ImagesA new state bill aims to protect us from the most powerful and dangerous AI models. Last week, California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a landmark new piece of AI legislation aimed at “establishing clear, predictable, common-sense safety standards for developers of the largest and most powerful AI systems.” It’s a well-written, politically astute approach to regulating AI, narrowly focused on the companies building the biggest-scale... Read more ›

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Rebecca Jennings @ Vox · 02/16/2024 08:00 EDT

What’s behind the power of tiny eyeglasses?

Doja Cat at the 2024 Grammy Awards. | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicYou can find the hottest accessory of the season at CVS. It was all the way back in the spring of 2018 that Mindy Kaling tweeted, in response to the onslaught of hot fashion people wearing a certain kind of eyewear, “I think we will regret this tiny sunglasses look.” Anne Hathaway then immortalized the tweet by posting a screenshot and writing,... Read more ›

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Avishay Artsy @ Vox 3 place · 02/16/2024 07:15 EDT

The looming ground assault on the last “safe” zone in Gaza

Palestinian children are seen among tents as they struggle with strong winds, downpours, and floods while Israeli attacks continue in Rafah of Gaza on February 15, 2024. | Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty ImagesVoices from a besieged Rafah. More than four months into the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza residents are struggling to survive winter conditions with insufficient food, drinking water, medicine, and clothing. The majority of them have fled to Rafah, a... Read more ›

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Alex Abad-Santos @ Vox · 02/16/2024 07:00 EDT

Dakota Johnson’s aloof appeal, explained

Dakota Johnson as Cassandra “Cassie” Webb in Madame Web. | Sony PicturesThe star of Madame Web is a charming terror. To love Dakota Johnson is to understand that Dakota Johnson probably hates you for it a little bit. When she was in 50 Shades of Grey, all anyone could talk about was Johnson’s sheer lack of chemistry with (and perhaps even strong distaste for) handsome costar Jamie Dornan. For a... Read more ›

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Joshua Keating @ Vox · 02/16/2024 06:00 EDT

US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?

US military vehicles in Syria on August 13, 2023. | Omer Al Diri/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAdversaries keep chipping away at America’s military credibility. Trump isn’t helping. Does the US still have the power to deter its adversaries? When the US launched airstrikes earlier this month against the proxy militias linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in retaliation for the attack that killed three US soldiers at a base... Read more ›

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Ellen Ioanes @ Vox · 02/15/2024 19:20 EDT

Hospitals are supposed to be safe. Not in Gaza.

An Israeli tank is seen as Palestinians leave the area of Nasser Hospital on January 29, 2024. | Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty ImagesIsrael’s raid on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis might break international humanitarian law. The Israel Defense Forces raided Gaza’s largest still-operating hospital on Thursday in Khan Younis, a southern city that once sheltered over 100,000 displaced Palestinians but that has been under siege for weeks. The IDF... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox 3 place · 02/15/2024 17:15 EDT

How the Kansas City shooting proves the “good guy with a gun” idea is a fallacy

Law enforcement responds to a shooting at Union Station during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri.  | Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesThe Kansas City mayor captures the US’s singular problem with guns, in one quote. In remarks following a mass shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas made a pointed statement about how the tragedy was... Read more ›

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Vox Staff @ Vox · 02/15/2024 15:55 EDT

Vox podcasts tackle the Israel-Hamas war 

Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City on November 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace.... Read more ›

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Aja Romano @ Vox 3 place · 02/15/2024 12:15 EDT

Those evangelical Christian Super Bowl ads — and the backlash to them — explained 

An image from the polarizing “He Gets Us” ad campaign depicts an anti-abortion protester washing the feet of a pregnant clinic visitor. | Art by Julia Fullerton-Batten / via YouTubeWhy “He Gets Us” doesn’t get us. What would Jesus do? The answer is more debatable than you might expect, at least according to the highly polarized reactions to a controversial Super Bowl ad. The “He Gets Us” ad campaign, in... Read more ›

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