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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Renee Bach in fundraising materials for her NGO, Serving His Children, as seen in the new HBO documentary series Savior Complex. | HBOSavior Complex, The Mission, and the culture behind toxic missionary work. We aren’t born knowing who the heroes are. We’re taught to see them, instilled with desires to wear their cape, don their uniform, doff their 10-gallon hat, slip into their well-worn shoes. I don’t know who your... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAre we living through a uniquely brain-breaking era? Ask someone who went deep into the “mirror world.” One of the things I try to do on my podcast The Gray Area is sort through all the political and cultural confusion in our society. To say that our world is becoming deranged by our technologies and media ecosystem might be a little much, but I do think that we’ve scrambled... Read more ›
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What to worry about if you’re in the mood to worry about the economy. | Klaus Vedfelt via Getty ImagesThe economy’s “hold your breath moment,” explained Let’s get this out of the way: the economy is not in bad shape at the moment. The red hot labor market is cooling off a little, but it remains resilient. It’s the type of thing you’d want to see if the “soft landing”... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift in Travis Kelce’s private viewing suite at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 24, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | David Eulitt/Getty ImagesMiss Americana is a master of weaving her love life into her art. Taylor Swift is a master of weaving her public-facing love life, her star image, and her art together, and she’s in the middle of an incredible maneuver. Did you ever see a... Read more ›
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A man fills out a ballot at a voting booth on May 17, 2022 in Mount Gilead, North Carolina. | Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesThe GOP-dominated state legislature wants more power over the 2024 contest. Last week, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a striking new bill that could, under the right circumstances, empower them to weigh in on the state’s election result if the presidential race is contested in 2024. It’s a... Read more ›
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine Arslanian arrive for the State Dinner in honor of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2023. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesProsecutors claim the senator searched “How much is one kilo of gold worth?” on the internet. Will this indictment finally take Menendez down? Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted — again.... Read more ›
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Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesThe longest strike in Hollywood history may finally be coming to an end. After almost five months of labor stoppage, the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) announced that a tentative agreement had been reached. However, the deal does not include SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), whose writers... Read more ›
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The longest labor strike in Hollywood history may be ending. | Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty ImagesWhat to know about the WGA’s tentative deal to end the longest labor stoppage in the industry’s history. Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strikes may finally be coming to an end. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 — after 146 days of labor stoppage, the longest strike in... 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, as Azerbaijan launched an “anti-terror” strike... Read more ›
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Ariel Davis for VoxThe founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. The scientists want the AI to lie to them. That’s the goal of the project Evan Hubinger, a research scientist at Anthropic, is describing to members of the AI startup’s “alignment” team in a conference room at its downtown San Francisco offices. Alignment means ensuring that the AI systems made... Read more ›
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch (left) talks with Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court following his official investiture at the Supreme Court on June 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court hears a civil rights case straight out of a right-wing fever dream. Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits — many of which, according to a federal court... Read more ›
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After severe damage from Hurricane Maria, the Caribbean island of Dominica is building up an early warning system to protect residents from disasters. | Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThis tiny Caribbean country shows why early warnings are an essential climate change adaptation. WOTTEN WAVEN, Dominica — This lush, leafy village of 200 residents, known for its hot springs, is less than 6 miles from the shore, but when Hurricane Maria... Read more ›
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The longest labor strike in Hollywood history may be ending. | Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty ImagesWhat to know about the WGA’s tentative deal to end the longest labor stoppage in the industry’s history. Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strikes may finally be coming to an end. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 – after 146 days of labor stoppage, the longest strike in... Read more ›
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A training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule is seen during a drop test on August 30, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range in preparation for the retrieval of the actual capsule. | Keegan Barber/NASAThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived in Utah Sunday, carrying material from the dawn of the solar system. A capsule bearing soil from an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth landed in Utah... Read more ›
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Jess Hannigan for Vox“Exotic” cultivated meats claim to be harmless, but they could threaten actual endangered animals. What is the strangest meat you’ve eaten? For me, it’s reindeer. This was during a trip to Finland when I was 7. We’d gone to the Arctic Circle, where I hoped to meet Father Christmas. I remember being driven through dark forests on the back of a snowmobile to a firelit clearing where... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoSpeaking up for yourself in a medical setting is a skill. Here’s what to know. In his medical school classes at Washington State University, Joel Bervell was constantly reminded of health care disparities during lectures, like how Black and brown people were more likely to die of Covid-19 and how where you live can impact life expectancy. But he was never taught why these inequities exist in the first... Read more ›
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Trump on the campaign trail in Iowa. | Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhat a brilliant new book gets right — and wrong — about America’s democracy. In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew are forced to navigate a strait bounded by two equally dangerous obstacles: Scylla, a six-headed sea serpent, and Charybdis, an underwater horror that sucks down ships through a massive whirlpool. Judging Charybdis to be a greater... Read more ›
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Members of the BJP celebrate the new reservation bill in Patna, India. | Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times/Getty ImagesThe new law reserves a third of seats in Parliament and state assemblies for women, but could take years to implement. A bill requiring India’s parliament to set aside a third of its seats for women candidates passed the body’s upper house on Thursday, potentially paving the way for greater political participation for India’s... Read more ›
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Photo by Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe future of Armenia and Azerbaijan’s feud is uncertain — and could destabilize the region. A decades-long conflict in the Caucasus flared up this week, as Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched an “anti-terror” strike aimed at Nagorno-Karabakh — the semi-autonomous, majority-Armenian region within its internationally recognized borders. For the second time in three years, Azerbaijan’s government made decisive gains: the government of Nagorno-Karabakh has... Read more ›
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Google’s Bard is just one of several generative AI assistants these days. | Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesGoogle, Amazon, and Microsoft have a vision for generative AI. Will it work? We got a trio of generative AI announcements from three Big Tech companies this week. Google said on Tuesday that it is extending Bard to several of its apps, including Gmail and Docs. The next day, Amazon revealed that it... Read more ›
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