Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University on January 10, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe battle onstage was something of a draw. But one candidate needed to do better than that. If you somehow avoided watching the Ron DeSantis-Nikki Haley debate Wednesday night, you missed an... Read more ›
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Vox; Associated Press; Getty ImagesThe GOP field is thinning as Trump maintains his dominance. Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other candidates from staying in the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can somehow dethrone him. The former president, who announced his candidacy in November, has been increasingly dominant in polling. His closest competitors, Florida Gov. Ron... Read more ›
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Selena Gomez tells her famous friend Taylor Swift a secret that might or might not involve Kylie Jenner forbidding her to take a pic with her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet! | Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty ImagesThe Selena Gomez-Timothée Chalamet-Kylie Jenner no-picture kerfuffle, explained. The open secret about — and half the fun of — the Golden Globes is that it’s the awards show that doesn’t really matter.... Read more ›
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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. | Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty ImagesShe’s emerged as anti-Trump Republicans’ best (and only) hope to take him down. Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various other candidates never got off the ground.... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesThe very confusing landscape of advanced AI risk, briefly explained. In 2016, researchers at AI Impacts, a project that aims to improve understanding of advanced AI development, released a survey of machine learning researchers. They were asked when they expected the development of AI systems that are comparable to humans along many dimensions, as well as whether to expect good or bad results from such an achievement. The headline... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIt sounds too good to be true, but there’s serious science behind the hypothesis. If I told you psychedelics might help people with everything from depression to blindness to anorexia to autism to stroke, you might think that’s just pure hype. Fair enough. The claim does sound hyperbolic. Yet there’s scientific evidence pointing in that direction. For the past few years, Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Gul Dolen has been busy... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesTikTok is full of millennial gray, competitive hygiene, and bleach. It stinks! In November, a woman put her prepackaged Christmas tree in the tub and washed it. “Unpopular opinion: You need to clean your Christmas tree,” she wrote on the TikTok video devoted to documenting the experience, during which viewers can see perfectly clear water circling the drain, as if it wasn’t obvious enough that nobody actually needs to... Read more ›
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Justice Clarence Thomas (right) laughs. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe justices are threatening to put themselves in charge of every single federal agency. They should resist that temptation. On January 17, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce — which ask the justices to seize control of much of federal policymaking. Both cases involve the kind of... Read more ›
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Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesIt’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for. While most people were enjoying the holidays, extremely online conservatives were fighting about a pinup calendar. Last month, Ultra Right Beer — a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light — released a 2024 calendar titled “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America... Read more ›
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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. | Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty ImagesHow Haley is trying to reject — and co-opt — Trumpism. Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various other candidates never got off the ground. But if... Read more ›
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on December 4, 2023. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWhy it’s a big deal that the president didn’t know his defense secretary was in the hospital for three days. Even the most powerful people in the world are still humans with bodies and families. They sometimes need to take time off, whether for medical reasons, personal matters, or just to recharge. But the people... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images; StanleyThe Stanley brand is selling more than a tumbler. According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup is the highest possible accomplishment — proof of hard work and teamwork coupled with enormous fortune. It’s the achievement of a lifetime that only a select few get to experience. According to the internet, the Stanley™ Cup may be even better.... Read more ›
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Vox/Everett Collection; Bantam BooksLeon Uris’s bestselling epic Exodus — and its hit movie adaptation starring Paul Newman — influenced generations of Americans, from the suburbs to the State Department. When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus in my synagogue’s library. I stood amid the shelves, surreptitiously reading a sex scene (did the book just fall open right to it, the way... Read more ›
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Marta Monteiro for VoxWhat it means to be “chronically absent” — and why it matters. When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to normal,” millions of students didn’t show up. Teachers prepared their classrooms to welcome children back to in-person learning, but millions of desks were unfilled. With an eye toward pandemic recovery, the government allocated billions of dollars to help students... Read more ›
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A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesEven socialists are bristling at the rising cost of fast food. Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the price of a Big Mac counterrevolutionary? For months now, political observers have been squabbling over whether the Biden economy’s unpopularity reflects its genuine... Read more ›
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In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. | NTSB/Getty ImagesA door plug falling mid-flight has renewed scrutiny of air travel and of Boeing’s planes. On Friday, January 5, the door plug of a commercial Boeing 737 Max 9 came off as the plane was climbing, opening a... Read more ›
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Stephanie Keith/Getty ImagesWhat the tranche of recently unsealed court documents contains. On Wednesday and Thursday, a judge unsealed new sets of filings from a court case tied to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that’s been colloquially — and misleadingly — referred to as “the list.” Even before their release, the documents reignited long-gestating conspiracy theories about prominent figures who were once in Epstein’s orbit, including former President Bill... Read more ›
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CSA Images via Getty ImagesHow to prevent and treat colds, the flu, Covid-19, and more. Does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? It’s not your imagination: It’s been a particularly fierce season for all kinds of respiratory infections, from mild colds to more serious bugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care visits for coughs and sore throats with fever were... Read more ›
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Thaier Al-Sudani/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesIraq’s prime minister called for an end to US presence after a drone strike killed a senior militia leader. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced he’ll remove about 900 US-led coalition forces out of his country, he announced Friday, saying that “the justifications for its existence” — the threat of the Islamic State, or ISIS — “have ended.” Al-Sudani announced that he would put together... Read more ›
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference on reducing shoplifting. | Barry Williams/NY Daily News via Getty ImagesIt turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway. Over the last couple of years, it seemed that America was experiencing a shoplifting epidemic. Videos of people brazenly stealing merchandise from retailers often went viral; chains... Read more ›
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