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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Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back. During the past two years, child poverty in America set new records — one for the better and one for the worse. In 2021, the child poverty rate — as measured by the supplemental poverty measure that incorporates the value of government benefits — took a sharp drop to its lowest point on... Read more ›
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Growing up as a “digital native” doesn’t come with immunity to the dangers of being online. | Getty Images/iStockphotoThe generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet. If you’re part of Generation Z — that is, born sometime between the late 1990s and early... Read more ›
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Jennifer AdlerPhotos from before and after record temperatures struck Florida show the wrath of climate change. The image above was taken at a coral reef in Florida called Pickles in the spring of 2022. Here’s how that same reef looked earlier this month: Jennifer Adler A cluster of bleached elkhorn coral in Pickles Reef on September 7, 2023.The difference between the two images tells a clear story: Coral in the... Read more ›
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Police gather at the scene of a crash in Washington DC in March that left a Lyft driver and his two passengers dead. The other vehicle involved had 49 outstanding citations, leading to public outcry that not enough had been done to keep the driver off the roads. | Robert Devaney/The Georgetowner NewspaperAmid rising traffic deaths, legal mechanisms designed to keep streets safe are breaking down. Is there a better... Read more ›
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Ahead of the Climate Ambition Summit in New York City, thousands of youth, front-line advocates, and climate and community activists joined in the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe bolder, narrower message of the climate movement, explained. “We are all here for one reason: to end fossil fuels around the planet,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a cheering crowd on Sunday.... Read more ›
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June 11, 1963: Segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace blocks the doorway to the University of Alabama. The governor had attempted to bar two Black students from registering at the college. | Shel Hershorn/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesAlabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance. Alabama is back in the Supreme Court — to seek the justices’ permission to openly defy one of... Read more ›
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 23, 2018. | Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times/Getty ImagesThe killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada has exposed a big problem for US foreign policy. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came forward with a shocking allegation: that “agents of the government of India” had assassinated a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. The man, named Hardeep... Read more ›
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E-bikes are cleaner and safer. So why aren’t we using them? Remember, during lockdown, how we all got obsessed with ordering everything online and having it delivered right to our doorsteps? Yeah, turns out that isn’t going away anytime soon — and we’re starting to understand the many downsides. The delivery vans that make our next-day shipping dreams come true are driving up CO2 emissions while making our streets more... Read more ›
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Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice — and saved lives. My colleague Dylan Matthews recently wrote about the horrific global toll of lead poisoning, which contributes to as many as 5.5 million premature deaths a year — more than HIV, malaria, and car accidents combined. Lead is a neurotoxin; it causes premature deaths and lifelong negative effects. It’s said “there is no safe level of... Read more ›
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About half of states require single parents to cooperate on child support for key aid programs like food stamps, or EBT. | Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesThe invasive challenge faced by single parents seeking government assistance. To receive government assistance in the US is to submit yourself to a whole host of requirements, some reasonable, some harsh. Each state, and each program within it, has their own requirements, which might be a... Read more ›
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CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesAI doesn’t have to be superintelligent to cause serious havoc. One of the hardest parts of the news business is striking a balance between covering stories that seem important in the moment and covering stories that you know will truly matter in the future. And it’s hard because the most consequential things happening right now are often boring or difficult to explain. Artificial intelligence is a... Read more ›
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NASASome unanswered scientific questions loom out in the universe. Others reside in our homes. In March 2021, Vox launched Unexplainable, a podcast focused on unanswered questions and everything we learn by exploring the unknown. One hundred episodes later, our producers have scoured the land, the sea, the animal kingdom, the human body, the solar system, and the universe to explain the blank spaces in our collective knowledge. In this process,... Read more ›
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters on September 19, 2023 in New York City. World heads of state and representatives of government will attend amid multiple global crises such as Russia’s war against Ukraine and the climate emergency. | Adam Gray/Getty ImagesThe removals come two weeks after the removal of the defense ministry and as Ukraine seeks to... Read more ›
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Drew Barrymore’s (now-deleted) apology video. | via InstagramAfter much hand-wringing, America’s talk show sweetheart is sorry she tried to violate the writers’ strike. After facing widespread disgust over her decision to bring back her show in the midst of an entertainment industry writers’ strike, Drew Barrymore will keep The Drew Barrymore Show off the air indefinitely. Well, at least until the strike ends. A week ago, America’s talk show sweetheart... Read more ›
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Maren Morris performs during MerleFest at Wilkes Community College on April 29, 2023 in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. | Jeff Hahne/Getty Images“After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” she told the Los Angeles Times. Maren Morris, a progressive chart-topping country and pop singer known for hits like “The Middle” and “The Bones,” has announced that she’s distancing herself from the genre of country music. Morris, an artist who’s... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT. For Altman, the chatbot is just a stepping stone on the way to artificial general intelligence. | SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesExclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals. Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say. But did they ever... Read more ›
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Google’s new Bard extensions might get more eyes on its generative AI offerings. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesMicrosoft was first to AI search, but Google’s Bard can now pull stuff in from Gmail, Docs, Maps, and more. The buzz around consumer generative AI has died down since its early 2023 peak, but Google and Microsoft’s battle for AI supremacy may be heating up again. Both companies are releasing updates to their... Read more ›
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New USAID chief economist Dean Karlan. | Yale/ Michael MarslandDean Karlan explains his plan to get USAID to take evidence more seriously. The US spends more, in absolute dollars, on foreign aid than any other rich nation. But a lot of development experts question whether the primary American aid institution, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), is spending its budget in a way that helps the most people, most... Read more ›
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Google’s new Bard extensions might get more eyes on its generative AI offerings. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesMicrosoft was first to AI search, but Google can now pull stuff in from Gmail, Docs, Maps, and more — for free. The buzz around consumer generative AI has died down since its early 2023 peak, but Google and Microsoft’s battle for AI supremacy may be heating up again. Both companies are releasing updates... Read more ›
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A promotional image for Sound of Freedom. The movie has been an unexpected box office hit thanks to word of mouth from conservatives. | Angel StudiosIs a movie still just a movie if it becomes a culture war battleground? Usually when the culture war comes to the movies, it’s in the form of conservative backlash to films they perceive as too liberal. Increasingly, however, conservative filmmakers, often working outside of... Read more ›
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