US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside of his office after arriving at the US Capitol Building on October 2, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesEven by House GOP standards, 2023 was absurd. There’s nothing quite like starting the year with 14 consecutive rounds of failed speaker votes. Just one week into 2023, House Republicans had already endured a humiliating leadership race full... Read more ›
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2023 is now the hottest year on record. | Chuchart Duangdaw/Getty ImagesWhat it’s like to study a world facing unprecedented changes. 2023 is the hottest year in at least 174 years and recent months have been the hottest in 125,000 years. All of that warming led to deadly heat waves, disease outbreaks, floods, droughts, and record low ice levels around Antarctica. The extreme weather this year stems in part from... Read more ›
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Richard A. Chance for VoxRavenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved. Silicon Valley is embracing a new era of masculinity. Its leaders are powerful, virile, and swole. They practice Brazilian jiujitsu and want to fight each other in a cage. They can do 200 push-ups while wearing a 20-pound weighted vest. They can spend $44 billion on a website as a sort of elaborate joke. They... Read more ›
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Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy and manage early miscarriage. | Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesHow activists, clinicians, and businesses are getting abortion medication to all 50 states. Eighteen months after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, and with a new Supreme Court challenge pending against the abortion... Read more ›
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House Speaker Mike Johnson talks to reporters after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the US Capitol on December 12, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesEverything Congress has procrastinated on and needs to do in the new year, explained. It has not been a very productive year for the House, even when it wasn’t outright humiliating for its dwindling Republican majority. The body passed historically little in the way of... Read more ›
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Ross Perot, then an undeclared candidate for president, at a press conference in early 1992. | Arnold Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty ImagesWhy did Ross Perot do so well in 1992? And could something like that happen again in 2024? Americans were dissatisfied with both major-party options for president. The incumbent was viewed as prioritizing foreign affairs while failing to address voter dissatisfaction with the economy back home. The challenger was dogged... Read more ›
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Pssst ... there’s a case for feeling good about money in 2024. | PM Images via Getty ImagesA recession didn’t come in 2023 and it might not in 2024, either. I’m going to throw out a wild idea here: What if the economy is good in 2024? I know, I know, prices are still too high. Everybody hates everything so much that we’ve coined the term “vibecession.” The pandemic fallout... Read more ›
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Young Celie (Phylicia Pearl Mpasi) and Nettie (Halle Bailey) in The Color Purple. | Warner Bros.The Color Purple is a melodrama — and the new movie musical keeps its traditions alive. Going to see The Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule’s 2023 musical adaptation of Gary Griffin’s 2004 Broadway musical adaptation of director Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel — what a mouthful — was a rich experience... Read more ›
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A Red Cross volunteer brings hot food and blankets to people during the night service to assist the homeless on November 13, 2022, in Catania, Italy. | Fabrizio Villa/Getty ImagesAnd not just at the holidays I’ve been covering America’s homeless crisis at Vox all year. Last month, a reader reached out to ask what practical step they could take to help the people they see sleeping on the streets, besides... Read more ›
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Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) has a lot on his mind in Michael Mann’s Ferrari. | Lorenzo SistiDirector Michael Mann loves fast cars, experts at work, and authentic filmmaking, and it shows. Christmas Day marks the release of the 12th movie from 80-year-old director Michael Mann, Ferrari. Focused on a tumultuous period in the life of Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) in the late 1950s, the film follows the founder as he... Read more ›
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Getty Images“We don’t avoid conversations because they don’t matter. We avoid them because they do matter.” We humans love to talk. Conversations serve many purposes: to pass the time, to learn about people and the world, to exchange information, to share a laugh. Sometimes the function of discourse is to get what we want: a change in behavior, a raise, a resolution to some disagreement. These higher-stakes conversations can be... Read more ›
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Chief Eddie Garcia of the Dallas Police Department poses for a portrait at DPD headquarters in Dallas, Texas, on February 16, 2022. | Cooper Neill/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThree years after demands for police reform, police are solving fewer crimes. What happened? In 2020, after the police-involved killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, millions of Americans took to the streets for months to demand police reform. Almost three and... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxPlus, how to make sure you get your fair share of a mortgage investment in the case of a divorce. 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... Read more ›
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A woman lights a candle placed atop a sign showing an Israeli flag with hand-written notes. | Jack Guez/AFP via Getty ImagesHow to understand Hamas’s alleged sexual attacks on October 7. As Israeli officials piece together the attacks of October 7, evidence is mounting that Hamas committed crimes of sexual violence against the people it attacked in Israel — both women and men, both dead and alive. UN testimony delivered... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoSocial media is a stressful place. Keeping things in perspective is important. We’ve all been there: scrolling through a heated Facebook comment section, and some troll says the most offensive trash ever. You know you should let it go, take some space, but you can’t hold it in. You need to fight back. Or do you? Holding a rational debate can be impossible when you are feeling triggered. Whether... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden joins Israel’s Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. | Miriam Alster/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesUS law limits aid to countries that violate human rights. Here’s why it isn’t applied to Israel. The recent high-profile killings of three Israeli hostages, two women in a Gaza... Read more ›
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Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former US President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesTrump wants to run out the clock on his criminal trials. The Supreme Court just gave him a significant assist. In a surprising move, the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will not hear Donald Trump’s claim that... Read more ›
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American Fiction and Perfect Days are two standouts on the fall festival circuit. | Toronto International Film FestivalIt’s a great time to be at the movies. Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first, whether they’re... Read more ›
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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) after a romp with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). | Searchlight PicturesIn Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Passages, and more, sex on screen drove the plot. Earlier this year a TikToker posted a video explaining how she and her husband “prepared” themselves for the sex scenes in Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh. The influencer described how her husband would close his eyes every time there was nudity... Read more ›
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Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. | Atsushi Nishijima via Searchlight PicturesStone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers. Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is famous for making strange and chilly movies: 2016’s eerie dramedy The Lobster; 2018’s The Favourite, a cynical comedy; movies about power games and humans hurting each other and brutal, unforgiving worlds, shot through with... Read more ›
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