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Andrew Prokop @ Vox 2 place · 12/19/2023 19:08 EDT

The fraught debate over whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump, explained

A marcher holds a sign that says, “Not My Dictator” with a picture of Donald Trump in front of Trump International Tower on January 18, 2020. | Ira L. Black/Corbis via GettyThe Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be taken off the ballot. Could this save democracy from a dangerous threat? Or would it imperil democracy further? Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024? The... Read more ›

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Sean Illing @ Vox 3 place · 12/19/2023 08:00 EDT

How mindfulness went mainstream

Buddhist devotees meditate at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist temple near Bangkok, Thailand, on June 3, 2023. | Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty ImagesAmericans embraced meditation. So did corporations. Capitalism has a way of hijacking our culture’s best ideas. Regardless of the domain, industry turns almost every promising movement into a product. Mindfulness meditation is an interesting example of this phenomenon. The number of Americans who’ve tried meditation has tripled since 2012, which,... Read more ›

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Meredith Haggerty @ Vox 3 place · 12/19/2023 07:00 EDT

Why are Christmas movies all about kissing? A theory.

Hallmark’s Never Been Chris’d features a home-for-the-holidays love triangle. | HallmarkIt’s the most ... romantic time of the year? This year alone, 116 new holiday movies were released to TV and streaming. Conservatively, I’m going to estimate that 115 of them were romantic comedies. Starting with Destined 2: Christmas Once More, which premiered on Great American Family back in October, the season saw cinematic offerings with titles like How to... Read more ›

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Keren Landman @ Vox 2 place · 12/19/2023 06:00 EDT

How a fight over data made South Dakota’s syphilis outbreak worse

Meghan Curry O’Connell, chief public health officer at the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board, in front of the organization’s Rapid City, South Dakota, headquarters in December 2023. O’Connell has been leading the fight to get Indigenous Americans’ public health data into tribal hands. “These are real people — these aren’t just numbers,” she says. | Tara Rose Weston for VoxA decades-long digital turf war’s consequences for Indigenous communities, explained.... Read more ›

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Aja Romano @ Vox · 12/18/2023 18:32 EDT

Jonathan Majors’s arrest and conviction, explained 

Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe once-rising star has been dropped by Marvel and faces up to a year in jail. After a three-week trial and two days of jury deliberation, Jonathan Majors, the Emmy-nominated star of Lovecraft Country and Creed III, has been found guilty on charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment.... Read more ›

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Constance Grady @ Vox · 12/18/2023 09:55 EDT

In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel

Jeffrey Wright as Monk in American Fiction. | Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLCJeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire. Early on in American Fiction, a deceptively biting and warmly funny new satire, a writer (played by Jeffrey Wright in a career-crowning performance) sneaks into a book fair event celebrating the hot new book of the season. His eyebrows arch at the... Read more ›

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Benji Jones @ Vox 3 place · 12/18/2023 07:30 EDT

The ridiculously stupid reason the US is letting animals spiral toward oblivion

Eleanor Taylor for VoxGood God, give this US agency a few more dollars to stop a mass extinction. Exactly five decades ago, Congress did what would be unimaginable today: It passed a powerful environmental law with almost unanimous support. In 1973, the House voted in favor of the Endangered Species Act, 390 to 12. “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life... Read more ›

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Emily Stewart @ Vox 3 place · 12/18/2023 07:00 EDT

So it’s come to this: We might have to worry about the deficit

The government might be in a smidge of a pickle with deficits and debt. | PM Images via Getty ImagesAmerica rarely has its financial ducks in a row. Does it finally matter? As though there were not enough things in the world to worry about at the moment, a perennial issue has once again been percolating: Is the United States’ financial house in order? Talk about the federal government’s deficit... Read more ›

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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox · 12/18/2023 06:00 EDT

Canada is promoting child care for $10 a day.

APCould it work in the US? A massive social policy experiment is unfolding in Canada to provide families throughout the country with child care for an average of $10 a day. The plan, which was introduced in 2021 amid the turmoil of the pandemic, aims to spend up to 30 billion Canadian dollars by 2026 to bring down child-care costs for parents and to create 250,000 new slots. The federally... Read more ›

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Nathan Hall @ Vox 3 place · 12/17/2023 18:17 EDT

Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, explained

President Javier Milei gives a speech after his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace on December 10, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Tomas Cuesta/Getty ImagesTo understand the anarcho-capitalist leader, you have to understand Argentina’s past. If you know nothing else about Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, you probably know two things: He has weird hair, and he’s a self-described anarcho-capitalist who believes the government should have as little role... Read more ›

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Rachel Katz @ Vox 1 place · 12/17/2023 07:00 EDT

How to navigate a chronic illness

Getty Images/fStopWhether it’s your own or someone else’s. In 2020, Dave Venus couldn’t catch a break. First, he got sick with a mysterious illness that caused him constant fatigue. Then, a week before his wife, Claire, gave birth to their daughter, both of them got Covid-19. Dave couldn’t be in the delivery room. After the birth, while Claire made every effort to recover and care for the newborn, Dave was... Read more ›

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Rachel M. Cohen @ Vox 3 place · 12/17/2023 06:00 EDT

A historian’s advice to the Democrats trying to build stuff

President Joe Biden (right) stands on the GMC Hummer EV production line as he tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2021. | Magdel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat supply-side liberals can learn from the past These days, political leaders and commentators talk often about “industrial policy” and stimulating supply in the economy, rather than just demand. Whether it’s to spur new... Read more ›

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Christian Paz @ Vox 3 place · 12/16/2023 07:30 EDT

President Joe Biden arrives to speak about his Bidenomics agenda at Tioga Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty ImagesFor these families, the last few years’ economic tumult has been particularly pronounced. Of all the difficult questions Democrats face ahead of 2024, two storylines are particularly confounding. The first is the economy: Most Americans are still pretty pissed about its state, even though economists can... Read more ›

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Joshua Keating @ Vox 1 place · 12/16/2023 07:00 EDT

What happens in Ukraine if US aid disappears?

US President Joe Biden, right, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrive during a news conference in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex, in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2023. | Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesShould Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would “change the character of the war.” For nearly two years, Ukraine has fought back against Russia’s invasion far more effectively and successfully than... Read more ›

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Nicole Narea @ Vox 3 place · 12/15/2023 17:50 EDT

Biden weighs a “shocking” revival of Trump’s immigration agenda

Migrants attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico are detained at the border by US Customs and Border Protection on December 14, 2023, in Jacumba Hot Springs, California. | Nick Ut/Getty ImagesThe White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security. It’s hard to overstate the potential destructiveness of the sweeping changes... Read more ›

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Alissa Wilkinson @ Vox · 12/15/2023 15:32 EDT

The movies to watch for this fall

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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Esther Zuckerman @ Vox · 12/15/2023 15:24 EDT

It was a great year for movie sex scenes, despite the discourse

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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Constance Grady @ Vox · 12/15/2023 15:23 EDT

Poor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of age

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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Marjorie Ingall @ Vox · 12/15/2023 15:22 EDT

When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.

Ellen Weinstein for VoxBradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood. When the first images of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic schnoz — the honking appendage he wears to play conductor Leonard Bernstein in Maestro — made their internet debut a few months ago, hot takes abounded: The Nose was antisemitic! The Nose was not antisemitic! Anyone... Read more ›

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Alissa Wilkinson @ Vox · 12/15/2023 15:20 EDT

The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest

A peaceful scene from The Zone of Interest, the year’s best horror film. | A24Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil. The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years, is ostensibly based on a book: Martin Amis’s stomach-churning 2014 novel of the same name. But understanding the movie’s formal and thematic genius requires looking at it differently: as a sidelong horror-film adaptation... Read more ›

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