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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A kinder, gentler Wonka (Timothée Chalet, center). | Warner Bros.A director, a worldview, a vibe, and a love of cute hats. At this point, the Paddington movies are a universally beloved internet phenomenon, adored by children and adults alike. (Well, I don’t know tons of kids who are as obsessed with Paddington as some adults I know, but let’s just go with it.) Back when the first Paddington was gearing... Read more ›
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Batman and Catwoman want you both to know that eating mistletoe is a poison risk. | Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty ImagesTim Burton’s superhero classic is Christmas rom-com you don’t realize is a Christmas movie or a rom-com. While the winner of Best Christmas Movie is up for debate, the undisputed best Christmas movie genre isn’t: It’s Christmas romantic comedies. And in this exceptional genre — which includes the... Read more ›
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Cattle at the Texana Feeders feedlot in Floresville, Texas. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMeat production is making lifesaving drugs less effective. Where’s the FDA? The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew that America’s meat industry had a drug problem. For decades, evidence had amassed that the widespread use of antibiotics to make livestock grow faster — and survive the crowded, unsanitary conditions of factory farms — was causing... Read more ›
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Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University; Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania; Pamela Nadell, professor of history and Jewish studies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesA simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated... Read more ›
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, neuroscientist and artist who shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine with Camillo Golgi. | Universal Images Group via GettyQuantifying the “complexity” of consciousness can tell us how rich our experiences are. Sometimes when I’m looking out across the northern meadow of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, or even the concrete parking lot outside my office window, I wonder if someone like Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson could have... Read more ›
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Trump holds a rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah, Florida, on November 8, 2023. | Alon Skuy/Getty ImagesDemocracy is a culture — and Trump is destroying it. In the long arc of human history, the modern democratic era is a mere blip. Humans first began residing in city-like agricultural settlements about 10,000 years ago. The American and French revolutions, widely seen as the dawn of the democratic age, took... Read more ›
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It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell. When credit scores were invented just a few decades ago, they were hailed as a way to democratize lending. Today, they’ve become so essential that not having one can lock you out of daily life. Having a low score can make life challenging, too. These scores have a long history — and a lot of problems. In this video, we’ll... Read more ›
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield makes a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, which overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza on December 12, 2023. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu/Getty ImagesWhy the US and Israel are becoming “increasingly isolated.” The international community is increasingly turning against Israel’s ongoing military onslaught in Gaza, in large part due to a growing civilian... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump with Justice Clarence Thomas. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump claims that when the president tries to steal an election, it’s not illegal. In 1970, then-President Richard Nixon briefly authorized an illegal plan to spy on left-wing activists within the United States. His defense is rarely quoted except as an example of presidential villainy. “When the president does it,” Nixon told journalist David Frost in 1977,... Read more ›
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Some have turned to multipurpose chatbots like ChatGPT for therapy. | StudioM1/Getty ImagesGetting AI to improve mental health outcomes is not as simple as firing up ChatGPT. I didn’t find a therapist when I first felt I might need one, nor when I finally found the energy to start Googling the therapists with offices near me. I didn’t find one months later when, after glancing at the results of my... Read more ›
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A handful of federally endangered Hawaiian snails called Achatinella fulgens.Our planet faces a mass extinction. I visited ground zero. PEARL CITY, Oahu — On a warm November afternoon in a trailer not far from Pearl Harbor, a scientist named David Sischo popped open the lid to a small plastic tank. From a jumble of leaves, he pulled out something precious. “I would argue that they’re one of the rarest animals... Read more ›
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Throughout the 1990s, tampons were routinely advertised using blue liquid, not red. | Eva Claycomb for VoxFrom blue liquid to glass vaginas, period stigma shapes our products — and hurts our health. If you’ve ever had a period — or if you just watched a lot of TV in the 1990s — you probably remember the blue-liquid ads. In one example from 1995, an actor extols the virtues of Always... Read more ›
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Siobhán Gallagher for VoxHow the new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop. The first time I opened the app for Temu, the viral Chinese shopping site, a pop-up greeted me: I could spin a wheel to win $200. The spinner landed on “1 more chance.” I spun again, and this time, I won $200. But wait, there was more — if I... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden walks along the US-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023. | Jim Watson/AFP via GettyIt’s partly about Ukraine aid. But the politics of immigration have also changed for Democrats. In exchange for approving more aid to Ukraine, congressional Republicans want Democrats to agree to dramatically limit the options migrants have to claim asylum from the United States and to ramp up detention and... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs a House Republican Conference meeting on November 14, 2023, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. | Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesHouse Republicans voted to launch an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing. This week, House Republicans voted to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, a decision that comes despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden at this... Read more ›
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Protests are banned in the UAE, where public forms of dissent are seen as a threat to national security. Climate activists showed up anyway. | Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesClimate activist Bill McKibben on how to make sense of COP28: “Let’s make that concession hurt.” For nearly three decades, the United Nations convening of the parties on climate change, known as COP, has failed to do much about the climate crisis. Since... Read more ›
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Pumpkin Spice season was great for Starbucks. The holiday season not so much. | Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesStarbucks’s messy December, explained. Starbucks’s value is down billions of dollars. People online are calling for a boycott of Starbucks. The extent to which these two things are related, if they are at all, is not clear. One thing is true here: The Seattle-based coffee company is not having a bang-up time... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxWas Cop28 the beginning of the end of fossil fuels? Kinda. The largest international climate change conference in history closed Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates in the waning days of the hottest year on record with yet another limp agreement between countries to do more to address global warming as the problem gets worse. The accord did, for the first time, explicitly call for countries to... Read more ›
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Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. | Abed Khaled/APLooking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace.... Read more ›
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