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Constance Grady @ Vox · 12/13/2023 15:40 EDT

Doctor Who’s big twist betrayed the show’s oldest rule

David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor — or is it the Fourteenth? | Disney PlusDoctor Who has to learn to let go of David Tennant. In its most recent episode, Doctor Who broke one of its oldest and most fundamental rules. On the one hand, it can be exciting when a long-running pop culture property breaks a rule it has set for itself; it means something interesting is about to... Read more ›

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Ranjani Chakraborty @ Vox · 12/13/2023 14:45 EDT

Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners

Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system. Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons. Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed... Read more ›

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Emily Stewart @ Vox · 12/13/2023 13:10 EDT

Starbucks has lost $11 billion market value and not because of boycotts

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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Marina Bolotnikova @ Vox · 12/13/2023 11:37 EDT

Bird flu is surging again on poultry farms. The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop it.

Two hens who survived ventilation shutdown plus, a method that’s been used to kill millions of poultry birds via heatstroke during the current bird flu outbreak, huddle together in a small battery cage at a factory farm in Iowa in 2022. | Direct Action EverywhereWe failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price. The 2022-2023 spread of bird flu has been the most catastrophic on record in the... Read more ›

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Anna North @ Vox · 12/13/2023 10:52 EDT

What is misoprostol? Crucial questions about the other abortion drug.

Misoprostol, pictured, is a common ulcer drug that has been used for years in tandem with mifepristone. It can work on its own, too. | Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesLegal challenges are aiming to take mifepristone off the market. An alternative, however, exists. A series of legal challenges working their way through the federal courts and now taken up by the Supreme Court has raised questions about the future... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 12/13/2023 09:43 EDT

The Supreme Court will hear its biggest abortion case since it overruled Roe v. Wade

Abortion rights activists march to the Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. The rally was held to mark the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesThe justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions. The Supreme Court... Read more ›

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Rebecca Jennings @ Vox · 12/13/2023 09:00 EDT

TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.

People document an evening prayer dedicated to Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on October 18. | Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever. For the past month, TikTok has tried to assure business leaders, influencers, and Jewish organizations that it isn’t promoting anti-Israel or antisemitic speech on its platform. CEO Shou Chew has reportedly met with executives at Tinder, Facebook, and the Anti-Defamation... Read more ›

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Andrew Prokop @ Vox · 12/13/2023 08:22 EDT

Republicans’ thin corruption case against Joe Biden, explained

Kris Connor/WireImageThe House is voting on an impeachment inquiry. But they’ve turned up little so far. Whatever you may think about the impeachments of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, they were at least impeached for things they verifiably did. But Joe Biden may become the first president to be impeached entirely because of an unproven theory. The House of Representatives plans to vote Wednesday to officially authorize an impeachment inquiry... Read more ›

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Zvi Mowshowitz @ Vox · 12/13/2023 08:00 EDT

We’re still in a fight for survival when it comes to AI safety

President Joe Biden signs an executive order with Vice President Kamala Harris (right) during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPresident Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence was criticized by many for overreaching, but the danger from uncontrolled AI progress is real. President Joe Biden’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence made an unexpectedly... Read more ›

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Joshua Keating @ Vox · 12/13/2023 07:30 EDT

Why we still underestimate what groups like Hamas are capable of

Rescue workers at a police station that was destroyed after a battle between Israeli troops and Hamas militants on October 8, 2023, in Sderot, Israel. | Amir Levy/Getty ImagesTwo decades after 9/11, extremist groups continue to pull off surprise attacks. Why? On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush was given what may be the most infamous daily intelligence brief ever received by a US president. It was titled “Bin Ladin... Read more ›

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Dylan Matthews @ Vox · 12/13/2023 07:00 EDT

Tuberculosis kills more people than malaria or HIV. Why haven’t we found a vaccine?

A doctor examines the X-rays of a tuberculosis patient. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesVolunteers could speed up the race for a cure that works for adults as well as children. Few forces have killed off talented people before their time with quite the effectiveness of tuberculosis. There’s Chekhov, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka, Keats, Thoreau, Emily Brontë — all brought down by the bacterium before they reached the age of 50. Their ranks... Read more ›

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Sean Illing @ Vox · 12/13/2023 06:30 EDT

The philosophy of anarchism, explained

A protester in Marseille, France, tags a wall with the anarchy sign during a demonstration against pension reform. | Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhy it isn’t the same as chaos. When you think of anarchism, what comes to mind? Maybe you have some vague image of a punk rocker with the Circle-A symbol scratched into her jeans. Or some comic-book supervillain out to destroy the world that spurned him.... Read more ›

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Abdallah Fayyad @ Vox · 12/13/2023 06:00 EDT

Americans’ pandemic savings are dwindling. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSavings won’t save the economy for much longer, but higher wages might. A few years ago, Americans saved a lot of money at an unprecedented speed. When the pandemic hit, household spending plummeted as people stayed home and businesses temporarily shut down. At the same time, many of those households saw a dramatic increase in income because of massive federal government spending: higher unemployment payments, universal... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 12/12/2023 18:20 EDT

Why Republicans are pursuing an unfounded impeachment inquiry into Biden

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 are set to vote on an inquiry despite no evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing. This week, House Republicans are set to continue their pursuit of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, a decision that comes despite there being no evidence... Read more ›

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Joss Fong @ Vox · 12/12/2023 16:30 EDT

AI can do your homework. Now what?

Joss FongStudents and teachers grapple with the rise of the chatbots. There’s no getting around the fact that students are a major user group for ChatGPT and the other AI language models that have come online in the past year. While schools and teachers would generally prefer to avoid the contortions involved in banning and policing AI use, it’s not clear what “embracing” the technology leads to, either. In this... Read more ›

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox · 12/12/2023 12:30 EDT

The sinister court decision denying Kate Cox an abortion, explained

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has fought tooth and nail to keep Kate Cox from having a medically necessary abortion. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe court’s opinion reads like something out of Franz Kafka, or maybe something out of Jim Crow. On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, a woman who says she is “at high risk for severe complications threatening her life and future... Read more ›

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Li Zhou @ Vox · 12/12/2023 11:35 EDT

One Texas case shows why women can’t rely on legal exceptions to abortion bans

The Texas Supreme Court blocked Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas woman, from obtaining an abortion after a lower court judge allowed it. | Kate CoxKate Cox’s case speaks to the “hellish” legal limbo these bans put patients, and providers, in. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman who sought an abortion in the state. Previously, Cox argued that the lethal condition impacting her fetus and... Read more ›

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Esther Zuckerman @ Vox · 12/12/2023 10:55 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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Terri Pous @ Vox · 12/12/2023 08:00 EDT

How to plan a wedding without losing your mind

Getty Images/CSA Images RFBecause your big day should still feel like you. Planning a wedding is like doing a group project, becoming a travel agent, and mastering logistics all at once. It’s an unbelievably exciting thing to plan your future together and coordinate an event that unites all your favorite friends and family. A time with lots of champagne and presents and well wishes. But with both of you facing... Read more ›

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Kenny Torrella @ Vox · 12/12/2023 07:45 EDT

We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them

The meat counter at an Iowa grocery store. Around 1 out of 4 animals raised for food end up as food waste. | Katrina Wittkamp/Getty ImagesFrom farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted. Almost 1 in every 4 animals raised on a factory farm never actually makes it to your plate. Instead, they die for nothing. That’s according to a study published earlier this... Read more ›

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