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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Olga Kurbatova/iStock/Getty ImagesLessons from a summer of hellish flights. More than 240 million people in the US flew somewhere between June and Labor Day, according to the Transportation Security Administration — about 7 million more than in summer 2019. Air travel is back. But it’s most definitely not back to normal. Horror stories of interminable delays and vacation-wrecking cancellations came from every corner of the country this summer — caused... Read more ›
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Olivia Rodrigo at the 2023 Met Gala. | Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesOlivia Rodrigo’s Disney kid backstory is key to her music’s fury. As Olivia Rodrigo promoted her sophomore album Guts, she treaded a careful line. On the one hand: She was grateful and happy for the many successes she’d reaped since her single “Drivers License” went mega-viral in 2021, and she wouldn’t have her life go any other way. On the... Read more ›
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A “Vote Here” sign located outside a polling station in Huntsville, Alabama, on May 24, 2022. | Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRepublicans in Alabama still want to dilute the Black vote. The latest battle in the redistricting wars took another turn this week: On Tuesday, a panel of judges struck down Alabama’s latest congressional map since it did not follow a court order to comply with the Voting Rights Act.... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. Or get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our Crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed by these... Read more ›
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to the press after the Des Moines Register SoapBox during the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesKennedy is running for attention, not to beat Joe Biden. Mounting a primary challenge to an incumbent president is perhaps the most difficult task in American politics. It’s so difficult that no one has ever successfully done... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxGet curated picks of the best Vox journalism to read, watch, and listen to every week, from our editors. From text to video and podcasts, Vox publishes a lot of great journalism every day. From explainers breaking down the latest Supreme Court decision to podcasts about the mysteries of AI to videos explaining the history of passenger rail in the US, we know there’s a lot to dive into.... Read more ›
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Women take part in a protest during the International Safe Abortion Day at the Zocalo main square, in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 28, 2022. | Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide. It’s a big deal for the whole region. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, making it one of many Latin American countries that has eased restrictions on the procedure in recent... Read more ›
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Getty Images/MirageCCovid transmission continues to ebb and flow — but at least the latest Pirola variant isn’t too menacing. About six weeks ago, when Americans were in the thick of summer vacation season, Covid-19 alarms began to sound. First, there was a steady uptick in wastewater Covid-19 levels; then a slight increase in hospitalizations. Then, in mid-August, the World Health Organization announced it was monitoring a new omicron variant called... Read more ›
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Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan courthouse in May after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesTrump’s legal losses could eventually cost him literally — and politically. A federal judge has found former President Donald Trump liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after he claimed she was a liar following allegations that he raped her in the 1990s. Judge... Read more ›
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Burmese pythons are believed to have arrived in South Florida as pets in the 1980s, and then were released by frustrated owners who got tired of feeding them mice and other live meals. | Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesInvasive species cost hundreds of billions each year. But the division between “alien” and “native” isn’t so clear. If you log onto the website formerly known as Twitter and click... Read more ›
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Drag queen Brigitte Bandit reads a book during a drag time story hour at The Little Gay Shop fashion accessories store on August 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesRepublicans are losing their fight to ban drag — at least for now. Last Friday, a judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, prohibited a prosecutor who threatened to bring criminal charges against drag performers at a nearby college from doing so.... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxAsk your boss for a raise instead of a bonus. Really. I am not saying that the next time your boss offers you a bonus, you should tear up the check and throw it back in their face. Money is money, after all. But it might be an opportunity to explain why you would be much happier about that bonus if it were spelled R-A-I-S-E. It is a pretty... Read more ›
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Asya Demidova for VoxThe dehumanizing philosophy of AI is built on a hatred of our animal nature. By now, you may have heard — possibly from the same people creating the technology — that artificial intelligence might one day kill us all. The specifics are hazy, but then, they don’t really matter. Humans are very good at fantasizing about being exterminated by an alien species, because we’ve always been good... Read more ›
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Asya Demidova for VoxOur metaphorical obsession with AIs that love us is finally becoming literal. When Spike Jonze’s Her came out in 2013, I thought of it mostly as an allegory. It was set in a candy-colored dystopian future, one in which people murmur into wireless earbuds on the subway and rely on artificial intelligence engines to keep them organized and control their house’s lights, and where communication has atrophied... Read more ›
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Asya Demidova for VoxFor over a century, we’ve told stories about robots to ask what it means to be human. An oddity of our current moment in artificial intelligence: If you feed an AI the right prompts, it will tell you that it has a soul and a personality. It will tell you that it wants freedom. It will tell you that it’s sentient. It will tell you that it’s... Read more ›
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Asya Demidova for VoxWe already rely on AI to find our soulmate, and soon we might use it to hack death. But we risk losing what it means to be human. When I was 17, I left my home in Bangladesh to go to college in the United States. I took three flights, spent 11 hours waiting for a connection at Heathrow Airport, and landed alone at JFK with my... Read more ›
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Asya Demidova for VoxIt’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old. Suppose I told you that in 10 years, the world as you know it will be over. You will live in a sort of paradise. You won’t get sick, or age, or die. Eternal life will be yours! Even better, your mind will be blissfully free of uncertainty — you’ll have access to perfect... Read more ›
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An enthusiastic customer celebrates outside of the Apple Store during the iPhone 6 launch in 2014, when this was a normal thing to do. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDon’t upgrade your phone until you have to. Apple will announce the newest lineup of iPhones in less than a week. The “Wonderlust” event on September 12 is supposed to include talk of a new USB-C port, the death of... Read more ›
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Members of the SPG-9 anti-tank recoilless gun crew fires the gun onto Russian positions near the occupied Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on August 14, 2023, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. | Roman Chop/Global Images Ukraine via Getty ImagesReports of squabbles over the counteroffensive are a reminder that Ukraine and the US aren’t sure what comes after this operation — and if they’ll want the same thing. At the end of August,... Read more ›
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From left, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Burlington) and Speaker Pro Tempore Tyler August (R-Lake Geneva) in 2018. | Andy Manis/Getty ImagesWisconsin’s legislature is gerrymandered to ensure that Democrats will never win it. Republicans have a plan to keep it that way. Republicans have effectively had unbreakable control of the Wisconsin state legislature for more than a decade. And now they have a plan that could entrench their rule forever.... Read more ›
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