Karlotta Freier for VoxCyclone Freddy destroyed the small East African country. Targeted reparations can alleviate poverty and help communities recover. For several days in March, the record-breaking Tropical Cyclone Freddy poured heavy rains onto the city of Blantyre in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa no bigger than Pennsylvania. Freddy roared in the Indian Ocean for over a month, longer than any other recorded tropical cyclone, while also becoming the... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty imagesFor many Jews, the October 7 attacks discredited both the Zionist right and the anti-Zionist left — paving the way for the resurrection of a seemingly dead political tradition. The massacre by Hamas on October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza has created the conditions for something surprising: a resurrection of the liberal Zionist political tradition. Liberal Zionism is the insistence that there is no necessary contradiction... Read more ›
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A flare burns off methane in an oil field. Oil and gas companies meeting at COP28 agreed to end flaring to control emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. | Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSpolier: Cows. Negotiators from around the world meeting at the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week agreed to put more money behind pledges to cut methane pollution. If met, these commitments... Read more ›
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Vin Testa, of Washington, DC, waves a pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesDo therapists have a right to tell patients to “pray away the gay”? The Court is leaving that question open. In an unexpected move, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s restrictions on an anti-LGBTQ practice known as “conversion therapy” — meaning... Read more ›
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Karlotta Freier for VoxTo clean up poisoned streams, Appalachian researchers are turning acid mine drainage into something unexpected. This story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. The most striking thing about the water tumbling out of the ground behind a small cluster of houses in southeastern Ohio... Read more ›
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Mary Kirkpatrick for VoxMaybe your cat loves you. Maybe it would kill you if it could. I have absolutely no idea what makes Vincenzo a good cat. It’s a fact I keep to myself when I meet his owner, Donna Dzurishin, at the Garden State Cat Expo in New Jersey in mid-July. At one of the biggest cat shows in the country, my ignorance puts me in the minority. Plus,... Read more ›
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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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Karlotta Freier for VoxDengue, drought, and floods are hammering Peru and Bolivia this year. At the UN climate talks, they’re seeking justice. This story is part of a Vox series examining how the climate crisis is impacting communities around the world, as the 28th annual United Nations conference on climate change (COP28) unfolds. For centuries, off the coast of what’s now Peru and Ecuador, fishers noticed that every few years,... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopAdapting to change is never easy, but you can shift how you respond to stress. When Luana Marques was growing up in Brazil, life was not easy. Her parents had her when they were very young, and they didn’t know how to take care of themselves, much less their children. Drugs and alcohol were also a problem. “Between the many instances of domestic violence, I often felt scared, wondering... Read more ›
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US Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) listen during a news conference calling for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the US Capitol building on November 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe party is fractured over President Joe Biden’s unequivocal support for Israel as it continues its military campaign in Gaza ahead of 2024. Democratic divisions over the war in Gaza have spilled... Read more ›
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Natalie Portman and Charles Melton in May December. | Courtesy of NetflixMay December isn’t camp. So what is it? In the opening moments of Todd Haynes’s May December, scandalous tabloid subject-turned-homemaker Gracie (Julianne Moore) opens a refrigerator, dramatically accompanied by a sudden piano sting and an ominous camera zoom. The twist? They might not have enough hot dogs for their upcoming cookout. If that strikes you as funny, you’re not... Read more ›
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) walks to the House Floor on Capitol Hill on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty ImagesFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins a growing number of lawmakers who are eyeing the exits. Wednesday, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became the latest lawmaker to announce his departure, adding to a wave of retirements and resignations... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023 in Wilmington, Delaware. | Mark Makela/GettyWhat prosecutors are alleging — and what it means for the larger political battle over the president’s son. Just six months ago, Hunter Biden had reason to think his legal woes would soon be over — and now, they’re more serious than ever.... Read more ›
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Relatives and colleagues of two Palestinian journalists, Hasouna Slim and Sari Mansoor, killed in an Israeli strike, mourn over their bodies during their funeral in Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 19, 2023. | Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty ImagesWith dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in “the Middle East’s only democracy.” The Gaza... Read more ›
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Fun-Land Farms, the farm in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, turns out to not be so fun for the chickens. | NetflixThe mixed messages kids get about meat — and how we should think about them. The 2000 children’s movie Chicken Run is one of the darker and more subversive films made for kids: The story follows a flock of lovable, though quite miserable, chickens who conspire to escape... Read more ›
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*whispering to date* That’s the boy and that’s the heron | GKIDSThere’s an elegiac sense of magic to Studio Ghibli’s latest film. The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from Studio Ghibli and its masterful director Hayao Miyazaki, was originally hailed as the 82-year-old artist’s final act of filmmaking. Given that a similar proclamation was made about 2013’s The Wind Rises, it doesn’t come as much of a shock... 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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Cameo star George Santos. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe expelled rep used his time in Congress like a Real Housewife, and now he’s found his true calling making bank on Cameo. Despite facing 23 federal charges for a litany of crimes, including the kind that involve stealing — wire fraud, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft — people, including at least one sitting US Senator, cannot give former... Read more ›
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Parents gathered outside of the University of Nevada, where police confirmed multiple shooting victims and a suspected shooter is dead at the campus, on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. | Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. Three people were killed and another injured... Read more ›
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Charting America’s homeownership problem. Homeownership in the US is basically synonymous with the idea of the American Dream. Owning your own home, the story goes, confers both self-determination and security — instead of paying a landlord, you own a growing asset that will form the base of your wealth. Homeownership is ingrained in US society; the majority of American adults are homeowners. But somewhere along the line, something changed. Homeownership... Read more ›
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