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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Allie Sullberg for VoxStates have made it easier than ever to gamble. Are they ready for what happens next? Americans can now gamble on anything, anytime, anywhere. Most of us carry a mini-casino around in our pocket. Want to bet on tonight’s NFL game? There’s an app for that. You don’t need a casino to play poker, but if you want the feel of felt and plastic chips on your... Read more ›
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Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, marches in a 2021 protest in Miami, Florida, showing support for Cubans demonstrating against their government. | Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty ImagesEnrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, is the latest key player in the January 6 insurrection to be sentenced. Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right street fighting group the Proud Boys, has been sentenced to... Read more ›
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Attendees look at a rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on September 1, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. | Julie Jammot/AFP via Getty ImagesClimate change — and schadenfreude — finally caught up to the survivalist cosplayers. For most of its existence, Burning Man, the week-long desert experience that’s part utopian performance, part survival quest,... Read more ›
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Elon Musk at the Paris Viva Tech Fair. | Getty ImagesElon Musk is venturing into some dangerous territory about Jews. For the past several days, Elon Musk has been engaging in a very strange feud with a leading Jewish anti-hate group. In a series of posts on X (the site formerly known as Twitter), Musk repeatedly blamed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for a 60 percent decline in the site’s revenue... Read more ›
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reached out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhat happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire? After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience another health episode during a... Read more ›
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is co-leading a new antitrust lawsuit against Google. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesDozens of attorneys general filed a suit accusing Google Play of anti-competitive practices. Editor’s note, September 6, 2023: Google and the states have agreed to settle their lawsuit. The terms were not immediately disclosed, but it does take one major antitrust lawsuit off Google’s plate the week before another one goes to... Read more ›
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The defendants in the Georgia case will all receive mugshots. | Fulton CountyThe mugshots and the charges they face, briefly explained. Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to Fulton County, Georgia charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The plea came ahead of his scheduled arraignment on September 6, and follows his arrest on August 24. Trump waived his right to appear in person at... Read more ›
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Restorative justice can offer an alternative to the punitive criminal justice system. | Getty ImagesInside a movement that aims to bring accountability and healing to the justice system. What was happening in the courtroom that day in New York City was unusual. The judge was set to sentence a young man to prison for shooting a gun and killing a bystander. Court hearings for this type of crime are understandably... Read more ›
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Tino Chrupalla, AfD federal chairman and AfD parliamentary group leader, gives a press statement at the start of his party’s parliamentary group meeting in the Bundestag, September 4, 2023. | Kay Nietfeld/Getty ImagesHow Germany’s far right is making a comeback using an old playbook. BERLIN — In Germany, as in a number of European countries, support for the far right is surging. Buoyed by discontent over the economy and energy... Read more ›
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at the “Save America” rally on October 22, 2022, in Robstown, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesThe right-wing warrior may soon see his legal issues catch up with him. It could shape the future of the Texas GOP. Ken Paxton, Texas’s Republican attorney general and an ally of former President Donald Trump, may soon see his long-running legal problems catch up with him. The Texas... Read more ›
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USAID Administrator Samantha Power speaks at the University of Khartoum in Sudan’s capital on August 3, 2021. | Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty ImagesThe rise of cash benchmarking at USAID, explained. How good does a foreign aid program have to be to be good enough? It’s a question I have wrestled with since my first post with the US Agency for International Development. Now, after a decade of work, the agency,... Read more ›
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Players of Pachuca pose with a message in support of Jennifer Hermoso of the Spanish National Team prior to the sixth round match between Pachuca and Atlético San Luis as part of the Torneo Apertura 2023 Liga MX at Hidalgo Stadium on August 28, 2023, in Pachuca, Mexico. | Hector Vivas/Getty ImagesSpanish soccer president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed a player after the World Cup. He’s refusing to resign. After the... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in Milwaukee at the first debate of the GOP primary season — an event that served to only raise his profile. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe Asian American candidate is peddling a dangerous message. When Vivek Ramaswamy opened the first GOP presidential primary debate last month, he acknowledged that he does not fit the mold of a traditional Republican presidential candidate. “Let me just address the... Read more ›
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith. | Penguin PressThe Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. Midway through Zadie Smith’s elegant new novel The Fraud, Smith offers us a striking description. She’s writing about the man at the center of a court case, currently appearing before a crowd at a rally being held in his name. “One saw at once that here... Read more ›
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A fourth grade class at Garfield Elementary School in Long Beach, California, on the first day of school on August 30, 2023. | Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty ImagesPrivate school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war. As the new school year kicks off, education advocates are bracing for continued attacks on America’s public schools. Yet despite the ongoing culture wars schools... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxHow to cope with both inflation and lifestyle creep. On the Money is a new monthly advice column written by Nicole Dieker, a personal finance expert who’s been writing about money for over a decade. For Vox’s Money Talks interview column, she’s written stories about couples who run small businesses, navigate different relationships with spending, handle health insurance, and more. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing... Read more ›
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Luca Sola/AFP via Getty ImagesChaos, poverty, and unemployment on a national scale set the stage for Thursday’s fire. An apartment fire in the South African city of Johannesburg has killed at least 76 people including 12 children and highlighted the city’s housing crisis, which has led to terrible conditions in unregulated dwellings run by criminal gangs. The fire — the worst in South Africa’s history — broke out Thursday night,... Read more ›
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The weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert produces about 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide. | Jordan England-Nelson/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesBuilding a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet. Update Sept. 3, 8:45 am EST: After a series of storms rolled through the Black Rock Desert Friday and Saturday evening, approximately 70,000 Burning Man attendees of have been left stranded... Read more ›
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Fans rally before Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on August 7, 2023. | Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesFans are creating new concert traditions for a new age. It started with simple nostalgia. In the wake of the pandemic, Craig Powers, a 38-year-old researcher from Tacoma, rediscovered his love for his favorite bands and albums. But as Powers dove... Read more ›
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A man protests homelessness in Vancouver. Around 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year, and the rates continue to rise. | Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty ImagesThe results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness. Ray, a man in his 50s, used to live in an emergency homeless shelter in Vancouver, Canada. Then he participated in a study that changed his life. He was able to pay for a place... Read more ›
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