Paige Vickers/VoxYou can say no to the tipping tablet. That doesn’t mean you should. If you haven’t heard it or felt it yourself, people are angry about the state of tipping. Consumers have noticed that they’re being asked to tip more often and for higher amounts than before. They buy their morning coffee and the barista flips around a screen that nudges them to add on a little more, or... Read more ›
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A four-hour video released on YouTube this week attempted to make viewers care about plagiarism on the platform. | NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content. Copying has always been a part of internet culture. Sometimes it’s ethical, sometimes not. It’s almost always incentivized: Once social media began reshaping online life, copying became a go-to tactic for getting views.... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participates in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on December 6, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA Haley-Christie alliance emerged. But it’s a long way away from threatening Trump. Time is running out for the Republicans who want to stop Donald Trump. The Iowa caucuses are six weeks away, and the former... Read more ›
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Residents and civil defense teams conduct a search and rescue operation around the rubble of the building that collapsed following an Israeli attack on houses belonging to the Abu Hubeyze and Abu Ayesha families at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on December 6, 2023. | Doaa Albaz/Anadolu/Getty ImagesIncreasingly, civilians are running out of safe places to go. Following a seven-day ceasefire, Israel resumed its bombing campaign in... Read more ›
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IBM’s Quantum System Two. | IBM ResearchThe quantum computing industry has a road map to the future — but can it reach its destination? A couple of weeks ago, I navigated the holiday traffic from New York to the town of Yorktown Heights in suburban Westchester County, the location of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, to stand before perhaps the most advanced quantum computer in the world. The IBM... Read more ›
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Joudeh Hirbawi inspects a machine sewing iconic black-and-white keffiyehs at his small factory in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 17, 2011. | Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty ImagesThe iconic Palestinian scarf started out as a practical garment. It became an emblem of an aspiring nation. There’s a scene in Home Alone 2 that stood out to me when I was a kid. It’s the one where Kevin McCallister gets chased... Read more ›
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Lone warrior Mizu (Maya Erskine) faces off against a gang of assassins in Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai. | NetflixNetflix struggled for years to land a mainstream anime hit. Enter Blue Eye Samurai. The criteria for success on Netflix have always been slippery, particularly regarding the platform’s hit-and-miss efforts with anime. Yet in the month since its November 1 release, Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai has established itself as a bona fide... Read more ›
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In October, 92NY, one of New York’s best-known arts and culture spaces, drew fire after trying to postpone a visit from author Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen had signed an open letter criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. | Noam Galai/Getty ImagesArtists are protesting Israel’s offensive. The art and literary worlds are struggling to respond. Artists are pulling their work from the National Gallery of Art, which receives funding from Congress, in... Read more ›
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On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there. Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single,... Read more ›
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a leading proponent of taxing very rich people’s assets. | Getty ImagesEven this very conservative Court appears reluctant to blow up the federal government’s power to tax rich people. The Supreme Court spent much of Tuesday morning beating up Andrew Grossman, a lawyer asking the justices to revive a long-defunct limit on Congress’s ability to levy taxes. The case Grossman was arguing, Moore v. United... Read more ›
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Is he rizzing them up, or are they rizzing him up? | Getty Images/CSA Images RFThe evolution of a viral term, according to the “Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk” guy. We aged, we decrepit, we ancients of the internet, we people over 30, hear my word and shudder, for the hour of our obsolescence is at hand. Oxford University Press has announced its word of the year for 2023. Beware,... Read more ›
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Beyoncé? Beyoncé!!!! | Kevin Mazur/WireImage for ParkwoodThe concert documentary shows some people still try to say no to Beyoncé! Weird! Renaissance — the album, the tour, and now the movie — is a spectacular. Beyoncé’s dance album, released last summer, is meant to be played on booming sound systems, the kind that shake your bones and thump your heart. The concerts that followed were, by all accounts, transcendent; they were... 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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Participants hold a rainbow flag during a gay pride demonstration in St. Petersburg in 2017. | Igor Russak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s part of Putin’s strategy to paint himself as Russia’s protector against Western immorality. Life in Russia became even more restricted for queer people last week, after a decade of increasing repression against the LGBTQ community there. On November 30, Russia’s Supreme Court labeled the international LGBTQ movement an... Read more ›
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UAE Industry and Advanced Technology Minister and President of COP28, Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, has faced backlash for recent comments. | Nuran Erkul Kaya/Anadolu/Getty ImagesThe head of COP28 is facing widespread backlash for his comments on fossil fuels. As the United Nations’ annual climate summit COP28 continues, controversial comments by Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, the head of the conference, are roiling the event and raising questions about how substantive any... 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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Abortion rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. The rally was held to mark the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesA federal law requires most hospitals to perform emergency abortions. The question is whether a Republican Supreme Court will enforce it. A federal law, known... Read more ›
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Vartika Sharma for VoxWhales and dolphins are smart, social, and thrive in the open sea. Why do we force them to live in tiny pools? Tokitae, stage name Lolita, was less than a year from freedom when she died. She had been captured in 1970, when she was 4 years old, and spent the remaining 53 years of her life performing for enchanted audiences at the Miami Seaquarium theme park,... Read more ›
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Eleanor Davis for VoxTo our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story? I had been seeing my boyfriend for about a year, and though things were going well, we never talked about our feelings on having children. I’m aware of the dating advice that says you’re supposed to broach that topic early on, but I didn’t know what I wanted, and I didn’t... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesYou don’t need to be good at a hobby to enjoy it. Allow me to list the short-lived pastimes I attempted and promptly deserted when I didn’t immediately excel: Pottery, softball, field hockey, surfing, violin, dance, designing novelty T-shirts, knitting, yoga, and, most recently, meditation. Easily embarrassed and uncomfortable asking for help, I’d rather drop a hobby than give myself time to improve. Mediocrity — or worse, actively sucking... Read more ›
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