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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Avoid the airport chaos, roll your windows down, and take to the road for a trip to remember. | Getty Images/fStopAirports are a nightmare. What about driving instead? The theory of relativity is felt most strongly in a vehicle. A broken AC, busted speakers, or your brother-in-law’s stories from his frat days can make the miles pass so slowly, you wonder if the universe needs a change of battery. Yet,... Read more ›
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on July 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesThe US added 187,000 jobs over the last month. It’s more than expected. In August, US job and wage growth slowed down and unemployment was up, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that might not... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn just a few days time, drugstores like Walgreens will have it in stock, for everyone. Here’s how to use it, and who it will help. Narcan, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose within minutes, will imminently be available over-the-counter in drugstores. First approved by the Federal Drug Administration for over the counter purchase in March, Narcan has been shipped to mass drug, pharmacy, and grocery stores,... Read more ›
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Former Boston Red Sox and current Los Angeles Dodger Mookie Betts tips his batting helmet to the crowd in his first game at Fenway Park since being traded. | Barry Chin/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesBaseball fixed itself by changing its rules. The country should pay attention. Back in the spring, I wrote a piece about Major League Baseball’s attempt to save itself from the irrelevance wrought by overoptimization. The short... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn a sex recession, consider the benefits of a DIY approach. Many of us grew up reading glossy instruction manuals full of increasingly eccentric tips for pleasing a partner. A few memorable ones from my own tween reading years: Eat a doughnut off their genitals. Run an ice cube down their abs. Prior to sex, perform a chair-based dance routine. Moisten your mouth by imagining that it is full... Read more ›
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Stock image of a fantasy world. | Getty ImagesPatricia C. Wrede just published her first book in a decade. Here’s how she enchanted a generation. When I heard that Patricia C. Wrede was publishing a new book for the first time in 10 years, I gasped. Then I forwarded the news to multiple people with a screaming emoji appended. Patricia C. Wrede’s middle-grade novels are the kind of books that... Read more ›
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Ben Hickey for VoxBut “juice jacking” is the decade-old cybersecurity urban legend that just won’t die. What’s worse, your phone running out of power or someone stealing all your data? For years now, you’ve been told that this is a choice you may face, thanks to something called “juice jacking.” Juice jacking is when someone tampers with a charging station or USB port, allowing it to leach data from your... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidates participate in primary debate. | Getty ImagesRepublican voters don’t really care for the war on woke. That doesn’t mean it will end. It was nearly two hours into the first Republican primary debate before any of the eight contenders on stage uttered the word “woke.” Toward the end of the Fox News event, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was the first to say it, during a... 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? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience another health episode during a news... 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 comes ahead of his scheduled arraignment on September 6, and follows his arrest on August 24. In making his plea, Trump also waived his right... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesNew York’s attorney general wants a speedy ruling in the case over Trump’s business dealings. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a speedy judgment against former President Donald Trump for allegedly inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to fraudulently secure favorable loan and insurance terms... Read more ›
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Bull sharks off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. | Brent Durand/Getty ImagesSharks have clever ways of surviving extreme hurricanes like Idalia. Hurricane Idalia pummeled Florida on Wednesday morning as it made landfall as a powerful Category 3 storm. Idalia, now a tropical storm off the coast of South Carolina, flooded homes and highways, downed power lines, blew out windows, and has so far been linked to at least one... Read more ›
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Federal law requires all research in federally funded laboratories to use only marijuana from a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. | Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesA potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses. The Department of Health and Human Services has now recommended that marijuana be classified as a lower-risk drug, a change that could have a major impact on how the cannabis industry operates,... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphoto“Agricultural exceptionalism,” explained. If you were to guess America’s biggest source of water pollution, chemical factories or oil refineries might come to mind. But it’s actually farms — especially those raising cows, pigs, and chickens. The billions of animals farmed each year in the US for food generate nearly 2.5 billion pounds of waste every day — around twice as much as people do — yet none of it... Read more ›
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A sign disparaging Bud Light beer is seen along a country road on April 21, 2023, in Arco, Idaho. | Natalie Behring/Getty ImagesFrom Bud Light to Target, right-wing anger at “woke capitalism” is scaring corporate America. The general rule about consumer boycotts is that they rarely work, at least in terms of taking a real bite out of a company’s bottom line. Take some recent examples. Plenty of coffee drinkers... Read more ›
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The driving psychological theory to explain how the public thinks about climate change is under revision. Climate change concern has moved from the periphery to the core. | Getty ImagesA climate psychologist explains how we’ve moved beyond hope, anger, and complacency toward something more promising. Our actions today will determine just how bad climate change will become. But which emotions best drive a person to become politically active? Hope? Anger?... 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? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience another health episode during a news... Read more ›
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VoxSohrab Ahmari explains why precarity is breaking our politics. One of the most interesting — and confusing — features of American politics over the last decade or so has been the shifting ideological landscape. Donald Trump was a disaster in almost every sense, but one potentially useful thing he did was shatter the stale consensus in Washington. For decades, the Republican Party was an incoherent mix of laissez-faire economics and... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pauses during a break in the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News at the Fiserv Forum on August 23, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesCan the weakened presidential candidate weather crises at home? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s chances at the 2024 Republican presidential nomination may be slipping away. Once the favorite to take down Donald Trump,... Read more ›
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A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector uses larvicide granules on plants where water has pooled in August 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAmericans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. Over the last few months, nine people in the US (seven in Florida, one in Texas, and, in late August, one in Maryland) have acquired malaria within the country’s borders. That’s pretty uncommon — at least, in... Read more ›
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