Matt Rife performing in Washington, DC, for the Netflix special Natural Selection. | Mathieu Bitton/NetflixMatt Rife’s one comedy rule: Be funny. The problem: He isn’t. Comedian Matt Rife’s debut Netflix special Natural Selection may be a hit — the show premiered in the top 10 on November 15 and has stayed there for two weeks — but it’s also causing plenty of uproar among audiences. The controversy started with Rife’s... Read more ›
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A crowd of people gathers in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in February 2020. | Jeff Swensen/Getty Images4 big takeaways from the CDC’s new report. US life expectancy increased this past year, from 76.4 to 77.5 years, according to a report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after declining for two years in a row. It’s not exactly a cause for celebration. America’s life expectancy has been lower than... Read more ›
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A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way. Today’s game shows, whether they’re Mr. Beast on YouTube or Storage Wars on cable, often feature sensationalistic editing, recreations, and straight-up fixing. But it wasn’t always that way. As the above video shows, game shows in America have gone from unregulated, to a federally regulated activity, and back to unregulated once again. The quiz show... Read more ›
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Sunset in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. | Ashley Reherman/ShutterstockFive deaths, millions in fraud, and 100 years of family power crumbling to ruin in South Carolina. While the most gripping true crime stories take us into the darkest parts of the soul, rarely does a case open the ugly heart of the nation itself. The labyrinthine case that’s come to be dubbed “the Murdaugh murders” feels like one that could only happen... Read more ›
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Future Perfect 50 Recognizes Visionaries Who Have Made an Impact in Their Fields to Improve Lives Now and In The Future Today, Vox announced its second annual Future Perfect 50 list. For the second year, Vox is highlighting 50 visionaries who are making a difference today and working to improve lives tomorrow. The list honors change agents — the thinkers whose moral imagination pushes the boundaries of what is possible;... Read more ›
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A lot of people on TikTok’s idea of a perfect relationship, apparently. | Getty Images/CSA Images RFSelf-described “dating experts” on TikTok are pushing advice that’s both regressive and depressing. Everyone has someone on the internet whose content they consume despite disagreeing with pretty much everything that person has to say. Some refer to this practice as hate-watching, but I actually love the woman who’s constantly showing up on my TikTok... Read more ›
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Dignity Moves is a transitional housing program that helps the homeless in San Francisco. These modular units are on Gough Street, right in the middle of San Francisco. They offer the unhoused a non-congregate shelter option. | Gabriela Hasbun for VoxHow the small structures have ignited hopes and fears for those living outside. Gabriela Hasbun for Vox Sharon Sandelin is a resident at 33 Gough Street in San Francisco. Before... Read more ›
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A still from Bonboné, featuring Rana Alamuddin. | Netflix3 Palestinian short films available on Netflix show life under occupation. For those wondering what life in Palestine looks like, Condom Lead (2013), directed by Palestinian twins Arab and Tarzan Nasser, offers a striking visual metaphor: The short film opens with an apartment full of balloons, drawing the viewer in. But the scripted work takes place during the first Gaza War in... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoThe application for getting federal financial aid has changed for 2024-2025. Here’s how to fill it out. College tuition is a hefty sum for many students and their families in America: Average yearly tuition at a private university totals $42,162; $23,630 for public out-of-state tuition; and $10,662 for public in-state tuition. It’s no surprise, then, that over 85 percent of undergraduates are awarded some form of financial aid —... Read more ›
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Some police departments say kids could be in danger of accidentally sharing their contact info using NameDrop in iOS 17. This isn’t exactly true. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement. Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxNyandoro’s program takes aim at generational poverty in Jackson, Mississippi. The longest-running guaranteed-income program in the United States just turned five years old — and it’s led by a trailblazing woman in Mississippi named Aisha Nyandoro. As the founding CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, a nonprofit working to end generational poverty, Nyandoro launched an initiative called the Magnolia Mother’s Trust (MMT) in 2018. It gives $1,000 monthly... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe tangled nature of climate change and colonialism means justice has to account for both. As climate change intensifies, so too does the risk that it will sustain and solidify injustices from the past well into the future. Rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events disproportionately affect populations who continue to suffer the legacies of colonialism and slavery, and global warming is worsening economic inequalities... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIt can be hard to start a nonprofit. Savoie and Sarek are trying to make it easier. Joey Savoie and Karolina Sarek are in the business of raising people’s aspirations. They take idealistic people (many young, but some older as well) who want to change the world for the better, help them identify especially cost-effective strategies for doing so that current charities are not pursuing, and team... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIf you’re going to break the law in order to change it, you need a good lawyer. If it weren’t for the animal rights activists who go undercover on America’s factory farms and slaughterhouses, we’d have little idea of the extreme cruelty inflicted on the billions of animals raised for meat, dairy, and eggs each year. That’s why, from the 1990s to the 2010s, meat producers aggressively... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe Climate Optimism author believes focusing on victories can engender more positive action. Zahra Biabani, a Gen Z activist and author of Climate Optimism, believes that change is worth pursuing, no matter how bleak things may at times look. Her book, she says, is not for politicians who continue to operate with a business-as-usual mindset or straight-up deny climate change is happening. It’s for everyone else —... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate Azeem Azhar is, as he puts it in his 2021 book The Exponential Age, a “child of the microchip,” born in 1972, the “year after the first commercially produced computer processor was released.” As a 7-year-old in Zambia, he was introduced to computing when a neighbor brought home a build-it-yourself computer... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxAfter founding GiveDirectly, Niehaus is pushing the frontiers of social science research. In 2008, when economist Paul Niehaus came up with the idea of a charity that distributes cash directly to the world’s poorest people, the reception was not positive. Jacquelline Fuller, who formerly ran philanthropy for Google, has said that when she initially pitched the idea of funding the venture to a boss, they replied, “You... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxIt might just be the most important job in the world. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, believes it’s on the cusp of transforming our world with powerful AI systems. At minimum, it thinks these will fundamentally change how we work and live. At maximum, it could make our world unrecognizable overnight. To make this go well, instead of catastrophically badly, OpenAI has created what it calls the... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxLeading USAID’s small social innovation fund, Gallant prioritizes evidence and evaluation. Last year, the US spent about $69 billion in foreign aid trying to make the world outside its borders a better place. While that’s just above 1 percent of the US government’s budget, it makes the US the single largest provider of foreign aid in the world by total dollars spent, focusing on areas like poverty... Read more ›
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Lauren Tamaki for VoxThe co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine. Sometime in the 1970s, the US lost the future. Productivity growth in the decades since has been in decline. Building things has gotten harder and harder and more and more expensive. Real scientific progress has stagnated, as has the length of our lives. We’re even flying slower than we did in the... Read more ›
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