Former President Jimmy Carter holds hands with ex-first lady Rosalynn Carter in Plains, Georgia, on September 23, 2023. | Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesJimmy and Rosalynn Carter have drawn attention to the benefits of hospice care. But it’s not serving everyone well. Rosalynn Carter, whose unflagging advocacy for mental health reform and on behalf of human rights, democracy, and health programs redefined the role of a president’s... Read more ›
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Should you donate to charity now? Save up to donate later? Put it in your will? | Javier Zarracina/Vox; Getty ImagesIf you want to do good this Giving Tuesday, it’s probably a good idea to donate regularly. November 28 is Giving Tuesday, the day for donations and a national conversation about how to give back and do good. Especially in a turbulent year when many of us want to give... Read more ›
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In factory farms, pigs are sometimes locked in crates the width and length of their bodies, so they can’t even turn around. | Getty ImagesThese are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering. If you care about animals and want to reduce their suffering, but aren’t sure exactly how, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is an organization that might be able to help. The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesFrom “red flags” to “emotional load,” popular terms on platforms like TikTok can warp our IRL relationships. If, in 2017, you were first alerted to the term “emotional labor” — then incorrectly colloquially defined as “the unpaid work women take on to keep their family’s lives running smoothly” — maybe you are already well acquainted with the term’s more recent counterpart: mental load. (Emotional labor, as first defined by... Read more ›
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Photos: Getty Images, Photoillustration: Javier Zarracina/VoxHow to do more good with the money you give. Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from, and especially when so many are suffering around the world. Yet that suffering makes it all the... Read more ›
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Javier Zarracina/Vox; Getty ImagesA short history of Giving Tuesday, the international day for giving back. Giving Tuesday — the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and the internationally recognized day to contribute to charity — is upon us. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has always been the kickoff event of the holiday shopping season and one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Marketing experts recognized how popular it was... Read more ›
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Demonstrators are seen through a Palestinian flag as they take part in a rally in support of Palestinians in the US earlier this month. | Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images“From the river to the sea” demands conversations about the future of Israel and Palestine. On US college campuses, on social media, and even in the halls of Congress, the 10-word slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoA thoroughly modern nuisance for consumers, shippers, and retailers alike. In December 2018, Google searches for the term “porch pirate” reached a peak. The phrase describes a particular kind of thief unique to modern living: someone who takes packages ordered online and left unattended at doorsteps. Since the pandemic, when a huge surge of Americans started buying much of their everyday goods and luxuries online, many more people have... Read more ›
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Anna Kim for VoxChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one. Nearly a year after its release, ChatGPT remains a polarizing topic for the scientific community. Some experts regard it and similar programs as harbingers of superintelligence, liable to upend civilization — or simply end it altogether. Others say it’s little more than a fancy version of auto-complete. Until the arrival of this technology, language... Read more ›
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Mollie Burkhart and her sisters are targeted for their land in Killers of the Flower Moon. | AppleTV+Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a three-and-a-half-hour historical film, centers on a wave of brutal murders against members of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe based in northeast Oklahoma. As depicted in the movie, a great number of... Read more ›
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during their meeting in Lusail on October 13, 2023. | Jacquelyn Martin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe tiny Gulf state maintains ties with the parties in the conflict. That has made its diplomacy essential — which is exactly what the Qataris want. Late Tuesday, Qatar formally announced a deal between Israel and Hamas that would temporarily... Read more ›
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Israeli soldiers apprehend a young Palestinian boy in the West Bank town of Hebron on June 20, 2014. | Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images150 Palestinian prisoners are being released as part of Israel and Hamas’s recent hostage deal. But thousands more remain behind bars. On October 12, in the West Bank village of Wadi al-Seeq, Israeli soldiers and settlers detained three Palestinians and spent hours abusing them. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported... Read more ›
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Bats don’t just host deadly diseases — they can tolerate them shockingly well. Bats get a bad rap in all forms of media — and it’s not entirely unwarranted. Whenever they hit the news, it’s typically paired with some deadly disease that they’ve somehow unleashed on humans: from Ebola to Hendra virus to Nipah virus to various coronaviruses such as SARS, MERS, and even Covid-19. Bats are just really good... Read more ›
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He’s back! | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission? So, OpenAI had a weird week. The hottest company in tech just saw the removal, replacement, and reinstatement of its superstar CEO, Sam Altman in the span of five days. It also saw, as a result of that Altman drama, the removal and replacement of most of its board of directors. In the... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesThe alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse. The seismic shake-up at OpenAI — involving the firing and, ultimately, the reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman — came as a shock to almost everyone. But the truth is, the company was probably always going... Read more ›
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A demonstration to bring the Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas back home, organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. | Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesHere’s what the reported hostage deal does — and doesn’t — mean for war in Gaza. Late Tuesday, the Israeli government and Hamas reached a deal that will bring the first pause in hostilities in over six weeks — and... Read more ›
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Inside a farm that raises turkeys for Jennie-O, the second largest US turkey producer. | Photo courtesy of Kecia DoolittleHow the meat company behind the White House turkey pardon — and the rest of the industry — really treats its birds. Late into the night on November 2, a few animal rights activists opened an unlocked barn door and stepped foot into a sea of turkeys living in gruesome conditions.... Read more ›
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Israeli artillery train their guns toward the Gaza Strip on November 21, 2023 in southern Israel. | Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesThe agreement is a pause, not a ceasefire. That distinction matters — a lot. For anyone concerned about the people of Israel and Gaza, the just-announced deal for a break in the fighting between Israel and Hamas should be considered good news. Per the agreement, Hamas will release 50 women and... Read more ›
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2023 saw some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, and they’re eating into food production. | MHJ/Getty ImagesAre your holiday meals pricier this year? Blame the record-breaking heat around the world. It’s the time of year when many are thinking about food. A lot of food. Thinking a lot about a lot of food. In 2022, Americans spent an additional $2.8 billion on food for Thanksgiving compared to a typical... Read more ›
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The signing of the Oslo Accords between then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat at the White House, on September 13, 1993. | J. David Ake/AFP/Getty ImagesA timeline of the decades-long peace negotiations that came before the Israel-Hamas war. Even though Israel has approved a temporary ceasefire in its unprecedented assault on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made... Read more ›
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