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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Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the Carolina Panthers football team. | Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesMichael Oher now says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him. The 2009 film The Blind Side tells the story of a white family on a heartfelt mission:... Read more ›
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Coils of razor wire lay across the tarmac at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, left behind after the US military withdrew from the country and Taliban fighters moved in to take control of the airport, on August 31, 2021. | Marcus Yam/Los Angeles TimesTwo years after Kabul fell, tens of thousands of Afghans are still stuck in limbo in the US. Two years ago, the Taliban marched into Kabul, the... Read more ›
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Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis (left), and Sidney Powell (right) conduct a news conference on November 19, 2020. All three were just charged with felonies in Georgia. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via GettyWhat Trump, Giuliani, Meadows, Powell, and others were actually charged with. The indictment of Donald Trump filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is, to put it mildly, complicated. The core allegation is simple — that Trump... Read more ›
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Honeybees get a ton of attention, but they’re not the ones who need help. Every year there are alarming headlines about honeybees in the US. Each one highlights some grim facts about the fate of these insects and the subsequent fallout: Colonies are collapsing, beekeepers are struggling, farming is at risk. The stakes are high. Honeybees are estimated to pollinate up to $15 billion worth of food in the US.... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump is the first, second, third, and fourth former president to be indicted for a crime. Former President Donald Trump has now been indicted four times, in four separate jurisdictions, for an array of crimes arising out of how he became... Read more ›
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DeSantis and Newsom could do a live debate on Fox News later this fall. | Getty ImagesThe thirst for attention is real. In what appears to be a blatant attention grab by both politicians, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to debate one another on live television later this fall. Given the fact that the two aren’t actually competing head-to-head in an election, it’s a... Read more ›
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The criminal defendant in two federal prosecutions places his hand on the shoulder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. | Getty ImagesThe federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history. Even under the best of circumstances, a criminal trial of a former head of state is a fraught exercise. And, for a number of reasons,... Read more ›
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A prescription of bottle of Ambien | Getty ImagesThe risks of sex-based drug dosing recommendations. Zolpidem tartrate is infamous. It walks the street with many names: “A-minus,” “zombie pills,” “no-go pills.” It has been blamed for a range of strange and disastrous incidents in the news over the years, including Roseanne Barr’s racist tweeting in 2018 and Tiger Woods’s terrible car accident in 2021. But you probably know zolpidem tartrate... Read more ›
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Nicole Miles for VoxA huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good. For over a century, a pendulum has swung back and forth on the best way to teach kids to read. On one side are advocates of phonics, an instructional approach focused on the relationships between sounds and letters; on the other, various methods, championed by educators,... Read more ›
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Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesA quick guide to Trump’s 4 indictments and why they matter. Donald Trump’s legal web has grown more tangled than ever. The former president is facing 91 criminal charges across four different jurisdictions — Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has two trial dates set for 2024 so far. And all this... Read more ›
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Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, inside her office chambers in Atlanta on September 20, 2022. | David Walter Banks / The Washington Post via Getty ImagesFulton County district attorney Fani Willis charged the former president with 13 counts. Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others were also charged. A prosecutor in Georgia has filed charges against Donald Trump over his efforts to steal the 2020 election in... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Farmers for Trump campaign event at the MidAmerica Center on July 7, 2023, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIt’s the fourth time that Trump has been indicted. Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented fourth time on Monday for trying to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, adding a new complication to his mounting list of... Read more ›
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LED lights have saved a lot of energy, but there’s a lot more they can still do. | Geng Yuhe/VCG via Getty ImagesThe heir to the incandescent bulb is just getting started. After reigning for more than a century, the once-mighty incandescent light bulb was forced to relinquish its socket throne earlier this month. The coup, more than 16 years in the making, took place on August 1, when the... Read more ›
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An aerial view of Lahaina after a wildfire tore through the town last week. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesIncluding how you can help. The outbreak of wildfires last week in Maui, Hawaii — a state known for its beaches and rainforests but typically not fire — is now the nation’s deadliest such event in more than 100 years. The fires burned thousands of acres and killed nearly 100 people, a greater... Read more ›
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The plaintiffs in the nation’s first youth climate change trial pose for a photo outside of Montana’s First Judicial Court on June 12. | William Campbell/Getty ImagesThe unprecedented ruling in Montana could signal a changing tide. Update, August 14, 2:55 pm ET: Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on August 14, handing climate activists an unprecedented victory. The decision impacts the implementation of the Montana Environmental Policy... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThe pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained. The animal welfare activist group Animal Outlook has been investigating the meat industry for over two decades, having documented chickens buried and roasted alive, thrashing pigs killed at a high-speed slaughterhouse, fish bludgeoned to death, and cows kicked and beaten, among many other cruelties. But at a pig breeding farm in Minnesota, 120 miles southeast of Minneapolis, between late 2019 and early 2020,... Read more ›
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Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Elon Musk have teased on social media this week that they’re willing to enter a cage fight. | Mandel Ngan and Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty ImagesMaybe they’re not? The boys are fighting. Or aren’t they? By “boys,” of course, we mean tech billionaires Elon Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and most recently Twitter, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Meta (formerly Facebook),... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA plea deal seemed set to end Hunter’s legal woes. Then things fell apart. Just a few short weeks ago, it appeared as though the years-long saga of Hunter Biden’s legal problems might be drawing to a close, courtesy of a plea deal... Read more ›
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Wildfires fueled by strong winds and drought have whipped across western Maui, Hawaii, this week, razing structures and forcing evacuations. | Zeke Kalua/County of Maui via APA large hurricane, drought, and perhaps even invasive grasses have fueled the devastating fires in Hawaii. Earlier this week several wildfires engulfed parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least 96 people, burning more than 2,000 structures, and forcing people to flee... Read more ›
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Screenshots of posts by the entertainment news accounts Pop Crave and Pop Base on X, formerly known as Twitter. | Paige Vickers/Vox/@PopCrave and @PopBaseHow two pop culture Twitter accounts turned into the internet’s wire service. If you’ve spent any time on Instagram, Threads, or (especially) the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered a Pop Crave post. The odds are probably higher if you’re... Read more ›
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