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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Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesMayor Eric Adams said this week that caring for migrants will cost the city $12 billion. Asylum-seekers have stretched New York City to its limits, according to Mayor Eric Adams, who described an “unprecedented state of emergency” this week as he called upon New York state and federal lawmakers and agencies to offer more support. Adams’ office estimated that the city would spend $12 billion... Read more ›
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A Catholic priest holds a cross in front of the Supreme Court on the first day of legal arguments over the Affordable Care Act. | Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe Court’s Republican majority has ground the Constitution’s establishment clause down to a nub. Last June, a previously obscure Oklahoma state board voted to allow two Roman Catholic dioceses to operate a charter school in that state. Lawyers from several... Read more ›
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Fumiko Inoue / Getty ImagesIt’s not dissimilar from talking to other adults, but even the most well-meaning grown-ups can forget that. Somehow, despite our best efforts, it still happens to even the most self-assured adult. You’re at a birthday party or a family dinner or a picnic in the park, and suddenly, you find yourself face to face with a kid. You introduce yourselves, there’s a slight pause, and then,... Read more ›
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Borna News/Matin Ghasemi/Aksonline ATPImages/Getty ImagesFor Iran’s struggling economy, the deal is more about money. A tentative deal to release five Americans held in Iran in exchange for access to $6 billion in assets and the release of people imprisoned in the US could hit major snags — or fall apart altogether — in the weeks before it’s complete due to persistent and escalating tensions between the US and Iran. The... Read more ›
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General Abdourahamane Tchiani, Niger’s new strongman, reads a statement on national television following the ouster of President-elect Mohamed Bazoum on July 28, 2023. | ORTN Télé Sahel/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Mohamed Bazoum has refused to resign despite July’s military takeover. Niger’s political situation is as uncertain as ever, over two weeks after a group of military leaders detained the elected president in a coup. Diplomatic efforts on the part of... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoLarge language models are disrupting the publishing industry, from spam submissions to garbage books. AI is, in theory, poised to disrupt work as we know it now. But it’s still facing the same problem every buzzy new tech product before it has faced: The VC funding is there, but the long-term business model is not, particularly for individuals. What do you do with a large language model AI at... Read more ›
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Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty ImagesNo, incandescent lightbulbs aren’t banned. Last week, a series of flashy headlines announced the start of a “ban” on incandescent light bulbs — the classic round bulbs you most likely imagine floating above someone’s head when they have a brilliant idea. These pieces offered advice on how to prepare, outlined exceptions, and pointed out how the change would save money and the environment. Yet, for... Read more ›
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Trump enters Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania on July 29, 2023 | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesTwo conservative lawyers make a strong 14th Amendment argument. But the politics of their theory are very, very dicey. Two conservative legal scholars, members of the Federalist Society in good standing, have just published an audacious argument: that Donald Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president, and that state election officials have not only... 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 55 people, burning more than 1,000 structures, and forcing people to flee... Read more ›
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The Harriott, a riverboat, docked on the Alabama riverfront in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. | Julie Bennett/Getty ImagesThe viral fight valorized Black resistance — and punctured Jason Aldean’s racist “small town” narrative. One of the key facets of extremism is the element of plausible deniability. As such, “dog whistles” — coded language used to mask a deeper extremist or discriminatory rhetoric — have become a pervasive part of the way we... Read more ›
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Partisan divides on climate change have grown over the past 20 years, as GOP leaders became more emboldened in denying the science. | Getty Images/iStockphotoThe GOP’s only “climate policy” is actually bad for the environment. When Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) questioned US climate envoy John Kerry at an oversight hearing in July — a month that became the hottest ever recorded — he sidestepped that the country was in the... Read more ›
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US Navy sailors stand guard aboard the USS Sirocco patrol ship while docked at the US 5th Fleet Command in Bahrain’s capital Manama on December 17, 2019. | Mazen Mahdi/AFP via Getty ImagesWhy the US is sending 3,000 Marines to secure the world’s oil. This week, thousands of US sailors and Marines landed in the Persian Gulf to pursue a widening mission to protect the strategic waterway, where about a... Read more ›
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Trinity Site plaque. | Bryan Walsh / VoxOppenheimer’s Trinity Site is where the end began. To reach the spot where the nuclear age was born and human history swung, turn off of Route 380 at Stallion Gate on the northern edge of the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range, not far from the tiny desert town of Socorro, New Mexico. Drive through the flat, dry, empty scrub the Spanish called... Read more ›
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Supporters of former National Assembly member and presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, take part in a demonstration in Quito on August 1, 2023. | Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Ecuadorian presidential candidate took on corruption and cartels. He was just assassinated. Fernando Villavicencio, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate who ran heavily on an anti-corruption message, has been assassinated less than two weeks before the nation’s presidential elections. Villavicencio, a centrist candidat Read more ›
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Jb Reed/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBut there are several other better studies that do. On Wednesday, the journal Neurology published an attention-grabbing study, reporting a possible link between taking heartburn medications like Prilosec and developing dementia. It generated scary-sounding headlines and reanimated a conversation about the safety of the medications — and, simultaneously, questions about how the general public should understand conflicting results from medical studies. The latest publication. Read more ›
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Despite unusually hot waters, forecasters expect a “near normal” hurricane season in 2023. | Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesOceans are at record high temperatures, but El Niño is keeping a lid on tropical storms in the Atlantic. Hot water is the fuel for tropical cyclones like hurricanes and typhoons, and the weather this year has boosted the octane rating of the world’s oceans, forcing forecasters to revise... Read more ›
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A photo of Lil Tay from 2018. | @Liltay/InstagramA former child influencer’s Instagram account announced she’d died. Except she didn’t. When the Instagram account belonging to the child influencer Lil Tay announced her death at age 16 on Wednesday, August 9, it’s telling that the immediate reaction from many of her followers was, “This seems suspicious.” For a three-month period in early 2018, the then-10-year-old Lil Tay took over the... Read more ›
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A photo of Lil Tay from 2018. | @Liltay/InstagramA former child influencer apparently died. Her followers don’t believe it. When the Instagram account belonging to the child influencer Lil Tay announced her death at age 16 on Wednesday, August 9, it’s telling that the immediate reaction from many of her followers was, “This seems suspicious.” For a three-month period in early 2018, the then-10-year-old Lil Tay took over the internet.... Read more ›
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Alicia Tatone for VoxWhy a supposedly good economy is making so many people miserable. If you’ve ever gotten completely lost — no GPS, off the map, which-way-is-up lost — you know how disorienting it can be. All of a sudden, nothing looks familiar and every available path seems like the right one. It can take a while to find your bearings and get back on track. In its own way,... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. | Kevin Winter/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAfter losing her masters to Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift is in the process of making new ones. Taylor Swift has just announced she’ll be rerecording 1989. In true Swiftian fashion, she announced it on August 9, the ninth day of the eighth... Read more ›
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