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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Jeanne Marrazzo, newly named director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks at an online press conference in July 2020. | University of Alabama at BirminghamJeanne Marrazzo’s appointment as NIAID director raises hopes the US will take steps to address a burgeoning crisis. The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that Jeanne Marrazzo, a leading researcher of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), will replace Anthony Fauci as head... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks his golf club after he was arraigned in federal court in Miami on 37 felony charges. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial on May 20, 2024, facing charges of illegally storing hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. One of his aides and so-called body... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump speaks at the “Stop The Steal” Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump is expected to be arraigned at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on Thursday on charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on and in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. Trump was... Read more ›
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Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) and Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) play in the snow. | NetflixThe healing powers of Netflix’s Heartstopper. As the leader of an LGBTQ+ youth support group, Gary Kopycinski always tells his students: “Live for the best, prepare for the worst.” Enter Heartstopper, a Netflix show about British teenagers grappling with queer love, identity, friendship, and mental health. “It sends the message that the best is possible,” Gary... Read more ›
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Former US President Donald Trump during a political rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 2023, while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election. | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesTrump’s January 6 arraignment is his biggest court date yet. Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in a Washington, DC, federal court Thursday for his arraignment in the case concerning his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. As the... Read more ›
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Security forces inspect the scene after a skyscraper bombing on August 1, 2023, the second drone attack on the same building in two days in Moscow, Russia. | Boris Alekseev/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesUkraine is trying to bring the costs of its war home to Russia. This week, at least two drones have struck a skyscraper in Moscow, a sign that Ukraine is increasingly willing to take the war directly... Read more ›
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Rick Astley performs on the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival on June 24, 2023. | Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesHint: Ask the publishing companies. If you’ve listened to music over the past 35-plus years, you’ve probably noticed that some of the songs you’re streaming from your smartphone sound a lot like the songs that roared out of previous generations’ record players and car radios. For Gen X (and some older... Read more ›
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Caleb Luke Lin for VoxCarbon credits explain the hyper-financialization of climate policy. The reporting of this story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Carbon offsets are suddenly everywhere. Long the domain of airlines and unimaginative bureaucrats, firms selling offsets have proliferated, promising a way for ordinary people and organizations in wealthy countries to fight climate change with the click of a button. These companies... Read more ›
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President Biden boards Air Force One at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, July 16, 2022. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesAnd who will actually get the most out of it? (Hint: Not Americans or Palestinians.) President Joe Biden’s top foreign policy advisers have been shuttling to Saudi Arabia in recent months for a mission impossible: the normalization of diplomatic relations between the state of Israel and the Kingdom of... Read more ›
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Joan Wong for Vox/Paige Vickers/Getty Images/Photos: AP Photo/Rogelio V. SolisEverything has to go right for Democrats to win in Mississippi. JACKSON, Mississippi — Mississippi isn’t that Republican. Although Republicans have a monopoly on statewide office and supermajorities in the state legislature, Mississippi is a lighter shade of red than outsiders might think. It has been consistently easy in recent years for Democrats to get up to 45 percent of the... Read more ›
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This is not protected speech. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump’s lawyers plan to argue he had a First Amendment right to subvert the 2020 election. He didn’t. Shortly after special counsel Jack Smith unveiled four new criminal charges against former president Donald Trump — all arising out of Trump’s failed efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election — one of Trump’s lawyers revealed one of the legal... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesIt’s set to kick the GOP primary off in earnest later this month. On August 23, the Republican primary will get underway in earnest as the party holds its first official presidential debate. Poised to be a... Read more ›
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Carlee Russell. | Hoover Police DepartmentWhat the viral story of a missing Alabama woman says about all of us. From the beginning, the details of Carlee Russell’s disappearance seemed destined to cause an internet frenzy: Russell, a Black 25-year-old nursing student, went missing from the side of a highway in Hoover, Alabama, on the night of July 13, shortly after calling 911 to report a child wandering alone on the... Read more ›
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Free-range chicken, by the Tyson-owned brand Smart Chicken, for sale at a supermarket in Wisconsin. | Marina Bolotnikova/VoxWhy you shouldn’t believe what’s on your chicken label. Last fall, an undercover investigator worked for two months at a Virginia farm outside Richmond that raises chickens on contract for Tyson Foods, America’s largest chicken company. During their short stint on behalf of the Washington, DC-based animal rights group Animal Outlook, the investigator... Read more ›
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Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prepares to deliver remarks at a Nevada Republican volunteer recruiting event on July 8, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesYour biggest questions about the federal criminal charges against Trump in the January 6 case, answered. Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the... Read more ›
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A trader watches a monitor at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany in March, 2023. | Boris Roessler/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesIt might have more to do with the country’s political dysfunction than with its solvency. On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the US’ long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+ for only the second time in the nation’s history, in what’s generally seen as a signal of... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIf AI really is risky, then opening it up could be a major mistake. I’m not quite sure how humanity survived the advent of nuclear weapons without destroying itself — so far — but one thing that likely helped was the simple reason that it’s very hard to build a nuclear bomb. It requires refining uranium, which can’t be casually... 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 ImagesStill more indictments could be coming soon. Former President Donald Trump has now been indicted not just once or twice — but thrice. Or even four times, depending on how you count. And one more may be coming soon. On August 1,... Read more ›
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Donald Trump at a GOP retreat in Maryland on January 6, 2018. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesThe indictment may or may not lead to a conviction. But the facts it lays out show that Trump is utterly unfit for high office. On the first day of the year 2021, then-President Donald Trump reportedly called his Vice President Mike Pence to abuse him. Trump was furious that Pence had opposed a lawsuit... Read more ›
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This man is sweaty. I empathize with his pain. | Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty ImagesNot all 75°F days are created equal. Editor’s note: Summer 2023 has been one of the hottest on record — although one of the coolest we’ll ever see again — and we could all use a little help navigating the heat. Below is an interview from 2022 (another hot year!) that seeks to help you read... Read more ›
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