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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David McNew/Getty ImagesYes, one of them involves puppies. We share the planet with some 7.7 million species of animals. And every day, they confound us. Take the orcas (i.e., killer whales), for example, that have taken to ramming human vessels. Despite the tens of thousands of academic papers that have been written about them, the best any researcher can do to explain why they have been bludgeoning ships is shrug,... Read more ›
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Trump supporters stand on a US Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe latest Trump indictment underscores the tricky politics of accountability in a highly polarized era. A few weeks ago, while chasing unproven criminal connections between the president and his son, far-right Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene unintentionally summed up a... 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. Water temperatures in the... Read more ›
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Jesus and his disciples, depicted in the hit Christian series The Chosen. | Angel / Vertical FilmsThe Chosen’s Christian nepo baby roots — and other ways the hit drama might surprise you. In this age of endless streaming cancellations, it’s a rare thing for a show — even one with a cult following — to last multiple seasons, let alone thrive while doing so. Yet The Chosen, the popular Christian... Read more ›
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Welcome to Hot Strike Summer, where everyone, it seems, is on strike. | Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC ImagesFrom actors to delivery drivers, why 2023 is a perfect storm for strikes. Everyone, it seems, is on strike or threatening to be. Not only have delivery drivers, teachers, and hotel workers taken to picket lines in recent months, so have the people who play them on TV. Actors in SAG-AFTRA and writers... Read more ›
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Donald Trump now faces his third criminal indictment. | Getty ImagesTrump will finally stand trial for his attempt to destroy US democracy. Well, it finally happened. After being indicted twice on relatively minor charges — an alleged scheme to cover up an extramarital affair in New York, and unlawful retention of classified documents in a Florida federal court — former President Donald Trump will face trial for one of the... 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 Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. | Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe companies are protesting Canada’s new “link tax” law by pulling news links off their platforms. Update, August 1, 4:15 pm ET: Meta announced that it has begun ending news on its platforms for all Canadian users, a process that it expects to take “a few weeks.” Canadians... Read more ›
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A still from Pee-wee's Big Holiday. | NetflixFor more than 40 years, the character entertained kids and adults alike with his cockeyed comedic sensibility. Editor’s note, August 1, 2023: Paul Reubens died on July 30 of cancer. He was 70. Our story on Reubens’s most famous creation, Pee-wee Herman, originally published on March 19, 2016, follows. Pee-wee Herman, created and embodied by Paul Reubens, came into the world in 1977,... Read more ›
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Signage on a shopping cart at a Manhattan Trader Joe’s grocery store in New York in December 2021. | Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeaving food safety to private enterprise has risks. Over the past week, Trader Joe’s has announced three separate product recalls — for cookies, broccoli-cheddar soup, and falafel — due to the possibility they were contaminated with insects or rocks. It’s “really very problematic” for the company,... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election at Erie Insurance Arena on July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pennsylvania. | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesThe former president’s legal woes are costing his team — literally. Former President Donald Trump’s legal woes are continuing to pile up, and they’re costing his team – literally. In the first half of this... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. Or get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our Crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed by these... Read more ›
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llegal and ghost guns on display at New York Attorney General Letitia James’s offices in Manhattan on March 15, 2023. | Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe fight over “ghost guns” arrives on the Court’s shadow docket. Last month, a federal judge known for creatively reading the law to achieve conservative policy outcomes handed down a decision that would open a significant loophole in US... Read more ›
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Finalists in three categories across audio, video, and text Today, Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma congratulated members of the Vox newsroom on being named as finalists for three Online News Association awards. “We are thrilled that Vox’s incredible team of reporters across audio, video, and text have had their exemplary, impactful work recognized by ONA,” said Sharma. “The strength of our multimedia newsroom is critical to meeting audiences across the platforms... Read more ›
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Today’s cruise ships are several times as big as the Titanic. Cruise ships are freaking big. They’re the biggest passenger vessels humans have ever built. In size and appearance, they look nothing like almost any other boat. So how did they get that way? The predecessor of today’s cruise ships was the ocean liner: big, beautiful ships that sailed across the Atlantic. But ocean liners had a totally different purpose... Read more ›
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Joe Biden knows the economy is strong and wants you to know that, too. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesBidenomics, or the real story of a sort of made-up thing. Joe Biden would like you to feel good about the economy — which, by the way, is actually pretty decent at the moment. He would also like you to associate those good feelings with him. Hence what the... Read more ›
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Tracy Ma for New York magazine and VoxAfter Britney Spears was released from her conservatorship, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all? This article is a collaboration between New York magazine and Vox. Was Britney Spears in trouble? It was January 24, 2023, more than a year after the conservatorship that had controlled her life for 13 years... Read more ›
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A Homo Neandertalensis skull, originally from the Near East, at the Marseille Prehistory Lab. | Marc Charuel/Sygma via Getty ImagesNeanderthals are extinct. But their molecules are back and they just might save our lives. Maybe you remember the movie Jurassic Park, where scientists bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Or maybe you’ve heard about the real-world scientific quest to de-extinct the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Whether we’re talking dinos or... Read more ›
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Simone Virgini for VoxChatGPT, Midjourney, and other tools are forcing Biden and Congress to take AI seriously. AI is getting seriously good. And the federal government is finally getting serious about AI. The White House announced a suite of artificial intelligence policies in May. More recently, they brokered a number of voluntary safety commitments from leading AI companies in July. That included commitments to both internal and third-party testing of... Read more ›
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A picture of Tylee Ryan, left, and J.J. Vallow is seen on a fence opposite the property where their bodies were found in 2020, on April 4, 2023, in Rexburg, Idaho. | Natalie Behring/Getty ImagesAfter two missing children, a quadruple homicide, and the darkest of true crimes. Lori Vallow finally receives her sentence. One of the most high-profile and tragic cases in recent true crime memory is nearing a conclusion,... Read more ›
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