Demonstrators demanding a ceasefire in Gaza hold a rally in the rotunda of the Cannon Building on October 18, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow the mainstream left is trying to save its approach to Israel from the pro-Hamas fringe. They marched on the White House to make their demands clear: a Biden-brokered ceasefire — now; the release of hostages held by Hamas militants; more forceful American condemnation... Read more ›
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A group of purple stove-pipe sponges off the Caribbean island of Bonaire. | Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesDeep-sea mining threatens the world’s untapped and unknown underwater pharmacies. In 1987, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first medication to treat HIV. The drug, known as AZT, was a beacon of hope for the millions of people who were living with the virus. It helped lengthen countless... Read more ›
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Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally outside Downing Street in support of the Palestinian population of Gaza on October 14, 2023, in London. | Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty ImagesSome human rights groups have reached this conclusion based on how the crime is defined in international law. In recent years, human rights organizations and legal experts have increasingly described Israel’s policies toward Palestinians as apartheid, adding to a longstanding debate about... Read more ›
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Shooting range owner John Deloca aims his pistol at his range in Queens, New York, on June 23, 2022. | Ed Jones/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat should the Supreme Court do when gun laws are written by incompetent trolls? Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) is one of the most incompetently drafted statutes to reach the Supreme Court in a long time. It is written as though the state legislature were... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) arrives at his office in the Rayburn House Office Building on October 19, 2023, in Washington, DC. Jordan failed again on Wednesday in the most recent vote to become speaker of the House. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesWill the “Never Jordan” bloc cave? Will there be a bipartisan deal? Or ... what? On Thursday morning, House Republican leaders had hoped they’d finally found a way out of... Read more ›
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Photographs of Israeli hostages are posted in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesWith at least 199 being held in Gaza, the country has never faced a situation like this before. For nearly two weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel, those in the country and in Gaza have been forced to navigate multiple overlapping crises: the killing of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians and a... Read more ›
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Jessica Rosenworcel at a net neutrality rally in 2017. Rosenworcel is now the FCC chair and just moved to restore net neutrality. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt’s a lot more than Verizon treating all broadband traffic equally. Editor’s note, October 19, 3:20 pm ET: The FCC has voted to proceed with its proposal to restore the net neutrality rules that were repealed during the Trump administration. The agency will seek public... Read more ›
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In 1988, a Palestinian mother and child walk along the border of the Ansar II prison camp in Gaza, Israeli soldiers standing guard. | Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty ImagesTo understand the Israel-Hamas war, you have to understand how we got here. Hamas’s attack on Israel, and Israel’s offensive in Gaza in response, is yet another escalation in a long conflict that has already left thousands dead on both sides. The latest round... Read more ›
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United Airlines wants to zero out its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but without using conventional carbon offsets. | Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesCleaner, faster, cheaper — the aviation industry’s plan to decarbonize air travel, explained. If you’ve caught an ad for an airline lately on TV, a podcast, or the entertainment display on your flight, you’ve probably heard the company brag about what it wants to do about climate... Read more ›
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Fran Lebowitz | Brigitte LacombeAnd that you should probably wear shoes. Does anyone have it figured out as well as Fran Lebowitz? She spent the 1970s hanging out with Andy Warhol and writing two books that made her the toast of her generation (1978’s Metropolitan Life and 1981’s Social Studies). Then she claimed writer’s block, hung it all up, and declined to publish anymore. Now she’s in the amorphous career... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden joins Israel’s prime minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. | Miriam Alster/AFP via Getty ImagesBiden has avoided Middle East peacemaking. Now, it’s the only path forward. President Joe Biden’s quick visit on Wednesday to wartime Israel was designed as a show of support for the close US ally, one that inspired confidence in Israel as... Read more ›
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Smoke from a fire that broke out after a rocket attack from Gaza fills the streets of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on October 11, 2023. | Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesMisinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is easy to find online. Here’s how to avoid spreading it. After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,000 and taking at least 150 hostages,... Read more ›
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks briefly to reporters at the US Capitol on October 16, 2023. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBut he’s going to keep trying to flip GOP holdouts. Speaker Jim Jordan. The phrase would have long been unthinkable, even laughable, to most Republicans in the House of Representatives. But though he’s long been considered a firebrand, an attack dog, and even a “legislative terrorist” (per former Speaker John Boehner),... Read more ›
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Noah Kahan performing at the Austin City Limits festival in October 2023. | Tim Mosenfelder/FilmMagicYoung Vermonters are, for maybe the first time ever, at the precipice of culture. Two years ago, in a post bemoaning a certain style of Obama-era music made by men who used mustache wax and played the banjo, someone on Twitter wrote, “i like to call it stomp clap hey. that shit sucked lmao.” The Lumineers... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAI will play a major role in how children born today experience the world. It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse. My family is expecting our third child in just a few days. For my part, welcoming a new baby presents an occasion to reflect on the world that I’m bringing them into. I’ve never agreed with the perspective — worryingly common among some... Read more ›
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A herd of buffalo shares the plains of The Nature Conservancy’s Tall Grass Prairie Preserve with pump jacks on March 30, 2007, in Osage County, Oklahoma. The discovery of oil in the region in the late 1890s set the stage for one of the most horrific periods in American history: The Osage Murders. | Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesA century later, we still don’t know the full, stomach-churning extent... Read more ›
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Pete Gamlen for VoxWe finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it? If I gave you $5,000 right now and asked you to spend it in whatever way would help people the most, what would you do? That amount of money can buy 1,000 malaria-preventing bed nets that will, on average, end up saving one kid’s life. Or it can boost the... Read more ›
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Claire Merchlinsky for VoxLots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? Is the world facing a “polycrisis”? Is there even such a thing? First coined in the late 1990s, the term entered the zeitgeist earlier this year, when “polycrisis” became the neologism du jour at the most recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Its use evoked the world’s current tangled mess of problems — pandemic,... Read more ›
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Factory workers and UAW union members outside of a Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky on October 14, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty ImagesWhat “hot strike summer” celebrations miss. This is Joe Travers’s second time being on strike in four years. He walked out in 2019, when the United Auto Workers undertook a 40-day work stoppage against General Motors, where he’s worked since 2015. Now, the plant he works at in Wentzville,... Read more ›
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Medicine has historically been a high-stress profession, but the pandemic amplified that risk. | Getty Images/iStockphotoWhy doctors are so stressed out, depressed, and suicidal — and what can be done about it. Twice a week, Boston-area psychiatrist Elissa Ely volunteers at a US anonymous help line for physicians in crisis. The calls she takes are often from people in deep distress — physicians having panic attacks, abusing substances or alcohol,... Read more ›
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