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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Naomi Elliott for VoxImmerse yourself in nature — with respect for the environment and the culture that supports it. If you love nature, you may have tried to plan a vacation where you get to be immersed in it. Maybe you’ve explored a coral reef or visited an elephant sanctuary, or you dream of doing so one day. These activities can fall under the umbrella of ecotourism — a kind... Read more ›
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Death Valley, California, holds the record for the hottest temperature recorded on Earth. | Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty ImagesTemperature records are falling around the world, but those records aren’t equally meaningful. Like an overturned truck that had been carrying vinyl LPs, 2023 is overflowing with broken records. The Atlantic Ocean’s surface temperature is at a record high for this time of year while Antarctic sea ice is at a record... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden greets Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before delivering the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on February 7, 2023 in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. | Jacquelyn Martin/Getty ImagesThe Court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where Black voters can elect their chosen candidate. Last month, the Supreme Court held that Alabama violated the Voting... Read more ›
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Bronny James in December 2021. | Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesBronny James’s heart reportedly stopped during practice. Incidents like this are rare but explainable. On Monday, Bronny James — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James’s 18-year-old son and a freshman point guard on the University of Southern California’s basketball team — collapsed when his heart stopped during practice. After treatment in an intensive care unit, James is now in stable condition, according... Read more ›
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It’s not just a consumer choice; it’s a policy choice. It’s no secret that big cars dominate American roads. But even so, some of the stats are staggering: Last year, 80 percent of all new cars sold in the US were SUVs and trucks. That’s compared to just 52 percent in 2011. Meanwhile, many automakers are phasing out passenger cars as consumer demand for them has disappeared. Not all of... Read more ›
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People walk through the gate at the Harvard University campus on June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesLegacy admits, athletic recruits, and the children of donors, faculty members, and VIPs still have a leg up under the Supreme Court’s new ruling. The Supreme Court’s decision to effectively ban the consideration of race in college admissions reversed more than 40 years of precedent. It also left other kinds... Read more ›
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Teamsters in Queens, New York, hold “practice” picket signs on July 7, ahead of a potential strike. | Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesOur reliance on delivery gave the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. Editor’s note, July 25: UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday, which should avert a nationwide strike that had been planned for August 1. The provisional... Read more ›
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A woman holds a child on her back as migrants walk near concertina wire in the water along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 16, 2023. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty ImagesBiden is clashing with Texas over the border again. The Biden administration has sued Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for refusing to remove a floating barrier along the Rio Grande that has become... Read more ›
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Getty Images“Tripless” drugs might open more opportunities for psychiatry. Just don’t call them psychedelics. Today’s psychedelic renaissance is thriving thanks to a list of drugs that you could count on just one hand. MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, and DMT are driving a revolution in psychiatry while opening new frontiers in the exploration of consciousness. If you expand to your other hand with drugs like ketamine and ibogaine, there’s enough mystery in... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoWhat we know — and what we don’t — about how heat affects mental health. Extreme heat impacts everything it touches — the body, infrastructure, plant life — and even things it doesn’t. It’s hard to ignore the physical sensations of discomfort and sweat on a hot day, but high temperatures can have a negative effect on mental health, too. Given the record-breaking heat bearing down on the US,... 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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The Barbie/Oppenheimer face-off is coming to a theater near you. | Universal Studios / Warner Bros.How the Barbieheimer memes became a real summer movie phenomenon. Barbieheimer. It’s more than just black and pink side by side or a battle of the sexes manifested on celluloid. It’s a meme. It’s a mood. A vibe. A lifestyle. It’s the phenomenon that could save cinema as we know it. Okay, maybe that last... Read more ›
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Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie, a movie about Barbie | Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesA Barbie aficionado and certified doll expert explains why life in plastic has suddenly become so fantastic. This summer belongs to Barbie. Thanks to the Margot Robbie-led movie and the inescapable marketing surrounding it, Mattel’s 64-year-old doll has once again become America’s sweetheart. Everyone wants a Barbie. Everyone wants to be a Barbie. And everyone wants... Read more ›
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Twitter headquarters is seen in San Francisco, California, on November 18, 2022. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesGrieving a loss, when the loss is the hell-bird site you weren’t supposed to love. It may be hard to comprehend, but Twitter has been in its death throes for a full nine months now. Ever since the platform was purchased by Elon Musk in October 2020, its slow deterioration and slide... Read more ›
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Israeli security forces use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. | Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty ImagesA democracy long under pressure is now on the brink of collapse. But it’s not over yet. On Monday morning, the Israeli government passed a bill that might seem on the surface like a technical tweak to its court system. But there’s a... Read more ›
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Elon Musk wants Twitter to have everything but the kitchen sink. | Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty ImagesWait, what’s a super app? Elon Musk’s grand plan for Twitter — that is, what he hopes to create beyond a “town square” for posting and messaging — is starting to take shape. And that shape is a super app called X. On July 23, Musk announced that Twitter would lose... Read more ›
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Kens are just Kens. | Courtesy: Warner BrosThe exisKENtial crisis of Barbie. He’s. Just. Ken. In the lead-up for director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie’s release, the movie’s marketing team deployed the extremely savvy strategy of stating an obvious truth about Barbie Land. Barbies are mermaids, presidents, doctors, diplomats, and Supreme Court justices. The Kens? Only Ken. The movie’s prolific tagline put it plainly: “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.” In the context... Read more ›
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Protests continue against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform plan. | Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAir Force pilots and Israel’s biggest trade union threatened strikes over the legislation. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis throughout the country are protesting the first of a series of proposed radical changes to the country’s judicial system, which they fear will weaken checks on the executive branch — consolidating power under right-wing... Read more ›
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Vice President Javier Ortega Smith helps paste up Vox voting posters during a tour of different streets in the center of Pontevedra, on July 20, 2023, in Galicia, Spain. | Beatriz Ciscar/Europa Press/Getty ImagesThe country’s upcoming elections could see a hard-right party enter national government for the first time in generations. Editor’s note, July 24, 8:30 am: The results of the Spanish election were inconclusive, with neither a conservative Partido... Read more ›
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American nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967) stands in front of blackboard with scientific problems written on it, in the 1940s. | Ullstein bild/Ullstein bild via Getty ImagesOur nuclear reality is Oppenheimer’s “worst nightmare.” The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still have the power to shock: In an instant, the US killed more than a hundred thousand people. But even if the... Read more ›
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