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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Abortion rights activists march to the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG via Getty ImagesIf upheld, the ban could put further pressure on abortion providers in the Midwest. Iowa’s new ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant, has been temporarily blocked in court. An Iowa judge ruled Monday that the state must preserve... Read more ›
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Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, during a community listening session at Piketon High School in Piketon, Ohio, in 2022. | Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJoe Manchin is giving Democrats another headache. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin didn’t rule out the possibility of running as a third-party presidential candidate in 2024 at an event hosted by the centrist group No Labels in New Hampshire Monday. He said... Read more ›
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Doubleday BooksThe two-time Pulitzer winner is using his Harlem Shuffle trilogy to tell the history of New York. Colson Whitehead has had a big decade. He won back-to-back Pulitzers for his novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). Then he saw The Underground Railroad get adapted into one of the most critically acclaimed TV series of 2021. Now, he’s following it all up with his new novel... Read more ›
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Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania operators in 1945. By that point, the process of automating telephone operation was well underway. | Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania/Federal Communications Commission/PhotoQuest/Getty ImagesHow automation wiped out a whole career for young women — and how young women adapted. If you were a young (white) woman looking for work in the early 1920s, you could do worse than becoming a telephone operator. In the early... Read more ›
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G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller at a 2022 conference. | Piaras Ă“ MĂdheach/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty ImagesWhy G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher that owns sites like Gizmodo, the Onion, and Jezebel, published four stories that had been almost entirely generated by AI engines. The stories — which included multiple errors and which ran... Read more ›
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Diego Mallo for VoxThe Canadian, biracial, Jewish, middle-class, former child actor has reshaped rap, pop, and the masculinity wars. At Chicago’s United Center arena earlier this month, Drake perched comfortably on a couch and read aloud from his new poetry book, Titles Ruin Everything. The book may have been released by Phaidon, the well-respected arthouse publisher, but this was no typical poetry reading. It was the first night of Drake’s... Read more ›
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Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, during a community listening session at Piketon High School in Piketon, Ohio, on October 20, 2022. | Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJoe Manchin is giving Democrats another headache. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by No Labels in New Hampshire Monday, fueling speculation that he might be the centrist group’s pick to launch a... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSony signed a 10-year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation, signaling that it believes Microsoft will soon acquire the game franchise. Microsoft’s $69 billion merger with Activision Blizzard seems all but inevitable now: Sony is finally playing along. Microsoft’s main rival and opposition to the acquisition just signed a deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty... Read more ›
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Chicago’s skyline is seen from the 360 Chicago Observation Deck of the John Hancock Building with heavy smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketing the city, on June 27, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty ImagesCanada’s fire season is especially bad, and it could lead to smoke drifting southward for the rest of the summer. US cities are again experiencing air quality issues this week as wildfires continue to burn... Read more ›
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Vehicles drive through heavy flooding on roadways as water rises around houses in Hope Township, New Jersey, on July 16, 2023. | Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesClimate change is contributing to heavier precipitation, a major factor in flooding. Parts of the United States’s eastern seaboard have been hit with massive floods in recent weeks, a phenomenon that’s expected to grow more common — and worse — as climate change warms the... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump arrives for a roundtable rally with Latino supporters at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona on September 14, 2020. | Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty ImagesNone of the Republican presidential candidates have bothered to translate their websites into Spanish — except Ron DeSantis. That Latino voters will play a pivotal role in the 2024 presidential election is no secret. These traditionally Democratic... Read more ›
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Health workers in northern Israel put a crane that died of bird flu in a bag for disposal on January 2, 2022. | Ariel Schalit/AP13 questions about bird flu, answered. In the last two years, more than half a billion birds have died globally. The cause isn’t deforestation or climate change or the destruction of grasslands — all of which are contributing to the precipitous decline of wild birds —... Read more ›
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Newly appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett stands with the man who put her on the Supreme Court. | Getty ImagesThe major questions doctrine, explained. In the less than three years since President Joe Biden took office, the Supreme Court has effectively seized control over federal housing policy, decided which workers must be vaccinated against Covid-19, stripped the EPA of much of its power to fight climate change, and rewritten a... Read more ›
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Ariel Davis for VoxThe founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done. The scientists want the AI to lie to them. That’s the goal of the project Evan Hubinger, a research scientist at Anthropic, is describing to members of the AI startup’s “alignment” team in a conference room at its downtown San Francisco offices. Alignment means ensuring that the AI systems made... Read more ›
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks to reporters at the US Capitol on July 10, 2023, about his decision to block hundreds of Pentagon promotions. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSen. Tommy Tuberville is holding up Pentagon confirmations in a problematic protest. Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up the confirmation of more than 260 generals for new command posts — including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of... Read more ›
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So your CSA membership means you’re getting a little buried in vegetables. What should you do next? | Getty Images / CSA ImagesCommunity-supported agriculture is a great way to get a variety of local fruits and veggies, but it can be overwhelming to stare down all those leafy greens. My refrigerator’s vegetable drawer is stuffed with kale, peas, and turnips. I suspect my neighbors are in the same boat; up... Read more ›
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Striking Chicago public school teachers picket outside of George Westinghouse College Preparatory High School on September 17, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesWhat Oakland’s teachers union reveals about labor strikes in 2023. The school year ended in dramatic fashion in Oakland, California. Teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023, just three weeks before the last day of the academic calendar. The strike lasted seven school days. In... Read more ›
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Photo by -/AFP via Getty ImagesThe country’s three-month conflict is further destabilizing the region. The discovery of a mass grave containing 87 people n Sudan’s Darfur region is yet another atrocity in a brutal, three-month-long conflict in the country and an echo of infamous horrors of Sudan’s recent past. Just two years ago, Sudan seemed a tentative success story after years of conflict, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT might disrupt or revolutionize many industries. But that doesn’t mean we understand what they’re doing. | Frank Rumpenhorst/Picture Alliance via Getty Images “We built it, we trained it, but we don’t know what it’s doing.” Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT can do a wide range of impressive things: they can write passable essays, they can ace the bar exam, they’ve even been used for scientific... Read more ›
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The grocery shelves are about to get that much more daunting. On July 14, the World Health Organization classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” It’s in tons of food and beverages. | Getty ImagesWhat the WHO’s aspartame warnings mean for you. Diet soda. Chewing gum. Yogurt. Cereal. No, this isn’t someone’s grocery list — these are everyday consumer products that can contain the popular artificial sweetener aspartame. This week,... Read more ›
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