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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Actress Keke Palmer and boyfriend Darius Jackson courtside at the 2022 NBA All Star Weekend. | Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty ImagesWhat Keke Palmer, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jonah Hill tell us about how we talk about gender online. At this point, Twitter’s death feels imminent. Between expired rate limits, the proliferation of bots, and an app from a rival billionaire dubbed the “Twitter killer,” it appears the end is nigh.... Read more ›
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A mailbox sits in front of a flooded property on Route 11 on July 10, 2023 in Londonderry, Vermont. | Scott Eisen/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 planet. “It’s worse... Read more ›
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A Palestinian boy looks at damage to a building on July 6, following the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. | Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua via Getty ImagesWhat we learned from Ambassador Tom Nides’s exit interview with the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal on Monday published an exit interview with President Joe Biden’s outgoing ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, in which he called on Prime Minister... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA judge has denied the agency’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger. Microsoft’s merger with video game giant Activision Blizzard just got a major power-up: a federal district court judge in California has turned down the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop it. The agency is currently suing Microsoft and Activision... Read more ›
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And why so many of those players are among the best in Major League Baseball. Baseball has a long history in the United States, but it also has strong roots in the Caribbean and Latin America, particularly in the Dominican Republic. Cubans were the first to bring the game from the US to their country in the 19th century, and later, wealthy Cubans introduced it to the Dominican Republic. Over... Read more ›
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Microsoft may soon become Activision’s new owner. | Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA judge has denied the agency’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger. Microsoft’s merger with video game giant Activision Blizzard just got a major power-up: a judge has turned down the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop it. The agency is currently suing Microsoft and Activision to block the massive $69... 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 gives the Teamsters union a lot more leverage in UPS negotiations. When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the New York Times reported that the labor stoppage “created myriad inconveniences, large and small, for companies and consumers across the nation” and... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopA conversation about parenting, our planet, and holding onto hope. There are a handful of topics that I almost force myself to not think about because the thoughts lead to a dead end. At the top of that list is climate change. It’s one of those problems that starts to overwhelm me when I consider the scale and the implications and all the barriers to tackling it. I also... Read more ›
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson pose for a photograph during their meeting ahead of the NATO Summit on July 11, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania. | Filip Singer/Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Erdoğan reversed himself on the eve of NATO’s summit in Vilnius. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has agreed to support Sweden’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO),... Read more ›
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King Charles III greets President Joe Biden at Windsor Castle as part of a ceremonial welcome on July 10, 2023. | Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesBiden’s big Europe trip could have major implications for Ukraine. President Joe Biden is in Europe this week for a series of pivotal meetings, including a NATO summit centered on long-term Ukraine policy in Vilnius, Lithuania. These meetings come at a critical time: They are meant to... Read more ›
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iStock/Getty Images PlusArtificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere — or at least, that’s what it seems like to us at Vox. Even in its current form and with its limitations, the tech is already shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live and work. Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E, are systems designed to produce something new based on its previous experience. Some of these... Read more ›
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A same-sex marriage supporter waves an LGBTQIA Pride flag in front of the US Supreme Court building. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesA new federal appeals court decision is a terrible blow to trans rights, and a potential earthquake in the fight for LGBTQ equality. In recent months, Republican lawmakers in many states enacted laws targeting LGBTQ Americans, attempting to shut down their right to free expression and even deny them medical... Read more ›
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King Charles III greets President Joe Biden at Windsor Castle as part of a ceremonial welcome on July 10, 2023. | Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesBiden’s big Europe trip could have major implications for Ukraine. President Joe Biden is in Europe this week for a series of pivotal meetings, including a NATO summit centered on long-term Ukraine policy in Vilnius, Lithuania. These meetings come at a critical time: They are meant to... Read more ›
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It’s still not clear what might convince Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to drop his opposition and allow Sweden into the alliance. | Yavuz Ozden/dia images via Getty ImagesThe Turkey-Sweden-NATO drama, briefly explained. Update, July 10, 3:55 pm ET: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has agreed to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid. The story about how we got here, originally published on July 8,... Read more ›
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A woman rests as people wait for their flights to be rescheduled at the Newark International Airport on June 27. Hundreds of flights in the New York area — and more than 15,000 nationally — have been delayed or canceled this week due to severe weather. | Kena Betancur/Getty ImagesAs delays and flight cancellations continue, here’s how weather — and even wildfire smoke — is causing logjams and delays. Summer... 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, coming July 21st, that could save cinema as we know it. Okay, maybe that... Read more ›
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It’s still not clear what might convince Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to drop his opposition and allow Sweden into the alliance. | Yavuz Ozden/dia images via Getty ImagesThe Turkey-Sweden-NATO drama, briefly explained. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pretty much the most popular guy in town these days — if that town is Vilnius, Lithuania, and if you’re popular because everyone has to be nice to you so you’ll... Read more ›
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In a week, Meta’s social media app Threads, positioned as a competitor to Twitter, has reached 100 million users. | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWith 100 million users, Mark Zuckerberg is already winning his fight against Elon Musk — at least in the cage match that is social media. The much-anticipated wrestling cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t happened yet, and may never happen at all.... Read more ›
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This guy seems worried about humanity’s future. | Getty ImagesA group of experts and “superforecasters” try to estimate the probability humans will go extinct by 2100. Predicting the future perfectly is impossible. Predicting it with more accuracy than a magic eight ball is extremely hard. But in recent years, a Penn psychologist has been arguing that this kind of prediction is possible — and that some specific people are especially... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesTwo economists on why progress requires more than technological innovation alone It’s tempting to imagine progress strictly as a technological science, where both its history and future are stories of humanity becoming more prosperous one major innovation at a time. But that would be a mistake, according to MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson in their new book, Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity.... Read more ›
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