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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Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the Philadelphia shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. A shooter randomly fired at passersby in Philadelphia Monday night, killing five people, including a 15-year-old boy, and injuring two more. The shooter was wearing a bulletproof vest and was armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun. It’s not clear what their motive was, given that... Read more ›
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Aleksei Morozov/Getty ImagesTikTok isn’t the way I want the internet to work, but it’s where the internet is going. I was trying to find a TikTok video to show my mom when the realization hit me: I am becoming her. That is to say, I’ve aged out of the intended and desired audience for popular new apps. They’re no longer made with me in mind, and there’s a steeper learning... Read more ›
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About 30 percent of the US’s homeless population lives in California. A recent large study describes their lives. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesHow homeless people in California lost their homes, and how they cope. While unsheltered homelessness in the US has grown conspicuously worse over the last decade, understanding the experiences of those living without housing remains logistically difficult. So much of what researchers know about the... Read more ›
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Shala Waines uses her 2015 Hyundai Elantra to run her small business, to supplement her income making UberEats and DoorDash deliveries, and to get herself and her daughter to school, the store, and appointments. “It’s everything,” she says.For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity. It was the third Saturday of the month, which meant that Shala Waines was up early. In a few hours, she had... Read more ›
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AI oracles are all the rage on TikTok. | John Lund/Getty Images TikTok users are turning AI filters into fortunetellers. Can an AI predict your fate? Can it read your life and draw trenchant conclusions about who you are? Hordes of people on TikTok and Snapchat seem to think so. They’ve started using AI filters as fortunetellers and fate predictors, divining everything from the age of their crush to whether... Read more ›
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A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector uses larvicide granules on plants where water has pooled in August 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAmericans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. Over the last month, five people in the US (four in Florida and one in Texas) have acquired malaria within the country’s borders. That’s pretty uncommon — at least, in this century; until the 1950s, malaria was... Read more ›
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It’s not your imagination: pasta salad is taking over social media. | Carlo A/Getty ImagesHere’s why the summer picnic staple is all over TikTok, Instagram, and food publications. Welcome to Noticed, Vox’s cultural trend column. You know that thing you’ve been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it. What is it: Glorious pasta salads. But these are not your random aunt’s mayo-filled macaroni creations you remember from... Read more ›
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A vendor sells T-shirts of presidential candidate and former Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on the Tahrir Square before the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, in 2014. | Amru Salahuddien/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesYasmine El Rashidi on how politics and art are inseparable in Sisi’s Egypt. Ten years ago, the combination of a military coup and a popular uprising overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. The Egyptian military had long been... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThere’s something missing in the heart of the conversation about AI. Recently, a number of viral stories — including one by Vox — described an Air Force simulation in which an autonomous drone identified its operator as a barrier to executing its mission... Read more ›
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Members of the Wagner group stand on the balcony of a building in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. | Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty ImagesWagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies. The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned gold and diamond mining concerns connected to the Wagner group in Mali and the Central African Republic after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary... Read more ›
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Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty ImagesWagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies. The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned gold and diamond mining concerns connected to the Wagner group in Mali and the Central African Republic after Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the mercenary group’s founder, attempted to stage a mutiny in Russia last weekend. The gold and diamond mining enterprises, as well as a UAE-based distributor... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoHelp your mind — and the earth — manage the uncertainty of climate change. The effects of climate change are visceral and distressing: images of thick wildfire smoke blanketing cities, reports of deadly heat waves and record flooding. Over 1 billion people globally could be displaced by events brought on by climate change, such as food and water shortages and increased exposure to natural disasters, by 2050, according to... Read more ›
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Obesity doctors say patients need to know Ozempic and Wegovy are not short-term fixes and they may not be covered by health insurance. | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty ImagesThe myths and questions doctors are hearing from patients about Ozempic. We’re at the very beginning of a new era in weight loss drugs that promise extraordinary results. But ultimately, their impact depends on a few things: how well they work, how... Read more ›
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Protesters against a new immigration law march along Palm Beach Boulevard in Fort Myers, Florida, on June 28, 2023. | Joseph Agcaoili/AFP via Getty ImagesThe law that takes effect this weekend has already sparked fear — and could carry human and financial costs. In the first few weeks of May, Yesica Ramirez’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. Florida’s state legislature had just approved SB 1718, a wide-ranging anti-immigrant law that requires... Read more ›
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Photo by Myke Sena/Getty ImagesThe Brazilian election court’s decision is based on his abuse of power and lies about the election. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s right-wing former president, has been banned from holding office for the next eight years. Brazil’s top elections court on Friday found that Bolsonaro had abused his power by repeatedly lying about the integrity of the country’s 2022 elections, in which former president Luiz Inácio Lula da... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers / VoxFrom shipwrecks to hijackings to sex comedies, these are the best books of the first half of 2023. The year is half over now. We’ve seen the swell of austere literary fiction in February, the first crop of lazy beach novels for summer. There have been big buzzy memoirs published, and cookbooks, and essays. Now, before the overwhelming surge of fall prestige book season, let’s stop and... Read more ›
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First responders in Eagle Pass, Texas, stock up on water amid a severe heat wave in the region. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesFast-moving air 8 miles in the sky is pinning hot air over the South, driving the heat index into triple digits. The South is no stranger to heat, but the temperatures and humidity right now are testing even the hardiest denizens of Dixie as the hot weather stretches into... Read more ›
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| GettyThe burger-sized hole in climate change coverage, explained. Last weekend, Elon Musk posted one of his more outrageously false tweets to date: “Important to note that what happens on Earth’s surface (eg farming) has no meaningful impact on climate change.” Musk was, as he has been from time to time, wrong. As climate experts rushed to emphasize, farming actually accounts for around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.... Read more ›
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A Ukrainian soldier is seen holding a kitten in a former Russian soldiers’ base in the newly liberated village of Neskuchne. | Ashley Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhat happens to all those fighters? What can Ukraine do to exploit Russian weaknesses? In May, Yevgeny Prigozhin declared victory for Wagner Group forces fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. About a month later, those fighters were marching on Moscow, an... Read more ›
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Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero can boxes stacked in a Canadian grocery store in March 2015. | Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGet ready for an earful about the health risks of Diet Coke, Trident gum, Equal, and other sugar-free items. There’s some astonishing news in the world of food safety: Aspartame, a common artificial sweetener used in a wide range of foods and beverages, is about to be declared a... Read more ›
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