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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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a student loan cancellation rally in February 2023. | Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesAdvocates see another path — if the administration is willing to take it. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to strike down President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt, halting relief for the more than 40 million Americans who would have had some of their debt erased.... Read more ›
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Bud Light sent beers to a trans influencer is the new M&Ms are girls. | Patrick McDermott/Getty ImagesBud Light sent a handful of beers to a trans influencer, and all hell broke loose. In early April, Bud Light sent an influencer named Dylan Mulvaney a handful of beers. Mulvaney, in turn, posted a video of herself dressed like Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, using said beers to celebrate both... 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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Boris SV/Getty ImagesThe science of consciousness still has no theory. In 1998, at the conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), the neuroscientist Christof Koch made a bet with the philosopher David Chalmers: by 2023, science would be able to explain how the brain’s tangle of neurons gives rise to the phenomenon we call consciousness. The winner would get a case of wine. Koch was a... Read more ›
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Jennifer Gratz was one of the first to successfully argue against race in affirmative action. | Andrew Burton via Getty ImagesEditor’s note, June 29, 2023: The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended affirmative action in higher education in a pair of cases concerning admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Read our latest coverage here. The original story, on a separate 2016 case out of Texas, follows.... Read more ›
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Crowds protest during a memorial march for a French teenager, named Nahel, on June 29, 2023 in Nanterre, France. | Abdulmonam Eassa/Getty ImagesFrance finds itself at the center of the global reckoning over police violence. Widespread protests have continued for days across France after police killed a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb when he refused to comply with a traffic stop, prompting a national reckoning on racism and excessive force... Read more ›
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Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, addresses the crowd during a Medical Professionals speak out against Hate Speech press conference at Chinese Hospital on June 30, 2020, in San Francisco, California. | Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe cases rely on a narrative that doesn’t reflect the diversity of views among Asian Americans. On June 29, the Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in a 6-3... Read more ›
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Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the Court’s budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on March 7, 2019, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy repudiates a line in a 1977 Supreme Court decision that pretty much everyone hates. Ordinarily, the eight most alarming words to progressives that can appear in a Supreme Court decision are... Read more ›
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Richard A. Chance for VoxThe debate has long tapped into American resentments and anxieties. The Supreme Court’s decision may quiet one controversy, but new battles rage. When Clarence Thomas started his first semester of law school during the summer of 1971, a familiar fear set over him: He knew he could succeed academically, but he was intimidated by his new surroundings on Yale’s tree-lined urban campus — and also terrified... Read more ›
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The “stewardess rebellion” fought the industry and won. When flight attendants, known as stewardesses at the time, first took flight in the 1930s, the profession became a token of glamour. Unlike other jobs open to women at the time, like teaching or secretarial work, stewardesses had a unique opportunity to travel the world and meet new people thousands of feet in the air. While the position provided exciting opportunities for... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court decision in the cases on affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina will have long-reaching effects as it restricts race-conscious college admissions. | Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesWhat America will lose, now that affirmative action is effectively gone. The Supreme Court’s much-anticipated affirmative action decision Thursday does not explicitly overrule the Court’s previous decisions permitting race-conscious university admissions, but it will. Read more ›
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Demonstrators supporting Harvard University’s admission process hold signs and gather during a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018. | Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court just effectively ended colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions. Here’s what could happen next. Affirmative action as we know it is gone. In a 6-3 ruling today in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and a companion lawsuit against the... Read more ›
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Education supporters demonstrate outside the US Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, in Washington, DC, after the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The ruling could have sweeping implications for colleges across the country. | Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty ImagesEverything you need to know about the two cases that will likely have sweeping implications for race-conscious admissions at US... Read more ›
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Amanda Northrop/VoxEverything you need to know about the two cases that will likely have sweeping implications for race-conscious admissions at US colleges and beyond. The Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action policies at two colleges, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, are illegal, a decision that is likely to drastically limit admissions officers’ consideration of race as a factor in college applications, and has the potential to... Read more ›
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Harrison Ford returns. | DisneyThe new Indiana Jones movie hits different in the IP age. In 1981’s Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, the mercenary archaeologist René Belloq looks his friend-turned-foe Indiana Jones square in the eye and tells him the absolute truth. “Indiana,” he says, “we are simply passing through history.” They’re discussing the treasure they seek: the Ark of the Covenant, which might be just... Read more ›
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Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe Court’s decision will almost certainly have the same effect as a total ban on race-conscious admissions. The Supreme Court severely curtailed the use of affirmative action in higher education, ruling that universities cannot explicitly consider race in granting admission and effectively reversing nearly 50 years of precedent. The 6-person majority’s opinion is likely to radically transform the college admissions process. Justices heard two cases in... Read more ›
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Does it feel like your streaming platform is getting lighter? There’s a reason. | Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesDude, where’s my show? This was the promise of the streaming age: You can have everything, you can have it everywhere, and you can have it all, at once. Subscribe to our platform and you’ll have access to our huge library of “content” forever, on demand, whenever you want it. You want more? Look,... 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. | Getty ImagesGet ready for a bumpy summer travel season. Summer travel is back. So back, in fact, that the federal Transportation Security Administration... 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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Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe hard problem of faked data in science. Francesca Gino is a Harvard Business School professor who studies, among other things, dishonesty. How often do people lie and cheat when they think they can get away with it? How can people be prompted to lie or cheat less often? Those are some great questions. But it’s been a rough few years for the... Read more ›
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