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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Amazon and Walmart are in a race to make everything cheaper, faster, and ... worse. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesAmazon and Walmart are a little bit evil and make us a little bit evil, too. It’s Amazon’s world, and we’re just living in it. Or Walmart’s. Or really, actually, both. Many Americans like to think of themselves as conscientious consumers — as the types of people who shop their values,... Read more ›
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Air Force officers manning the computers at a launch control center in Great Falls, Montana, capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles. Could the computers become more dangerous than the missiles? | Lido Vizzutti for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesWhat the history of nuclear arms can — and can’t — tell us about the future of AI. If you spend enough time reading about artificial intelligence, you’re bound to encounter... Read more ›
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The princesses of Once Upon a One More Time wave their copies of The Feminine Mystique in empowerment as they surround the OFG (Original Fairy Godmother). It’s that kind of show! | Matthew MurphyOnce Upon a One More Time is a lumpy slurry of Britney Spears, Cinderella, and Betty Friedan. For some reason, it’s part of a bigger trend. On June 22, the new Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden during a state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 22, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTwo whistleblowers argue the DOJ went soft on Hunter Biden. Here’s what they told Congress. Hunter Biden struck a deal with federal prosecutors last week, agreeing to plead guilty to two tax charges and likely avoiding jail time, but the drama over his investigation is... Read more ›
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At Cannes Lions advertising festival in 2023, AI dominated the conversation. | Paige Vickers/VoxAt Cannes Lions, the year’s biggest ad event, you couldn’t escape talk of ChatGPT or Midjourney, even at the yacht parties. “If you were branding this Cannes, it would be the AI Cannes,” Meta ad executive, Nicola Mendelsohn, told me last week. We were sitting in a glass-walled cabana on the French Riviera, steps away from the... Read more ›
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Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a The Weeknd, as Tedros Tedros in The Idol, a five-episode miniseries (not six!) on HBO. | Eddy Chen/HBOHBO knows you don’t like The Idol. But it didn’t shorten the season because of it. Like the candy known as circus peanuts, no one of sound mind is yearning for more of The Idol. Critics have panned HBO’s nipple-core fantasy since its premiere at Cannes in May, and audiences... 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. Several US cities are again experiencing air quality issues this week as wildfires continue to... Read more ›
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An orange-tinged smog caused by Canada’s wildfires blanketed New York City on June 7, obscuring its famous skyscrapers. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesThe latest news and updates about Canada’s wildfires. The summer of 2023 has seen persistent spikes in dangerous air quality levels across the United States as smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada is blown south. In early June, the smoke in New York City was so bad... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoHow the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will make your job better. Working while pregnant is still tough, but it just got a whole lot better. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which went into effect this week, gives pregnant and postpartum workers rights to temporary accommodations at work — things like flexible schedules, lighter duty, remote work, more breaks, or access to a chair. The hope is that this... Read more ›
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Worsening wildfires mean everyone should have a basic understanding of how to read and respond to the Air Quality Index. It’s a good idea to reduce outdoor exercise on hazardous air days to cut down on exposure. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images8 things you should know about the number that measures bad air. It’s not enough to trust the senses to know when it’s a bad air day. Well... Read more ›
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Copies of banned books from various states and school systems from around the county are seen during a press conference by US House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) at the US Capitol on March 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jeffries spoke out against the recently passed Parents Bill of Rights Act and the banning and censorship of books in schools. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesThe restrictions are escalating into threats to... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxTrans girls own the internet. Meet six you should be following. Dianne Brill recently defined the “it-girl” as someone who, “all of a sudden, when you leave, the party’s down.” She was talking about her scene, in her era: 1980s New York City nightlife. If there’s a parallel to today’s pandemic hangover world, it would be the endless virtual party of the internet. And on the internet,... Read more ›
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Tech workers pivot to AI | Getty ImagesThe AI specialist is the new “it” girl in tech. While tech workers are dealing with pay stagnation, layoffs, and generally less demand for their skills than they’d enjoyed for the past decade, the artificial intelligence specialist has become the new “it” girl in Silicon Valley. “All of the products that we’re working on, that we’re seeing today, are shifting toward that AI-powered... Read more ›
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Frog and Toad, as adapted for the AppleTV+ show named after them. | AppleTV+Arnold Lobel’s quietly radical creations speak to those who don’t want to live a predetermined life. It’s fitting that the first story of Arnold Lobel’s first Frog and Toad book — a pairing that has seen a memetic cultural resurgence in the years since the pandemic — is called simply, “Spring.” Even three years on, it feels... Read more ›
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin appeals to the citizens of Russia on June 24, 2023. | Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesA Russian journalist on how the country sees the surprise mutiny. The dramatic weekend of violence Russia — a mutiny that left warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin exiled in Belarus — captured the American media’s attention. What about those watching the events in Russia? Almost a year and a half into... Read more ›
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Entrepreneur and political activist Vivek Ramaswamy waits to take the stage during the Vision 2024 National Conservative Forum at the Charleston Area Convention Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 18, 2023. | Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty ImagesVivek Rameswamy has achieved semi-prominence as an anti-woke rising star. What is he actually saying? Donald Trump is a known quantity. Ron DeSantis is struggling. A plethora of other traditional GOP politicians, some... Read more ›
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...And scientists don’t fully understand why. Out of the millions of fungal species in the world, only a few hundred can make people sick. Coccidioides is one of them — and it lives in desert dust. Microscopic spores are kicked up when the ground is disturbed; if inhaled, they can cause an infection known as Valley fever. Most people recover without ever knowing they had it, but others will experience... Read more ›
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Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThis painful, mosquito-borne virus could spread even more if new innovations can’t scale. Break-bone fever. Break heart fever. Seven-day fever. They are all names for the painful — often debilitating and sometimes deadly — mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever. Dengue can cause high fever, nausea, rash, body aches, and stiff movements, and can leave patients suffering from depression and fatigue in its wake. Dengue has been... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump departs the stage after speaking at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner at Suburban Collection Showplace on June 25, 2023, in Novi, Michigan | Scott Olson/Getty Images“He’s his own worst enemy as usual.” On Monday night, CNN published an exclusive regarding former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment: audio of him allegedly discussing and sharing a classified document with civilians. Although much of the tape’s... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks during a campaign rally on June 26, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesThe Florida governor’s immigration platform shows how he’s struggling to articulate why he’s a better version of Trump. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis channeled Donald Trump in the immigration platform he announced Monday. In doing so, he seemed to hope winning ownership of an issue that defined the... Read more ›
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