A biker attempts to navigate New York City’s flooded streets in September 2023. | Fatih Aktas/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 this year, a phenomenon that’s expected to grow more common — and worse — as climate change warms the planet. “It’s worse than a new normal. I call... Read more ›
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A caged female breeding pig at a farm in Spain. | Jo-Anne McArthur/Lauren Veerslaat/We Animals MediaThe EU could backslide on its cage-free farming ban and more. Billions of animals hang in the balance. Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution. In the summer of 2021, European Union policymakers promised to phase out cages for 300 million farmed pigs, egg-laying hens, rabbits, and other species, which Vox contributor... Read more ›
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Michael Oher, whose story was depicted in the book and film The Blind Side, is pictured in 2016 on the field in Charlotte with the Carolina Panthers football team. | Scott Cunningham/Getty ImagesMichael Oher says the story of his adoption by a white family was never true and that they exploited him. The 2009 film The Blind Side tells the story of a white family on a heartfelt mission: to... Read more ›
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Soul City was meant to be a Black-led utopia. In the 1960s, Floyd B. McKissick, a prolific civil rights activist, embarked on an ambitious idea: What if Black Americans could build and lead their own city? A place centered on the idea of racial equality and economic power, where everyone, especially people of color and the poor, could thrive? That idea turned into Soul City, North Carolina: the Black-led capitalist... Read more ›
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A pharmacy manager shows off a package of Pfizer Paxlovid pills in January 2022. | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesUS providers are underusing the drug — and not just in high-risk people. A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine got Covid-19. She was scheduled to board a cross-country flight the following week, with important meetings in two cities on her schedule. She really wanted to make... Read more ›
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a May Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFeinstein died as she was preparing to pass the torch to a new generation of leadership. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the US Senate and a vocal advocate for gun control measures, died Thursday night. She was 90. Her death brings to an end a messy, long-running chapter of national politics centered... Read more ›
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Access to the Charlton Flat campground is blocked by a locked gate in the Angeles National Forest on October 2, 2013 in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles, California, during a partial government shutdown that year. | David McNew/Getty ImagesWhat is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown. The US government sure looks like it’s on track for another shutdown. Currently, the House of Representatives has... Read more ›
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Caleb Luke Lin for VoxHungry for money, hackers in Vietnam have hacked into thousands of Meta accounts. Jessica Sems was on Facebook at 2 am when hackers struck in a series of attacks. First, she was locked out. Then, her account data — photos, posts, even her name — were all gone. Within a few minutes, the entire profile looked like it belonged to celebrity portrait photographer Jerry Avenaim. Feeling... Read more ›
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A woman checks her cellphone as she waits in line to enter the US Supreme Court. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesA rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess. About a year ago, an especially right-wing panel of the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that Texas’s state government may effectively... Read more ›
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Paul Dano as Keith Gill a.k.a. Roaring Kitty, the de facto king of the GameStop traders. | Sony PicturesWait, were the short sellers right about GameStop? This is the type of simple story I’d love to be able to tell about GameStop: In early 2021, a ragtag group of everyday traders, led by a Massachusetts dad going by — depending on your social media platform — Roaring Kitty or DeepFuckingValue,... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in the House Chamber after Gaetz for a fourth time held up McCarthy’s election as speaker, on January 6, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA rundown on the factions involved in the disarray. This month, due to House Republican in-fighting, the US government is on the verge of a shutdown yet again. It’s clear Congress doesn’t have time... Read more ›
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The last time the government shut down, in 2018, the Statue of Liberty closed to visitors. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty ImagesIt doesn’t have to be like this. So it’s come to this: The US is facing another government shutdown. Unless the GOP-run House passes stopgap funding before Sunday, the federal government will stop paying millions of workers and military servicemembers. Some services, like parks, will stop entirely, while other federal... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoUniversity of Texas researchers, with help from Mark Cuban, find price transparency still has a long way to go. When Dr. Peter Cram, the University of Texas Medical Branch’s chair of internal medicine, heard billionaire Mark Cuban bemoaning how difficult it is to figure out the cost of routine medical services, he thought he had good news to share. Cram was listening to Cuban’s interview on Jon Stewart’s podcast,... Read more ›
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Young children play at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in Baltimore in 2021. | The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe “child care cliff” marks the end of one of the last pandemic-era safety nets. This weekend, parents and child care providers across the nation are bracing for the end of an instrumental federal program that has stabilized child care programs and reduced costs for families over the past... Read more ›
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An Amazon driver delivers some Prime packages. Amazon’s shipping service is one of several things the FTC says Amazon uses to squeeze sellers and raise prices for customers. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty ImagesWhy the FTC is going after your Prime subscription (and a few other things). The Big Tech antitrust reform movement has come for Amazon. On September 26, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued... Read more ›
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She’s Barbie. He’s just Jaws. Summer 2023 was the summer of Barbie. Warner Bros. Barbie, towering over our lives in 2023.Everywhere you looked there was marketing — posters, ads, trailers. There were Barbie cafés, Barbie Progressive commercials, everyone was wearing pink! It was a delightful wave of cinematic energy. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Burger King Barbie Burger. And it was also completely overwhelming. At times it felt inescapable. Barbie’s marketing... Read more ›
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Protesters hold signs at the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on September 17, 2023. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images“Die-ins,” Krazy Glue, and gridlock: The climate movement is embracing civil disobedience. In the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a group of young climate activists get together to blow up a pipeline in Texas. The movie is fictional, but the book it’s adapted from... Read more ›
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A traffic barrier is seen in front of the dome of the US Capitol as a government shutdown looms in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US government will shut down at 12:01 am ET on Sunday, October 1, 2023, if Congress doesn’t pass a short-term bill to keep the government funded while negotiations on spending for the next year continue. The threat of... Read more ›
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An Armenian tank is displayed in an open-air museum in Azerbaijan called the War Trophy Park, where weapons and armored vehicles captured by the Azerbaijani army during the Second Karabakh War are exhibited. | Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe latest struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, will ripple throughout the region. A decades-long conflict in the Caucasus flared up last week — only to seemingly finally be... Read more ›
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Access to the Charlton Flat campground is blocked by a locked gate in the Angeles National Forest on October 2, 2013 in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles, California, during a partial government shutdown that year. | David McNew/Getty ImagesWhat is — and isn’t — closed during a government shutdown. The US government sure looks like it’s on track for another shutdown. Currently, the House of Representatives has... Read more ›
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