Editor’s note: President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday, January 3, that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a “large scale strike” on the country, a significant escalation of US involvement in the region. Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in […] Read more ›
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Demonstrators protest at the entrance of the gated community where Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clarence lives in Fairfax, Virginia, after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion on June 24, 2022. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty ImagesA year after the end of Roe v. Wade, Democratic voters are still angry. Abortion continued to prove a motivating issue for Democratic voters in Tuesday night’s primaries in Virginia, suggesting that... Read more ›
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Cell-cultivated chicken from startup Eat Just on a grill in Singapore. | Eat JustIn a milestone for the nascent industry, meat grown in a lab will soon land at restaurants in DC and San Francisco. Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted approval to two California-based startups — Upside Foods and Good Meat — to sell their lab-grown or “cell-cultivated” chicken, a historic first in the US. The... Read more ›
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Baton Rogue police arrest protesters on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty ImagesA rogue federal court has spent years harassing a prominent civil rights advocate. For more than four years, a rogue federal... Read more ›
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping enter the hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace on July 4, 2017, in Moscow, Russia. | Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesA strategic friendship, with the US caught between. Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon traveled to China as a way to weaken the Soviet Union and keep the two countries from getting too close. Now America is grappling with a new Cold War in which Russia and... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India chat ahead of a working session on food and energy security during the 2022 G20 Summit in Indonesia. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesNarendra Modi’s war on India’s democracy, explained. This week, President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state dinner — only the third foreign leader to receive such an honor at the Biden White House,... Read more ›
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Richard A. Chance for VoxThe debate has long tapped into American resentments and anxieties. Its fate once again lies in the hands of the Supreme Court. 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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Julie Rikelman, then the Senior Litigation Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, speaks to the media after arguing before the US Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, December 1, 2022. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJulie Rikelman, the abortion rights movement’s top Supreme Court litigator, will serve on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Julie Rikelman is arguably the nation’s preeminent attorney representing the cause of... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump sat down for a Fox News interview addressing his latest indictment. | Getty ImagesThe former president offered a confusing, and likely damaging, defense of his latest indictment. In a tense Fox News interview on Monday, former President Donald Trump offered a confusing defense in response to his recent indictment, touting his right to keep sensitive documents and effectively admitting that he held onto them even after... Read more ›
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, and Valerie Biden, sister of President Biden, board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe president’s son will plead guilty to two tax charges and admit unlawfully buying a gun. Naturally, the right is furious — that he wasn’t charged with more. Hunter Biden has struck a deal with federal prosecutors in which he’ll plead guilty to... Read more ›
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Reddit wants more money, and it’s killing off some third-party apps to get it. | Yuriko Nakao/Getty ImagesSubreddits are continuing to protest Reddit’s new moneymaking idea, as profit becomes central to how social media works. The Reddit blackout was only meant to last a couple of days. Now, as Redditors dig in to protest a series of new company policies and Reddit leadership refuses to compromise, it’s looking like this... Read more ›
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Andrew Tate wearing sunglasses on a podcast. | YouTubeFollowing his arrest in December, the 36-year-old was indicted on charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania. Editor’s note, June 20: Andrew Tate has been indicted by Romanian authorities on charges of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized crime ring to sexually exploit women. Tate and his brother Tristan, as well as other associates, were held in detention from December... Read more ›
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The purple petals of the corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) glow in the late evening sunset in a field in eastern Brandenburg. | Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty ImagesWhy do we have a summer solstice, anyway? The summer solstice is upon us: Wednesday, June 21, is the longest day of 2023, and the start of the summer season, for anyone living north of the equator. Technically speaking, the summer solstice occurs... Read more ›
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore. | KnopfI Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is weird, funny, gross, and tender. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, the latest novel from beloved short-story writer Lorrie Moore, resists analysis. This is a novel made out of air, unstructured, unskeletoned. There’s a central storyline, sort of, but summarizing that doesn’t quite get... Read more ›
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Small tech companies are way more likely to let employees work remotely than big ones. | Getty Images/Westend61How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys. It used to be that Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, and Apple led the way when it came to workplace advantages. On top of great pay, they offered freebies like gourmet meals, massages, and on-site laundry. Then, when... Read more ›
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Experts say kids’ freedom to play has been declining since the 1980s. | Jorm Sangsorn via Getty Images/iStockphotoThe world can be terrifying. But we should still give kids the freedom to explore it. About 30 years ago, something happened to the way kids play. While American children had once commonly enjoyed the freedom to run around outside with minimal adult interference, they began to spend more time indoors where their... Read more ›
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Used electric cars are poised to become a huge market. | Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesThe first electric car for most people will be a used one. Did you know that since January of this year, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, you can get up to $4,000 back on your federal taxes if you buy a used electric car? And depending on where you live, your state will... Read more ›
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The kids are all right. | Getty Images/Tetra images RFReports that we’re becoming crappier humans over time are greatly exaggerated. Pretty much every generation seems to believe that morality is declining. In ancient Judaism, the rabbis had a saying: “The earlier generations are to the current generation as men are to donkeys.” The Victorians imagined that people living before the Industrial Revolution were more respectful, civil, and honest. After World... Read more ›
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Lily-Rose Depp in HBO’s The Idol. | Eddy Chen/HBOThe “edgy” sex at the center of The Idol is the least interesting part of the show. There was a time before porn was widely available on the internet when horny teenage boys had to be resourceful. Stealing Playboys and Penthouses from older siblings; ruining their eyesight watching scrambled, discolored, wavy boobs on the Spice Channel; mentally cataloging which R-rated movies had... Read more ›
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Leah Millis/AFP via Getty ImagesThe secretary of state’s China trip opens the door for dialogue, but Taiwan is still a major sticking point. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Qin Gang — a positive step after years of escalating tension between the two countries and the first time a US secretary of state has visited China in five years. Blinken’s visit signifies... Read more ›
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Artesunate is the leading effective anti-malaria treatment, and was made from a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine. | Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHow the Vietnam War and ancient Chinese medicine led to a malaria treatment. Let’s talk about artesunate. This drug is now the standard, World Health Organization-recommended treatment for severe malaria. It was only in 2011 that it officially displaced the old treatment, quinine, which you may know... Read more ›
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