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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Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery during the Memorial Day, which is held annually to honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. | Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesNon-combatants bear the brunt of the toll of modern war, but we don’t know how to memorialize them. The first observance of what came to be known as Memorial Day was on May 30, 1868,... Read more ›
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Getty Images“I love you, now let me watch your location 24/7.” A few months ago, sick with a cold on a Saturday morning, feeling miserable about the fact that I was stuck at home alone for the weekend, I checked Find My Friends. It’s an app that comes standard on iPhones these days, the same one that tracks your phone or laptop or Airpods in case you lose them. But... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers / VoxApple’s new goggles aren’t for normals. Not yet, anyway. So why does Apple want to show them off? Every big, new Apple Product Launch follows a template, one the company pioneered and perfected with the iPhone and then the iPad. First, long-running rumors and speculation about a mystery device — a version of existing products made by competitors but presumably much better because Apple is making it... Read more ›
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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2023. Republican and Democratic leaders scrambled on May 29 to secure congressional support for a bill aimed at avoiding a US debt default. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesHow the legislation to avert an economic crisis would affect student loans, food aid, the IRS, and more. House Republicans took... Read more ›
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A staffer with the Republican leadership holds a guide to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling package during a news conference on April 26, 2023. | J. Scott Applewhite/APThe White House and congressional Republicans have reached a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling, which caps the total amount of money that the US can borrow to fund the federal government. The tentative deal would also cap government spending for... Read more ›
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a tripartite meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. | Contributor/Getty ImagesAttacks inside Russia could shift public opinion on Putin’s war in Ukraine. A drone attack hit residential buildings in the Russian capital of Moscow Tuesday morning for the first time in the country’s war against Ukraine. The attack came just after Russia launched a surprise... Read more ›
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly news conference at the US Capitol on February 27, 2020, in Washington, DC. | Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesThere’s a deal to avoid a catastrophic default on the US debt. But will House Republicans go for it? A Wednesday vote on a bill to suspend the debt ceiling could ultimately reveal just how strong a hold House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has on... Read more ›
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Uganda’s queer activist Papa De raises a fist outside the Ugandan High Commission during a picket against the country's anti-homosexuality bill in Pretoria. | Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty ImagesA version of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill will likely become law, after years of campaigning. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed one of the strictest anti-LGBTQ bills globally, which mandates the death penalty for some acts. Uganda is one of... Read more ›
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Punching in movies, explained by someone getting punched repeatedly. Movie fight scenes at their best are spectacular, visceral, and impactful. Films like Creed, John Wick, and Bullet Train have scenes that make you feel every punch. But not all fight scenes are created equal. We’ve all seen scenes that rely on quick cuts to conceal the absence of actual physical contact, or scenes that just don’t land. Crafting a fight... Read more ›
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Uganda’s queer activist Papa De raises a fist outside the Ugandan High Commission during a picket against the country's anti-homosexuality bill in Pretoria. | Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty ImagesA version of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill will likely become law, after years of campaigning. Editor’s note, May 30, 10:30 am ET: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed this anti-LGBTQ bill on Monday, considered to be one of the most restrictive of... Read more ›
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Peter Singer, Princeton University professor of ethics. | Fairfax Media via Getty ImagesThe moral philosopher Peter Singer on animal welfare, the ethics of euthanasia, and more. When I was in seventh grade, our social studies teacher had us make a poster describing a serious problem in the world. Most people chose poverty, or hunger, or HIV/AIDS. But one friend of mine chose “the philosophy of Peter Singer.” At the time,... Read more ›
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Heat waves have already baked parts of Asia this year, and a looming El Niño is poised to add to the heat, threatening crops in places like Malaysia. | Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow warm water in the Pacific shapes storms, droughts, and record heat around the world. El Niño is the warm phase of the Pacific Ocean’s temperature cycle, and this year’s El Niño is poised to be a... Read more ›
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Sydney Sweeney as whistleblower Reality Winner in Reality. | HBOThe HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller. When the play that would one day become the extraordinary drama Reality premiered off-Broadway, its whistleblower protagonist was still in a federal prison. Back then, in February 2019, the show was called Is This a Room, an enigmatic quote from the show itself. An FBI agent... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesFrom “fluffy flying narwhals” to maggots that snorkel in trash, welcome to the wonderfully bizarre world of flies. Flies are annoying, especially on warm weekends spent outdoors. They land on us and our food, they buzz in our ears, and some of them bite. Mosquitos are a kind of fly and they transmit some of the world’s deadliest pathogens. But consider for a minute that you may not really... Read more ›
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Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy in the series finale of HBO’s Succession. | HBOEverything you need to know about that stunner of a finale. In a way, we knew how Succession would end. We’ve been pre-grieving the show’s wrap-up for months now — and many of us perhaps knew from the pilot on that the Roy family was bound for a deeply tragic denouement. “With Open Eyes,” the series finale... Read more ›
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Photo by Sean Drakes/Getty ImagesRegressive laws, waning corporate allyship, and threats of violence stoke fear and confusion. Repressive social backlash and extreme anti-LGBTQ sentiment are complicating Pride celebrations in the US this year, even potentially inviting violence against queer people and gatherings meant to celebrate the LGBTQ community. Though LGBTQ people and by extension Pride have won important rights and gained fairly widespread acceptance in US political and social life... Read more ›
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Citizens wave a Turkish flag by an election kiosk for Turkish President and People’s Alliance’s presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan on May 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. | Aziz Karimov/Getty ImagesTurkey’s Erdogan ran on a nationalistic message. He just secured another presidential term. In April, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan showed off Turkey’s first drone, tank, and helicopter carrier. It was a not-so-subtle message weeks before the Turkish elections: Turkey is... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shake hands. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesBut the drama isn’t over yet. To end the threat of the default, the bill needs to make it through Congress. With a potential default date just days away, lawmakers have managed to avert economic calamity by coming to a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling and cap government spending for two years.... Read more ›
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the “Save America” rally with former President Donald Trump on October 22, 2022, in Robstown, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesKen Paxton might finally be held accountable — and it could surface Republican divisions. Texas’s far-right attorney general, Ken Paxton, has — at least temporarily — been removed from office following an overwhelming 121-23 bipartisan vote in favor of impeachment. More than half of... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoThe no-rules approach to building a meditation practice. If you’ve ever, in an anxiety-induced haze, googled ways to reduce your stress, it’s quite possible the internet has suggested you meditate. A regularly discussed antidote to our demanding times, meditation is a mental and physical exercise meant to help cultivate qualities like mindfulness, inner peace, or spiritual enlightenment. You may have even scoffed at the idea: Who has time for... Read more ›
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