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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Scarlett Johansson in Asteroid City. | Focus FeaturesThe buzziest movies we saw at the festival, from blockbusters to world cinema epics. The Cannes Film Festival is the world’s most prestigious, and serves as a launchpad for some of the most important films of the year, from Hollywood blockbusters to masterpieces from filmmakers all over the globe. This year’s Cannes, which concluded on May 27, is no exception. It’s impossible to... Read more ›
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to reporters outside his office at the Capitol following a meeting with President Joe Biden on May 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesEven with a possible debt ceiling deal, the US has come perilously close to a default. No one seems to care. Though there are reports that an agreement is near, a lot could go wrong if congressional Republicans and... Read more ›
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Andrew Kutan/AFP via Getty ImagesA Papua New Guinea pact reveals the complexity of creating partnerships in the region. The US has accelerated its security and cooperation agreements in the Indo-Pacific region in recent months, renewing strong ties to the Philippines, enhancing cooperation with Australia, and negotiating wide-ranging defense and cooperation agreements with Papua New Guinea. But even as the US courts the region, Asian and Pacific countries must weigh the... Read more ›
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Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. | AppleRobert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Thierry Fremaux, and where evil really lies. At the press conference following the Cannes premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, someone asked Robert De Niro about his character, a kingpin of a sort with a tricky psyche. “It’s the banality of evil,” he said, describing the character’s... Read more ›
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The Harris Cattle Ranch feedlot, the biggest beef producer in California, confining nearly 100,000 cows. | George Rose/Getty ImagesAs America gets ready to grill on Memorial Day, a reminder of meat’s role in climate change. In 2006, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a bombshell report, called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” that focused public consciousness onto animal agriculture’s role in climate change. It turned out it wasn’t just cars,... Read more ›
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Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, speaks virtually during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore on November 15, 2022. | Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow Kissinger centralized White House power, went corporate, and never apologized. I was sitting on the mezzanine of the Yale Club’s ballroom in midtown Manhattan as a sea of men in dark suits and women in bright dresses stood up from their... Read more ›
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What happens to the economy if the US breaches the debt ceiling is nothing good. | Getty ImagesLet’s not find out what happens to the economy if the US breaches the debt ceiling. Nobody knows exactly what will happen to the economy if the United States breaches the debt ceiling, though every possible option ranges from mildly bad to total and complete disaster to the tune of trillions of dollars.... Read more ›
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An illustration shows the US Capitol reflected on the screen of a mobile phone showing the national debt in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2023. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images5 questions about the debt ceiling and the looming X-date, answered. A debt ceiling breach may be upon us … but hopefully it is not. Depending on how negotiations play out in the next few days, the United States could... Read more ›
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Doctor Caitlin Bernard in Indianapolis on September 28, 2022. | Kaiti Sullivan/Washington Post via Getty ImagesReprimanding Caitlin Bernard for speaking out could have far-reaching chilling effects. The case of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who sought an abortion in Indiana just after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year became a major flashpoint in the political debate. On Thursday, her doctor was reprimanded and fined for discussing... Read more ›
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Because of them, Sudan is at risk of falling into a civil war. On December 19, 2018, protests broke out in small cities throughout Sudan amid an economic crisis, eventually reaching the country’s capital, Khartoum. These protests posed the biggest challenge to Sudan’s longest-serving dictator, Omar al-Bashir. Throughout his regime, he did everything he could to remain in power, like relying on various security sectors to protect him from being... Read more ›
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Group portrait of boys working in #9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Company, Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1908. | Lewis W. Hine/Buyenlarge via Getty ImagesSome Supreme Court justices just want to watch the world burn. On Thursday, the Supreme Court imposed strict new limits on the Clean Water Act. The Court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA is likely to do serious harm to the government’s ability to quell water pollution, including in major... Read more ›
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An illustration shows the US Capitol reflected on the screen of a mobile phone showing the national debt in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2023. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images5 questions about the debt ceiling and the looming X-date, answered. A debt ceiling breach may be upon us … but hopefully it is not. Depending on how negotiations play out in the next few days, the United States could... 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 been beset with legal troubles for the better part of a decade and nevertheless twice reelected. But on Thursday, a Texas House committee... Read more ›
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Vox/Photos by: Macall B. Polay, David Russell, Graeme Hunter/HBOReal headlines and “wealth consultants” helped weave an unseemly portrait of wealth in America. Note: This article contains spoilers for several episodes from all four seasons of Succession. Early in Succession’s first season, professional simp Tom Wambsgans told his punching-bag-slash-protegé Greg Hirsch that he’ll show him how to be rich, as if it’s a skill to practice and absorb. They’re outsiders —... Read more ›
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A peaceful scene from The Zone of Interest, the year’s best horror film. | A24Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil. The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years, is ostensibly based on a book: Martin Amis’s stomach-churning 2014 novel of the same name. But understanding the movie’s formal and thematic genius requires looking at it differently: as a sidelong horror-film adaptation... Read more ›
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Wegovy and Ozempic could address one of the most pressing health crises in the US — and yet the country’s health system seems to be actively discouraging their use. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesCan the US afford to cover this next generation of weight-loss drugs? Can it afford not to? A new generation of weight-loss drugs presents an opportunity to improve the health of millions of Americans — and a challenge... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxHarsh state policies on prenatal use don’t square with the science. Some of my friends are having babies, and some of my friends smoke weed. Sometimes, they do both — and not long ago, one friend asked me if it was safe to smoke while pregnant. I had to look it up, so I told her I’d get back to her the next day. It took me a lot... Read more ›
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Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesAfter laying off nearly 10,600 people in recent months, the CEO said “this has been a particularly thrashy period” in a leaked Q&A. Meta laid off 5,100 more employees on Wednesday in its third round of mass cuts in the past three months, according to executive remarks in a company meeting on Thursday. That brings the company’s total layoffs to 10,600 in the first half of... 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 ImagesThe investigation of Texas’s top prosecutor reveals Republican divisions. Texas’s far-right attorney general Ken Paxton has been beset with legal troubles for the better part of a decade. But until Wednesday, it didn’t seem as though they would catch up with him. Now that... Read more ›
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Floodwater from the Mississippi River surrounds a home built outside of the town’s levee on May 2, 2023 in Oquawka, Illinois. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe Court took a huge bite out of the Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision on Thursday which places a drastic new limit on the Clean Water Act, the 1972 law that forms the backbone of the United States’ efforts to... Read more ›
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