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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Ohni Lisle for VoxPuriteens, anti-fans, and the culture war’s most bonkers battleground. How did the internet become so puritanical? On social media, outspoken anti-sex advocates increasingly cry “gross” at everything from R-rated rom-coms to fictional characters and queer people having sex to consenting adults with slight age gaps to dating short people. They see oversexualization in just about everything. They often accuse the things they dislike of being coded fronts... Read more ›
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Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesHow OpenAI’s Sam Altman is keeping up the AI safety balancing act. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once said. He was joking. Probably. Mostly. It’s a little hard to tell. Altman’s company, OpenAI, is fundraising unfathomable amounts of money in order to build powerful groundbreaking AI systems.... Read more ›
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Thomas Winz/Getty ImagesWelcome to FAST: The free, ad-supported, streaming television bargain bin. I was looking for Night Court, for research purposes. Not the new version; the original, which went off the air in 1992. Much to my surprise, I found all nine seasons on a streaming app that I’d never heard of before, and that I didn’t have to pay for, called Freevee. The catch? I just had to watch... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxSalpingectomies, explained. I started talking to my doctor about sterilization in the second trimester of my second pregnancy. I’d recently found out I’d need a C-section, thanks to a placental abnormality that made it unsafe for me to go into labor. I was mourning the birth experience I thought I’d get to have, and I felt, on some level, like a failure. Not having to worry about birth control... Read more ›
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Your suspicions are right: That one guy at work really doesn’t do anything. | A-R-T-U-R via Getty Images/iStockphotoAll hail the jobless employed. In theory, Nate works 40 hours a week in the operations department at a major fintech company. In reality, Nate works one hour a day at most. He moseys over to his computer whenever he gets an alert on his phone that he’s got a task to complete.... Read more ›
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Anti-abortion protesters march past a Planned Parenthood after a rally on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Bloomington, Indiana, in January. | Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesRemember that guy who tried to ban mifepristone? He’s back. Remember Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk? Last month, Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee to a federal court in Texas, tried to remove mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all US abortions, from... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, ahead of his presidential bid, celebrates his election victory in 2022. | Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty ImagesDeSantis is running for president. Can he beat Trump? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to announce Wednesday on Twitter that he’s running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 with a plan to make his state a national blueprint, following months of speculation about whether he can beat former President Donald... Read more ›
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Lake Mead, the largest reservoir along the Colorado River, has been shrinking due to climate change and overconsumption of water, exposing boats like this one. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe Colorado River is drying up. California, Arizona, and Nevada have finally agreed on a plan to help save it. Last summer, the Colorado River system was headed toward collapse. Its reservoirs were at historic lows and sinking dangerously close to “dead... Read more ›
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Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ImagesTikTok is now suing the state over its new policy. Last week, Montana became the first state in the United States to ban TikTok, amid concerns lawmakers have raised over the Chinese government’s potential ability to access the app’s data. The move — which comes as the federal government and other states have vocalized national security worries about the app — goes much further than existing policies... Read more ›
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The Moscow, Idaho, house where four University of Idaho students were found dead on November 13, 2022, is shown on November 29 after vehicles belonging to the victims and others were towed away earlier in the day. | Ted S. Warren/APWhat the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work. What made their deaths all the more terrifying was how elusive their killer seemed — until... Read more ›
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Mexican authorities are preparing evacuation plans as Popocatepetl volcano grows restless. | Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty ImagesIt’s a reminder that volcanoes are beautiful, dangerous, and closer than we may realize. Earth is rumbling and volcanoes are erupting around the world this week. On May 21, Mount Etna in Italy began spewing ash, shutting down a nearby airport. In Mexico, officials raised the alert level for Popocatépetl, a volcano 50 miles southeast... Read more ›
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Children spend a lot of time online. Who should be protecting them? | Peter Cade/Getty ImagesThe surgeon general’s new advisory calls for better protections for kids on social media. The latest onslaught of child internet safety bills is upon us as expected, and it may soon intersect with America’s ongoing culture war. As more evidence emerges that internet platforms can harm children and either can’t or won’t do anything to... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump participates in a CNN town hall with Kaitlin Collins on May 10. | CNNCNN and the Messenger both say they’re chasing the middle. Uh-oh. Item 1: Last week, the Messenger, a news operation run by the team that built and sold the Hill, launched to plenty of jeers from critics, while inside the company, staff complained that the site wasn’t ready for primetime. Within days, one... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden shakes hands as he presents a copy of his speech to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy before he delivers his State of the Union address on February 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. | Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty ImagesWhat is the debt ceiling? What happens if the US breaches it? And other questions you were too embarrassed to ask. This spring, Congress finds itself standing at a familiar precipice. Once again,... Read more ›
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A supporter holds up a sign that read “Keep TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the US Capitol on March 22, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSo you heard TikTok’s being banned. Here’s what’s actually happening. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, TikTok has been fighting for its right to exist. First, the company struggled to convince the public that it wasn’t just for preteens... Read more ›
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A humpback whale jumps out of the water in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. | Michael Dwyer/APEven areas designated to conserve marine ecosystems allow for bottom trawling and other harmful activities. The United States is famous for its vast system of national parks on land. From the Grand Canyon to the Great Smoky Mountains, these parks altogether encompass more than 130,000 square miles. Far larger, however, is the country’s network... Read more ›
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The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor | Riverhead BooksThe author’s second novel zooms in on what an artist should be. Early on in Brandon Taylor’s elegant and restrained new novel The Late Americans, a poet named Seamus imagines the world to be a kind of diorama or dollhouse with “some enormous and indifferent God” peering down at him. Everyone else he knows is in the dollhouse too, moving about their... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesFrom $1,000 sneakers to $450 bakeware, our lust for expensive things has hit new highs. The pandemic was a period of mass unemployment and economic hardship for many Americans. It was also a riotously popular time for buying luxury goods. “2021 and 2022 were blockbuster years for the luxury industry,” says Lauren Sherman, fashion correspondent at Puck News. “The biggest years they’ve ever had — ever.” Shoppers... Read more ›
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Ohni Lisle for VoxPuriteens, anti-fans, and the culture war’s most bonkers battleground. How did the internet become so puritanical? On social media, outspoken anti-sex advocates increasingly cry “gross” at everything from R-rated rom-coms to fictional characters and queer people having sex to consenting adults with slight age gaps to dating short people. They see oversexualization in just about everything. They often accuse the things they dislike of being coded fronts... Read more ›
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The News Corp headquarters in New York City, home to Fox News, on April 18, 2023. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA conservative outlet is attacking Fox for being too respectful of trans employees. It’s a sign of the times on the right. On air, Fox News personalities have been endlessly attacking so-called “woke corporations.” But now, Fox News finds itself in the right’s cultural crosshairs — with conservatives accusing it of... Read more ›
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