A still from Pee-wee's Big Holiday. | NetflixFor more than 40 years, the character entertained kids and adults alike with his cockeyed comedic sensibility. Editor’s note, August 1, 2023: Paul Reubens died on July 30 of cancer. He was 70. Our story on Reubens’s most famous creation, Pee-wee Herman, originally published on March 19, 2016, follows. Pee-wee Herman, created and embodied by Paul Reubens, came into the world in 1977,... Read more ›
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Signage on a shopping cart at a Manhattan Trader Joe’s grocery store in New York in December 2021. | Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeaving food safety to private enterprise has risks. Over the past week, Trader Joe’s has announced three separate product recalls — for cookies, broccoli-cheddar soup, and falafel — due to the possibility they were contaminated with insects or rocks. It’s “really very problematic” for the company,... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election at Erie Insurance Arena on July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pennsylvania. | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesThe former president’s legal woes are costing his team — literally. Former President Donald Trump’s legal woes are continuing to pile up, and they’re costing his team – literally. In the first half of this... Read more ›
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New Vox Crossword puzzles come out Monday through Saturday | Amanda NorthropFor the curious in all of us. Can you solve it? Welcome to the Vox crossword. Puzzles come out Monday through Saturday. Make sure to bookmark this page (or add to your phone’s home screen) to find new ones each day. Or get a weekly email reminder by signing up for our Crossword newsletter. Puzzles are constructed by these... Read more ›
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llegal and ghost guns on display at New York Attorney General Letitia James’s offices in Manhattan on March 15, 2023. | Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe fight over “ghost guns” arrives on the Court’s shadow docket. Last month, a federal judge known for creatively reading the law to achieve conservative policy outcomes handed down a decision that would open a significant loophole in US... Read more ›
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Finalists in three categories across audio, video, and text Today, Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma congratulated members of the Vox newsroom on being named as finalists for three Online News Association awards. “We are thrilled that Vox’s incredible team of reporters across audio, video, and text have had their exemplary, impactful work recognized by ONA,” said Sharma. “The strength of our multimedia newsroom is critical to meeting audiences across the platforms... Read more ›
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Today’s cruise ships are several times as big as the Titanic. Cruise ships are freaking big. They’re the biggest passenger vessels humans have ever built. In size and appearance, they look nothing like almost any other boat. So how did they get that way? The predecessor of today’s cruise ships was the ocean liner: big, beautiful ships that sailed across the Atlantic. But ocean liners had a totally different purpose... Read more ›
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Joe Biden knows the economy is strong and wants you to know that, too. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesBidenomics, or the real story of a sort of made-up thing. Joe Biden would like you to feel good about the economy — which, by the way, is actually pretty decent at the moment. He would also like you to associate those good feelings with him. Hence what the... Read more ›
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Tracy Ma for New York magazine and VoxAfter Britney Spears was released from her conservatorship, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all? This article is a collaboration between New York magazine and Vox. Was Britney Spears in trouble? It was January 24, 2023, more than a year after the conservatorship that had controlled her life for 13 years... Read more ›
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A Homo Neandertalensis skull, originally from the Near East, at the Marseille Prehistory Lab. | Marc Charuel/Sygma via Getty ImagesNeanderthals are extinct. But their molecules are back and they just might save our lives. Maybe you remember the movie Jurassic Park, where scientists bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Or maybe you’ve heard about the real-world scientific quest to de-extinct the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Whether we’re talking dinos or... Read more ›
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Simone Virgini for VoxChatGPT, Midjourney, and other tools are forcing Biden and Congress to take AI seriously. AI is getting seriously good. And the federal government is finally getting serious about AI. The White House announced a suite of artificial intelligence policies in May. More recently, they brokered a number of voluntary safety commitments from leading AI companies in July. That included commitments to both internal and third-party testing of... Read more ›
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A picture of Tylee Ryan, left, and J.J. Vallow is seen on a fence opposite the property where their bodies were found in 2020, on April 4, 2023, in Rexburg, Idaho. | Natalie Behring/Getty ImagesAfter two missing children, a quadruple homicide, and the darkest of true crimes. Lori Vallow finally receives her sentence. One of the most high-profile and tragic cases in recent true crime memory is nearing a conclusion,... Read more ›
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A Culex pipiens mosquito specimen in the insect collection at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesScientists are reporting increasing insecticide resistance among American Culex mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus to humans. West Nile virus causes disease in thousands of Americans each year, leading to flu-like illness in about one-fifth of people who get it and, less commonly, serious problems... Read more ›
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Working from home as a parent comes with its own problems. | Getty Images/iStockphotoFor all its benefits, the practice can be a double-edged sword — especially for moms. In March 2020, millions of American parents turned kitchen tables into desks, closets into boardrooms, and Zoom meetings into opportunities for impromptu dance performances when they started working from home to care for their kids during the pandemic. Of course, some parents... Read more ›
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Love triangles like the one in The Summer I Turned Pretty are classic tales that keep us wanting more. | IMDBHow love triangles capture our hearts and our attention. Jenny Han’s young adult trilogy The Summer I Turned Pretty, and its Amazon Prime TV show adaptation, depicts a classic love triangle, with a few notable twists. Teen protagonist Belly (Lola Tung) is caught between the love of two brothers, Conrad... Read more ›
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A French bulldog. | Getty Images/iStockphotoFrenchies and other flat-faced dogs struggle to breathe all year. Extreme heat is making it worse. Earlier this year, the French bulldog — or the “Frenchie,” as the breed is affectionately known — was named the United States’ most popular dog, ending the Labrador’s 31-year reign. But some of the characteristics that make the Frenchie so irresistibly cute — the scrunched-up flat face, the little... Read more ›
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Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe travel authorization is set to roll out in 2024 and will affect travelers across the globe. Travelers to Europe from many countries, including the US, will soon be required to apply for a travel authorization known as ETIAS, or the European Travel Information and Authorization System, to visit destinations like France, Italy, and Spain, as well as 27 other European countries. For years, US... Read more ›
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ORTN - Télé Sahel/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Mohamed Bazoum has refused to resign despite Wednesday’s military takeover. Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Niger’s presidential guard, with other members of Niger’s armed forces, on Friday declared himself head of a transitional government he called “the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland,” while international leaders and organizations including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States... Read more ›
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Grandparents are an important part of the lives of children. Here’s how to manage their involvement. | Getty Images/fStopParenting is hard. Managing your own parents can be harder. Having children can be an exciting opportunity to do things differently than your own parents did. Even if you have a great relationship with your parents, you probably won’t see eye-to-eye on everything — just because we love them doesn’t mean it’s... Read more ›
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A macaque sits in a cage in a University of Muenster laboratory in Muenster, Germany, on November 24, 2017. | Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty ImagesWhere biomedicine gets it wrong about primate research. A friend says they can always tell when you’re hungover. The way you close the cage latch. With so little to do, their attention can focus on those subtle differences in movement: the way it turns, whether... Read more ›
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