Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero can boxes stacked in a Canadian grocery store in March 2015. | Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGet ready for an earful about the health risks of Diet Coke, Trident gum, Equal, and other sugar-free items. On July 14, two World Health Organization (WHO) groups released the results of a fresh review of safety data on aspartame, along with consumer guidance on what to do with... Read more ›
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Roger Kingbird/We Animals MediaRaising the consequences for animal testing experiments gone wrong. Last December, in the wake of animal cruelty allegations against Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink, Vox’s Kenny Torrella wrote about a concept he called “the moral math of animal testing”: the view held by many people that trading some amount of animal suffering is worth it if it can save enough human lives by advancing medicine. Experimentation... Read more ›
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Elon Musk at the VivaTech conference in Paris in June 2023 | Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMusk promised a while ago Twitter would share ad revenue with creators. Now the company is actually doing it. “Breaking: Twitter revenue share has begun!” tweeted anti-Trump commentator Ed Krassenstein on Thursday afternoon, who followed up with a screenshot of $24,877 that he said had been deposited in his account. His twin brother Brian... Read more ›
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Tom Cruise defies death once again in the latest Mission: Impossible film. | Paramount PicturesIn Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise once again leads a franchise that’s all about trickery, subterfuge, and the nature of reality itself. In the very first scene of the very first Mission: Impossible film, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is interrogating a Russian guy. We don’t know it’s Hunt, though, because — in... Read more ›
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A gathering from the 1968 Poor People’s March organized by Martin Luther King Jr. to demand economic aid to low-income communities across the US. | Arnold Sachs/AFP via Getty ImagesPoverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent study finds. “We need a whole new scientific agenda on poverty and mortality,” said David Brady, a professor of public policy at the University of California Riverside, whose... Read more ›
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The living room of Modern Family, where nary a mess appears. | ABCFrom Jerry’s apartment to Lucifer’s penthouse, TV sets keep getting neater and neater. Once upon a time, TV houses were cluttered. They weren’t necessarily messy, but there was stuff in the homes of our TV friends. Jerry left cereal boxes out on the counter on Seinfeld. Monica let dishes dry on the rack next to her sink on... Read more ›
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WGA strikers during the 2007-08 strike. | David McNew/Getty ImagesIt’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater. Editor’s note, July 13: SAG-AFTRA — the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — has voted to order their own strike, joining the Writers Guild of America on the picket line. You can read more about Hollywood’s first double strike in... Read more ›
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Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty ImagesHollywood is in the midst of a double strike as SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) voted on July 13 to approve a strike. They join the WGA (Writers Guild of America), which has been on strike since May 2. What SAG-AFTRA wants is similar to what the WGA wants, most of which is driven by technology and... Read more ›
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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill on September 15, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Graeme Jennings - Pool/Getty ImagesRepublicans’ war on the FBI is really about protecting Trump. Republicans grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray about the agency’s investigations into former President Donald Trump during a hearing Wednesday, offering a... Read more ›
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SAG-AFTRA members are about to join the WGA on the picket line after talks with the AMPTP broke down. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesSAG-AFTRA will join the WGA on the picket line. What does that mean for viewers? For the first time in 63 years, Hollywood looks to have a double strike on its hands. The contract between SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists,... Read more ›
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Opill, a birth control pill that has been around for 50 years, will soon be available for sale over the counter. | Bettmann ArchiveThe FDA has signed off on selling a birth control pill over the counter without a prescription. The United States reached a major milestone in reproductive health care on Thursday: The FDA approved a birth control pill for over-the-counter sale without a prescription. The medication, known as... Read more ›
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Marketers would like a word with you (via text). | Paige Vickers/Vox/Getty ImagesWhat you give and what you get when a company has your phone number. I have a new text bestie, and it’s the brands. Scrolling through my phone recently, I was surprised to see just how many of my incoming messages were not from friends or family but instead from companies. The package update from UPS made sense,... Read more ›
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Barbie and Kens in Barbieland. | Warner Bros.Vietnam banned Barbie over a map featuring the nine-dash line. Here’s why that matters. This surely wasn’t the kind of publicity that Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was hoping for. The long-awaited film adaptation of the Mattel doll made headlines when, two weeks before its July 21 theatrical debut, it was banned in, of all places, Vietnam. And not because of any explicit violence or... Read more ›
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Flooding in downtown Montpelier, Vermont, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. | John Tully/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesClimate risks are becoming increasingly expensive. Not just locally, but globally. An estimated 11 million people across the northeastern US are under flood risks or warnings this week after historic levels of rainfall — 1-in-1,000-year events — swept through New England, with rivers in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley overflowing and turning... Read more ›
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Like much of the northern hemisphere, Antarctica is also facing unusually warm weather. | David Merron Photography/Getty ImagesAntarctica isn’t immune to the recent heat baking much of the planet. It could affect the rest of the world. Temperature records are falling around the world as a strong El Niño brews in the Pacific Ocean and summer rises in the Northern Hemisphere. The planet recently experienced the hottest day and hottest... Read more ›
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, shakes hands with US President Joe Biden next to Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during the NATO Summit on July 12, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. | Paul Ellis/Getty ImagesNATO got its unity moment, but it put off the big questions for Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO and is probably... Read more ›
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Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie | Courtesy Warner Bros. PicturesYour guide to this summer’s movies. There’s a lot to look forward to this summer, especially if you’re headed to the movies for more than just air conditioning. This year’s lineup of summer movies includes the on-and-offline Barbieheimer phenomenon, new Wes Anderson, the Spider-Verse, Tom Cruise, and even more blockbusters and indie films. To figure out what you want to... Read more ›
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California has experienced the costliest wildfires in the US in recent years. Some insurance companies are rethinking their business in the state. | David McNew/Getty Images“We’re steadily marching toward an uninsurable future.” Insurance companies are finding it harder than ever to cover the damages stemming from rising average temperatures, and in some of their largest markets, they’re giving up entirely. State Farm announced in May that it will not accept... Read more ›
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H&R Block is one of the tax preparation companies accused of sending taxpayer data to Meta and Google. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA new congressional report about an internet privacy violation might actually lead to consequences. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming for the tracking pixels. Specifically, she, along with fellow Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth, Bernie Sanders, and Sheldon Whitehouse, and Rep. Katie Porter, are coming for tax... Read more ›
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A North American beaver seen in Wyoming. | Troy Harrison/Getty ImagesAnimals don’t have AC. But they have beavers. During an intense heat wave, humans have a number of tools to stay cool, such as air conditioning, swimming pools, and ice cream. Wild animals, meanwhile, have beavers. Yes, beavers. These web-footed, fat-tailed amphibious rodents help countless other critters survive a heat wave. They not only drench certain landscapes in cold water... Read more ›
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