Elon Musk outside SpaceX’s launch facility in South Texas in February, 2023. | Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe glitchy Ron DeSantis interview is the latest milestone in Twitter’s shift to the right. Elon Musk’s high-profile Twitter event to launch the presidential bid of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday got off to a rough start, crashing several times about 30 minutes into the broadcast before restarting the whole thing.... 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 made his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 official on Twitter Wednesday evening after months of speculation about whether he can beat former President Donald Trump in the GOP primary, sharing a plan to make his state... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxIn reality, the Florida governor’s career is full of opportunistic shifts toward whichever cause will benefit him most. With Ron DeSantis officially filing his paperwork to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination Wednesday, the media will be awash in attempts to explain who he “really” is. Is he an incipient authoritarian, or is he really just a typical Republican? In my view, he can... Read more ›
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The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia is the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. | Michael S. Williamson/Washington Post via Getty ImagesA revolutionary SETI experiment seeks to find out how earthlings might respond to a signal from aliens. After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, humanity finally picked up a message from outer space today. Three of Earth’s top radio astronomy observatories detected the signal coming from somewhere near... Read more ›
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Pope Francis attends his Wednesday General Audience at St. Peter’s Square on May 17, 2023, in Vatican City, Vatican. | Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty ImagesA new report identifies nearly 500 clergy members in Illinois who sexually abused children. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday that the state has corroborated more than 1,900 victims’ child sex abuse claims against Catholic clergy in Illinois. The cases go back to 1950... 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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Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks during the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden at the Capitol on January 20, 2021. | Rob Carr/Getty ImagesA Florida school has restricted who can read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem read at Biden’s 2021 inauguration. One Florida school’s decision to restrict access to a poem written for and performed at President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration has increased scrutiny of book bans in... Read more ›
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Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesWhy do we know so little about pregnancy — one of the most common experiences on Earth? Technically, pregnancy is one of the most ordinary things in the world. After all, every single person on Earth has firsthand experience with it (since we all had to come out of someone’s womb). And yet, even though it happens every day, pregnancy also remains extremely mysterious. Sometimes, it’s mysterious in... Read more ›
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Elon Musk outside SpaceX’s launch facility in South Texas in February, 2023. | Jonathan Newton/Washington Post via Getty ImagesTwitter is promoting conservative stars like Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson. Elon Musk has long claimed he wants Twitter to be a digital town square open to debate from all aspects of the political spectrum. “For Twitter to deserve public trust it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for VoxIn reality, the Florida governor’s career is full of opportunistic shifts toward whichever cause will benefit him most. With Ron DeSantis set to officially announce his challenge to Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination Wednesday, the media will be awash in attempts to explain who he “really” is. Is he an incipient authoritarian, or is he really just a typical Republican? In my view, he... 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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