Ziaul Haque Oisharjh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s not just about a labor shortage. Earlier this week Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin circulated a new bill that would allow workers as young as 14 years old to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants, down from the state’s current age minimum of 18 years old. The legislative proposal “creates a simple solution” to workforce staffing issues, said the Republican bill sponsors in... Read more ›
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Kevin Costner at the pre-Grammy gala on February 4, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California. Rumors swirl that the Hollywood titan may not be returning to Yellowstone. | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicThe series will now end with season five, but a spin-off is slated for the end of 2023. What do you get when you cross two ego-driven, larger-than-life personalities, each with his own famed machismo, with a hit show about ego-driven, larger-than-life cowboys... Read more ›
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Edwin Remsberg/VW PICS/UIG via Getty ImageGas stoves are a problem for health and the climate, but some people don’t want to hear it. The American gas stovetop is increasingly a battleground in a war over the fate of the 70 million buildings powered by natural gas. On one side of the stove wars is the natural gas utility industry, which has tried to thwart cities considering phasing out gas in... Read more ›
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Protestors chant at a vigil in the Broadway-Lafayette subway station Wednesday, May, 3, 2023 in Manhattan, New York. | Barry Williams/NY Daily News/Getty ImagesThe tragic killing came in a climate of fearmongering and New York City’s long failure to support people experiencing homelessness. On Monday, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black, unhoused man experiencing mental health issues, was killed after being put in a chokehold for 15 minutes by a fellow... Read more ›
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A growing number of fast food chains are experimenting with seatless locations with only takeout or drive-thru options. | Getty Images/iStockphotoAs diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all. There was a time when your local McDonald’s was the ideal spot for a 6-year-old’s birthday party. Its PlayPlaces had ball pits and slides where children could spend hours, post-Happy... Read more ›
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Aubrey Plaza in an advertisement for a fake company called Wood Milk, on behalf of the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP). | Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP)The milk wars are heating up. There’s a war in the dairy aisle, and the latest shot was fired by Aubrey Plaza of White Lotus and Parks and Recreation fame, in a commercial for a fake company called Wood Milk. Wood Milk sounds like... Read more ›
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Management is not thinking outside the box. | Getty ImagesThat’s poor ground to stand on when trying to revoke remote work. Like pretty much every other company that could, HubSpot let its employees work from home when the pandemic hit. The difference was that, early on, the enterprise software company made a strong commitment to let workers continue working remotely if they wanted. And that’s what the majority of HubSpot... Read more ›
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Children spend a lot of time online. Who should be protecting them? | Peter Cade/Getty ImagesWhen does safety become censorship? 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 protect their users, the government has understandably felt the... Read more ›
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The Guardians of the Galaxy have a team meeting. | Jessica Miglio/Marvel StudiosIs there a future for the team? Warning: This article discusses spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Marvel has done it again: given us a movie with two credits scenes! Guardians of the Galaxy 3 spoilers belowYes, yes, fine. Director James Gunn and his cast and crew also delivered... Read more ›
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Over half of the nation’s gas usage comes from just 10 states, eight of which are solidly blue states. More scrutiny of gas in New York, California, and Illinois is bad news for the industry. | Getty Images/iStockphotoNew York just passed the first statewide law to ban gas in new buildings. Others could follow. Republicans have eagerly jumped to the gas stove’s defense ever since it entered the culture war... Read more ›
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A rendering of a virus in the paramyxoviridae family, of which respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a member. | BSIP/UIG Via Getty ImagesAnd more RSV vaccines are on the way. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus, otherwise known as RSV. This is a big moment in the fight against a major scourge. Researchers have been working to create an... Read more ›
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Ziaul Haque Oisharjh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s not just about a labor shortage. Earlier this week Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin circulated a new bill that would allow workers as young as 14 years old to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants, down from the state’s current age minimum of 18 years old. The legislative proposal “creates a simple solution” to workforce staffing issues, said the Republican bill sponsors in... Read more ›
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Solar geoengineering might help lower temps, but it’s a controversial approach. The climate change crisis has become so dire that we’re being forced not only to think of ways to curb emissions and mitigate greenhouse gases, but of ways to adapt to our current situation to buy ourselves more time. One of those technologies is called solar geoengineering. It happens in nature when huge volcanic eruptions cover the stratosphere with... Read more ›
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Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas laughs at a joke. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWho watches the philosopher kings with lifetime appointments? The Supreme Court has run out of excuses. Earlier this month, after ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas frequently takes lavish vacations funded by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow, Thomas attempted to defend himself by claiming that this sort of “personal hospitality from close personal friends” is fine because Crow... Read more ›
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Courtesy of Miranda KennedyShe joins Vox from NPR, where she was supervising senior editor at Morning Edition and Up First. Vox’s editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and executive director for audio Katherine Wells today announced that Miranda Kennedy is joining the network as executive producer for the brand’s flagship daily news podcast and radio show, Today, Explained. She’ll be responsible for leading Today, Explained’s editorial team, working with hosts Sean Rameswaram and... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxAfter years of Democratic missteps with Latino voters, Biden’s 2024 campaign has a plan — and no excuses left. One of the biggest challenges that President Joe Biden and his campaign will face as they embark on his fourth presidential campaign has been obvious for years: rebuilding support from Latino voters. Republican gains in Latino communities have been a major political story, a growing insecurity for Democratic politicians and... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson in March 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA leaked text that reportedly contributed to Carlson’s firing revealed something important about the most racist show on cable. On Tuesday night, the New York Times revealed a text message that reportedly played some role in Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News. And, on the surface, it simply doesn’t seem much worse than the things he said on air. In the text,... Read more ›
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The CDC conference outbreak can teach us how to think about Covid-19 risk at mass events in 2023. | Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images3 takeaways about the current state of the pandemic. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a conference at an Atlanta hotel. Its purpose: showcase the work of its applied epidemiology trainees, who over the past year have investigated public health matters ranging... Read more ›
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You’re not buying a lottery ticket, you’re buying a dream. | Flavio Coelho via Getty ImagesOf course you’re not going to win the lottery. And yet. The “what I’d do if I won the lottery” game is a fun one. You get to make up a little dreamland where you are suddenly awash in unimaginable riches. Your biggest problems become figuring out where to buy your second mansion, picking out... Read more ›
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PhD student Jerry Tang prepares to collect brain activity data in the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Texas at Austin. | Nolan Zunk/The University of Texas at AustinAn AI-powered “brain decoder” can now read your thoughts with surprising accuracy. For a few years now, I’ve been writing articles on neurotechnology with downright Orwellian headlines. Headlines that warn “Facebook is building tech to read your mind” and “Brain-reading tech... Read more ›
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