The Pre-Teen Sensations! From left, Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret, Amari Price as Janie, Elle Graham as Nancy, and Katherine Kupferer as Gretchen in Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Dana Hawley/LionsgateA new movie adaptation captures the sneaky complexity of what Judy Blume’s classic gets right about being 11. In my mental catalog of Judy Blume books, everything is filed according to the adolescent trope... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removes his face mask during a press conference to address the rise of coronavirus cases in the state at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on July 13, 2020. | Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesDeSantis’s surgeon general is accused of manipulating data to justify an anti-vaccine agenda. How did we get here? In March 2020, in the uncertain first weeks of the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFox News hasn’t said much. Carlson has started to talk. In a stunning announcement, Fox News said on Monday that it has ended Tucker Carlson’s reign as the host of the network’s highest-rated primetime show (and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable, period), effective immediately. The news comes less than a week after... Read more ›
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Montana House Republicans have silenced Rep. Zooey Zephyr following her critiques of an anti-trans bill. | Thom Bridge/Independent Record/APThe state GOP formally silenced Rep. Zooey Zephyr on Wednesday, banning her from the House floor. The Montana House voted 68-32 to silence Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr on Wednesday, after she criticized a Republican bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state. As a result of the vote, Zephyr... Read more ›
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is surrounded by reporters after he leaves the House floor to return to his office at the US Capitol on April 19, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe reason we’re stressed about the debt ceiling — again. This spring, Congress finds itself standing at a familiar precipice. Once again, if lawmakers don’t agree to suspend or raise... Read more ›
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum on April 19, 2023 in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesFlorida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has been engaged in a long-running feud with the Walt Disney Co., among his state’s largest taxpayers. The feud started when Disney executives spoke out against what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans classroom discussion of gender... Read more ›
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Janos Kummer/Getty ImagesThe American Prospect ran an article praising Carlson. The backlash came quickly. The day after Tucker Carlson lost his job at Fox News, he got some praise from a surprising source: the progressive magazine the American Prospect. The piece may have been titled “The Smuggest Man on Air,” but its thrust was decidedly more admiring of the host. Journalists Lee Harris and Luke Goldstein wrote that Carlson was... Read more ›
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CEO Bob Iger of the Walt Disney Company, and Mickey Mouse, look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 2017. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesIn a new lawsuit, Disney accuses DeSantis of “a targeted campaign of government retaliation.” Disney is escalating its culture war with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis into a legal war. On Wednesday, Disney sued DeSantis and other state officials for what it... Read more ›
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Justice Clarence Thomas during Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s swearing-in ceremony at the Trump White House. | Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe justices unintentionally make the case for more ethics rules that bind the Supreme Court. The entire Supreme Court — all nine justices — released a brief document Tuesday night responding to allegations that the Court’s ethical standards are too lax. The document appears to be the Court’s... Read more ›
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A person holds Progress Pride Flags during the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s “Drag March LA: The March on Santa Monica Boulevard,” in West Hollywood, California, on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023. | Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty ImagesThe state GOP has already silenced Rep. Zooey Zephyr on the floor, and will vote to censure or expel her this week. The Montana House is set to vote on the disciplining of Democratic... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSomething doesn’t add up. Wait. Why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson, exactly? I’m asking because: It’s odd that more than 24 hours since the news broke, we’re still looking for the real story behind the surprise departure of the most popular anchor on America’s most powerful cable news network. Or, at least, a believable story.And also because: The reason(s) Fox booted Carlson might tell... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson Tonight was one of the popular shows on Fox News. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFox News hasn’t said much. Carlson has said even less. In a stunning announcement, Fox News said on Monday that it has ended Tucker Carlson’s reign as the host of the network’s highest-rated primetime show (and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable, period), effective immediately. The news comes less than a week after... Read more ›
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies during a House committee hearing on April 20, 2023. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesOur roads are deadly. Here’s how the secretary of transportation says we can fix them. Transportation secretaries normally don’t get the attention that Pete Buttigieg does. The current secretary and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has become somewhat of a political lightning rod ever since his 2020 run for the Democratic presidential... Read more ›
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A child holds a sign during a protest to end gun violence in schools at the Colorado state Capitol on March 24, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. | Michael Ciaglo/Getty ImagesThe scorched-earth fight over gun control obscures a key idea that could actually save lives: prioritizing gun storage. Growing up in Florida, my twin sister and I never knew there were guns kept in our home. My father’s unloaded firearms —... Read more ›
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A 42,000-year-old woolly mammoth specimen on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. | M. Spencer Green/APDe-extinction isn’t worth the ethical cost. On January 6, 2000, the bucardo (also known as the Pyrenean ibex, a subspecies of wild mountain goat) was confirmed extinct — for the first time, at least. Conservationists mourned when Celia, as the final bucardo was known, was found crushed beneath a tree in northeast Spain. But... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the Apple Card in March 2019. | Noah Berger/AFP via Getty ImagesBorrowing money is just a few taps away. What could go wrong? Do you want the company that makes your phone to be your bank, too? That’s the question some people are surely asking themselves now that Apple has rolled out its new Apple Card savings account, which comes with a 4.15 percent interest... Read more ›
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The meaning and method of acquiring that blue check keep changing. | Getty Images/iStockphotoThe ridiculous but important Twitter check mark fiasco, explained. It didn’t take long for Elon Musk to weaponize his shiny new $44 billion toy. In less than six months since he took over Twitter, he’s laid off thousands of people, cut Twitter’s valuation in half, released cherry-picked “Twitter files” that purportedly show how pre-Musk Twitter was biased... Read more ›
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Dark Brandon, as memed across the internet. | Collage by Vox featuring Yang Quan and tweets from @redwoodk8, @josecanyousee_, @SundaeDivine, @tobinjstone.How “Let’s Go Brandon” and “Dark MAGA” combined to celebrate Joe Biden’s policy wins. At first, the rise of “Dark Brandon,” President Biden’s cooler, laser-eyed internet alter ego, presented us with a number of complicated questions about memes and their origins. Who gets to decide what a meme means? Can... Read more ›
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And remember the Mannequin Challenge? Yep, they used that too. The quest for computer vision requires lots of data — including real-world images. But that can be hard to find, which has led researchers to look in some pretty creative places. The above video shows how researchers used TikTok dances and the Mannequin Challenge to train AI. The quest is for “ground truth” — real-world examples that can be used... Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSomething doesn’t add up. Wait. Why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson, exactly? I’m asking because: It’s odd that more than 24 hours since the news broke, we’re still looking for the real story behind the surprise departure of the most popular anchor on America’s most powerful cable news network. Or, at least, a believable story.And also because: The reason(s) Fox booted Carlson might tell... Read more ›
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