An image from the HBO show, The Last Of Us. | Liane Hentscher/HBOThe alarming rise of Candida auris highlights the need for better protection. The second episode of the HBO hit The Last Of Us opens with a scene in Jakarta, Indonesia. It’s set in 2003, at the beginning of a (fictional) fungal pandemic that goes on to destroy the world as we know it. After an expert in fungal... Read more ›
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Rahul Gandhi at a rally in 2020. | Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesRahul Gandhi’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha is the latest sign of Indian democracy’s decline. For years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attacked the foundations of his country’s democracy. His government has rewritten election rules in its favor, assailed the rights of the Muslim minority, jailed anti-government protesters, and reined in the free press. On Friday morning, it took... Read more ›
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New York Representative-elect George Santos speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19. | David Becker/Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Republican representative who allegedly made up his life story, explained. The biography of newly elected Congress member George Santos seemed quite impressive. The 34-year-old son of immigrants had graduated from Baruch College, a public college in New York, before going on to... Read more ›
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A demonstrator holds a sign that reads ‘’Macronie has no legitimacy in front of the people’’ at a demonstration that brought together several thousand people at the call of the intersyndicale, composed of all employee unions and youth organizations, on March 23, 2023, in Paris. The protest was against the adoption without a vote of the pension reform aimed at pushing back the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City, on January 10, 2023, during the North American Leaders’ Summit. The two are meeting again this week. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s the latest move by the Biden administration to take a harsher approach on the issue. In his first state visit to Canada since taking office, President Joe Biden is expected to announce an... Read more ›
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And how the US influences which weapons Ukraine gets and which ones it doesn’t. When Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, the US was hesitant to send more than supplies to the Ukrainian army. But when Russia launched a full-scale invasion in 2022, the US changed its tune. President Joe Biden quickly began approving huge packages of weapons to help Ukraine stymie the Russian attack. And for the first couple... Read more ›
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Courtesy of Vero Navarro for Matchbox CineclubKeanu Reeves is a celebrity for all times. It started in the pub, as all the best research does: Media studies professors Renee Middlemost (University of Wollongong) and Sarah Thomas (University of Liverpool) found themselves wondering where all the stars had gone. In an age of fractured media landscapes and niche celebrities everywhere, does anyone in Hollywood have truly universal name recognition and appeal?... Read more ›
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TikTok creators want you to know that you’re doing it wrong. | Paige Vickers for VoxWhy advice-peddling influencers are so into shaming you right now. Are you still drinking almond milk? If so, a big subset of wellness influencers on TikTok and Instagram want you to know what a huge mistake you are making. “Stop consuming almond milk thinking it’s healthier!” commands Ashley Brooke, who describes herself as an entrepreneur,... Read more ›
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Singer, actress, and beauty mogul Selena Gomez may or may not have been attacked for the appearance of her eyebrows. | Mike Coppola/Getty Images for CNNRemember when Hollywood feuds were fun? This one is extremely not. Athena turned Arachne into a spider. Queen Elizabeth locked her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, in a castle and had her beheaded. Joan Crawford nearly broke Bette Davis’s back while filming What Ever Happened... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers for Vox Elon Musk is still the problem. There’s no getting around it. Twitter’s survival in the coming months depends on how its new owner, Elon Musk, manages his relationship with a key group of people: advertisers. It’s been a rocky pairing since October, when Musk officially took over and many big-name advertisers paused spending on the platform. Almost five months later, the company’s standing with the advertisers... Read more ›
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What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse. Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. In the dead of winter of late 2020 in the city of Shikaakwa, on the frozen shores of Ininwewi-gichigami, there is no pandemic. The high-rise buildings downtown are vertical forests, with balconies and rooftops designed as an outgrowth of nature. The... Read more ›
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Irina is one of this year’s Love Is Blind contestants. She is a terrific terror. | Courtesy of NetflixThe Netflix dating show’s contestants are not okay. Like a golden ticket from eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka to “visit” his factory, the fourth season of Netflix’s Love Is Blind is not what it pretends to be. It’s not an “experiment,” it’s not about love, and — like the international moppets who got... Read more ›
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Getty Images/CSA Images RFHow much power do workers really have now? The pandemic sent American workers on a roller coaster ride, one that’s upended the state of worker power. A worker’s power has always been linked to their ability to demand change — change in pay, in benefits, in working conditions — at their job. Three years after lockdowns swept across the United States, people are no longer quitting at... Read more ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his “State of the State” address during a joint session of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives at the state capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, on March 7, 2023. | Cheney Orr/AFP via Getty ImagesA bill wants to restrict when students can discuss “human sexuality” at school. While many of the controversial education bills in Florida... Read more ›
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew faces photographers during a break in his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTikTok, and its CEO Shou Chew, never really stood a chance. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s much-hyped hearing on TikTok, featuring CEO Shou Chew, took place Thursday without many fireworks. But over the course of five hours, lawmakers grilled Chew not only about TikTok’s... Read more ›
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President Barack Obama answers a question during his first primetime press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 9, 2009. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesRepublicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire. On Wednesday, a judge in the deep-red state of Wyoming temporarily blocked a state law that would make performing nearly any abortion in that state a felony. She... Read more ›
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A utility worker walks near an uprooted tree after a rare tornado touched down and ripped up roofs in a Los Angeles suburb on March 22, 2023. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe tornado adds to the latest bout of extreme weather California is experiencing. In a rare turn of events, a town southeast of Los Angeles was hit by a tornado on Wednesday, marking the latest extreme weather the region has... Read more ›
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The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, January 23, 2018. | Nicolas Armer/picture alliance via Getty ImagesWith potential vaccines still in development, prevention is key. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sounded the alarm earlier this week over the recent, rapid... Read more ›
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The Branch Davidian compound explodes in a burst of flames on April 19, 1993, ending the standoff between David Koresh and his followers and the FBI near Waco, Texas. | Shelly Katz/Getty ImagesNearly 30 years later, the siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians challenges our definition of “cult.” A new Netflix documentary premiered this week, recounting one of the strangest and most tragic incidents in American religious history just before... Read more ›
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Sandy Smith holds a photo of her late son, 19-year-old Stephen Smith, on June 24, 2021. | Kacen Bayless/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesA former classmate of Buster Murdaugh died eight years ago in a hit-and-run. The suspicious death is now officially a homicide. South Carolina authorities now believe the death of Stephen Smith, part of the byzantine web surrounding the Murdaugh murders, is a homicide. This benchmark comes... Read more ›
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