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 âș
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President Joe Biden campaigned on climate. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesThe $6.8 trillion proposal reflects how his priorities have changed. A lot is squeezed into President Joe Bidenâs new 182-page budget proposal, which the president describes as âa blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America in a fiscally responsible way.â Congress is unlikely to pass all, or even most, of the $6.8 trillion budget as written. Still, presidential budgets are important:... Read more âș
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Ukrainian servicemen travel inside an armored vehicle before being deployed to the frontline of Bakhmut, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on March 9, 2023. | Ignacio Marin/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesIf Moscow takes Bakhmut, it may be a hollow victory. The costly, attritional battle of Bakhmut may be finally reaching its end, as Russia advances and as Ukraine shows hints of a possible withdrawal. After seven months, itâs not quite over... Read more âș
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The (re)call is coming from inside the house. | DigitalVision Vectors/Getty ImagesAmericaâs messy, screwed-up product recall system, explained. Fortune had it that when George Ball was looking to get a dehumidifier for his Indiana home, the house had one sitting in the basement from the previous owners. So he took it up to the bedroom, plugged it in, and went downstairs for dinner. A while later, he went back upstairs... Read more âș
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A protester walks past a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at sunset outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 20, 2023. | Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraelis are revolting against Netanyahu. But a judicial overhaul isnât the countryâs only crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters have been demonstrating against the extreme-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since January. The protests have become some of the biggest... Read more âș
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President Joe Bidenâs budget proposal released Thursday includes a plan to address Medicareâs financial crunch. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesJoe Biden says he wants to save Medicare. Why is it in trouble? Over the past few weeks, policymakers have suddenly started sounding very worried about Medicare. President Joe Bidenâs budget proposal being released Thursday includes a plan to âextend Medicare for another generation.â At the State of the Union, Biden got... Read more âș
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Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) address reporters outside the White House after their Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSenate Republicans are condemning Carlsonâs downplaying of the insurrection. House leaders, not so much. Earlier this week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a segment misrepresenting and downplaying the insurrection at the... Read more âș
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Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2019. | Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty ImagesA powerful Republican insider has been accused of groping a staffer on Herschel Walkerâs Senate campaign. A Republican operative identified himself Wednesday as the man who filed a January lawsuit alleging sexual battery and defamation against Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes, two prominent... Read more âș
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Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt on August 7, 2021, in Esztergom, Hungary. | Janos Kummer/Getty ImagesThe Dominion-Fox lawsuit puts the lie to Tucker Carlsonâs January 6 revisionist history. âWe are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly canât wait.â âI hate him passionately.â âWeâre all pretending weâve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster... Read more âș
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A TikTok ban would surely upset many of the nationâs teens. | iStockphoto/Getty ImagesSo you heard TikTokâs being banned. Hereâs whatâs actually happening. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, TikTok has been fighting for its right to exist. First, the company struggled to convince the public that it wasnât just for pre-teens making cringey memes; then it had to make the case that it wasnât responsible for the... Read more âș
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A white face mask is seen laying on a street in New York, on October 25, 2022. | Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWe need better masks, and better approaches to using them. Two weeks ago, I wrote about some reservations I have about a Cochrane review meta-analysis finding mask-wearing in the community probably âmakes little or no differenceâ against respiratory infections. While the overwhelming majority of the studies included in... Read more âș
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Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Raquel Leviss, and Tom Schwartz â the cast of Vanderpump Rules and the core of the âScandovalâ cheating scandal | Araya Doheny/Getty ImagesTom Sandoval, Raquel Leviss, and Ariana Madix make for the reality TV version of Fleetwood Mac. Like Peter Panâs Tinkerbell, the cast of Bravoâs Vanderpump Rules needs attention or they will die. If no oneâs watching, theyâre not living. And that overexposed way of... Read more âș
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Paige Vickers for VoxJocelyn and Gage Newman saw a hole in the market for comfortable athleticwear for their young son, and wound up founding a business. Jocelyn Newman is 32 years old. Sheâs a mom, a nomadic traveler, and the founder of First Peak, a line of sustainable adventurewear for babies and toddlers. Her husband, Gage, is also 32, and the two of them are working together to support each... Read more âș
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Getty Images/iStockphotoThe key is to ease into it. Twice a year, Americans shift the clock â an hour forward in the spring, an hour back in the fall â in a well-known practice known as daylight saving. Originally introduced during World War I as a means of conserving fuel and power by extending the amount of daylight each day, the tradition has persisted in some capacity since 1966. This year,... Read more âș
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A woman eats soup she cooked outside of her tent in McPherson Square in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2023, a few days before the encampment was cleared. | Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesPeople living in tents has become one of the most urgent issues in American politics. In mid-February, a block from the White House, agents with the National Park Service cleared the largest homeless encampment... Read more âș
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Public health officials monitoring indoor air quality leave a home in East Palestine on February 15. | Gene J. Puskar/APItâs completely reasonable to feel unsafe after the derailment, despite being told the air and water are clean. EAST PALESTINE, Ohio â The smell doesnât hit you right away. On Market Street, the main commercial road in town, it smells of doughnuts and McDonaldâs and exhaust. Itâs only when the wind... Read more âș
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Paige Vickers for VoxJobs still require cover letters. Apps like ChatGPT can help. Grace wanted a better-paid job based closer to where she lived, but she dreaded writing another cover letter. And although her job as a land-use planner does require some writing, she felt a cover letter wouldnât actually do a good job of showcasing it. âItâs technical writing,â Grace said. âItâs not plucky âYou should hire me because... Read more âș
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference in January 2023. | Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDeSantis wants to destroy a fundament of American free speech law. Floridaâs Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate the First Amendment safeguards that prevent lawsuits seeking to strong-arm the press into silence. Heâs been very clear about this goal: In February, DeSantis led a roundtable discussion brainstorming ideas to weaken the... Read more âș
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Sen. Mark Warner announces the RESTRICT Act with some of the billâs sponsors. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesSens. Mark Warner and John Thune have a bipartisan bill to deal with TikTok and beyond. There might be a new way to deal with TikTok in DC: a bipartisan bill from Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD) that isnât a TikTok ban â though it could lead... Read more âș
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Nearsightedness is on the rise worldwide. How did that happen? Over the past few decades, children around the world have been diagnosed with nearsightedness at increasingly high rates. Nearsightedness, or myopia, can stabilize over time, but it doesnât get better â meaning that those with myopia will rely on glasses, contact lenses, or corrective surgery to see for their entire lives. The blurriness associated with myopia is caused by eyeballs... Read more âș
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