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America’s love affair with the increasingly weird Kennedys
https://www.vox.com/culture/370504/kennedy-family-jack-schlossberg-rfk-jr-explained
Published: September 7, 2024 12:00
In life, there are certain inevitabilities. In the United States, those inevitabilities include death, taxes, and hearing about the Kennedys. With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making a splash in the 2024 presidential race (and now endorsing Trump), Caroline…
There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/370419/chatgpt-schools-ai-cheating-plagiarism-detection
Published: September 7, 2024 11:00
It’s the start of the school year, and thus the start of a fresh round of discourse on generative AI’s new role in schools. In the space of about three years, essays have gone from a mainstay of classroom education everywhere to a much less useful tool,…
The precedent-setting push to hold parents responsible for school shootings
https://www.vox.com/policy/370539/apalachee-shooter-father-charged-crumbleys-colin-gray
Published: September 6, 2024 20:00
For a nation struggling to deal with an epidemic of mass shootings in a culture that seems dedicated to deprioritizing gun control, it was a hugely experimental case. But now, six months after the convictions in Michigan of first Jennifer and then James…
Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis
https://www.vox.com/politics/370519/tucker-carlson-holocaust-nazi-churchill-darryl-cooper-martyrmade
Published: September 6, 2024 18:20
On Monday, Tucker Carlson hosted an amateur historian named Darryl Cooper on his show to discuss the history of World War II. The result was an extended exercise in Nazi sympathizing with little pushback from Carlson, who called Cooper (who tweets under…
The original Beetlejuice was diabolical magic
https://www.vox.com/culture/370482/beetlejuice-tim-burton-winona-ryder-michael-keaton
Published: September 6, 2024 16:30
There’s a mad, intoxicating hope embedded in this weekend’s release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It sees the return of old stars Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, and Catherine O’Hara, along with the rising new talent Jenna Ortega. Will another old familiar…
Will Harris’s massive fundraising spree actually help her?
https://www.vox.com/politics/364964/harris-trump-fundraising-donations-campaign-2024
Published: September 6, 2024 15:35
On Friday Vice President Kamala Harris announced a massive August fundraising haul of $361 million, one that is nearly three times the $130 million former President Donald Trump reported. August was the first full month that Harris was at the top of the…
The guessing game over Kamala Harris’s foreign policy
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/370194/harris-foreign-policy-gaza-ukraine-china
Published: September 6, 2024 11:15
Is Vice President Kamala Harris a “human rights hawk,” who would use American power to promote democracy and freedom abroad? Or is she a “pragmatic internationalist” who would back gingerly away from American hegemony? Is she poised to end an era of…
Is this algorithm driving your rent higher?
https://www.vox.com/money/370351/realpage-doj-lawsuit-rent-algorithm-pricing
Published: September 6, 2024 10:00
Today, algorithms rule everything around us. They serve us entertaining, or at least addictive, content on social media. They try to suss out which emails in our overstuffed inboxes might be most important, and which ones are spam. They act as matchmakers…
How Russia secretly paid millions to a bunch of big right-wing podcasters
Published: September 5, 2024 21:00
A cadre of right-wing online personalities including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Lauren Southern have all allegedly become unwitting agents of Russian information warfare and its activities in the United States, according to an alarming…
Wait — do Harris and Trump actually agree on fracking?
Published: September 5, 2024 19:49
In her first run for president during the Democratic primary, Kamala Harris said “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking” during a 2019 town hall. Then, when she was running to be Joe Biden’s vice president in the 2020 campaign, Harris pushed…
The astonishing link between bats and the deaths of human babies
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/370002/bats-link-babies-death-study-white-nose-syndrome
Published: September 5, 2024 18:01
There are a number of well-known ways to keep babies healthy — wash your hands often, get them vaccinated, don’t smoke inside, and so on. But there’s one thing you probably haven’t heard of: protecting bats. Like literal flying bats. That’s one takeaway…
iPad kids speak up
https://www.vox.com/life/369953/skibidi-tweens-gen-alpha-brainrot-ipad-kids
Published: September 5, 2024 11:00
If there’s one word that’s most associated with Gen Alpha right now, it might be “brainrot.” According to countless trend pieces and innumerable TikToks, kids from this generation, born between 2010 and 2024, have purportedly “rotted” their brains by…
Electric school buses are the future we deserve
https://www.vox.com/climate/370006/school-bus-electric-transportation-ev
Published: September 5, 2024 10:30
Riding an electric school bus seems like it would be an uncanny experience. As a kid, I remember the bus being a loud and smoggy place that left me smelling like diesel. Today there are electric buses on the road that are not only emissions-free but…
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
https://www.vox.com/23142734/apalachee-georgia-school-shooting-gun-violence
Published: September 4, 2024 21:23
Four people were killed and at least nine were injured in northern Georgia on Wednesday when an Apalachee High School student opened fire inside the school. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, has been taken into custody, according to the Georgia Bureau of…
How to stop mass shootings before they start
https://www.vox.com/politics/370004/mass-shooting-prevention-behavioral-threat-assessment
Published: September 4, 2024 21:11
At least four people were killed, and nine were injured after a shooter opened fire at Apalachee High School in northern Georgia on Wednesday, the latest in more than 250 mass shootings that have taken place in the US in 2024. Police have revealed little…
Why Nvidia triggered a stock market freakout
Published: September 4, 2024 21:10
Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chip manufacturer, sparked a global stock market downturn Wednesday, with indexes falling in Asia, Europe, and the United States. After news broke on Tuesday that the US Justice Department issued Nvidia a subpoena as part of…
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
https://www.vox.com/23142734/kansas-city-superbowl-mass-shooting
Published: September 4, 2024 21:06
Four people were killed and at least nine were injured in northern Georgia on Wednesday when an Apalachee High School student opened fire inside the school. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, has been taken into custody, according to the Georgia Bureau of…
Has The Bachelorette finally gone too far?
https://www.vox.com/culture/369954/bachelorette-finale-jenn-tran-devin-maria
Published: September 4, 2024 18:50
Watching Tuesday night’s finale of The Bachelorette, one phrase kept ringing in my mind: The cruelty is the point. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote those words in 2018 to explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s particularly mean-spirited brand of politics.…
The real reason Netanyahu won’t end the Gaza war
https://www.vox.com/politics/369934/israel-gaza-protests-hostages-netanyahu-war-september
Published: September 4, 2024 17:00
This weekend, Israeli soldiers in Gaza discovered the bodies of six hostages executed by Hamas. The response was an outpouring of protests: Israelis flooding the streets to call for a ceasefire that would bring all hostages back and end the war, a demand…
The storm of controversy around Black Myth: Wukong, explained
https://www.vox.com/culture/369903/black-myth-wukong-controversy-feminist-what-happened
Published: September 4, 2024 16:10
How did a fairly straightforward video game based on an ancient legend become the latest battleground in the war over “woke”? Black Myth: Wukong takes the ancient legend of Monkey, or the Monkey King, an iconic character whose travels were most famously…
That Chase “money glitch” hack was just fraud
https://www.vox.com/money/369894/chase-bank-glitch-tiktok-fraud-free-money
Published: September 4, 2024 15:39
Who doesn’t want free money? In the world of video games, it’s possible with a simple cheat code — type “motherlode” in The Sims, watch a flood of money roll in, redecorate your whole mansion. For a brief, wild moment, a viral TikTok trend suggested that…
That Chase “money glitch” hack was just fraud
https://www.vox.com/money/369894/that-chase-money-glitch-hack-was-just-fraud
Published: September 4, 2024 14:50
Who doesn’t want free money? In the world of video games, it’s possible with a simple cheat code — type “motherlode” in The Sims, watch a flood of money roll in, redecorate your whole mansion. For a brief, wild moment, a viral TikTok trend suggested that…
Trump’s biggest fans aren’t who you think
https://www.vox.com/politics/369797/trump-support-class-local-rich-arlie-hochschild
Published: September 4, 2024 11:30
In her forthcoming book Stolen Pride, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild describes her time spent in the towns and hollers of Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District — one of the whitest, poorest, and most-Trump-supporting districts in the entire…
Organize your kitchen like a chef, not an influencer
https://www.vox.com/even-better/369691/kitchen-tips-organization-chef-fridge-tiktok-influencers
Published: September 4, 2024 10:50
If you’re a regular on TikTok or Instagram, you may feel your kitchen is under attack. It started with #CleanTok, wherein cleanliness influencers shared tips for sparkling stainless steel sinks and competed to have the most hygienic kitchen. Then,…
Harris is swimming in cash — but Democrats may still have a fundraising problem
https://www.vox.com/politics/369878/kamala-harris-fundraising-transfer-state-legislature-abortion
Published: September 4, 2024 10:30
Democrats have been raining cash on their presidential nominee like it’s confetti. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign raised $204 million in July — more than four times the $48 million former President Donald Trump brought in, according to new filings…
How a disease the world (mostly) vanquished reared its head in Gaza
https://www.vox.com/policy/369872/polio-gaza-who-vaccination-campaign-israel
Published: September 4, 2024 10:00
For 25 years, there had not been a single confirmed case of polio in Gaza. But after 10 months of Israel’s war in the strip — which has devastated the health care system and created dangerous and unsanitary conditions for Palestinians — a baby became…
The hidden cause behind your miserable flight delays
https://www.vox.com/money/369808/flight-delays-airlines-flight-attendant-pay
Published: September 3, 2024 18:20
No one likes it when their flight is delayed. For flight attendants, though, a delay isn’t just a hassle – it’s a lot of unpaid work. You’re at the airport, in your uniform, yet the pay clock doesn’t start until the plane is pulling out of the gate. “I…
What the polls show about Harris’s chances against Trump
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/369827/harris-trump-polls-models-2024-nate-silver
Published: September 3, 2024 17:35
With Democrats so enthused about Kamala Harris’s campaign of late, you might have gotten the impression that she has a solid polling advantage over Donald Trump. That’s not the case. Harris currently leads national polls by about 3 percentage points on…
Vox podcasts tackle the Israel-Hamas war
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/23948960/israel-hamas-palestine-podcasts
Published: September 3, 2024 17:08
The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has taken an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace. Vox…
Should we think twice about fluoride?
Published: September 3, 2024 11:15
If you live in the US, there’s a good chance you’re one of the approximately 209 million people drinking tap water that contains added fluoride. Local governments have been putting fluoride in city water supplies for nearly 80 years. In many ways, its…
The state of the 2024 race, explained in 7 charts
https://www.vox.com/politics/369735/2024-election-biden-harris-forecast-approval-undecided-spending
Published: September 3, 2024 10:30
Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled slightly ahead in national polls against former President Donald Trump. Still, the race is pretty tight, and it looks like it will remain that way until Election Day. Despite polling errors that overestimated…
Electric vehicles are the future. What happens to our gas-guzzling cars?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/369695/used-cars-electric-vehicles-buy-exports
Published: September 3, 2024 10:00
Despite a recent slowdown in US sales, global forecasts for electric vehicles remain bullish. Countries across North America, Europe, and Asia are expanding charger networks and offering EV subsidies; global EV sales are projected to nearly triple by 2030,…
Two astronauts are stranded in space. This one is jealous.
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/369066/astronaut-space-station-stranded-boeing-spacex
Published: September 2, 2024 12:00
Most people are now probably familiar with the story: Two American astronauts were sent to space on an eight-day test mission on a new Boeing spacecraft in June. Now, nearly three months later, NASA announced that they’ll bring the astronauts back on a…
America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-navy-recruit-numbers
Published: September 1, 2024 12:00
Coverage of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza is mostly dominated by talk of weapons. Reporters and analysts focus on suicide drones, on shell deficits, on targeting algorithms. But for all the attention devoted to modern weapons and munitions, both conflicts…
Democrats’ vibes are excellent. Can they turn that into votes?
https://www.vox.com/politics/369267/democrats-harris-vibes-energy-2024-presidential-race
Published: September 1, 2024 11:00
Like 20 million others each night last week, I watched this year’s high-energy, celeb-packed Democratic National Convention with plenty of interest. While true policy proposals came at a trickle over the course of four nights, what flowed plentifully were…
Is there a winner in Bennifer’s divorce PR battle?
https://www.vox.com/culture/369574/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-publicity-divorce-battle-celebrity
Published: August 31, 2024 13:00
An event as seismic as Bennifer 2.0 could only end in a PR showdown. After months of breakup rumors, real-estate news, and a canceled tour, Jennifer Lopez finally filed for divorce from her husband Ben Affleck on August 20, citing “irreconcilable…
California’s governor has the chance to make AI history
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/369628/ai-safety-bill-sb-1047-gavin-newsom-california
Published: August 31, 2024 11:00
Advocates say it is a modest law setting “clear, predictable, common-sense safety standards” for artificial intelligence. Opponents say it is a dangerous and arrogant step that will “stifle innovation.” In any event, SB 1047 — California state Sen. Scott…
Israel has launched a major operation in the West Bank. Here’s what to know.
https://www.vox.com/palestine/369736/west-bank-violence-jenin-raid-settler-idf-israel-gaza-hamas
Published: August 30, 2024 22:30
The Israeli military launched the largest, deadliest West Bank attack of the year on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, including a high-ranking militia commander, over the course of several days. Violence in the West Bank — perpetrated by the…
The Trump Arlington National Cemetery controversy, explained
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/369711/trump-arlington-cemetery-controversy-army
Published: August 30, 2024 20:10
A controversy over the Trump campaign’s behavior during a visit by Trump to Arlington National Cemetery last Monday has stretched for days with no end in sight. In part, the controversy is about the law: Federal law prohibits campaign or election activity…
Serial’s Adnan Syed has once again had his conviction reinstated. Here’s what that really means.
https://www.vox.com/culture/23662123/adnan-syed-conviction-reinstated-appeal-lee-zoom
Published: August 30, 2024 16:54
The case of Adnan Syed, true crime cause célèbre, has been unresolved for the last two years thanks to a complex appeals process over the question of victims’ rights. The state vacated his conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee in 2022, only for an…
The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/367812/organ-donation-loophole-pancreas-opo
Published: August 30, 2024 14:00
There are some mysteries that I fear I’ll never see resolved. Who was DB Cooper and what happened to him? Who robbed the Gardner Museum of its Vermeer and Rembrandts in 1990? And, most pressingly: where are the thousands of pancreases taken out of…
I’m an AI skeptic. But one critique misses the mark.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/369502/chatgpt-ai-image-generator-regulation-debate
Published: August 30, 2024 13:00
As California advances new AI regulations and companies continue to pour billions of dollars into building the most powerful systems yet, I hear a recurring grumble online: Why is AI being shoved down our throats? What is this good for? Does anyone…
Why a leading expert on gun violence is sounding alarms about the 2024 election
https://www.vox.com/politics/369441/political-violence-2024-election
Published: August 30, 2024 10:30
It’s been less than two months since the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and while lawmakers and law enforcement are continuing to investigate what happened, the presidential campaign has largely…
Kamala Harris’s big housing plan has a big problem
https://www.vox.com/policy/369525/kamala-harris-housing-plan-corporate-landlords-homeownership
Published: August 30, 2024 10:00
Vice President Kamala Harris wants to make housing more affordable — and to help more Americans build wealth by investing in real estate. These are the twin goals of the Democratic nominee’s recently unveiled housing agenda. And they are largely…
Your guide to the Brittany Mahomes-Donald Trump drama, such as it is
https://www.vox.com/culture/369543/brittany-mahomes-likes-trump-instagram
Published: August 29, 2024 21:00
At any given second, millions of people are liking various things on Instagram. Pictures of sunsets and sunrises, recipes for keto brownies, videos of viral K-pop dances — there’s something for everyone. But right now there’s one specific semi-famous woman…
The essential Lord of the Rings lore you need to watch The Rings of Power
https://www.vox.com/culture/369488/rings-of-power-season-two-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-trailer
Published: August 29, 2024 19:30
Good news for even the most discerning fans of Middle-earth: The second season of Amazon Studio’s The Rings of Power, which premiered August 29, includes a whole lot more characters and landscapes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, many of which never made it…
Kids Today: Your guide to the confusing, exciting, and utterly new world of Gen Alpha
https://www.vox.com/family/369020/kids-children-generation-alpha-gen-school
Published: August 29, 2024 12:00
Welcome to Kids Today! I’m Anna North, a senior correspondent at Vox covering policy and culture, and today, I’m launching a Vox newsletter that will have me in readers’ inboxes weekly with stories about Generation Alpha (people born between 2010 and 2024)…
What the heck is “corn sweat” and is it making the Midwest more dangerous?
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/369117/corn-sweat-explained-heat-wave-midwest
Published: August 29, 2024 11:15
Ah, yes, late August in the Midwest: a time for popsicles by the lake, a trip to the county fair, and, of course, extreme humidity made more miserable by … corn sweat. Corn sweat. It’s a thing! And people are talking about it. The term refers to the…
Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me drugs
https://www.vox.com/technology/369302/amazon-one-medical-pharmacy-prescription-drugs
Published: August 29, 2024 11:00
The weirdest thing happened to me recently. I ordered some groceries on Amazon Fresh. When you check out, Amazon recommends more things you might like to buy, usually related to your purchase. But this time, Amazon offered up “Treatments for High…
The AI safety bill Big Tech hates has passed the California legislature
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/355212/ai-artificial-intelligence-1047-bill-safety-liability
Published: August 29, 2024 00:11
If I build a car that is far more dangerous than other cars, don’t do any safety testing, release it, and it ultimately leads to people getting killed, I will probably be held liable and have to pay damages, if not criminal penalties. If I build a search…
We spoke with the architect behind the notorious AI safety bill
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/361562/california-ai-bill-scott-wiener-sb-1047
Published: August 28, 2024 23:51
Editor’s note, August 28, 7:50 pm ET: This story was originally published on July 19, 2024, and has been updated to reflect news that SB 1047 passed this week. California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is generally known for his relentless bills…
Zelenskyy’s new plan to end the war, explained
Published: August 28, 2024 23:00
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday that he has a new plan to end Russia’s years-long war on his country. Zelenskyy has only outlined the plan in broad strokes, but Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Wednesday that he’s not…
Georgia’s MAGA elections board is laying the groundwork for an actual stolen election
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/369275/georgia-elections-board-maga-stolen-election
Published: August 28, 2024 18:25
The Georgia State Elections Board recently enacted two new rules that seem designed to allow local election officials to sabotage the state’s vote-counting process. Republican nominee Donald Trump praised the three board members who supported these new…
Here’s what you need to know about the revamped FAFSA
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23977937/fafsa-changes-2024-2025-federal-student-aid-college
Published: August 28, 2024 15:47
College tuition is a hefty sum for many students and their families in America: Average yearly tuition at a private university totals $42,162; $23,630 for public out-of-state tuition; and $10,662 for public in-state tuition. It’s no surprise, then, that…
What do you do if The Really Big One strikes on your vacation?
Published: August 28, 2024 12:00
Earlier this year, projections from UN Tourism put international travel on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels — putting a swell of tourism on a collision course with the increasing danger of climate disasters, from wildfires ripping through Greece to…
These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/368728/disease-coral-reefs-caribbean-bonaire-solution
Published: August 28, 2024 11:00
Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its surface looked like the maze you might find on the back of…
How long can Democrats’ truce on immigration last?
Published: August 28, 2024 10:30
Since Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket, a careful truce has settled in place between centrist, liberal, and progressive Democrats. No loud or public spats among elected Democrats or Democratic voters over…
This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/369095/hepatitis-vaccine-deaths-symptoms-infections
Published: August 28, 2024 10:00
More than a decade ago, scientists achieved a historic breakthrough: They found a first-ever cure for hepatitis C, one of two related liver diseases that, combined, take more than a million lives every year. In 2016, just three years after the antiviral…
Biden’s plan to shield undocumented spouses of Americans is on hold. Here’s what to know.
https://www.vox.com/policy/369180/biden-undocumented-spouses-legalization-court-ruling
Published: August 27, 2024 22:50
A federal court in Texas has put one of the biggest legalization programs in over a decade on hold temporarily, leaving more than half a million people in limbo. The program, announced by the Biden administration in June, allows undocumented spouses of…
Mark Zuckerberg’s letter about Facebook censorship is not what it seems
https://www.vox.com/technology/369136/zuckerberg-letter-facebook-censorship-biden
Published: August 27, 2024 20:50
This week Mark Zuckerberg sent Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) a letter outlining how the Biden administration pressured his company to “censor” free speech on Facebook — specifically misinformation about Covid-19. The letter also made reference to Hunter Biden’s…
SpaceX’s risky mission will go farther into space than we’ve been in 50 years
Published: August 27, 2024 19:40
SpaceX plans to send four people into Earth orbit as soon as Wednesday in a daring mission that will test new technology, expose astronauts to high levels of radiation, and potentially change how future spacewalks are conducted. The privately funded…