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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…
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…
How Russia secretly paid millions to a bunch of big right-wing podcasters
https://www.vox.com/politics/370323/tenet-media-russia-what-happened-tim-pool-dave-rubin-benny-johnson-lauren-southern
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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)…
The surprisingly subdued resurrection of Abercrombie & Fitch
https://www.vox.com/consumerism/368168/abercrombie-fitch-retailers-fashion-revival
Published: August 26, 2024 12:00
It’s bachelorette season in America. A couple of months ago, I was at one such party in Florida: nine women, one house, a zillion group activities to get dressed for. And something strange started to happen. Almost every time I complimented someone’s…
Why I changed my mind about volunteering
https://www.vox.com/culture/368201/volunteer-charity-donations-systemic-change-activism-nonprofits-loneliness-philanthropy
Published: August 26, 2024 10:30
Last fall, a reader asked me what they could really do, as one person, to aid people living on the streets. “I often feel helpless to enact change,” they wrote. I’d been covering homelessness in America and knew that even the sprawling support…
The difference between American and UK Love Is Blind
https://www.vox.com/culture/368371/love-is-blind-uk-review-couples-spoilers
Published: August 24, 2024 11:00
This post contains mild spoilers regarding the outcome of the couples of Love Is Blind: UK In 1776, desiring independence and freedom, Americans overthrew British rule. Roughly 250 years later, we have finally enacted a singular revenge for English…
All the nonsense you need to know about Sabrina Carpenter
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/5/14/24155699/sabrina-carpenter-espresso-career-olivia-rodrigo-explained
Published: August 23, 2024 20:42
The latest chapter of Sabrina Carpenter’s quest to become the most prolific 4’11” person on the planet is a new album. The singer, famous for working late, released Short n’ Sweet, a 12-song pop confection brimming with playfulness and humor. To celebrate,…
Theo Von’s interview with Donald Trump makes more sense than you think
https://www.vox.com/culture/368563/theo-von-trump-interview-podcast
Published: August 23, 2024 18:00
Even among a long list of bizarre Donald Trump moments, this clip was a head-turner: The former president asking his interviewer a series of questions about his cocaine use. “That’s down and dirty, isn’t it?” Trump asked Theo Von, who interviewed him on…