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What Megyn Kelly gets right — and wrong — about Conclave

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Megyn Kelly is impressive when you consider that she’s been able to create an entire career...
Megyn Kelly is impressive when you consider that she’s been able to create an entire career just from being mad at stuff. She is like the Rumplestiltskin of irritation — turning cranky thoughts into gold — or a blond Andy Rooney with consequences. From the idea of Santa Claus being Black to fighting with Jane […]

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The real danger of Trump’s Greenland gambit

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It is an era of superpower conflict and competition for natural resources. Newly accessible sea routes...
It is an era of superpower conflict and competition for natural resources. Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political geography. The US government eyes a strategically located island territory, currently under the control of the Kingdom of Denmark, which Washington believes is necessary for its national security and economic interests. After first making […]

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Wildfires impact wildlife and pets, too. Here’s how you can help them.

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In just four days, blazing wildfires across Los Angeles neighborhoods have put 150,000 residents under evacuation...
In just four days, blazing wildfires across Los Angeles neighborhoods have put 150,000 residents under evacuation orders, burned over 30,000 acres, destroyed more than 10,000 structures, and, as of Thursday, killed killed 10 people. Experts say it may be the costliest wildfire in US history. The fires are still ongoing, and the toll of destruction […]

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TikTok: The most exciting, and controversial, social media app on the planet

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TikTok has only been around in the US since August 2018, but it’s become the defining...
TikTok has only been around in the US since August 2018, but it’s become the defining social media app of Gen Z. The app once known as Musical.ly was bought by the Beijing-based internet company ByteDance in 2017. Though it relaunched as virtually identical to Musical.ly, TikTok quickly transformed into something more like Vine: a […]

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What to know about TikTok’s fate in the US

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TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right...
TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it. Concerns that ByteDance could share TikTok user data […]

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Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?

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For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified...
For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media app that had become central to their lives could be taken away. Again and again, the ban never actually materialized, and users continued to enjoy what had, since 2018, become one of the most creative, […]

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NYC’s congestion pricing is unpopular — for now

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After a last-minute about-face, pushback, and compromise, congestion pricing officially went into effect this week in...
After a last-minute about-face, pushback, and compromise, congestion pricing officially went into effect this week in New York City. The first-in-the-nation policy — which tries to reduce traffic and raise revenue for public transit by charging drivers a steep fee to use the busiest roads in Manhattan — has been, to say the least, controversial. Back in […]

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The Supreme Court doesn’t seem likely to save TikTok

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On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the...
On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the popular social media app TikTok can still exist in the United States once a law that effectively bans the app goes into effect January 19. After the arguments, it’s not looking good for TikTok fans. The first two-thirds of […]

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Should fluoride be in our water?

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put the decades-old debate over water fluoridation back on the table....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put the decades-old debate over water fluoridation back on the table. As President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, he might become the most powerful public health figure in the US who believes we should take fluoride out of our water. Currently, it’s up to municipalities to set […]

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Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?

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As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people...
As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate, or try to, President-elect Donald Trump has decided to point his ire toward a fish. Not the severe Santa Ana winds that fueled the fires. Not the unusually dry weather. Not […]

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Onscreen age gaps have never been more pathetic

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Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an...
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because he’ll never leave you alone. He will abandon the small town he’s terrorizing and immigrate — as difficult as organizing a coffin shipment by naval vessel can be — to a […]

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Have the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?

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In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last November, Matthew Yglesias published a manifesto imploring the...
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last November, Matthew Yglesias published a manifesto imploring the Democratic Party to reembrace “common sense.” Specifically, in his Slow Boring newsletter, Yglesias called on Democrats to redouble their party’s commitment to economic growth, honor the electorate’s moral values, reject identity politics, abandon language policing, and moderate on a […]

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Why gossip is just so irresistible

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The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity

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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss...
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Court’s Democrats. The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trump’s felony convictions for […]

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Are gadgets getting good again?

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LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest...
LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade show in the world, earlier this week, I felt a sense of dread. I’ve been coming to the show, off and on, for a decade, and the story is always the same: The industry made new […]

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An explosive Fox Sports lawsuit has turned into a salacious, sexist mess

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Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports,...
Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports, marquee commentator Skip Bayless, and network executive Charlie Dixon has sent shockwaves through the sports broadcasting industry, emphasizing a bleak reality for women in the field. On January 3, a former hairstylist for the network, Noushin Faraji, filed a […]

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How factory farming took over America — and why it isn’t going away anytime soon

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A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement...
A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th century to feed a growing, and increasingly prosperous, post-World War II America. It was made possible by a “set of economic, […]

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California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa Ana windstorm blew through Southern California, a severe brush fire broke out in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, burning at least 1,000 structures and forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate […]

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Live updates: Wildfires spread across Los Angeles

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Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles, turning the skies red, destroying homes and businesses, and blanketing...
Wildfires are raging across Los Angeles, turning the skies red, destroying homes and businesses, and blanketing the region with smoke and debris. The largest fire is in Pacific Palisades, which has grown to over 17,000 acres as of Thursday morning and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. Four other major fires have engulfed […]

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What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?

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Multiple major wildfires, fanned by unusually strong seasonal winds, are currently burning through the Los Angeles...
Multiple major wildfires, fanned by unusually strong seasonal winds, are currently burning through the Los Angeles area, leaving devastation in their wake. Thus far, those fires have led to at least five fatalities, massive evacuations, and significant damage to more than 2,000 buildings. Though destructive fire seasons have become increasingly common in California, it’s still […]

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The unusually strong force behind the apocalyptic fires in Los Angeles

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Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles,...
Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. The Palisades fire along the coast near the Santa Monica mountains has burned more than 17,000 acres as of Thursday morning. The Eaton fire near Pasadena […]

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Siri’s listening to you — but is it spying?

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$95 million is a headline-making number, especially when it comes as a result of a proposed...
$95 million is a headline-making number, especially when it comes as a result of a proposed class action lawsuit settlement in which claimants accused Apple of unlawfully surveilling them through Siri and other Apple devices. If the settlement is approved by the district court in Oakland, California, overseeing the case, people who owned a Siri […]

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How long should you meditate?

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A scientific narrative about what meditation does can offer a helpful lens on what is happening...
A scientific narrative about what meditation does can offer a helpful lens on what is happening when you take your seat on the cushion. But no matter the story, there’s no substitute for actually doing the practice. Which raises the question: If you’re interested in exploring deeper meditation, how long will it take you to […]

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Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

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Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put...
Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put down their phones. Worries about kids’ screen time are far from new (you could argue that they are nearly a century old), but in recent months, high-profile experts have raised the concern that social media use among young people […]

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