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Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
“It’s his brand now.”
The shooting wasn’t staged, but conspiratorial thinking has become widespread in our paranoid age.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here's what happened.
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Netflix’s America's Sweethearts is a convincing argument that the organization shouldn’t exist
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Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
Everyone from Beyonce to Dua Lipa has an album out this year. So why are the charts dominated by male country and rap?
How skorts became cool again, as explained by Challengers and Taylor Swift.
Reckoning with the late author and Nobel Prize winner’s complicity in her daughter’s abuse.
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
The strange ways we do (and don’t) consume glizzies.
Sonny Angels, from TikTok trend to SNL sketch fodder, explained.
As the first Asian American lead in the franchise’s two-decade history, Jenn Tran's casting makes a statement.
A conversation with author Nathalie Etoke on Black existentialism and the case for tragic optimism.
How the mysterious death of a Boston cop led to an intense trial, a media circus, and a referendum on policing.
Ironic Kamala Harris meme-ing isn’t so ironic anymore.
Biles’s huge win at the Olympic trials sends a big message on mental health.
The musician is packing arenas and performing on The Tonight Show.
Every dish is beautiful and no one is hungry.
How a Midwest princess played the long game and embraced queer joy.
Why is Spotify making me to listen to Sabrina Carpenter?
Beer for a tan? Garlic cloves for sinuses? Don't fall for the firehose of health BS online.
Ultimate fighting and the 2024 election's connections, explained
Horizon is a baffling, incoherent mess. Kevin Costner making it was probably inevitable.
Whether or not you’ve heard of the viral heroine says a lot about your proximity to the bro internet.
Introducing Vox’s Next Page.
Critic Emily Nussbaum makes the case for the guilty pleasure as an art form.
The Wikileaks founder will plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act for publishing leaks about the Iraq War.
Why fans keep missing the point of The Boys.
The glitzy campaign, featuring stars like Patrick Mahomes, Simone Biles, and Travis Kelce, is part of an aggressive effort to fix its deep-seated problems.
Tanning is having a moment — and Black women are finally a part of it.
In her new novel All Fours, Miranda July romps where The Idea of You fears to tread.
They’re here. (Almost.) They’re queer. (Maybe.) They need a new joke.
The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud, explained.
Americans are more socially isolated than ever. Here’s how we can reconnect.
No, demons will not possess you if you use one.
We don’t know where the mysterious monoliths come from. But we do know they’re art.
The show’s first queer storylines have been met with backlash, homophobia, and misogynoir.
Twitter’s menswear guy explains, from Trump Republicans’ shiny red ties to the horror of “dress sneakers.”
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel reveals a period of turbulence and upheaval for Daenerys’s formidable family.
Alicent’s green dress gives us the skeleton key to the Targaryen schism.
Untangling one of Games of Thrones’ biggest secrets.