Culture
The entertainment and cultural moments that define our society.
![How computers made poker a game for nerds](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Poker_LorenaSpurio_Vox.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
![How computers made poker a game for nerds](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Poker_LorenaSpurio_Vox.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
![Inspired by the Olympics? You can become an athlete at any age.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1973203086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=20%2C0%2C60%2C100&w=2400)
![Inspired by the Olympics? You can become an athlete at any age.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1973203086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=5%2C0%2C90%2C100&w=2400)
It’s never too late to pick up a new sport.
![There’s one perfect way to see Twisters](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00298RV2_CROP_641680.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=18.388907230109%2C0%2C63.222185539782%2C100&w=2400)
![There’s one perfect way to see Twisters](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00298RV2_CROP_641680.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=2.5833608451634%2C0%2C94.833278309673%2C100&w=2400)
4DX — and all these new movie theater formats, from IMAX to ScreenX — explained.
![ISIS? Russian sabotage? The biggest security threats at these Olympics.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162493996.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670086171522%2C0%2C66.659827656955%2C100&w=2400)
![ISIS? Russian sabotage? The biggest security threats at these Olympics.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162493996.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0051292572835493%2C0%2C99.989741485433%2C100&w=2400)
Officials say Paris will be the “safest place in the world” for the Olympics. Here’s what they’re up against.
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![The one thing Veep captures better than any other political show](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/veep-julia.webp?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
With Kamala Harris’s ascendancy, the series is on everyone’s mind — and the reason it resonates goes deeper than you might think.
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![Paris 2024: Olympics news and updates](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162948136.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.033333333333331%2C0%2C99.933333333333%2C100&w=2400)
![It shouldn’t be so hard to live near your friends](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25428681/Vox_Friends_Final.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Americans are more socially isolated than ever. Here’s how we can reconnect.
![Who is Noah Lyles? For this sprinter, the Paris Olympics could be everything.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1623507818.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.995725090431%2C0%2C64.008549819138%2C100&w=2400)
![Who is Noah Lyles? For this sprinter, the Paris Olympics could be everything.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1623507818.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=1.9935876356462%2C0%2C96.012824728708%2C100&w=2400)
The supremely self-assured “fastest man in the world” wants everyone to know his name.
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![Could Kamala Harris’s “Brat summer” win her the presidency?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Kamala_Brat_01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0390625%2C0%2C99.921875%2C100&w=2400)
Democrats have their first “Brat” candidate. What will it get them?
![The baffling case of Karen Read](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159617239.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.0625%2C0%2C65.875%2C100&w=2400)
![The baffling case of Karen Read](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159617239.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.59375%2C0%2C98.8125%2C100&w=2400)
How the mysterious death of a Boston cop led to an intense trial, a media circus, and a referendum on policing.
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![Why is everyone talking about Kamala Harris and coconut trees?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1429079905.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0042962708369174%2C0%2C99.991407458326%2C100&w=2400)
Ironic Kamala Harris meme-ing isn’t so ironic anymore.
![How Love Island USA became this summer’s most exquisite trash](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2159724793.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How Love Island USA became this summer’s most exquisite trash](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2159724793.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Americans are finally falling in love with the US version of the British reality hit. Fancy that!
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![The best books of the year (so far)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Vox_Books_02.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0031249999999972%2C0%2C99.99375%2C100&w=2400)
From debut character studies to beloved franchises, here are the best books of the last 6 months.
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![The damsel-ification of Usha Vance](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162165336.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
What people project onto the would-be second lady fits a pattern of benevolent sexism about GOP wives.
![The hidden cost of your Prime Day purchases](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161655360_8eff5d.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.6625%2C0%2C66.675%2C100&w=2400)
![The hidden cost of your Prime Day purchases](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161655360_8eff5d.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0062492188476426%2C100%2C99.987501562305&w=2400)
For Amazon workers, the bevy of sales reinforces the human toll of “same-day delivery, lifetime of injury.”
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The Twisters actor’s career explains a lot about the state of the industry.
![Revisiting Hillbilly Elegy, the book that made J.D. Vance](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162189013.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670579948345%2C0%2C66.658840103311%2C100&w=2400)
![Revisiting Hillbilly Elegy, the book that made J.D. Vance](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162189013.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0058699225170287%2C0%2C99.988260154966%2C100&w=2400)
The bestseller proves Trump’s VP pick has abiding disdain for absolutely everyone.
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![Energy drinks are everywhere. How dangerous are they?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1265237517.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.1865671641791%2C0%2C99.626865671642%2C100&w=2400)
Originally marketed squarely at young men, they’re now coming for women’s wallets.
![Storm chasing has changed — a lot — since Twister](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00042_0034R_COMP.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.672046481601%2C0%2C66.655907036798%2C100&w=2400)
![Storm chasing has changed — a lot — since Twister](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00042_0034R_COMP.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0080697224015509%2C0%2C99.983860555197%2C100&w=2400)
These days, anyone can follow a tornado, but you’ll want to leave that to the professionals.
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![The pure media savvy of Trump’s fist pump photo, explained by an expert](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/AP24195803307155.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
“It’s his brand now.”
![The Trump assassination attempt was a window into America’s fractured reality](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161922154.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669568245125%2C0%2C66.660863509749%2C100&w=2400)
![The Trump assassination attempt was a window into America’s fractured reality](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161922154.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0043523676880284%2C0%2C99.991295264624%2C100&w=2400)
The shooting wasn’t staged, but conspiratorial thinking has become widespread in our paranoid age.
![How Alec Baldwin’s Rust trial went spectacularly off the rails](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-2160837659.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669402495076%2C0%2C66.661195009849%2C100&w=2400)
![How Alec Baldwin’s Rust trial went spectacularly off the rails](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/GettyImages-2160837659.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0041037426132604%2C0%2C99.991792514773%2C100&w=2400)
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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“The garden party,” “old money,” and “cool girl” weddings are starting to feel more like dinner parties.
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I dove into the scary world of streaming bundles, and now Dolly Parton talks to me while I walk.
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![Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161406131.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.76298844491487%2C100%2C98.47402311017&w=2400)
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
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Everyone from Beyonce to Dua Lipa has an album out this year. So why are the charts dominated by male country and rap?
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![The glorious return of the skort](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Untitled-design-17.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
How skorts became cool again, as explained by Challengers and Taylor Swift.
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![What do we do about Alice Munro now?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-183933026.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=8.5227272727273%2C0%2C82.954545454545%2C100&w=2400)
Reckoning with the late author and Nobel Prize winner’s complicity in her daughter’s abuse.
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![Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/thumb_clean.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.8125%2C0%2C84.375%2C100&w=2400)
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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The strange ways we do (and don’t) consume glizzies.
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Sonny Angels, from TikTok trend to SNL sketch fodder, explained.
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As the first Asian American lead in the franchise’s two-decade history, Jenn Tran’s casting makes a statement.
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![The existential struggle of being Black](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1251264834.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.19860973187686%2C0%2C99.602780536246%2C100&w=2400)
A conversation with author Nathalie Etoke on Black existentialism and the case for tragic optimism.
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Biles’s huge win at the Olympic trials sends a big message on mental health.
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![Diljit Dosanjh is one of India’s biggest stars. Now he’s taking on America.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2150511667.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.3277560884923%2C100%2C93.344487823015&w=2400)
The musician is packing arenas and performing on The Tonight Show.
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![Food is no longer a main character on The Bear](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Bear-E301_35_03_04.Still035_85d160.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.8%2C0%2C84.4%2C100&w=2400)
Every dish is beautiful and no one is hungry.
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![Chappell Roan spent 7 years becoming an overnight success](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2157780644.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0067503712704209%2C100%2C99.986499257459&w=2400)
How a Midwest princess played the long game and embraced queer joy.
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Why is Spotify making me to listen to Sabrina Carpenter?
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