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The longshot plan to end the war in Gaza and bring peace to the Middle East

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President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrive for a photo during a...
President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrive for a photo during a summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 16, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images As an old saying, often attributed to President Dwight Eisenhower, goes, “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.” Given how torturously dif...
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Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map

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Florilegius/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For well over a decade, periodical cicadas do very little....
Florilegius/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For well over a decade, periodical cicadas do very little. They hang out in the ground, sucking sap out of tree roots. Then, following this absurdly long stint in the soil, they emerge, sprout wings, make a ton of noise, have sex, and die within a few weeks. Their ...
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No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.

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Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022,...
Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022, in Acton, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in the deaths of tens...
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The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington

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Six Supreme Court justices attend President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP...
Six Supreme Court justices attend President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Young John Roberts was a funny guy. “The generally accepted notion that the court can only hear roughly 150 cases each term,” the future chief justice wrote while he was an early-career lawye...
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You could soon get cash for a delayed flight

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Flights to LaGuardia Airport were delayed last June due to smoke and poor visibility. Getty Images...
Flights to LaGuardia Airport were delayed last June due to smoke and poor visibility. Getty Images Under a new rule from the Biden administration, passengers could soon get relief for one of the most frequently cited travel grievances. The rule, which was announced in late April, would require airlines to provide au...
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Baby Reindeer’s messy stalking has led to more messy stalking offscreen

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Jessica Gunning as “Martha” in Baby Reindeer. Ed Miller/Netflix As a medium, autofiction has long been...
Jessica Gunning as “Martha” in Baby Reindeer. Ed Miller/Netflix As a medium, autofiction has long been a source of controversy, but rarely has an autobiographical work of fiction come with as many built-in issues as Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer. The show, a seven-episode limited series from British comedian Richard G...
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Challengers is the best thing that could happen to polyamory

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Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) and her tennis-playing, polyamorous twinks. Challengers/Amazon MGM Studios Much has recently been made...
Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) and her tennis-playing, polyamorous twinks. Challengers/Amazon MGM Studios Much has recently been made out of polyamory in the media, to the point where the prospect of dating and ostensibly having sex with multiple people who are also attracted to you seems rather unsexy. Pieces in outlets li...
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Why America’s Israel-Palestine debate is broken — and how to fix it

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Israeli and Palestinian flags on display in protests at UCLA on April 28, 2024 in Westwood,...
Israeli and Palestinian flags on display in protests at UCLA on April 28, 2024 in Westwood, California. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images You may have heard of Shai Davidai, the Israeli professor at Columbia University who has launched a crusade against the school’s pro-Palestinian protestors. He’s rock...
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Why Florida is banning a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist

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A piece of GOOD Meat’s cell-cultivated chicken cooks on a grill at the company’s California office...
A piece of GOOD Meat’s cell-cultivated chicken cooks on a grill at the company’s California office in July 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Wednesday, Florida became the first US state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown, or “cell-cultivated” meat. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” Gov. Ron DeS...
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Vox Welcomes Naureen Khan as Senior Editor, Culture and Features

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Philosophers are studying Reddit’s "Am I the Asshole?"

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If the Ancient Greek philosophers had had access to the internet, perhaps they would have created...
If the Ancient Greek philosophers had had access to the internet, perhaps they would have created something like Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” Getty Images Philosophers, bless them, are trying to understand how normal people think about morality. Normal people, as you may have heard, hang out on the internet. And wha...
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High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon

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Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, on...
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2024. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Even borrowing money is more expensive these days — and the Federal Reserve might decide to keep it that way for a while. All eyes are on the Fed’s May meeting today, ...
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Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit.

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People walk through downtown Detroit, Michigan, on April 3, 2024. The city has experienced a historic...
People walk through downtown Detroit, Michigan, on April 3, 2024. The city has experienced a historic turnaround on crime that is both part of a national trend and the result of a transformation in the city’s policing. Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 2021, Detroit was in trouble. The city, which already had one of the...
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How La Niña will shape heat and hurricanes this year

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Heat waves have begun to take hold in Asia as El Nino begins to wane. Kazi...
Heat waves have begun to take hold in Asia as El Nino begins to wane. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Pacific Ocean — Earth’s largest body of water — is an engine for weather around the planet, and it’s about to shift gears this year. The warm phase of the Pacific Ocean’s temperature cycle, known ...
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The Kristi Noem puppy-killing scandal, explained

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Gov. Kristi Noem recently wrote about killing a puppy. It’s not going over well. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg...
Gov. Kristi Noem recently wrote about killing a puppy. It’s not going over well. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the past, politicians have bragged about raising puppies as a way to seem more approachable. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, meanwhile, recently wrote about killing one. Noem, one of the top c...
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Could bird flu cause a human pandemic?

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A dairy farm worker prepares cows for milking in Ontario, Canada, in July 2022. Irfan Khan/Los...
A dairy farm worker prepares cows for milking in Ontario, Canada, in July 2022. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Last year, when an H5N1 avian flu virus — commonly known as bird flu — was spilling over from bird populations into a variety of wild mammals, Seema Lakdawala, a virologist and influenza A tr...
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The astonishing radicalism of Florida’s new ban on abortion

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Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel In spring 2022, just months before the US Supreme Court overturned...
Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel In spring 2022, just months before the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans in Florida passed a law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, down from the previous legal threshold of 24 weeks. It took effect that summer, but advocates for reproductive rights ...
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Why we keep seeing egg prices spike

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With a new wave of bird flu affecting hens, egg prices are ticking up again. Matthew...
With a new wave of bird flu affecting hens, egg prices are ticking up again. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images Egg prices are rising again. The culprit, again: bird flu. At least, that’s the surface-level reason. In the current wave, according to the CDC, the H5N1 bird flu has been found in over 90 million ...
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After decades of inaction, states are finally stepping up on housing

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Harvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyer

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Harvey Weinstein in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on October 4, 2022,...
Harvey Weinstein in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on October 4, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. Etienne Laurent/Getty Images For the past seven years, Harvey Weinstein has been the bogeyman of popular culture. His depravity seems to the public to be so established that other monstrous...
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The AI grift that can literally poison you

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Amanita muscaria mushrooms, a poisonous variety, are seen at a garden in Poland on October 2,...
Amanita muscaria mushrooms, a poisonous variety, are seen at a garden in Poland on October 2, 2022. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Six months ago, I spoke with a man named Elan Trybuch about a problem he was seeing online. He kept coming across different ebooks about mushroom foraging that looked somehow o...
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The failed promise of egg freezing

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“For me, it was almost like a message from the universe,” says MeiMei Fox. It was...
“For me, it was almost like a message from the universe,” says MeiMei Fox. It was 2009, and Fox was a 36-year-old divorced writer and editor when she sat down to interview a fertility specialist for an upcoming book. He pulled out a chart showing female fertility after age 35 — in her memory, a curve swooping expone...
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How anxiety became a catchall for every unpleasant emotion

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When you run a therapy practice called the Center for Anxiety, as David H. Rosmarin does,...
When you run a therapy practice called the Center for Anxiety, as David H. Rosmarin does, you encounter a breadth of anxiety-related experiences. Sometimes, after talking with new patients, Rosmarin will determine their distress may not be related — or solely related — to anxiety at all. Because anxiety intersects w...
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Everything’s a cult now

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Getty Images Is damn near everything a cult now? That’s a glib distillation of an interesting...
Getty Images Is damn near everything a cult now? That’s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet has shattered the possibility of a monoculture and the result of that is a highly fragmented society that feels increasingly like a loose connection of cul...
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