A couple weeks ago, I went to the doctor to go over some test results. All was well — spectacularly average, even.  But there was one part of the appointment that did take me by surprise. After my doctor gave me advice based on my health and age, she turned her computer monitor towards me […]

Last week, the NBA was rocked by the indictments of three current and former players, including the current coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, in connection with sports betting and rigged poker games. I with talked my colleague Bryan Walsh, who oversees Vox’s Future Perfect, about the crisis the indictments create for the league — and […]

On October 8, two of the biggest voices in right-wing media sat down for a nearly four-hour chat. The host was Dave Smith, a libertarian Jewish comedian who has made a name for himself as a vocal critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. His guest was Nick Fuentes, a leader of the antisemitic “Groyper” movement […]

Even with 38 ways to buy it, Taylor Swift’s fans aren’t living for The Life of a Showgirl.  When Swift dropped her 12th studio album earlier this month, people were already primed to hate it. As part of her rollout, she released a concerning amount of products around the release. From “The Shiny Bug Vinyl […]

TikTok and airlines have something in common with your search engine, your grocery app, and (increasingly) your car: They start out great, lock you in, and then quietly get worse while you keep using them. That very familiar decline now has a catchy name: “enshittification.” Cory Doctorow has been writing about this for decades as […]