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California’s new privacy law, explained

The California Consumer Privacy Act gives Californians some control over their data, but only if they know how to take advantage of it.

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Culture in the 2010s was obsessed with finding community — and building walls

From Midsommar to Twin Peaks to Hadestown, artists dreamed of a better world — but were stuck with the one we live in now.

A year of protest, as seen through street art

From Argentina to Lebanon, images that defined a year of unrest.

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The decade, in 6 minutes

Let’s ring in the new year — and the 2020s.

Australia’s hellish heat wave and wildfires, explained

Ocean circulation, years of drought, and climate change are fueling Australia’s record heat and deadly fires.

Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture

Is cancel culture a mob mentality, or a long overdue way of speaking truth to power?

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Trump of the Year

On the cusp of a big election year, Vox’s Matthew Yglesias reviews President Trump’s accomplishments thus far.

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California will require solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

The hidden calories in your booze, explained

Vox Sentences: An anti-Semitic attack at Hanukkah

Trump’s use of homelessness as a political cudgel exposes his cynical disregard for blue states

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The rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani, explained

Impeachment, explained

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Fandom went mainstream in the 2010s — for better and worse

Game of Thrones’ final season told flattering lies about wanting power

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What we know about the Hanukkah celebration stabbing in New York

What we know about a shooting at a White Settlement, Texas, church

The controversy over Bret Stephens’s Jewish genius column, explained

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s co-writer thinks he told Rose Tico’s complete story in barely over a minute

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In 2016, the Ghostbusters reboot didn’t change movies. But the backlash was a bad omen.

Why small talk is so excruciating

3 big health care stories to watch for in 2020

Ivanka Trump’s interview on Face the Nation could have aired on Fox News

The keto moment

Adam Sandler is Netflix’s biggest star, and Netflix thinks that’s great

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

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Can Artificial Intelligence teach you to write better?

Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But can an algorithm really know how to write?

The best things to eat and drink to fight wintertime dread

The 11 most-read Future Perfect articles of 2019

Why Sam Mendes made 1917 look like it was shot in a single, continuous take

The reason carry-on luggage became such a hassle

Why America loves — and hates — outspoken young women

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1,000 people sent me their addiction treatment stories. Here’s what I learned.

Here are four reasons America’s addiction treatment system is broken.

In a bid for peace, Ukraine swaps 200 prisoners with pro-Russian separatists

What we know about the deadly car bombing in Mogadishu

A new government study shows how Trump’s tariffs have backfired

Joe Biden explains why he said he’d defy an impeachment trial subpoena

Trump is trying to out the alleged Ukraine whistleblower on Twitter

Diversity in children’s books has increased exponentially over the past 10 years

All those hacks got Amazon’s Ring sued

Mike Bloomberg has spent a staggering $100 million on campaign ads in a month

The power of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is that it doesn’t pretend its marriages are romantic

Consider the vulture

The telling conservative backlash to a Virginia zoning reform proposal, explained

Congress quietly gave 4,000 Liberians a path to citizenship

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins party primary, weeks after indictments

The FDA has officially raised the age to buy tobacco products to 21