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World

The many, many controversies surrounding the 2022 World Cup, explained

By Ian Ward

Culture

How Love Is Blind became a horror show

By Alex Abad-Santos

Culture

All of the 2022 National Book Award finalists, read and reviewed

By Vox Staff

Recode

NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil

Culture

Does it matter how real The Crown is?

By Aja Romano

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison November 14

Hollywood’s Black film problem, explained by Elvis Mitchell

By Alissa Wilkinson November 11

Wakanda Forever’s touching credits scene, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos November 10

Marvel has a whole lot riding on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Alex Abad-Santos November 10

Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and their $50 million defamation suit, explained

By Constance Grady November 3

The planned Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger has been struck down in court

By Constance Grady November 1

Unpacking Armageddon Time

By Alissa Wilkinson October 31

All the big new rom-coms star the same people they did 20 years ago

By Constance Grady October 30

Quitting Elon

By Whizy Kim October 28

Adidas, Kanye, and the $4 billion sneakerhead industry

By Jason Del Rey October 28

Sex, death, and apocalypse meet in season 2 of The White Lotus

By Alissa Wilkinson October 28

Rainbow fentanyl candy is just the latest Halloween panic

By Alex Abad-Santos October 27

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By Constance Grady November 16, 2021

TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death

By Sara Morrison October 26

Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels are deliberately frustrating

By Constance Grady October 26

What’s going on with Kanye West, from fake kids to antisemitism

By Aja Romano October 25

The soundtrack to the climate crisis is apocalypse pop

By Taylor Behnke October 25

House of the Dragon season finale: The dragons come home to roost

By Aja Romano October 24

How many van Goghs is one Earth worth?

By Aja Romano October 24

How do you make a movie about a monster?

By Alissa Wilkinson October 24

The existence of the last slave transport ship was denied. A new documentary reveals the truth.

By Alissa Wilkinson October 24

Every song on Taylor Swift’s Midnights, explained

By Rebecca Jennings, Shira Tarlo, and 1 more October 21

The Banshees of Inisherin is great — and even better if you know the history behind it

By Alissa Wilkinson October 21

The Rock deserves a better superhero debut than Black Adam

By Alex Abad-Santos October 21

[Redacted] returns in Black Adam’s post-credits scene

By Alex Abad-Santos October 20

AI art looks way too European

By Neel Dhanesha October 19

Let’s go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories

By Constance Grady October 19

Lea Michele in Funny Girl: Yes, she is that good

By Constance Grady October 18

The Chinese government’s unlikeliest standoff is with … fandom

By Aja Romano October 17

House of the Dragon never lets you forget the ways men objectify women

By Aja Romano October 16

What are we supposed to do about Kanye now?

By Constance Grady October 14

The messy, thrilling queer allegory in Interview with the Vampire

By Alex Abad-Santos October 14

Welcome to Netflix — with ads

By Peter Kafka October 13

Halloween: A complete guide to horror’s quirkiest, most erratic franchise

By Aja Romano October 13

Alex Jones’s lies have cost him $965 million in a second Sandy Hook trial

By Aja Romano October 12

The Try Guys have broken our brains

By Rebecca Jennings October 12

Adnan Syed is free — and it only took years of criminal justice reform

By Aja Romano October 11

Here are 29 new movies to get excited about

By Alissa Wilkinson October 10

House of the Dragon’s tense, awkward family reunion

By Aja Romano October 9

Tár demands — and deserves — your full attention

By Alissa Wilkinson October 7