News

America finally gets an Amazon union

Former Amazon employee Chris Smalls, who founded the Amazon Labor Union, has unionized the first Amazon warehouse in the US.…

2 years ago

No, Putin is not actually achieving his goals in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on February 27, three days after Russia invaded Ukraine. | Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik, Kremlin…

2 years ago

The author of When We Cease to Understand the World explains himself

Benjamín Labatut and Constance Grady | Left: Juana Gomez. Right: Constance Grady “We need fiction like we need water.” The…

2 years ago

Spend April with Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado | Left, Graywolf. Right, Art Streiber. The Vox Book Club’s April…

2 years ago

How Black North Carolinians pay the price for the world’s cheap bacon

Protesters gather at a rally for environmental justice at the North Carolina statehouse in 2015. | Courtesy of Waterkeeper Alliance…

2 years ago

Morbius sucks the fun out of the vampire story

Jared Leto is a vampire in STEM, in Morbius. | Courtesy of Sony Jared Leto’s latest asks, “What if vampires…

2 years ago

Local jails are helping drive America’s mass incarceration problem

Dozens of men wait in a crowded holding cell for their bed assignments at the Los Angeles County Inmate Reception…

2 years ago

Morbius links up with a Spider-Man foe in his movie’s two credits scenes

Jared Leto in Morbius! | Courtesy of Sony You’ll be shocked by this MCU crossover ... if you didn’t see…

2 years ago

Federal marijuana legalization is stopped in its tracks

Pablo Delcan for Vox Public opinion, states, and even the GOP have come around to the idea of legal weed.…

2 years ago

Will Smith’s slap at the Oscars, briefly explained

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock on stage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March…

2 years ago