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Zola is a slick, seedy Florida odyssey

Riley Keough and Taylour Paige in Zola. | Anna Kooris / A24The new movie brings a viral tweetstorm to life…

3 years ago

“Housing discrimination is alive and well”: Watchdog group sues 36 realtors and landlords in New York

A person runs through Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood on October 8, 2020, in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesEnding housing…

3 years ago

Meet Henrietta Leavitt, the 1900s astronomer who expanded our universe

Amanda Northrop/VoxEdwin Hubble’s name is everywhere in astronomy. Henrietta Leavitt’s should be too. In the early 1900s, the universe seemed…

3 years ago

A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.

Getty Images/iStockphotoIsabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is…

3 years ago

How big business exploits small business

Uber Eats and Postmates stickers side by side on a restaurant window in 2020. Uber Eats has since acquired Postmates…

3 years ago

New York City releases preliminary ranked choice vote count — and then pulls it

New York City mayoral candidates Kathryn Garcia, right, and Andrew Yang attend a campaign event on the eve of the…

3 years ago

Don’t buy Bill Barr’s attempt to rehab his image

Bill Barr at a news conference on December 21, 2020. | Michael Reynolds/Getty ImagesBarr wants you to forget he spent…

3 years ago

The Handmaid’s Tale invites its viewers to Joe Biden’s Gilead

June cradles baby Nichole, getting blood all over her, in The Handmaid’s Tale’s fourth season finale. | Sophie Giraud/HuluSeason four…

3 years ago

A new California law will help inmate firefighters join fire departments upon release

Inmate firefighters arrive at the scene of the Water fire, a new start about 20 miles from the Apple fire…

4 years ago

How to make sure the census counts you

Christina Animashaun/Vox Fill out your census form! April 1 was the official Census Day. Although you are legally obligated to…

4 years ago