Lake Mead’s decline is visible on surrounding rocks as the reservoir falls to record low water levels amid a megadrought. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images More
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Netflix’s smash-hit romance Purple Hearts is a political hate-watch
Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine in Netflix’s controversial new film Purple Hearts. | Hopper Stone/Netflix Purple Hearts tries to romanticize the ideological middle. It actually
Airlines are trying to resurrect the Concorde era
Boom Supersonic wants to bring back supersonic flight, but experts have their doubts. | Boom Supersonic Is there such a thing as a green supersonic
Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?
WeWork’s Adam Neumann is trying to disrupt real estate, again. | Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Adam Neumann burned billions. Now investors are giving him
Anal and oral sex spread monkeypox. Let’s talk about it.
Dion Lee/Vox; Getty Images Why it’s spreading like an STI through gay men’s sexual networks, why women are at risk — and why condoms might help.
We talk about heat waves in a weird way
A construction worker pours water on his head as he tries to cool off during a heat wave in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 4. |
Liz Cheney’s unfinished business
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) before her concession speech in Jackson Hole on Tuesday. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Cheney’s Wyoming loss was predictable. Her bigger fight,
Big Tech wants to solve traffic, but what if they’re only making it worse?
Getty Images How the car took over America and how we can take it back. There is perhaps no piece of technology more ubiquitous in
The ovarian “biological clock” and other reproductive health metaphors that have led science astray
A three-dimensional model of the structures of the clitoris, demonstrating that it is much more than a simple “nub.” | Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images
TikTok is great for spreading political messages — and conspiracy theories
AFP via Getty Images Democrats are trying to win TikTok with facts and nuance. Its algorithm rewards the opposite. A man sets his tactical gear bag next to