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Alex Abad-Santos

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Sinners never needed the Oscars to be great

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

16.03.2026 3

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Diane Warren has been nominated 17 times for Best Original Song. Why hasn’t she won yet?

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

11.03.2026 10

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The mysterious Redditor who’s changing the way we do laundry

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

09.03.2026 20

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The hobby that AI is ruining for its fans

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.03.2026 10

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Credit card theft, penis injections, and other weird scandals from the 2026 Olympic Games

Generally speaking, the athlete stories that come out of the Olympic Games are about the countless hours spent on the ice, on the slopes, and at the...

12.02.2026 40

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France’s extremely talented and extremely controversial ice dancers, explained

When Olympic ice dance pair Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillame Cizeron take to the ice on Wednesday, they’ll do so as the favorites for gold. ...

11.02.2026 30

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Why American “quad god” Ilia Malinin skates like no one else

Figure skating is nothing without tension. Humans speed across slick ice, balancing on a thin metal blade and making sharp turns. The athletes defy...

07.02.2026 20

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The US’s biggest tennis stars don’t really want to get political. They might not have a choice.

One of the biggest stories coming out of the 2026 Australian Open is how well the American tennis players are doing. Four US women — Amanda...

28.01.2026 10

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Why expensive airline “premiums” don’t feel special at all

Perhaps it’s the natural human inclination toward nosiness, but people are always interested in what others are and aren’t buying. Those purchases...

23.01.2026 20

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Why is America so horny for gay hockey jocks?

To outsiders, the phenomenon of Heated Rivalry could not seem more impossible: A show about two rival hockey players is one of the most popular shows...

14.01.2026 10

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Airports and airlines have a fake service dog problem

This past month I, like many Americans, flew back home for the holidays. On the first leg of that trip, from New York to Los Angeles, a dog in a...

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Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient.

This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US...

16.12.2025 7

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Want a new job? Be (sort of) annoying.

To anyone who doesn’t dream of labor, the idea of a personality hire — a person who gets jobs because they’re a fun, unique human to be around...

11.12.2025 10

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A defense of Thanksgiving turkey

It’s always been puzzling that on Thanksgiving, a day when Americans are supposed to appreciate all they have in life, we are supposed to eat...

26.11.2025 6

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Kids do not want to go to child-free weddings either

There are many places where adults would prefer not to be around other people’s children. Seated next to or in front of them on airplanes, their...

20.11.2025 10

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Why everyone is still so obsessed with Sydney Sweeney

When regular people talk about a celebrity having “literally the worst week ever,” it’s never actually the worst week a person could ever have....

14.11.2025 40

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Gen Z’s war against leggings

There have always been ways to spot someone who is old: white hair, a gray beard, bifocals, references to smallpox. But now, to the chagrin of...

12.11.2025 30

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Are you old, or do you know who Sombr is?

An inevitable part of getting old is no longer recognizing the names of celebrities and musicians. Slowly and steadily, the more famous young and...

30.10.2025 8

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When famous people die, we honor them with ugly bronze statues. Why?

Last month, in Tina Turner’s hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, a bronze statue honoring the late singer was erected.  When famous people die,...

21.10.2025 20

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Why do bad pasta shapes exist? 

If I was in a kidnapping situation and needed to subtly signal that something was terribly wrong without alerting my captors, I would loudly declare...

02.10.2025 10

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Is a name like Oaklynn or Houstyn really such a tragedeigh? 

Before K-Anna Stephens posted her daughter’s name to the Facebook group “that name is a tragedeigh,” she knew that the response wasn’t going...

23.09.2025 10

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The US Open is hotter than Coachella. That’s what makes it awful.

At the US Open’s Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums, there’s a hum that never goes away. It sort of sounds like the murmur cicadas make. The...

05.09.2025 10

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The exhausting summer of nothing 2025

Whether it’s Brat, White Boy, Hot Girl, Barbenheimer or way back to the Summer of Love, Americans love to give summer a theme.  Yet, in 2025, we...

23.08.2025 10

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And Just Like That gives Carrie Bradshaw a weirdly perfect ending

And just like that, Carrie Bradshaw is single again.  For the last three seasons, fans have watched TV’s greatest anti-heroine begin an entire new...

15.08.2025 10

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The uniquely American panic over adultery

Americans have long considered cheating one of the worst things you can do to another person that doesn’t end in jail time.  We witnessed the ire...

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If you don’t get Labubus, that’s the point 

Some creatures only come out at night: vampires, werewolves, and now the latest member of the after-hours club: hopeful Labubu collectors.  If...

31.07.2025 10

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The real reason everyone’s so mad over the Gen Z stare

According to many Zoomers, concerning reports of a “Gen Z stare” may be overblown. If it exists, they say, it’s simply a response to the idiocy...

19.07.2025 10

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Straight guys are “bad” at gossip. Maybe they should learn.

What does it mean to be “good” at gossip?  A good gossip doesn’t just tell you that Sally broke up with Joe, they tell you that Sally broke up...

18.06.2025 6

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The midlife crisis is coming for millennials lol

Traditionally, if perhaps erroneously, our idea of a midlife crisis has long involved an older man leaving behind his home and family life for a red...

03.06.2025 10

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What the worst first dates all have in common 

Plenty of single people have witnessed how curiosity dies in real time: It happens seated across from a first date who doesn’t seem interested in...

03.05.2025 6

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When did people stop dancing at the club?

Clubs are, first and foremost, for dancing. One could theoretically do other things there — drink, meet strangers, conduct important and possibly...

25.04.2025 8

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No one’s happy about people filming themselves in gyms

For many people, working out is a distinctly private pleasure. The way we run, the faces we make, the amount we sweat and the places we sweat from,...

15.04.2025 5

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Why are so many people into astrology?

A Vox reader asks: Why do so many people believe in astrology? Astrology has been around as long as people have had problems. Frustrated with their...

04.04.2025 10

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White Lotus has finally revealed its secret main character

In a show full of unlikable people, it takes a special character to be the absolute, no-contest worst of the bunch. On White Lotus’s season three,...

10.03.2025 20

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Gabby Windey was the best thing about the Traitors. Did she win?

Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for the winner(s) of The Traitors’s third season. Bambi. Gaggy. Ciggy Mommy. Newlywed. America’s...

07.03.2025 7

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4 winners and 3 losers from a madcap Oscars

It won’t go down as the most exciting Oscars on record — there was no slap or envelope mix-up after all — but for this year’s Academy Awards,...

03.03.2025 7

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Why are Instagram Reels so deeply embarrassing?

Whether it’s a spiel about the benefits of rubbing beef tallow on your face, specific ab exercises and tips targeting belly fat, or a Gen X dancer...

28.02.2025 10

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The key to unlocking the new season of White Lotus

Spoiler warning: This story discusses the plot of the season three premiere of White Lotus. With every season of White Lotus, there are always two big...

17.02.2025 20

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Gen Z doesn’t know how to act in bars

One of America’s favorite pastimes, right up there with baseball and gimmick food, is generational disdain. Gen Z is experiencing the same hot...

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The Traitors’s third season is very good because its Traitors are very bad

In the world of reality TV, there are (basically) two types of shows: competitive reality shows where everyone’s after a cash prize, with the hope...

06.02.2025 6

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The online sex police are always watching and always so mad

Hello, and welcome to Group Chat, where culture reporters Rebecca Jennings and Alex Abad-Santos discuss the topics currently blowing up our (and...

31.01.2025 6

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Has Caitlin Clark changed the game between men’s and women’s sports?

A Vox reader asks: Why do people pay more to watch men’s sports than women’s sports? For all of Caitlin Clark’s feats on the basketball court...

29.01.2025 6

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What Megyn Kelly gets right — and wrong — about Conclave 

Megyn Kelly is impressive when you consider that she’s been able to create an entire career just from being mad at stuff. She is like the...

12.01.2025 10

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Onscreen age gaps have never been more pathetic 

Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because...

10.01.2025 10

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3 things to know about this year’s Golden Globes

It always seems like everyone wins and no one really loses at the Golden Globes.  The event has historically been known as more of a boozy party...

06.01.2025 10

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The latest chapter of It Ends With Us is an alleged Blake Lively smear campaign

The dramatic summer feud among the cast of It Ends With Us took a darker turn last week when Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni, the movie’s...

24.12.2024 6

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