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6/16/2025, 5:28:37 PM

Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, and Don Jr. challenged the hawkish GOP consensus. But can they win over the president? https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/2Az1kQ

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6/18/2025, 8:59:52 PM

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 with Joe just a week after posting a bunch of (now deleted) romantic international vacation pics to Instagram. According to stereotype, this is a skill men — particularly straight men — just don’t have. Their supposed inability to spin a good yarn has been a point of internet mockery, with memes and gags usually coming from the women in their lives who are forced to parse through the driest, most unsatisfying stories ever told. It’s hard not to laugh at the tension these skits and jokes highlight between the person wanting the entire story and the person giving them absolutely nothing. But underneath the comedy are deeper questions about the ethics, the stigma, and the history of gossip, especially who gets to participate. Read more: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/Fil7Pg

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6/17/2025, 7:49:09 PM

Tucker Carlson has been one of the right’s loudest voices urging the United States to stay out of Israel’s war with Iran — part of a broader effort to overturn the GOP’s hawkish consensus. But now, as tensions rise amid Israeli strikes, Carlson has had a setback to his project: a derogatory nickname from President Donald Trump. “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump posted on TruthSocial on Monday night. This is more important than just a nickname; there are real stakes here. Trump’s lashing out is a sign that, on this pivotal issue of potential war with Iran, he’s turned against Carlson — a longtime close ally. Read more: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/Tcdwbx

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6/13/2025, 7:04:50 PM

One of the biggest questions in the days to come — and perhaps the one with the highest stakes for Israel — is whether President Donald Trump will come to embrace the war he publicly opposed. https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/uNnt5b

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6/11/2025, 9:18:05 PM

People have long been motivated to define the inner workings of their minds, but never quite had the wide array of tools or language to clearly communicate who they are until fairly recently. From Myers-Briggs and Enneagram to love languages and Hogwarts houses, we are sufficiently armed with the means to classify and define ourselves — and with bite-size descriptors in which to broadcast our findings. These assessments and quizzes and identifiers, though, only tell one side of the multidimensional story that is a human life. Self-reflection has its utility, but a test or a rigid personality type may not provide the answers we’re looking for. The question of whether we can ever truly know ourselves — and whether the means of obtaining that information from a quiz is legitimate — isn’t as important as what we do with that insight. https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fTj1uK

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6/10/2025, 10:07:44 PM

Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured. Learn more: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/YKh_vZ

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5/21/2025, 10:01:34 PM

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg share a favorite author: Iain M. Banks, the Scottish science fiction writer best known for his Culture series. Banks is an odd choice for a bunch of tech billionaires. The author, who died in 2013, was a socialist and avowed hater of the super-rich. The most avowed Culture fan among the broligarchs, however, is Musk. Plenty of us like and even identify with pieces of pop culture whose politics we don’t entirely agree with. Still, the Banks Culture series is not politically coded so much as it is downright didactic. The politics of these books is not subtle, and they are also not compatible with the existence of billionaires. So it’s worth thinking about why the broligarchs have so consistently cited a socialist author as an inspiration. What do they find tantalizing about Banks’ work? Are they missing the point altogether? Read more from senior correspondent Constance Grady: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/gUbawx

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5/22/2025, 10:56:02 PM

"On Wednesday evening, the American Jewish Committee held a reception at DC’s Capital Jewish Museum. The gathering, aimed at Jewish foreign policy professionals between the ages of 22 and 45, featured speakers from humanitarian groups. One such groups, IsraAID, said in a statement that the event 'focused on bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza through Israeli-Palestinian and regional collaboration.' At around 9 pm, a gunman killed two attendees leaving the event. Their names were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim: They were young people working at the Israeli Embassy and a couple planning to get married. Their murders were undoubtedly political. Reflecting on this sequence of events, it’s hard not to spiral into ever-greater depths of anger and despair. This is partly for personal reasons: I grew up Jewish in Washington, DC, and am the kind of young professional this event would be marketed to. But more fundamentally, it’s for political ones: these murders underscore how dangerous the current political moment is, and may materially make it worse." Read more from senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/OJe50d

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5/19/2025, 3:02:09 PM

President Donald Trump’s second term has so far been dominated by his aggressive use of executive power — but now, he’s finally trying to get something through Congress. This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives will attempt to pass what Trump has deemed the “one big, beautiful bill.” It is the centerpiece — really, the only major piece — of his legislative agenda. He’s trying to stuff everything he wants into this, in hopes of ramming it through both the House and Senate on a party line vote. Trump has promised tax cuts and a new golden age. The truth is more complicated. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/yv2YpT