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Gossip was the saving grace of 2022

By Aja Romano

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Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison

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Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people

By Christian Paz

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The Cheesecake Factory knows what you want

By Alex Abad-Santos
A Christmas tree on a table. Why?
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How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing

By Phil Edwards

Babylon’s debauched old Hollywood is about something much bigger

By Alissa Wilkinson

Can art destruction save us from climate destruction?

By Haleema Shah

Antisemitism isn’t new. So why did 2022 feel different?

By Marin Cogan

What gets lost when comedies go straight to streaming

By Alissa Wilkinson

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

By Rebecca Jennings

Hulu’s Kindred solves the Handmaid’s Tale problem

By Constance Grady

When humor becomes armor

By Ashley Ray

Why we’re relitigating the Casey Anthony case now — and why we shouldn’t

By Aja Romano

The US government’s TikTok ban is more complicated than it sounds

By Sara Morrison

The billionaire vibe shift

By Whizy Kim

Is the right winning the comedy wars?

By Constance Grady

Fortnite maker Epic Games has to pay $520 million for tricking kids and violating their privacy

By Sara Morrison

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Join the Vox Book Club!

By Constance Grady

The very serious science of humor

By Allie Volpe

Avatar: The Way of Water reminds us that blockbusters don’t have to look absolutely terrible

By Alissa Wilkinson

Star Wars’ evil Empire can feel a little corny — but then came Andor

By Sonia Saraiya

3 things to remember about Avatar before you see Avatar: The Way of Water

By Alex Abad-Santos

Why are Christmas movie “miracles” never miracles at all?

By Alissa Wilkinson

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison

Vox’s 16 best books of 2022

By Constance Grady

The White Lotus’s explosive season finale, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos

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In 2022, nothing horrified us as much as old age

A year in horror movies about the nightmare of aging, from X to Pearl, Barbarian to Old People.

By Aja Romano

The World Cup is missing its climate goals. It should still keep taking shots.

By Umair Irfan
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How FIFA corruputed the World Cup

By Sam Ellis

Netflix’s Harry and Meghan docuseries brings nothing new to the table

By Constance Grady
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The pickleball craze, explained

By Coleman Lowndes

The Whale screenwriter on writing about religious fundamentalism, bodies, and hope

By Alissa Wilkinson

Megan Thee Stallion, Me Too, and hip-hop’s cycle of misogynoir

By Fabiola Cineas

How migration has shaped the World Cup

By Youyou Zhou

Why is Hulu’s Fleishman Is in Trouble so boring?

By Constance Grady

The Good Morning America anchors made cheating scandals fun again

By Aja Romano

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A crisis on America’s roads

With pedestrian and traffic fatalities on the rise, how can the US make its roads safer?

By Marin Cogan

The White Lotus is reinventing the ugly American tourist

By Alex Abad-Santos

A driver killed her daughter. She won’t let the world forget.

Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.

By Marin Cogan

Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

Kanye West’s antisemitic spiral, explained

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It’s best you know nothing about the new greatest movie of all time

By Alissa Wilkinson
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How Qatar built stadiums with forced labor

By Christina Thornell

The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

By Tanya Pai

The 25 best movies of 2022

By Alissa Wilkinson