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It’s a common observation that modern-day politics increasingly resembles fandom: Both feature communities created around and united by passion, and both are often heavily fixated on a single public figure. Many pundits are now calling right-wing voters “the Trump fandom,” as though there’s little difference between...

Police officers stand outside the New York Times headquarters in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spo...

Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China. This in itself was not unusual. Myanmar’s milit...

Bank of America has already slashed its overdraft fee from $35 to $10. Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would curb overdraft fees incurred when consumers withdraw more than the available funds in their bank account. Banks currently collect about...

Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024, in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Donald Trump may have won the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin. The question, though, is whether he can sustain his momentum thro...

Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers’ jaws hit the floor. “I remember thinking, This just can’t be right!” says Mike Boylan-Kolchin, a University of Texas Austin astronomer. The observations he’s referring to would, to you and me, seem like little smudgy red blobs among a fi...

An Alpine ibex at sunset in the Alps. Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A day in the life of a goat in the Alps is, perhaps, as idyllic as it sounds. Wake up when the sun rises. Eat some grass and wildflowers. Rest. Go to sleep when the sun sets, high up on the mountain, among protective rocks. For tho...

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota. Vox; Gaelen Morse/Getty Images Manchester, New Hampshire — “It makes me sick” to criticize President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips says in a windowless room of his campaign office, lined with “DEAN” posters as a perfect setting for filmed podcasts. “I’ve respected the pres...

As I write this article, I have a cold. At some point in the past couple of weeks, I managed to inhale a droplet of water suspended in the air that contained hundreds or thousands of copies of a virus (probably a rhinovirus, the kind that causes most common colds). That virus infected my throat and my sinuses, resul...

Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court unexpectedly turned away a case asking it to diminish the rights of young transgender Americans in much of the country. On Tuesday, the Court announ...