• Skip Die Hard this year. Black Christmas is the cynical 2016 holiday movie alternative.

  By Aja Romano

• Trump’s "meritocratic" appointments have resulted in a lot of white men in top jobs

  By Tara Golshan

• The controversy over YouTube star Adam Saleh's ejection from a Delta flight, explained

  By Aja Romano

• Obama just made it much harder for Trump to build his “Muslim registry”

  By Dara Lind

• It may have seemed like the world fell apart in 2016. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it didn’t.

  By Julia Belluz

• Every US president promises to boost economic growth. The catch: no one knows how.

  By Marc Levinson

• The 21 best TV shows of 2016

  By Todd VanDerWerff

• Painkiller companies are now globally exporting addiction for profit — just like Big Tobacco

  By German Lopez

• 2 remarkable facts that illustrate solar power’s declining cost

  By David Roberts

• A key Obamacare advocate tells us how he’ll fight repeal in 2017

  By Sarah Kliff

• A better way to manage your passwords, explained with a cartoon

  By Alvin Chang

• Donald Trump’s trade team has based their analysis on a remarkably silly mistake

  By Matthew Yglesias

• Scrooges, ranked

  By Todd VanDerWerff

• Why the white working class feels like they’ve lost it all, according to a political scientist

  By Sean Illing

• Passengers is 3 movies in one, each creepier than the last

  By Alissa Wilkinson

• The secret chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy

  By Estelle Caswell

• The Vox 2016 holiday gift guide

  By Vox Staff

  SUPPORTED BY
• Careers at Vox Media

  We're building great things, and we need your talent.

  By Vox Media

• World

  Obama was just spared from a major fight over Israeli settlements

  • ---

    Berlin and Ankara: a tale of two terror attacks

  • ---

    9 questions about Russia you were too embarrassed to ask

  • ---

    Israel just announced it will take in wounded civilians from Aleppo
  more>

  more>

• Identities

  Washington, DC, passed one of the nation's most generous paid family leave laws

  • ---

    North Carolina Republicans just chose anti-LGBTQ discrimination over jobs for their constituents

  • ---

    North Carolina Republicans just failed to repeal the state's anti-LGBTQ law

  • ---

    Bill O’Reilly’s argument for the Electoral College: it keeps white voters in power
  more>

  more>