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BTS’s new album is sublime comfort pop for the soul in lockdown

By Aja Romano

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The mind-boggling end of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, explained

By Constance Grady

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Supernatural’s bonkers series finale marked the end of an era of fandom

By Aja Romano

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Plight at the Museum

By Victoria L. Valentine, Constance Grady, and 1 more

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One Good Thing: Netflix’s Dash & Lily is a sweet TV rom-com with a Christmas twist

By Emily VanDerWerff

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By Constance Grady and Matthew Yglesias

The Princess Switch: Switched Again is more Vanessa Hudgens drag variety hour than holiday rom-com

By Alex Abad-Santos

It took a pandemic to change the movie business

By Peter Kafka

In his new memoir, Obama defends — and critiques — his legacy

By Constance Grady

A guide to Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, the greatest film series you’ll see this year

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why the new PlayStation and Xbox are such a big deal

By Allegra Frank

A guide to the must-read 2020 National Book Award finalists and winners

By Vox Staff

Wonder Woman 1984 will debut on HBO Max this Christmas

By Allegra Frank

Conspiracy theories, explained

Americans are embracing dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon to coronavirus denial.

By Aja Romano

Welcome to the Museums Issue of The Highlight

By Lavanya Ramanathan

If museums want to diversify, they’ll have to change. A lot.

By Constance Grady

The joy and uneasiness of an empty museum

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Please Touch Museum and children’s museums everywhere wonder: What now?

By Lindsey Norward

Who are museums for?

By Lavanya Ramanathan

The Nest is a taut thriller about the perils of envy

By Alissa Wilkinson

How the pandemic could change traditional Thanksgiving

By Terry Nguyen

The Crown season 4: Is the queen a bad mom? 

By Alex Abad-Santos

One Good Thing: The dark pop pleasures of Selena Gomez’s Rare

By Emily VanDerWerff

RSVP now to join Susan Choi in talking Trust Exercise with the Vox Book Club

By Constance Grady

I Am Greta is an intimate, vulnerable documentary about the teen behind the headlines

By Alissa Wilkinson

My two days watching Newsmax, the network waging war on Fox News from the right

By Emily VanDerWerff

Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive

By Constance Grady

Everything about Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy movie is awful

By Alissa Wilkinson

Election week memes turned the 2020 presidential race into K-pop-style fandom

By Aja Romano

Alex Trebek’s last episode of Jeopardy will air on Christmas Day

By Jen Trolio and Allegra Frank

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek has died after 36 years of hosting the show

By Libby Nelson

Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue was shrewd and political — but more chill than expected

By Aja Romano

SNL’s cold open took some parting shots at Donald Trump

By Alissa Wilkinson

The 2020 election, explained by TikTok

By Rebecca Jennings

These memes want Democrats and Republicans to be friends. Good luck!

By Aja Romano

Why white supremacy is a cult, according to novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia

By Constance Grady

Who is Gritty, and why is he Donald Trump’s mortal enemy?

By Emily VanDerWerff

America fell in love with Steve Kornacki this week

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: HBO’s In Treatment will soothe your shattered nerves

By Emily VanDerWerff

TV absolutely has to get rid of “election night”

By Emily VanDerWerff

What the remaining swing states would look like as a TV show

By Emily VanDerWerff

How Veep foretold 2020 election recount protests

By Alissa Wilkinson

I’m obsessed with The West Wing’s truly wild Electoral College maps

By Emily VanDerWerff

Stop! This is a doomscrolling checkpoint.

By Rebecca Jennings

Self-care at the end of the world

By Constance Grady