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Features Archive

Archives for December 2014

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2014: The Year in Emoji2014: The Year in Emoji
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We took some of 2014’s biggest news stories and translated them into 2014’s universal language.

The best books we read in 2014
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Vox editors, writers, and designers on the titles that grabbed their attention this year.

By Vox Staff
What is Paul Krugman afraid of?
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Mass pandemics? Yes. Artificial intelligence? Nope.

By Ezra Klein
Confessions of a former internet troll
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Trolling was always juvenile. It wasn’t always this cruel.

By Emmett Rensin
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Books to read to understand the worldBooks to read to understand the world
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Compelling, informative books about economics, politics, health, and more

My uncle was the first person to die from Ebola in America.
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“Still today President Obama has not called on my grandmother to say, ‘my condolences.’”

By Josephus Weeks
This drug costs $84,000, and there’s nothing the US health-care system can do to stop it
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How the Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi explains health spending in America.

By Sarah Kliff