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The Highlight Archive

Archives for September 2019

The true tale of a bona fide, one-of-a-kind “Lobster Girl”
The Highlight

Decades ago, I could have been a famous “freak.” So I enrolled in sideshow school.

By Kim Kelly
Welcome to the June issue of Vox’s The Highlight
The Highlight

Inside the world of female gun influencers. Plus: our need for speed, the fascinating life of Kim Jong Un, and more.

By Vox Staff
Welcome to the September issue of Vox’s The Highlight
Features

With our latest issue, we explore the culture war over burgers, treating anxiety with apps that look like video games, and more.

By Vox Staff
Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
Features

If we’re ever going to eat less meat, faux burgers could be an important first step. So why are they a cultural flashpoint?

By Brent Cunningham
Will luxury towers edge out the last of the working-class Chinese in New York’s iconic Chinatown?
Cities & Urbanism

One of the city’s few remaining neighborhoods for lower-income residents is fighting to preserve a way of life.

By Sarah Ngu
“Heritage travel” is surging in the era of DNA testing. It has a special significance for black Americans.
Culture

Some travelers have long desired a chance to mend family trees broken by slavery. For others, it’s complicated.

By Nneka M. Okona
The totally wild, true tale of a meme about aliens that almost inspired a real raid on Area 51
Internet Culture

How an online gag about storming the military base became a drama involving a rural town, the government, and frequent evocations of the Fyre Festival.

By Allegra Frank
How Mama Jan, the vocal coach behind Justin Bieber and Drake, creates superstars
Culture

She was a working musician in Atlanta. Now she teaches pop stars how to sing.

By Jewel Wicker
How Reese Witherspoon became the new high priestess of book clubs
Culture

Oprah who?

By Constance Grady
“It’s young people, it’s their future”: Inside the Sunrise Movement’s bid to save the world
Features

A growing group of crusaders have made strides putting climate change on the national agenda. Most aren’t even 30.

By Ella Nilsen
The case for raising kids in the city
Cities & Urbanism

America’s major cities are turning into playgrounds for childless professionals. It shouldn’t have to be this way.

By Matthew Yglesias
Austin’s failed attempt to regulate Uber and Lyft foreshadowed today’s controversies
Politics

How will the companies react to California’s new regulations? Ask Austin.

By Matthew Zeitlin
The long shadow of “hot Jesus”
Religion

The Christ of my youth was benevolent and handsome. So why was I treated like the ungodly temptation?

By Lyz Lenz
How to erase your personal information from the internet (it’s not impossible)
Technology

Your shopping habits, your family members’ names, even your salary is out there for anyone to see. But you can take back control.

By Zoe Schiffer
The (actually accurate) Bachelorette
Culture

I’m not looking for roses. Just someone who can stop looking at their phone.

By Aubrey Hirsch