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A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.

Marie Kondo is training an army of tidying consultants
Money

The tidying expert has conquered book sales and Netflix. Now her KonMari consultants are coming to your home.

By Chavie Lieber
The big, controversial business of The Wing, explained
Explainers

How a women’s coworking space became a flashpoint for debates over feminism, money, and power.

By Chavie Lieber and Anna North
What Alex Berenson’s new book gets wrong about marijuana, psychosis, and violence
Future Perfect

The book, Tell Your Children, has received a lot of media attention, but it’s essentially Reefer Madness 2.0.

By German Lopez
Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment. California is changing that.
Confronting America’s opioid epidemic

This is what it looks like when we stop treating addiction as a moral failure.

By German Lopez
Winters are warming faster than summers. These US cities could lose weeks of freezing days by 2050.
Science

The dire consequences of having fewer days below freezing, explained.

By Kavya Sukumar and Umair Irfan
Juul, the vape device teens are getting hooked on, explained
Science

If you’ve seen people sucking on what look like USB flash drives, they’re probably “Juuling.”

By Julia Belluz
The Republican Party versus democracy
Politics

In 2018, we learned how Trump’s GOP behaves after losing elections. It could prove disastrous in 2020.

By Zack Beauchamp
Features
The best of everythingThe best of everything
Features

So many products today claim to be the best. Why — and why can’t we stop buying them?

By Susannah Locke
The absurd quest to make the “best” razor
The best of everything

The $3.5 billion shaving industry is secretive and litigious — and disrupting itself silly.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood
Science

The World Health Organization now recognizes “gaming disorder.” It’s a controversial, but some argue necessary, classification.

By German Lopez
Features
What does dying — and mourning — look like in a secular age?What does dying — and mourning — look like in a secular age?
Features

Twenty-nine percent of Americans anticipate a secular funeral.

By Tara Isabella Burton
America’s sexist obsession with what women politicians wear, explained
Explainers

Ever since women started holding political office, American men have been fixated on their clothes.

By Anna North
The US has made migrants at the border wait months to apply for asylum. Now the dam is breaking.
Features

Trump made his own immigration crisis.

By Dara Lind
I looked for a state that’s taking gun violence seriously. I found Massachusetts.
Gun Violence

Massachusetts offers a model for dealing with gun violence that the rest of the country could follow.

By German Lopez
Money
How to capture the feeling of a movie in a single fontHow to capture the feeling of a movie in a single font
Money

The type designers and typographers behind Suspiria, Sorry to Bother You, and The Favourite explain their creative processes.

By Eliza Brooke
Politics
To beat Trump, House Democrats need to fight on policy, not just scandalsTo beat Trump, House Democrats need to fight on policy, not just scandals
Politics

Trump’s weakness is policy. Can Democrats exploit it?

By Ezra Klein
Politics
Exclusive: Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating ClintonExclusive: Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating Clinton
Politics

Whitaker advised the president on launching a new special counsel while working as chief of staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

By Murray Waas
Features
Jeff Sessions gave Trump the immigration crackdown he wantedJeff Sessions gave Trump the immigration crackdown he wanted
Features

Trump’s attorney general has already built an enduring legacy on immigration.

By Dara Lind
White evangelicals turned out for the GOP in big numbers again
Politics

All the policy wins that explain evangelical Christians’ loyalty to Trump — and their role in the 2018 midterm elections.

By Dylan Scott
A comprehensive guide to the messy, frustrating science of cellphones and health
Explainers

With 5G networks coming, understanding the health effects of radio-frequency radiation is more urgent than ever.

By Julia Belluz
America’s doctors can beat the opioid epidemic. Here’s how to get them on board.
Confronting America’s opioid epidemic

Many more health care providers can help. But they need the tools and resources to do so.

By German Lopez
Trump won the Rust Belt with macho. These women hope to win with change.
Features

After 2016, some Democrats said it would take machismo to win back states like Michigan. The midterms look set to prove them wrong.

By Anna North
Democrats suddenly look strong again in the Midwest
Politics

The Midwest’s central role in the 2018 midterms, explained.

By Dylan Scott
The hacking threat to the midterms is huge. And technology won’t protect us.
Features

An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.

By Benjamin Wofford
You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?
Future Perfect

Inside the Open Philanthropy Project, the group tasked with giving away Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s massive fortune.

By Dylan Matthews
The rigging of American politics
Politics

Political systems depend on legitimacy. In America, that legitimacy is failing.

By Ezra Klein
How this Mexican-Palestinian-American progressive is selling the anti-corruption message in Trump country
Explainers

Conservative Southern California has always been plagued with corruption scandals. Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar thinks he can change that.

By Tara Golshan
You buy a purse at Walmart. There’s a note inside from a “Chinese prisoner.” Now what?
Money

Tracing a mysterious message across the world to understand how what we buy is made.

By Rossalyn A. Warren
The paradox of Nikki Haley
Explainers

“She’s been as close to a traditional Republican UN ambassador as you can have in a very untraditional Republican administration.”

By Alex Ward
Solving America’s painkiller paradox
Confronting America’s opioid epidemic

Here’s how to fix America’s painkiller problem — without leaving pain patients behind.

By German Lopez
What the rise of men’s makeup means for masculinity
Money

As cosmetics for men become more mainstream, they could give men more opportunities for self-expression — and more pressure to live up to unrealistic beauty standards.

By Anna North
Teen shopping habits, explained by teens
Money

What’s Gen Z into? Juuls, Glossier, and thrift stores.

By Eliza Brooke
Trump’s China strategy is the most radical in decades — and it’s failing
World Politics

“The administration diagnosed the right problem, but it came up with the wrong remedy.”

By Alex Ward
It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary
Politics

A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America.

By Zack Beauchamp
The homebody economy, explained
Money

How women who stay in became a prize demographic.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
Antarctica has lost 2.71 trillion tons of ice. Here’s what that looks like.
Science

All the ice that melted at the South Pole in the past 25 years, visualized with swimming pools.

By Umair Irfan and Javier Zarracina
Fidget spinners, weighted blankets, and the rise of anxiety consumerism
The mind, explained

What does it mean when viral products exist to calm us down?

By Rebecca Jennings
Photojournalism needs to face its #MeToo moment
Features

Amid harassment allegations, a legendary photographer just resigned from a prestigious, and troubled, agency. But the industry’s reckoning is woefully incomplete.

By Kainaz Amaria
The next decade is on the ballot in 2018
Explainers

To reverse Republican gerrymandering, Democrats must win key races this fall.

By Andrew Prokop
Photos: Aretha Franklin’s funeral was absolutely fit for the Queen of Soul
Features

Franklin was laid to rest in a golden casket at a day-long service attended by family, friends, activists, musicians, politicians, and clergy.

By Michelle Garcia