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


The state must decide how jealously to guard its clean energy progress.

Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.

Russia-tied donations and oligarch connections have drawn Mueller’s interest.

“The TV’s on to CNN, and it’s just replaying video of us being hit.”


Here’s what it looks like when you write a book as if it’s a TV show.

When the bread crumbs end, they get lost in the American education system.

Bullet-resistant shields for classrooms shouldn’t be an easier sell than gun control.

Everyone wants diversity. But not everyone wants it on their street.


The challenge for anti-racists looking for solutions in Trump’s America.

The most obvious solution to school shootings is the one nobody wanted to discuss.

Popular music has always delivered social critique. But it’s struggled to grapple with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

How demographic change is fracturing our politics.

See Mars and Saturn in big, bright detail.

“I can’t hear you.”

A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom.

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”


Meet the breakout stars of the 2018 election.

There are huge divides by age and education.

Gunn’s dismissal from Marvel and its Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is only the tip of a much bigger, more hate-filled iceberg.

Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?

If Democrats win in November, their first order of business is going to be a nasty leadership fight.

An ER patient can be charged thousands of dollars in “trauma fees” — even if they weren’t treated for trauma.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

The leaks that plagued the DNC, John Podesta, and others are crucial to the Russian interference probe.

How does the World Cup work? Who will win? And what’s the official song?

With Trump fighting off scandals, Fox News still needs the “Hillary” villain.
Here’s the data behind these tragic events.

The World Cup’s most exciting part — the knockout stages — finally begins.


Fear of mass resignations, a potential constitutional crisis, and the erosion of independence within the Justice Department.

The Perseid meteor shower, a total lunar eclipse, and Mars at opposition: the best skywatching this summer.


How to find, track, and prevent asteroids from destroying cities.


A sweeping regulation being considered would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US.


Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on governing a changing America.

Trump made big announcements on North Korea and space. The Pentagon was surprised.

Only Congress can decide if the president is above the law.

It’s part of a trend experts call the “democratization” of kidnapping.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

Virginia shows how Medicaid can help end the opioid crisis.

Both countries are arming their submarines with nukes.