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A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.
The Kavli HUMAN project wants to make an atlas of the human condition. Could its Big Data help us live longer, healthier lives?
Psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin (from magic mushrooms) are in the middle of a research renaissance. Here’s why.
Koreans sat on the ground. The dining room was for white people. They were the ones who prepared the home-cooked American Thanksgiving dinner, after all. The rest of us just brought prebaked cookies or dinner rolls.
What to watch for as both parties put their get-out-the-vote operations into high gear.
Will the GOP remain the party of Trump post-2016?
The civil service would be the front line of defense against a vindictive president.
Science journalist Ed Yong explains how we went from war to a love affair with bacteria and other microbes.
“Our gender identities and the way we relate to gender is more of a constellation than an either-or.”
There are four stages that communities go through after a disaster. The hardest is disillusionment.
These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
The distinctive handwritten style isn’t handwritten anymore. And it also has a surprising history.
Take statistics, study abroad, and more advice from a Columbia professor.
Summer vacation isn’t really a break, the superhero teacher is a myth, and more.
The cyber-struggle was real. Here’s what it felt like, told by a founder.
“An entire way of life was gone — all at once”: 8 athletes on what happens when you come home from the games.
Studying food and health is something of an art.
Many people don’t know when to say “Hispanic” and when to say “Latino.” So I drew a comic to explain the difference.
A traffic ticket is an inconvenience for some. In poor, minority communities, it can mean a lifetime of legal battles and encounters with police.
Yes, even rats have feelings.
Adventure tourism is affecting Peru’s indigenous communities in dramatic ways.
The supersonic Concorde was a breakthrough — so what went wrong?
We were standing for something. We were standing for humanity.
Some days are good; some days are great. Some days are just a disaster.
I was a 26-year-old with no work experience.
How public humiliation gave me a much-needed reality check.
My life has been a long journey to self-acceptance.
But that’s not the only thing I am. And Rio is my chance to prove it to the world.
It was 1964. Back then, male athletes were offered sports scholarships, but women were not rewarded in the same way for our achievements.
I felt like we were taken back 100 years, to a time when women were discouraged from becoming athletes.
An exclusive interview reveals what she thinks about immigration, campaigning, and the crisis of America’s elites.
Why we keep missing Hillary Clinton’s greatest strength.
5 things I wish people understood about bias in American police departments.
A large, unregulated wilderness therapy program treats thousands of teenagers each year. When I was 17, I was one of them.
Among the stated goals of this year’s Reason Rally are comprehensive sex education, acceptance of climate science, and an end to discrimination against the gay community. Is this only the Democratic Party, in secularly inflected tones?
Until late last week, I had absolutely no doubts about the decision our family made two years ago to leave New York for the United Kingdom.
The truth is that England isn’t overrun by bigots — but now the bigots think it is.
The little patch of skin, so unimportant just moments before, was suddenly the center of my universe. I went rummaging through my past trying to find my first memory of it, the first time I knew it was there.
We come into this world with a common destiny: to have a body. But from the moment of birth, an almost infinite series of permutations continuously alter that fate and begin to separate us in both minute and major ways.