Features
A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.
The very real psychiatric term has become so omnipresent in pop culture that some experts worry it’s losing its meaning.
Survivors of early school shootings reflect, the growing popularity of the word “trauma,” scientists’ efforts to understand memory, and more.
An early wave of survivors came of age in a wholly unprepared world. Now they’re in their 30s and 40s, grappling with the present.
What happens when the frenzy ends and the world doesn’t value your valuables?
The high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.
Social media and the availability of new procedures have made our quest for physical perfection endless, setting women and girls up for failure.
The pandemic stole our sense of connectedness. In their own way, viral trends help us regain it.
As the holidays approach, we look at the cult of Pokémon, what turns a tiny toy into a major obsession, and the upside — and dark side — of fad culture.
Pokémon had all the hallmarks of a flash in the pan. Two decades later, it’s a $100 billion empire.
I’d inherited his family’s money, his height, his arthritis. Could I inherit the very worst parts of him, too?
A tiny porpoise called the vaquita has polarized a Mexican fishing town. The species is fighting for its life.
Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?
Amid distance and estrangement and strain, some are happily replacing the clans they’re born into with chosen families.
The number of American kids whose caregivers have died in the pandemic has surpassed 140,000.
Janet Jackson was able to transcend America’s misogynoir — until the Super Bowl.
After George Floyd’s death, many white Americans formed book clubs. A year later, they’re wondering, “What now?”
In the ’80s and ’90s, kids’ media was full of murder and mayhem. What changed?
Cosmetic procedures are on the rise. So is our voyeuristic fascination with how they go wrong.
Platforms like OnlyFans let people with big followings online earn money. What about the sex workers who were there first?
When a pandemic rages just outside our doors, maybe escapism is all we can hope for.
Realtor? Check. Appraiser? Check. Ghostbuster? Check.
From the first morbid films a hundred years ago, scary movies always been a dark mirror on Americans’ deepest fears and anxieties.
Twenty-three years later, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is a tale of cultural sadism.
Oh, the performative faux labor of it all.
Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health.
Officially, the Covid-19 recession lasted just two months. So why are so many still suffering?
Cotton’s connection to forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang ought to have you rethinking fast fashion.
On the Georgia coast, leisure and a grim history of slavery co-exist.
As millions “age in place,” millions more must figure out how to provide their loved ones with increasingly complex care.
With all of its sparkle and chipped paint.
India’s health system was broken. Then the delta surge arrived.
Pokémon cards, baseball cards, even Magic: The Gathering cards can all be worth thousands.
48 million people provide unpaid care to their loved ones in the US. Here’s how to help them.
Dropping out helped me see the lies we’re sold about the college experience.
In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.
Alzheimer’s patients and families live in a cloud of uncertainty. It’s about to get worse.
Yet the threats these castles of biodiversity face are mounting.
BTS was supposed to usher in the K-pop invasion. Where is it?
Why America embraced Whitney Houston, and how it destroyed her.