Features
A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.
Upward mobility is common for the millions who come to the US. But there’s a lot more to the story.
Doctors need mental health support. Here’s why many aren’t getting it.
Houses are getting more and more expensive. There’s a simple fix for that.
“I think the biggest lesson is never trust Republicans,” says one of Reid’s former staffers.
The TV show sold us an idealized vision of these relationships. For young adults, the real thing is far harder to find.
How we destroyed girls 20 years ago — and why we’re just starting to second-guess it.
As dating and marriage evolve, so is the way couples tackling the uncomfortable question.
Ride-sharing companies are pushing to make a third category of “independent” worker the law of the land. Drivers say the notion of independence is little more than a mirage.
Anti-trans bills, women’s sports, and the misguided pursuit of an even playing field.
As former Trump officials and other polarizing figures seek book deals, publishing is caught in a generational battle that’s becoming an existential crisis.
A small but vocal opposition could obstruct an initiative to conserve 30 percent of US land by 2030.
Inside the reckoning at an American media institution.
America is already missing its chance to prepare for the next pandemic.
How Crying Dawson ascended to “the Mount Rushmore of GIFs.”
But is his love for the filibuster dooming the country to dysfunction?
The United Kingdom is not a pandemic success story. But its massive Covid-19 trials program is.
How the country has kept coronavirus deaths to just 35, and grew its economy in 2020.
Which jobs are heading back to the office and which can stay home varies widely.
Should humans care whether creatures live good lives, even in the forests or jungles? A group of philosophers and scientists has an unorthodox answer.
Germany was returning to normal last summer. Then Covid-19 surged.
Iowa’s largest hog producer courted power and turned farming into a numbers game. Businesses like it are increasingly the norm.
The inside account of how one country built a system to defeat the pandemic.
Exhibitionism lives on Twitter, if you know where to find it.
Asian news sites like NextShark brought attention to anti-Asian racism — at the cost of circulating graphic imagery.
Hatcheries promised to stop killing male chicks by 2020. What’s taking so long?
The nagging symptoms long-haulers experience reveal a frustrating blind spot in medicine.
What if caring for kids was a public good?
A collection of stories about the coronavirus pandemic — what we’ve been through and where we go from here.
“Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park.
Close encounters with mysterious, hovering balls of lightning, illustrated.
Who gets to live in Connecticut?
From mental health to home-buying, there are myriad ways education loans can affect lives. That’s why it’s so difficult to find a one-size-fits-all solution, economists say.
14 people look back and offer advice to their past selves on what’s to come.
Pandemic survivor guilt may be pervasive, but it’s hard to detect, leaving many struggling in silence.
Pandemic parenting is impossible. American work culture is a big reason why.
“Question everything, right?” is the new mantra for some. But social echo chambers have propelled “healthy” skepticism into surreal terrain.
Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.
Industrial pollution has sickened and poisoned Black communities for decades. Environmental justice experts have a solution to stop this.
J. Ranji Smile served Indian food and tall tales to a hungry American public. Was he the first “celebrity chef” or a crook? The truth is complicated.