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

Home, bittersweet home
Features

Can a single place — one that’s failed us in the past — squeeze in everything it takes to live a life?

By Foster Kamer
The new maximalism
Features

The next big thing in home design is overstuffed, garish, and glorious.

By Rebecca Jennings
The battle for Latino voters in Arizona and Florida, explained
Politics

Trump is trying to win over Latinos in two key states. Is it working?

By Nicole Narea
Future Perfect
The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanityThe case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
Future Perfect

Why some people fear AI, explained.

By Kelsey Piper
America has never grappled with its racist past. Could Germany be a model?
Features

The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States that desperately needs to confront its demons.

By Mattie Kahn
How a TikTok house destroyed itself
Money

You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?

By Rebecca Jennings
The definitive case for ending the filibuster
Features

Every argument for the filibuster, considered and debunked.

By Ezra Klein
4 ways to make remote learning better for everyone
Features

The shift to online education is worsening inequality. These schools have lessons that could help.

By Anna North
How to build a better American economy
Policy

A blueprint exists for a more inclusive, successful nation that invests in the well-being of its citizens. We only have to look to the past.

By Zachary D. Carter
We can end America’s unemployment nightmare
Policy

The problem with our social safety net is clear. The solution is, too.

By Emily Stewart
Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
Policy

A massive boom in new construction would create countless jobs and help finally end the legacy of racist housing policies.

By Matthew Yglesias
The price — and big potential payoff — of turning Texas blue
Politics

Democrats are starting to take Texas seriously as a battleground state.

By Nicole Narea and Dylan Scott
“They didn’t see me as innocent”
Features

Can you remember your first experience with the police? For these 9 Black and brown people, the encounters would shape their sense of safety forever.

By Kiana Moore
Lock them up: The danger of political prosecutions in a second Trump term
A Trump second term

Trump hasn’t managed to prosecute his enemies yet. What if he has four more years to try?

By Andrew Prokop
Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people, asks for a second chance at charity
Technology

$60 billion hangs in the balance.

By Theodore Schleifer
The bull rider
Features

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.

By Steven Leckart
Is this the end of clubs?
Features

Farewell (for now) to dark rooms, flashing lights, sweaty bodies, and escapism.

By Lavanya Ramanathan
What the heck is happening with the Postal Service?
Technology

As November nears, the Postal Service is facing a crisis that could interfere with the election.

By Adam Clark Estes
Fewer inspectors, more deaths: The Trump administration rolls back workplace safety inspections
System Failure

About 90 percent of serious accidents happen at workplaces that haven’t been inspected by OSHA.

By Joe Yerardi and Alexia Fernández Campbell
Features
Want to fix policing? Start with a better 911 system.Want to fix policing? Start with a better 911 system.
Features

“911 call takers are gatekeepers for the entire criminal justice system. We need to start treating them that way.”

By Roge Karma
Features
America’s slow, painful shift to enforcing mask mandatesAmerica’s slow, painful shift to enforcing mask mandates
Features

Mask enforcement won’t work without education.

By Lois Parshley
We train police to be warriors — and then send them out to be social workers
Features

The fatal mismatch at the heart of American policing.

By Roge Karma
San Francisco’s lonely war against Covid-19
Future Perfect

The city could have crushed the coronavirus. Then Trump got in the way.

By German Lopez
Should Disney World even be open?
Money

What it’s really like in the park right now, according to a theme park expert.

By Carlye Wisel
Welcome to the Work Issue of The Highlight
The Highlight

Small business was already risky — then came Covid. Plus: distracted at work, swaddling ourselves in “The Office,” and 2020 grads on their prospects.

By Vox Staff
Why you can’t help screwing around while working from home
Features

For remote employees, meetings and deep work are now coupled with online shopping, soothing puzzles and video games, and an array of other distractions.

By Eleanor Cummins
The end of the American dream
Features

Covid-19 relief loans have dried up or never arrived. Customers aren’t returning. What comes next for your neighborhood wine shop, bodega, nail salon, or art gallery may be “an extinction-level” event.

By Laura Entis
What comes after Zoom fatigue
Technology

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?

By Adam Clark Estes
Trump reduced fines for nursing homes that put residents at risk. Then Covid-19 happened.
System Failure

The Obama administration cracked down on nursing homes with infection control problems. Trump reversed course.

By Dylan Matthews
What the police really believe
Politics

Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.

By Zack Beauchamp
Technology
How can we ban facial recognition when it’s already everywhere?How can we ban facial recognition when it’s already everywhere?
Technology

A growing number of gadgets are scanning your face.

By Rebecca Heilweil
How Trump gave insurance companies free rein to sell bad health plans
System Failure

Obamacare wasn’t repealed. Trump’s deregulation is eroding it anyway.

By Dylan Scott
Trump’s favorite weapon in the coronavirus fight: Deregulation
System Failure

Trump entered the White House promising to roll back rules. The pandemic has given him the perfect chance to do that.

By Liz Essley Whyte
The Justice Department has a powerful tool to fight police abuse. It refuses to use it.
System Failure

Right before he resigned, Jeff Sessions sabotaged the DOJ’s ability to fight police abuse.

By Ian Millhiser
The real cost of Amazon
Technology

“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar” — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Jason Del Rey
4 ideas to replace traditional police officers
Features

A world with far less policing is possible. Here’s what experts think that world could look like.

By Roge Karma
A history of racism imploded the romance publishing world. Can it change?
Culture

Romance Writers of America represented one of the sexiest and most lucrative genres in books. But writers of color say it didn’t represent them.

By Constance Grady
Fights, naps, chaos, and cuddles: 4 dads on how the pandemic transformed their notion of fatherhood
Features

“I think, without question, this is the most time I’ve spent with my kids, ever.”

By Chris Chafin
Features
LGBTQ immigrants talk about waiting on 2 life-changing Supreme Court decisionsLGBTQ immigrants talk about waiting on 2 life-changing Supreme Court decisions
Features

Three immigrants on identifying as LGBTQ, living with DACA status, and the change they’re seeking.

By Nicole Narea
Grounded by the pandemic, a once-busy traveler finds a new way to see the world
Features

With her passport collecting dust, a travel writer turns to friends to help illuminate a globe weathering the storm together.

By Sarah Khan