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

He fled Honduras, and its gangs, for safety in the US. After his death, who was to blame?
Features

Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad.

By John Washington
How to choose the perfect dog for you
Features

The first step is to be honest about your lifestyle.

By Rachel Saslow
Science
How to get the most out of your exercise time, according to scienceHow to get the most out of your exercise time, according to science
Science

A simple guide to high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, the fitness trend du jour.

By Julia Belluz
From animated moon poop to the church of Instagram: the Vox images that explain 2019
Features

A sampling of our very best original photography, illustration, animation, and design this year.

By Kainaz Amaria
The 14 charts that explain tech in 2019
Technology

A year-end look back at the tech trends that ended the decade.

By Rani Molla
11 memes that captured the decade
Looking back at the tumultuous 2010s

The internet’s weird viral ephemera provided much-needed levity, stoked fears and hate, and gave us a common language.

By Aja Romano
Can monoculture survive the algorithm?
Money

And should it?

By Kyle Chayka
We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.
The Rehab Racket: Investigating the high cost of addiction care

Medications work really well for opioid addiction. Most rehab facilities don’t use them.

By German Lopez
How Cats made Andrew Lloyd Webber the king of the Broadway spectacle
Features

These days, we roll our eyes at Cats. But from the moment it opened, it was a smash.

By Aja Romano
How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
Science

The Gates Foundation brought billions of dollars to the sector — and a business-friendly ethos consultants could exploit.

By Julia Belluz and Marine Buissonniere
Meet the women suing America’s biggest companies over equal pay
Features

A spate of lawsuits against giants from Google and Twitter to Nike and Goldman Sachs reveals the growing frustrations of women in pursuit of the C-suite.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell
The future of sex ed has arrived. Is America ready?
Features

Even in liberal California, families are pushing back against lessons on gender identity.

By Anna North
Her son died after insurers resisted covering drug rehab. Now she’s taking them to court.
The Rehab Racket: Investigating the high cost of addiction care

How health insurance companies helped make US addiction treatment expensive and ineffective.

By German Lopez
Features
How a beloved clinic for low-income women is fighting to stay alive in the Trump eraHow a beloved clinic for low-income women is fighting to stay alive in the Trump era
Features

Public Health Solutions is one of nearly 900 clinics that lost federal funding this year. Now it’s hanging by a thread.

By Anna North
How Apollo moon rocks reveal the epic history of the cosmos
Space

Lunar samples are a time capsule. Scientists say we should go back for more.

By Brian Resnick
How NBA player Enes Kanter became a major enemy of Turkey’s president
World Politics

The Celtics center is fighting a sometimes lonely battle against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

By Jen Kirby
Clean energy technologies threaten to overwhelm the grid. Here’s how it can adapt.
Climate

The centralized, top-down power grid is outdated. Time for a bottom-up redesign.

By David Roberts
The world’s most livable city is a smoker’s paradise
Science

Vienna finally gets a smoking ban on November 1.

By Julia Belluz
She lost her son to addiction, then lost her house to save her daughter
The Rehab Racket: Investigating the high cost of addiction care

A mother’s story on the grave cost of addiction treatment in America.

By German Lopez
Money
Car-free zones could be the future of citiesCar-free zones could be the future of cities
Money

San Francisco and New York City are limiting cars on certain streets to prioritize other modes of transit.

By Terry Nguyen
“I’ve felt a profound sadness in the last two years”: What life is like for DREAMers right now
Features

Some DACA immigrants describe anxiety and gloom as they await a Supreme Court decision.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell
The survivors
Features

A year after the Camp Fire nearly leveled Paradise, California, the money is drying up and a lawsuit rages. Can recovery efforts ever return a community to its old self?

By Colleen Hagerty
Travel has never been “authentic”
Money

Visiting Iceland in the age of overtourism.

By Kyle Chayka
“America’s surrender”: What Afghans think about US-Taliban peace talks
World Politics

Many Afghans fear US-Taliban peace talks are coming at their own expense.

By Christopher R. Jones
What’s next for #MeToo? This college might have the answer.
Features

The College of New Jersey is fighting sexual assault with an approach called restorative justice. The focus is not punishment, but healing.

By Anna North
A champion of the unplugged, earth-conscious life, Wendell Berry is still ahead of us
Features

The writer and farmer’s impassioned arguments on farming, technology, and the urban-rural divide have taken on a new urgency.

By Hope Reese
How to find good addiction treatment, according to experts
The Rehab Racket: Investigating the high cost of addiction care

Here are 11 questions to ask any addiction treatment facility.

By German Lopez
A lost decade and $200,000: one dad’s crusade to save his daughters from addiction
The Rehab Racket: Investigating the high cost of addiction care

There are treatments that work, but rehab facilities don’t have to use them. One family learned that the hard way.

By German Lopez
How remote work is quietly remaking our lives
Technology

Working from anywhere: the good, the bad, the lovely.

By Rani Molla
Why HR is powerless to effectively handle sexual harassment claims
Features

What happens after you report sexual harassment and hear nothing?

By Laurie Ruettimann
Silicon Valley billionaires’ strange new respect for Elizabeth Warren
Technology

Tech donors are slowly embracing her. She absolutely refuses to reciprocate.

By Theodore Schleifer
Democrats have been discussing the same ideas on guns for 25 years. It’s time to change that.
Politics

There should be a Medicare-for-all or Green New Deal for ending gun violence.

By German Lopez
The not-so-secret life of a TikTok-famous teen
Money

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

By Rebecca Jennings
Features
How a button became one of the greatest #MeToo victoriesHow a button became one of the greatest #MeToo victories
Features

Inside hotel workers’ fight for their own safety.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell
Welcome to the June issue of Vox’s The Highlight
The Highlight

Inside the world of female gun influencers. Plus: our need for speed, the fascinating life of Kim Jong Un, and more.

By Vox Staff
Welcome to the September issue of Vox’s The Highlight
Features

With our latest issue, we explore the culture war over burgers, treating anxiety with apps that look like video games, and more.

By Vox Staff
Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
Features

If we’re ever going to eat less meat, faux burgers could be an important first step. So why are they a cultural flashpoint?

By Brent Cunningham
The totally wild, true tale of a meme about aliens that almost inspired a real raid on Area 51
Internet Culture

How an online gag about storming the military base became a drama involving a rural town, the government, and frequent evocations of the Fyre Festival.

By Allegra Frank
Friends is 25 years old. It’s still extremely popular — and polarizing.
Culture

Was Friends homophobic and way too white? Yes. But arguing about the show is healthy.

By Kelsey Miller
“It’s young people, it’s their future”: Inside the Sunrise Movement’s bid to save the world
Features

A growing group of crusaders have made strides putting climate change on the national agenda. Most aren’t even 30.

By Ella Nilsen