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

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

The first step is to be honest about your lifestyle.


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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.

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

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


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

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

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

The centralized, top-down power grid is outdated.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

Vienna finally gets a smoking ban on November 1.

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


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

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

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?


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

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

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

Here are 11 questions to ask any addiction treatment facility.

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

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

What happens after you report sexual harassment and hear nothing?

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

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

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


Inside hotel workers’ fight for their own safety.

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

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

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

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.

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

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