Features
A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.
I’m not looking for roses. Just someone who can stop looking at their phone.
We’re not prepared for the hurricanes that hit today. In the future, they’ll be worse.
How climate change could bring the Katrina of extreme heat to Arizona.
Small (but effective!) tactics to help you stop working too much, stay off email, and manage your colleagues.
A knitted twist on the ballet flat is stretchy, basic, and suddenly everywhere.
The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
The increasingly influential Foundation for Government Accountability is mixing sketchy research with legislative leverage — and it’s working.
Vox is investigating addiction treatment in America. Here’s our first story.
The group is hoping to win over millennials — and replace Planned Parenthood.
“If we don’t win ... I don’t think we can win. But I just feel like we should do something, even though there’s a slim chance.”
Inside the growing home health aide industry, revisiting Woodstock, how the mosquito shaped humankind, and more.
Home health aides are underpaid, overworked, and underprotected.
A union isn’t just right for Vox Media, but for everyone.
In our turbulent times, escaping reality is a very big business.
Sex workers have been fighting for decriminalization for generations. Now politicians are starting to listen.
An extreme diet fad, falling into pet debt, and more.
Here’s how much the winters and summers in the city closest to you may change in about 30 years.
A sudden burst of tourism to a photogenic natural wonder is transforming a small town, and a tribe.
Advocates say “self-managed abortions” are safe — and in the current political environment, interest is rising.
Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.
Birth control has come a long way since 1960, but the options are far from perfect.
Companies can’t advertise on social media — so they have female influencers do it for them.
America’s anti-alcohol experiment cut down on drinking and drinking-related deaths — and it may have reduced crime and violence overall.
From a pregnancy on I Love Lucy to a beheading on Game of Thrones.
He’s just released a music video called “Chubby Sexy.” Will it silence his internet haters?
Raj Chetty and the rise of woke economics, life after going viral, and more.
Raj Chetty has an idea for introducing students to econ that could cause a seismic shift in the field.
The emergency room bill I can’t stop thinking about.
How Yemen crystallized Sanders’s 2020 foreign policy message
Athletes say Nassar was just one abuser of many. A bankruptcy case could be their chance at restitution.
Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.
What the growth and change of Japan’s armed forces means for the world.
On the ground with the people fighting to help the city’s most vulnerable.
Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice.
I saw the comedian perform in Chicago. His latest material could take the #MeToo conversation to a new place.
Multiple women have accused the astrophysicist of sexual misconduct. But he’s coming back to TV.
I spent months talking to psychedelic guides and researchers. Here’s what I learned.
The campaign trail for the Academy Awards is expensive, exhausting, and not really about the movie.
Why winter coats from Canada Goose and Moncler are ready for the Arctic.
“What we’re talking about here are sets of facts that I borrowed.”