Features
A collection of Vox’s longreads and feature reporting projects.
Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
“The garden party,” “old money,” and “cool girl” weddings are starting to feel more like dinner parties.
Countless rare animals lurk under the logs in the Appalachian Mountains.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel reveals a period of turbulence and upheaval for Daenerys’s formidable family.
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The French: They’re just like us.
If you look at art and all you see is content, that’s all you’ll get out of it.
With pedestrian and traffic fatalities on the rise, how can the US make its roads safer?
Maybe your cat loves you. Maybe it would kill you if it could.
To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?
Examining the Sunshine State’s outsized role in American culture.
The Manson Family murders weren’t a countercultural revolt. They were about power, entitlement, and Hollywood.
The way to beat a partisan Supreme Court is to hold a grudge against it for a really long time.
How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.
The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale.
It’s boom times for doom times but there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that the future will be better — if we make it so.
How the quest to own the nation’s most popular, most Instagram-worthy pup has bred a world of problems.
What’s lost when focusing on the cute and charismatic. Plus: Why Teslas keep catching on fire, the progressive case for more people, and others.
Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.
A status symbol, a political battleground, an emotional tool — humor is anything but a joke.
A year in horror movies about the nightmare of aging, from X to Pearl, Barbarian to Old People.
Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.
Earth’s population passed 8 billion this month — now what? Plus: the rise of an anti-vaccine America, the looming dangers of superintelligent AI, the shifting landscape of higher ed, and more.
Rethinking old ideas about what we eat, where we live and work, and how we power our communities.
The New Right blogger has been cited by Blake Masters and J.D. Vance. What exactly is he advocating?
If the Nevada senator loses — it’s extremely close — it would likely signal a disaster for Democrats.
Latino voters’ growing power, what the parties get right and wrong about them, and a brash Congress member on what Democrats need to do better.
Launch House promised young tech founders community. A Vox investigation found what happens when clout and cash are paramount, and protecting members falls by the wayside.
Inside this issue: The state of American friendship, its radical power, and advice for small talk and making your social battery work for you, even if you’re an introvert.
It’s all about managing your social battery.
How urban planning contributed to the great undoing of modern friendship.
In defense of the much-maligned conversational form.
It can help us push back against tyranny. Philosopher Hannah Arendt’s legendary cocktail parties were proof.
Platonic breakups can be just as painful as romantic ones.
As its role in society recedes, Vox asked six people to tell us why their friendship matters — and may just be the most meaningful relationship of their lives.
More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?
Why there’s more noise, and more kinds of it — and why it might be ruining our focus.
More institutions are making note of indigenous rights to land. Does it make a difference?
Remote work, the arrival of home-owning millennials, and other forces can be an opportunity to remake them for the better.
At the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, Black riders and fans bring a sense of swaggering cool to a culture overlooked by the history books.
Being a pedestrian in the US was already dangerous. It’s getting even worse.
In this issue: How one Florida road became the deadliest in the nation for pedestrians; behind the scenes of a Black rodeo; the rise of the new suburbs; and more.
In the early 1990s, few corners of the military were as misogynistic as the world of fighter pilots. These women Naval officers would break barriers to fly in combat.
Pandemic-related hate crimes against Asian Americans have left many feeling unsafe in public. The consequences of missed health care will have lasting effects.
Being able to access abortion is about all kinds of justice — economic justice included.