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The Verge’s features pursue rigorous, forward-looking journalism. Here you’ll find our most ambitious, award-winning reporting, profiles, essays, and oral histories across all the intersecting areas we cover, from technology to TV/film, climate change to creators.

Why I leftWhy I left
T.C. Sottek
Game studio layoffs mean a hellish race against the clock for immigrant developers

When losing a job becomes a deportation risk

Megan Farokhmanesh
Can Clubhouse keep the party going?

Fake laughs, imposters, and scams — behind the invite-only audio app’s most obsessive users

Ashley Carman
LG had few smartphone hits, but it’ll still be missed

The US smartphone market just got more boring

Sam Byford
The unsettling surveillance of anti-Asian racism

The rise of assaults on the elderly, captured on security camera footage, raises questions about policing and what really keeps people safe

Jane Hu
The NBA tries to make a slam dunk out of NFTs

Top Shot is playing the long game in the NFT craze

Elizabeth Lopatto
Amazon is becoming the face of American inequality

Bezos has become a useful foil for Democrats

Russell Brandom
How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

After a bruising lawsuit with Microsoft, Katie Moussouris is fighting for fair pay

Russell Brandom
Born in a PandemicBorn in a Pandemic
Nicole Wetsman
Mailchimp employees have complained about inequality for years — is anyone listening?

Behind the claims of sexism and racism at Atlanta’s premier tech startup

Zoë Schiffer
Audi reveals its Porsche-powered E-Tron GT

Starting at a cool $100,000

Sean O'Kane
Cabin pressureCabin pressure
Darryl Campbell
Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil

The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is making itself increasingly vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.

Casey Newton
Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here

These fans are keeping Zune enthusiasm alive

Luke Winkie
Chill imbibes: inside the booming business of relaxation drinks

Taking a dip in the new business of relaxation

Elizabeth Lopatto
Only one person showed up to the pro-Trump protest outside Twitter’s San Francisco HQ

30 police officers were there to monitor the scene

Vjeran Pavic
In photos: the pro-Trump mob’s invasion of Congress

As seen from inside the Capitol building

Russell Brandom and Amelia Holowaty Krales
Tony Robbins claims he saved his employee from COVID — she says that’s a lie

Now she’s suing him for making it nearly impossible for her to return to work

Zoë Schiffer
In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet

We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them

Sean Hollister
Sex, Lies, and Video Games

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry — instead, everyone played each other

Amanda Chicago Lewis