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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.

The Portland Van AbductionsThe Portland Van Abductions
Sarah Jeong and Sergio Olmos
Asian America learns how to hit back

The desperate, confused, righteous campaign to stop Asian hate

Esther Wang
The SpaceX fans who uprooted their lives and moved to Starbase
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Worshippers of Elon Musk have flocked to the middle of nowhere in Texas to watch SpaceX’s attempts to build a space-worthy rocket — and to find friends

Loren Grush
There’s no driving test for self-driving cars in the US — but there should be

Would a European-style regulatory system improve safety?

David Zipper
The iPhone turns 15: a visual history of every model to dateThe iPhone turns 15: a visual history of every model to date
Umar Shakir and James Vincent
The Disaster ConsultantsThe Disaster Consultants
Nicole Wetsman
The Humiliating History of the TSAThe Humiliating History of the TSA
Darryl Campbell
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened

Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton
The wild keyboard and headphone designs of Angry Miao

Overengineered arthouse tech from a tiny microbrand

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The speakeasy economy of WeChatThe speakeasy economy of WeChat
Aaron Corbett
Pirates of Khadda Market

A young software engineer looks back at his formative experiences in Karachi, Pakistan

Sarim Abbas
Learning to love being asexual while looking for love on Discord

How Discord helped me learn some parts of ourselves are a feature — not a bug

Cara Giovanetti
The chaotic joy of Art FightThe chaotic joy of Art Fight
Camille Butera
Blaseball: birthing hope through chaos

Meaningful triumphs in a broken world

Samuel Fung
How Animal Crossing helped me explore my gender

From New Leaf to New Horizons

Jesse Belinsky
The Most Surveilled Place in AmericaThe Most Surveilled Place in America
Gaby Del Valle
Zuck turns up the heat

As Meta’s growth slows, Mark Zuckerberg is pushing even harder. Will his employees melt under the pressure?

Alex Heath and David Pierce
The Great Fiction of AIThe Great Fiction of AI
Josh Dzieza
The hidden history of screen readers

For decades, blind programmers have been creating the tools their community needs

Sheon Han
Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore

Tech workers at Netflix thought the company would always value their feedback. How naïve.

Zoë Schiffer
Chad Wolf, the illegal secretaryChad Wolf, the illegal secretary
Sarah Jeong