On its 10th anniversary, Vox launched “This Changed Everything,” a new editorial package to identify and dissect the unforgettable “turning points” of the past decade — moments that have shaped our collective consciousness and changed the course of our society but whose true significance is not what we know. Recognized only in retrospect.
“Vox has been explaining our world for an entire decade. The year we saw the earthquake, the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, which fueled the Black Lives Matter movement, and Gamergate, the online harassment campaign that fueled the then-alt-right, ” said the senior editorial director Julia Rubin. “A lot has happened since then, and our newsroom took this opportunity to examine key moments that had an unexpected and unexpected impact on this divisive and consequential decade.”
The editorial package includes five feature stories, 15 short essays, and two episodes of Vox’s daily podcast. Today, explained, examining turning points across domestic and international politics, entertainment and internet culture, the environment and global health, and more. In addition, the package includes a prediction piece from Vox’s Future Perfect team with an accompanying video about what’s to come in the next ten years, exploring radical ideas about how to improve the world.
Features are Brian Resnick the controversy over “The Dress” that was a high-water mark for Internet fun and marked the unfolding of our shared reality; Fabiola Sines On the 2020 Ethnic Reckoning, which has created a whole new kind of reaction; Allie Volpe how the self-care industry makes us lonely; Aja Romano How over Serial podcast influenced modern criminal justice; And Joshua Keating How the little-covered Armenia-Azerbaijan war provides a dark glimpse into the future of war.
The package also contains the following essays:
- By “When it went from nudity scandal to sex crime”. Constance Grady
- By “A Marginal, Racist Essay Predicts the Fate of a MAGAfied Republican Party”. Jacques Beauchamp
- By “The Numbers That Made the Extinction Crisis Real”. Benji Jones
- “One State’s Cold Ban Was the Beginning of the End for Abortion Access in America” By Anna North
- By “Avengers: Endgame ushers in a whole new era of storytelling”. Alex Abad-Santos
- By “The Manifesto That Changed China’s Place in the World”. Ellen Ioness
- By “The 2016 election made us realize we know nothing about class”. Abdullah Fayad
- By “A photo of a 3-year-old refugee’s death has changed global views on migrants”. Brian Walsh
- By “What Kim Kardashian Did When She ‘Broken The Internet'”. Kyndall Cunningham
- By “mass strike putting power back in the hands of teachers”. Rachel Cohen
- “Malaria in Maryland (and Florida, and Texas and Arkansas) shows that the future of climate change is now”. Karen Landman
- “Letting Language Models Learn Like Babies Suggests AI Revolution”. Seagull Samuel
- By “The medicine that supercharged a crisis also spelled an artificial destiny”. Ocean Jaro
- By “A Weird Twitter Fight Gives Us Insight into How Extreme Wealth Works Today”. Whizzy Kim
- By “Trump’s outreach to Hispanic evangelicals was years ahead of its time”. Christian Paz
