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For its 10th anniversary, Vox launches “This Changed Everything,” a new editorial package to identify and dissect the past decade’s unforgettable “turning points” — the moments that have guided our collective consciousness and altered the trajectory of our society but whose true significance we only recognized in hindsight.
“Vox has been explaining our world for an entire decade. The year we launched saw seismic events like the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, which propelled the Black Lives Matter movement, and Gamergate, the online harassment campaign that fueled a then-ascendant alt-right,” said senior editorial director Julia Rubin. “So much has happened since, and our newsroom took this opportunity to examine crucial moments that had an unexpected and outsize 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 predictions piece with an accompanying video about what’s to come in the next ten years from Vox’s Future Perfect team, which explores radical ideas on how to improve the world.
The features are Brian Resnick on “The Dress,” the debate that was a high-water mark for fun on the internet and marked the unraveling of our shared reality; Fabiola Cineas on the racial reckoning of 2020, which set off an entirely new kind of backlash; Allie Volpe on how the self-care industry made us lonely; Aja Romano on the how the Serial podcast influenced modern criminal justice; and Joshua Keating on how the little-covered Armenia-Azerbaijan war provided a dark glimpse of the future of combat.
The package also includes the following essays:
- “When nude leaks went from scandal to sex crime” by Constance Grady
- “A fringe, racist essay foretold the fate of a MAGAfied Republican Party” by Zack Beauchamp
- “The number that made the extinction crisis real” by Benji Jones
- “One state’s chilling ban was the beginning of the end for abortion access in America” by Anna North
- “Avengers: Endgame forced an entirely new era of storytelling” by Alex Abad-Santos
- “The manifesto that changed China’s place in the world” by Ellen Ioanes
- “The 2016 election made us realize we know nothing about class” by Abdallah Fayyad
- “A photograph of a 3-year-old refugee’s death altered global opinion on migrants” by Bryan Walsh
- “What Kim Kardashian wrought when she ‘broke the internet’” by Kyndall Cunningham
- “The sweeping strike that put power back in teachers’ hands” by Rachel Cohen
- “Malaria in Maryland (and Florida, and Texas, and Arkansas) showed that the future of climate change is now” by Keren Landman
- “Letting language models learn like children tipped the AI revolution” by Sigal Samuel
- “The drug that supercharged a crisis also spelled a synthetic destiny” by Oshan Jarow
- “One weird Twitter fight gave us insight into how extreme wealth works today” by Whizy Kim
- “Trump’s outreach to Hispanic evangelicals was years ahead of its time” by Christian Paz
