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Aidy Bryant’s clothes in Shrill are a plus-size dream. Here’s why you can’t buy them.

Costume designer Amanda Needham on how the fashion industry fails plus-size women, and why everyone was crying when they shot that pool party scene.

By Kelsey Miller

Chick-fil-A’s charitable foundation kept donating to anti-LGBTQ groups

By Gaby Del Valle

Why this climate change data is on flip-flops, leggings, and cars

By Umair Irfan

The Instagram-famous plant that used to be impossible to find

By Ellen Airhart

How crafters are using Peeps to explain science

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Instagram just took advantage of Amazon’s biggest weakness

By Jason Del Rey

A fake Tom Ford quote about Melania Trump is going viral on Twitter

By Gaby Del Valle

You can now shop on Instagram without leaving the app

By Gaby Del Valle

As air pollution gets worse, a dystopian accessory is born

By Rose Eveleth

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By Vox Staff

Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs

By Chavie Lieber

Myspace, which still exists, accidentally deleted 12 years’ worth of music

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

How the Tinder algorithm actually works

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Tourists are flocking to locations threatened by climate change. That only makes things worse.

By Aditi Shrikant

At-home shopping shows still make a lot of money

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Why we love to play the lottery when we know we won’t win

By Tanya Pai

Olivia Jade, the influencer at the center of the college admissions scandal, explained

By Chavie Lieber

Four Loko, Joose, and Sparks: an abridged history of caffeinated alcohol

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

The outrageously expensive world of college counseling services, explained

By Gaby Del Valle

When Facebook goes down, an economy goes with it

By Ashley Carman
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Why actors in TV commercials look so familiar

By Rebecca Jennings

RuPaul’s Drag Race helps turn queens into stars — and savvy marketers

By Manuel Betancourt

Congress held hearings about the health hazards of talc. Is regulation next?

By Cheryl Wischhover

US joins other countries in grounding certain Boeing jets after a deadly crash

By Gaby Del Valle

A Yelp-style app for conservatives wants to protect right-wingers from “socialist goon squads”

By Gaby Del Valle

Dick’s Sporting Goods is removing even more guns from even more stores

By Chavie Lieber

The best of everything

So many products today claim to be the best. Why — and why can’t we stop buying them?

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Reclaiming the Grain Bowl

By Monica Burton

How gray sweatpants became an emblem of female thirst

By Rebecca Jennings

The best $2,000 I ever spent: the lawyer who cleared me of a drug charge

By Nabil Ayers

Suicide attempts and mental breakdowns: 911 calls from Amazon warehouses reveal that some workers are struggling

By Chavie Lieber

Why businesses that declare bankruptcy don’t always die

By Eliza Brooke

Will Bibles designed for the Instagram generation get millennials into religion? 

By Chavie Lieber

New brand, same culture: Wells Fargo workers say the company is still toxic

By Aaron Coleman

Amazon kiosks helped bring foot traffic to struggling malls. Now they’re all closing.

By Gaby Del Valle

Philadelphia just banned cashless stores. Will other cities follow?

By Chavie Lieber

The history behind Captain Marvel’s super suit

By Rebecca Jennings

 LaCroix CEO says brands are basically “handicapped” people

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Family Dollar was once considered “Amazon-proof.” Now it’s closing hundreds of stores.

By Chavie Lieber

How Kylie became the wealthiest member of the Kardashian-Jenner family

By Gaby Del Valle

Why do we hate decaf so much?

By Rebecca Jennings
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