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.
