Our special series, American War, just won an ASME Award for Design, Photography and Illustration for Best News and Information Design! The series challenges the legacy and misconceptions of the conflict commonly referred to as the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon. 🧵

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

New feature design for a @theverge.com @joshdzieza.bsky.social banger, including a dark mode toggle because I am very nice: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

American journalist Danny Fenster was in Myanmar during the 2021 coup. Though at first he watched history unfold on his phone, he would soon be pulled into the other side of the glass. Read the full comic "Notes from a Burmese Prison" www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

One million percent psyched that ASMEs and the National Magazine Awards honored @theverge.com art team's work with FIVE nominations. SO proud of our scrappy little team and stuff we made. Threading the eye candy: asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

I think the coolest thing we do at The Verge is publish comics. This one is brilliant (and behind the scenes, an absolute beast of engineering)

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

The day of the second killing

We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.

It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of features, commentary, art, and more — all about “content” and the people who make it. It's available now for a limited time, only while supplies last. (psst subscribers, check your email for a special discount)

New feature design for a great one by @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Oh it somehow got even more boring than the beige from last year www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...

If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news

Very cool that @kristenradtke.bsky.social won an Online Journalism Award for excellence in visual storytelling for her comic about motherhood and surveillance awards.journalists.org/entries/how-...

A terrific (and hilarious) feature from @miasato.bsky.social, with brilliant design from @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @macaree.bsky.social.

All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. To commemorate—and challenge—the legacy of the conflict, The Verge commissioned five stories from five Vietnamese writers in a series called American War. Illustrations by Nguyen Tran 🧵

The only accounts I want to follow are coral reefs

Just an incredible piece of visual storytelling from the great @mattyhuynh.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

before I like, bury my head in a garden bed for the rest of the day, however literally, i want to re-share my piece about what we rob from children when we don't allow them to authentically be. fuck all the monsters who've abetted this genocide. i curse you. www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

We had a rare black hamlet hang out in the field of staghorn corals today 😍🖤🐟🪸 #blackhamlet #hamlet #rarefish #staghorncoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

Hello, I somehow won a Guggenheim??????? www.gf.org/stories/anno...

"Tell me about your TV garden and your synthesizer library," asks @theverge.com's @kristenradtke.bsky.social. And I am so glad @jessiechar.com & @maxy.bsky.social answered. www.theverge.com/tech/631922/...

Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage

If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

Women who worked at semiconductor factories in Silicon Valley are at higher risk of miscarriage or giving birth to children with disabilities due to exposure to toxic chemicals. With a new chip fab boom underway, are we just repeating the mistakes as the past? www.theverge.com/features/611...

“The truth is that most of us are brave, generous, altruistic, creative as we rise to meet the demands of a sudden disaster by rescuing and taking care of each other and re-building the terms of survival”

Six ways to send a message to your representatives

Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon

On est d'accord pour dire que ca ne s'arrange pas, n'est ce pas ? Page 141, "SEEK YOU" voyage dans le solitude contemporaine - Kristen Radtke

Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested

I interviewed the legend Chris Ware for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...

The emotional entanglement of new motherhood and surveillance tech is movingly captured in this autobiographical comic. Hats off 🎩 to @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @theverge.com for creating this wonderful bit of internet storytelling!

it's easy to apply to join the co-op... we're free, there's a library of member resources and discounts, collaboration opportunities on our forum and much more... if you've been hesitating, now is the time to start the new year fresh! cartoonist.coop/join/

The Writing University (UIowa) is looking for a Literary and Creative Arts librarian. phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWAsnMNfy

to add to to this: I want journalists to know there are countless “content creators” using your reporting, misrepresenting it, erasing your existence & profiting from it. i found this podcast that literally PHOTOSHOPPED MY NAME OUT of my own fucking story. are we going to take this shit lying down?

Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

I commented when this was first announced that this 'color of the year' feels like part of the boogie beigeification of the world so I really enjoyed this read.

This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before. The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social. H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏

I went to Pantone's color of the year party and talked about thongs, God, aging, happy goats, and lots of luxury goods. Read all about this product-filled extravaganza in my report for @theverge.com: www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...

The art in this feature is so gorgeous I want to crawl inside my computer and live inside it: www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

Since the start of The Verge, we have published in-depth features and beautifully art-directed zines. Tomorrow, we pivot

This comic about becoming a mother & the anxieties (and tech) that comes with it by @kristenradtke.bsky.social in the @theverge.com is so beautifully done on all accounts—the art, the writing, the design.

Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...

the verge continues to be the only place on the internet where I reliably see art that's this cool while still sticking to the core mission of the site: examining how tech makes us feel. props to Kristen and the team for putting this out!

In this digital comic, Kristen Radtke explores the history of baby tech — the tools and devices that allow parents to surveil their newborns.