From a data center frenzy to hype for AI agents, big promises and expectations shaped tech in 2025—sometimes ending in stumbles.

New forms of PrEP to prevent HIV, like injectable CAB-LA, are coming. Public health officials hope they’ll help South Africa’s young women, one of the most impacted groups in the world, avoid the virus. Reporting funded by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

Medical Monitoring Project finds most are receiving HIV care and treatment, but many face challenges such as poverty and unstable housing.

Stigma and systemic racism can kill, according to the first study to look at suicide risk among HIV-positive youth.

Key takeaways from the latest Census for the fastest growing state in the nation.

A dynamic mapping piece exploring the lasting impacts of historical housing discrimination practices in Utah. As seen in the Salt Lake Tribune.

The decline of coal has hit this region of Utah hard, but locals hope to find a path forward. (As seen in the Salt Lake Tribune.)

In a decade, sleepy towns have transformed into sprawling cities. As farmers and cowboys leave and tech workers move in, here’s a look at the change from above. (As seen in the Salt Lake Tribune.)

The burden of asthma is disproportionately high in some Salt Lake neighborhoods, due to low health care rates and more air pollution.

My master’s thesis on how COVID-19 impacted transit in New York City.

A Department of Labor policy allows organizations to pay people with disabilities under the minimum wage with a special certificate. Advocates across the country are successfully fighting it at the state level.

Millions have moved to southern and western states like Arizona, Texas and Georgia in recent years. Here is a look at why combining narrative and data.

The pandemic’s disruption of tourism has devastated places like Ketchikan whose economies rely on the cruise industry. A second year of no ships looms.

The Y-K Delta’s isolation, overcrowded households, and single hospital made COVID-19 especially devastating. But a rapid vaccine rollout is offering hope.

An interactive map visualizing the origins and genres of musicians in Billboard’s year-end chart from 2004 onward.

An audio piece exploring how trans and nonbinary New Yorkers navigated gender identity during the COVID-19 lockdown.

An interview with Suffy Baala, a nonbinary trans music critic and DJ, on queer nightlife, identity, and surviving the pandemic.

Museums and galleries across New York redirected their resources to feed communities hit hard by the pandemic, from Bushwick to Corona.

As COVID-19 devastates New York’s nightlife industry, venue owners and workers are organizing for direct relief and government support.

How Lot Radio, an outdoor bar and radio station in Greenpoint, became a neighborhood watering hole during the pandemic summer of 2020.