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Nate Silver on why 2020 isn’t 2016

The FiveThirtyEight founder on polling error, Trump’s chances, and the possibility of an electoral crisis.

By Ezra Klein

9 questions about 2020’s record-breaking early vote, answered

How many people have already voted? And what does that tell us about the election?

By Jen Kirby and Rani Molla

System Failure

If Biden wins, here’s how he could undo Trump’s deregulation agenda

Biden could use Trump’s playbook to reverse his regulatory moves on pollution, worker safety, health care, and more.

By Sarah Kleiner

Exclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer financial system — public banking

Rashida Tlaib and AOC are rolling out a plan to help create public banks across the country.

By Emily Stewart

Silicon Valley is spending way more on the 2020 election than it did on 2016

New numbers show just how much tech is spending to get rid of Trump.

By Theodore Schleifer and Rani Molla

Black voter turnout was down in 2016. This time looks to be different.

For many Black Americans, the best way to fight a pandemic and systemic racism is to vote.

By Sean Collins

Trump may try to steal the election. Americans may have to take to the streets.

An expert on nonviolent civil resistance talks about when protests work, how they work, and when they become necessary.

By Sean Illing

Watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with a 5-year-old

Our critic-at-large (39) and critic-at-small (5) discuss the most iconic Halloween special of them all.

By Emily VanDerWerff

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The Trump Years: Health of the nation

In the fourth of our five-part series, Vox’s Dylan Scott explains how a president with no plan on health care evolved into a president with no plan for the pandemic.

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If the Supreme Court decides the election, it will likely all come down to Brett Kavanaugh

By Ian Millhiser October 30

Facebook glitch blocks certain political ads, raising new questions about transparency

By Rebecca Heilweil October 30

The economy could lose a generation of working mothers

By Bryce Covert October 30

What the public is getting right — and wrong — about police abolition

By Fabiola Cineas October 30

As Covid-19 surges, the world’s biggest tech companies report staggering profits

By Rani Molla October 30

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By Nicole Dieker October 30

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Support for Trump is tearing apart Vietnamese American families

By Terry Nguyen October 30

Europe’s second wave of Covid-19 doesn’t excuse Trump’s failures

By German Lopez October 30

The 3 biggest governor races to watch in 2020

By Benjamin Rosenberg October 30

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One Good Thing: A nonfiction portrait of witchcraft that becomes a spiritual quest

By Alissa Wilkinson October 30

One of Barrett’s first cases asks if religion is a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people

By Ian Millhiser October 30

How do you put on a comedy show when laughter is a risk?

By Luke Winkie October 30

A guide to the Trump administration’s biggest scandals, accomplishments, and policies

By Sean Rameswaram and Lauren Katz October 29

How the press calls elections, explained

By Dylan Matthews and Kay Steiger October 29

A terror attack in Nice threatens to turbocharge France’s debate on free speech and Islam

By Alex Ward October 29

Polls show Trump is losing ground where the coronavirus is surging

By Julia Belluz October 29

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Lessons learned from Trump’s first term

Ezra and Matt look back on what’s surprised them.

FBI warns that hackers are targeting hospitals while coronavirus admissions surge

By Sara Morrison October 29

Is this the end of American optimism?

By Eleanor Cummins October 29

The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner

By Frances Nguyen October 29

3 small-business owners on life after shutting down

By Rachel Ramirez October 29

Cars too dangerous and dirty for rich countries are being sold to poor ones

By Jariel Arvin October 29

Why LGBTQ rights hinge on the definition of “sex”

By Laura Bult October 29

One Good Thing: Kiki’s Delivery Service is the sweetest, most wistful witch movie ever

By Allegra Frank October 29

Young Latinx voters could be the ones who finally flip Arizona

By Li Zhou October 29

The stakes of the Senate, explained

Georgia’s two super-competitive Senate races, explained

By Ella Nilsen October 29

“I am humbled by what we’ve been able to create”: Small-business owners on when they knew they’d made it

By Gaby Del Valle October 29

Retailers are pushing sales before the election

By Hilary George-Parkin October 29

How Trump could win the 2020 election through the Electoral College

By Andrew Prokop October 29

Exclusive: Biden leads Trump by 12 points in a national UT Dallas poll

By Li Zhou and Christina Animashaun October 29

5 fact-checks from the Senate’s hearing on social media

By Shirin Ghaffary October 28

The Supreme Court’s latest decision looks like a win for voting rights. It’s really a threat.

By Ian Millhiser October 28

The unmasking of Anonymous, explained

By Andrew Prokop October 28

Republicans accuse Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and other Big Tech CEOs of violating their free speech rights

By Sara Morrison October 28

The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream

By Christophe Haubursin October 28

Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.

By David Roberts October 28

Daylight saving time ends Sunday: 8 things to know about “falling back”

By Brian Resnick October 28

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