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Problems with the Postal Service are getting worse

The USPS warned 46 states that it couldn’t guarantee mail-in ballots would arrive in time.

By Adam Clark Estes

Birtherism 2.0, explained

It’s back, it’s still racist, and this time it’s connected to a broader assault on birthright citizenship.

By Matthew Yglesias

Shirley Chisholm’s historic presidential run helped lead to this moment

Nearly five decades after Chisholm’s bid, Kamala Harris is the first Black woman on a major-party presidential ticket.

By Li Zhou

Kamala Harris’s foreign policy, explained

It’s more robust than you might think.

By Alex Ward

A police officer killed my father 27 years ago and went unpunished. It changed my life forever.

It took his resurfaced racist posts for me to tell my father’s story.

By Montinique Monroe

How The Vanishing Half fits into our cultural fixation with racial passing stories

"Passing for white never left."

By Constance Grady

It’s not just Twitch: The military has a history of using video games to reach young people

Remember America’s Army?

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross

7 provocative documentaries that show how our political process has evolved

Boys State is just the latest movie to paint a picture of a changing system in a televised America.

By Alissa Wilkinson

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After hearing from kids around the world who are grappling with serious boredom, Noam Hassenfeld and Byrd Pinkerton venture deep into the belly of a whale to learn how to have fun in quarantine.

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By Alex Abad-Santos August 14

The company behind Fortnite dared Apple to shutter its game on iPhones. Now Apple has gone ahead and sort of done that.

By Peter Kafka August 14

The Kamala Harris identity debate shows how America still struggles to talk about multiracial people

By Nisha Chittal August 14

A record number of women could be elected to the House this fall

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The dystopian tech that companies are selling to help schools reopen sooner

By Rebecca Heilweil August 14

Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020

By German Lopez August 13

The Trump campaign attack on Kamala Harris’s citizenship is right out of the birther playbook

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The military has a history of using video games to recruit. So why was there a backlash when its soldier-gamers started playing online?

Israel and the UAE just struck a historic peace deal. It’s a big win for Trump.

By Alex Ward August 13

Is Russia first to a Covid-19 vaccine? Not so fast.

By Jen Kirby August 13

Trump’s new favorite talking point about US coronavirus cases is highly misleading

By Aaron Rupar August 13

Trump admits he’s stalling pandemic relief to make it harder to vote

By Ian Millhiser August 13

The great rebuild

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What would Keynes do?

By Ezra Klein August 13

Drug overdoses were increasing before Covid-19. The pandemic made things worse.

By German Lopez August 13

Legend of Korra’s messy, complicated legacy

By Aja Romano August 13

GPT-3, explained: This new language AI is uncanny, funny — and a big deal

By Kelsey Piper August 13

Wild, chaotic, and deeply silly, the animated Harley Quinn series is a terrific watch

By Emily VanDerWerff August 13

Justice Alito’s jurisprudence of white racial innocence

By Ian Millhiser August 13

Kamala Harris’s family story is the real portrait of American greatness

By Matthew Yglesias August 13

Kamala Harris is a politician, not an activist. It’s an awkward fit for this moment.

By Aaron Ross Coleman August 13

Do you really have to wash your mask after every use? Short answer: Yes.

By Isabella Simonetti August 13

Facebook’s new voter information center gives Americans fact-checked voting information

By Shirin Ghaffary August 13

Netflix soured the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its showrunners say

By Aja Romano August 12

Joe Biden’s criminal justice reform plan, explained

By German Lopez August 12

Why people are volunteering to get Covid-19

By Laura Bult August 12

The 2020 election calendar

By Catherine Kim, Hannah Brown, and 1 more August 12

Most candidates run to the center in the general election. Biden is moving left.

By Ezra Klein August 12