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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

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

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

How the press calls elections, explained

Calling elections is a high-stakes algebra problem. Here’s how it works.

By Dylan Matthews and Kay Steiger

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

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

The Supreme Court’s new culture warrior will leap straight into the culture war.

By Ian Millhiser

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

Trump’s failure on Covid-19 is still among the worst in the world.

By German Lopez

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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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Support for Trump is tearing apart Vietnamese American families

By Terry Nguyen October 30

The 3 biggest governor races to watch in 2020

By Benjamin Rosenberg October 30

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

By Alissa Wilkinson 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

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By Vox Staff 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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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

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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

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Biden’s border options

Dara, Jane, and Matt on the big immigration questions that will face a new administration.

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

This entrepreneur is competing with DoorDash — by delivering only from Black-owned restaurants

By Queen Muse October 28

Why the record low Arctic sea ice this October is so alarming

By Lili Pike October 28

It sure looks like Trump’s national security adviser is campaigning for him in swing states

By Alex Ward October 28

Kim Kardashian’s performative quarantine

By Rebecca Jennings October 28

How bad is your state’s Covid-19 outbreak?

By German Lopez October 28

The Philadelphia police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., explained

By Fabiola Cineas October 28

Biden has a big lead in the polls, but can we trust them?

By Matthew Yglesias October 28

How 4 small businesses have shifted to online sales

By Sean Santiago October 28

Ballot selfies, state by state

By Jerusalem Demsas October 28

Should people of color get access to the Covid-19 vaccine before others?

By Sigal Samuel October 28

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