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How all 50 state capitals are preparing for possible insurrections of their own

"We’re definitely planning for more [activity] than normal," one police officer told Vox.

By Alex Ward

Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus plan, explained

Biden has unveiled his opening bid in a proposal to rescue the economy.

By Emily Stewart

Corporate America takes away Trump’s toys

America’s elites got what they wanted from Donald Trump. Now they’re walking away.

By Emily Stewart

How Georgia went blue

Democrats flipped two long-shot Senate seats in Georgia. Can they do it again?

By Ella Nilsen

What comes next for Trump’s impeachment in the Senate

The bulk of the trial will likely unfold once Biden is president.

By Andrew Prokop

The F Word

The debate over whether to call Donald Trump a fascist, and why it matters.

By Dylan Matthews

Still going to the grocery store? With new virus variants spreading, it’s probably time to stop.

Health experts say you should avoid optional trips whenever you can. You probably need a better mask, too.

By Julia Belluz

How to avoid another election year like 2020

What America needs to do to avoid the next election crisis, according to a new report.

By Jen Kirby

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Okay, Google: unionize!

A very big tech company now has a very small union. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary explains why highly paid workers in an anti-union industry still organized and made history.

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Vox’s audience support program, explained

By Vox Staff April 8, 2020

Everything is awful. Here’s a Q&A with a philosopher about why cats rule.

By Sean Illing January 15

Olivia Nuzzi and Sam Sanders talk about the final days of the Trump White House

By Liz Nelson January 14

Trump won’t say the one thing that could really calm down his followers

By Aaron Rupar January 14

WandaVision is at its best when it gets weird

By Alex Abad-Santos January 14

Why the best referees for Twitter and Facebook may be the people who work there

By Peter Kafka January 14

A running list of corporate responses to the Capitol riot

By Melinda Fakuade January 14

Can Captain America serve two dramatically different versions of America?

By Aja Romano January 14

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Why Israel is leading the world in vaccinating its population

By Jen Kirby January 14

How random people have managed to get leftover coronavirus vaccines

By Terry Nguyen January 14

What the history of the Ku Klux Klan can teach us about the Capitol riot

By Anna North January 14

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By Sarah Bishop Woods November 23, 2020

“It’s embarrassing”: The spotty US tracking of coronavirus mutations

By Brian Resnick January 14

How novelist Anna North built a Western around a gang of gender-nonconforming outlaws

By Constance Grady January 14

Abolish the lame-duck period

By Ian Millhiser January 14

America’s biggest retirement community stars in a new doc that plays like dystopian fiction

By Alissa Wilkinson January 14

The seat of American democracy looks like a city under occupation

By Alex Ward January 13

The second impeachment of Donald Trump, explained

By Andrew Prokop January 13

How Congress can permanently disqualify Trump from office after impeachment

By Ian Millhiser January 13

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Will the GOP be Q-pilled or Coup-pilled?

Zack Beauchamp joins Matt and Dara to discuss the attempted overthrow of American democracy.

Here are the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump

By Li Zhou January 13

The House just made Trump the first president to be impeached twice

By Ella Nilsen and Li Zhou January 13

A fight over metal detectors reveals how broken Congress really is

By Jerusalem Demsas January 13

Trump released a tweet-like statement denouncing violence. He still needs to do more.

By Aaron Rupar January 13

America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.

By Ian Millhiser January 13

No Senate Republicans have backed an impeachment conviction — yet

By Li Zhou January 13

One of Donald Trump’s biggest Silicon Valley backers is renouncing his support

By Theodore Schleifer January 13

The Capitol Hill mob wanted to intimidate Congress. It’s working.

By Zack Beauchamp January 13

Google Assistant’s new Guest Mode is more private, but there’s a trade-off

By Sara Morrison January 13

Dear Elon Musk: Here’s how you should donate your money

By Kelsey Piper and Sigal Samuel January 13

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

By German Lopez January 13

“The central weakness of our political system right now is the Republican Party”

By Sean Illing January 13

Inauguration week could turn violent, so Airbnb canceled all DC reservations

By Terry Nguyen January 13

Trump’s plan to weaponize the census against immigrants has failed

By Nicole Narea January 13

The perilous state of American democracy, in one photo

By Alex Ward January 13

One Good Thing: FX’s A Teacher depicts a teacher and student’s affair with pain intact

By Emily VanDerWerff January 13

The potential consequences for Republicans who denied the election results, explained

By Li Zhou January 13

The Goods

The paradox of online “body positivity”

Is this the beginning of a mainstream fat acceptance movement? Or will it be buried by the algorithms?

By Rebecca Jennings January 13

No ICU beds? Expect double the number of Covid-19 deaths.

By Julia Belluz January 13

Can the Republican Party be saved?

By Sean Illing January 13