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Why Republican women candidates had such a strong year

Republican women flipped numerous House seats in 2020.

3 scholars say Trump isn’t staging a coup — but he still poses a threat to democracy

Trump’s destabalizing rhetoric, which calls into question the integrity of the presidential election, could erode the strength of American institutions.

Trump’s far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart

Trump is losing lawsuits in key states — and has lost some key members of his legal team as well.

Trump’s turn against Fox News, explained

The network sometimes engages with the reality that Biden won. For Trump, that’s an unforgivable sin.

Minks are transmitting Covid-19 to humans. Don’t blame the minks.

From Denmark to the US, outbreaks on mink farms raise concerns that a virus mutation could make our vaccines ineffective.

I Am Greta is an intimate, vulnerable documentary about the teen behind the headlines

In the new Hulu film, climate activist Greta Thunberg argues that her Asperger’s is an asset.

How the Libertarian Party (maybe) helped shift the presidential race

The Libertarian Party presidential nominee got fewer votes than in 2016. Here’s how those votes helped change the election anyway.

Trump’s own officials say 2020 was America’s most secure election in history

Homeland Security put out a statement with state and local officials that countered the president’s fraud claims.

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Police reform was a winner this election

The second White House coronavirus outbreak: Mark Meadows, the Secret Service, and more

TikTok’s US ban has been delayed another two weeks — or maybe forever

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The many obstacles to the “GOP state legislatures steal the election for Trump” scenario

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Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election

Love, delayed

As the pandemic rages on, single people are feeling the anxiety of missed opportunities.

Why China just got around to congratulating Biden on his 2020 win

Trump’s war on Fox News and the future of right-wing media

The Earth itself could provide carbon-free heat for buildings

Fox News’s election fraud pandering may be its most dangerous lie yet

Democrats are already at odds over how to win in 2022

The Next Four Years: A Weeds series

The best way to improve schools? Invest in teachers.

Joe Biden needs to avoid a return to “eat your peas” budgeting

The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party.

What will Thanksgiving look like this year? We asked a turkey farmer.

The disturbing surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations, in one chart

Activist groups say it’s not time to march against a Trump coup — yet

Biden is preparing for his presidency. The Trump administration? Not so much.

Facebook’s election woes are headed to Georgia

How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet

80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime

How Joe Biden could make Brazil his first “climate outlaw”

2019 was a terrible year for measles. 2021 could be much worse.

Leaks suggest Trump knows his effort to stay in office is probably doomed

How risky is air travel in the pandemic? Here’s what the science says.

The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy.

A Pennsylvania poll worker explains the painstaking process of counting votes

How the Navajo Nation helped Democrats win Arizona

How the pandemic got people smoking again 

Seriously, will he ever go?

Most Latinos voted for Biden — but 2020 revealed fault lines for Democrats

My two days watching Newsmax, the network waging war on Fox News from the right

How North Carolina and Maine dashed Senate Democrats’ hopes of a “blue wave”