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A Biden presidency

The Democratic nominee’s policy vision, explained.

By Vox Staff

President Trump briefly drove by the “Million MAGA March” on his way to the golf course

Thousands of Trump supporters turned out in DC to protest the president’s electoral loss.

By Katelyn Burns

What we know about who Asian American voters supported in the election

By Li Zhou

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

By Zeeshan Aleem

Why Republican women candidates had such a strong year

By Li Zhou

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

By Nicole Narea

Police reform was a winner this election

By Rachel Ramirez

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

By Jen Kirby

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System Failure

How the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda is affecting the health and safety of Americans.

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

By Benjamin Rosenberg

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

By Peter Kafka

Trump’s turn against Fox News, explained

By Aaron Rupar

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

By Andrew Prokop

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

By Jane Coaston
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Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election

By Madeline Marshall

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

By Alex Ward

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

By Sean Illing

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

By Peter Kafka

Democrats are already at odds over how to win in 2022

By Ella Nilsen

The Next Four Years: A Weeds series

By Lauren Katz

The best way to improve schools? Invest in teachers.

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Matthew Yglesias

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

By Ezra Klein

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

By Eliza Barclay and Dylan Scott

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

By Anna North

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

By Jen Kirby

Facebook’s election woes are headed to Georgia

By Rebecca Heilweil

How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet

By Sara Morrison

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

By Jerusalem Demsas

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

By Jariel Arvin

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

By Julia Belluz

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

By Andrew Prokop

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

By Ezra Klein

A Pennsylvania poll worker explains the painstaking process of counting votes

By Kyle Brashear

How the Navajo Nation helped Democrats win Arizona

By Rachel Ramirez

Seriously, will he ever go?

By Sean Illing

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

By Nicole Narea

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

By Emily VanDerWerff

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

By Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen

Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists

By Alex Ward

Report: Election officials find no evidence of widespread voter fraud

By Benjamin Rosenberg

Trump’s final two months in office might be the worst Covid-19 months yet

By Dylan Scott