Ryan Brooks
Trump And His Son Are Lying About Coronavirus Deaths — Again
The number of COVID-19 deaths "is almost nothing," Donald Trump Jr. said on a day when about 1,000 people in the US had died.
Ryan Brooks
The Presidential Debates Gave People Of Color Old Fights Over The Past And Little Insight Into The Future
The debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump focused less on their plans for Black and brown Americans than on their pasts.
Nidhi Prakash
Protest Is Part Of The Black American Tradition. Young Activists Are Reshaping The Movement In Their Image.
“Who exactly was this a reckoning for? Not for me.” Four very different young Black activists doing the work on why we’re here and what comes next.
Ryan Brooks
Obama Railed Against Trump’s Coronavirus Response In His First Campaign Trail Speech
The president has done nothing but “completely screw this up,” Obama said in Philadelphia.
Ryan Brooks
Kamala Harris And Mike Pence Talked About Everything Except The Last Six Days
The vice presidential debate barely touched on the ongoing chaos of the last two weeks.
Ryan Brooks
Biden Said He's Not Surprised That Trump Got The Coronavirus
"Anybody who contracts the virus by essentially saying 'masks don't matter, social distancing doesn't matter' is responsible for what happens to them," Biden said during a town hall.
Ryan Brooks
Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere About Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis. He Helped Make Them Happen.
Conspiracy theories about Trump's coronavirus case are spreading rapidly on the right and left in the vacuum of reliable information the White House has created.
Nidhi Prakash
The Debate Section On "Race And Violence In Our Cities" Had More Dog Whistles Than We Could Count
In the first presidential debate, Trump repeated racist tropes and tried to attack Biden as the real racist.
Ryan Brooks
Trump And The Republicans Are Doing Everything They Can To Confuse Voters Before The Election
Here’s how the president and his party are trying to undermine the 2020 election, and how traditionally disenfranchised people are being targeted.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
Trump’s Swift Push To Replace Justice Ginsburg Has Democrats Rallying Around Court-Packing
The Supreme Court has had nine justices for 151 years. Liberals see adding seats as one of their few options to counter a potential 6–3 conservative majority.
Zoe Tillman
Will Republicans Vote On A Supreme Court Nominee Before The Election? Don’t Forget The Intense Senate Campaigns In 2020.
Republicans can lose four votes in the Senate and confirm a justice. Three in tight reelection campaigns have said there should be a vote. Two key senators are silent so far.
Ryan Brooks
Are You Not Sure About Voting? BuzzFeed News Wants To Hear From You.
With the general election less than 50 days away and the first debates coming up, we want to hear from people on the fence for a video project.
Ryan Brooks
Biden Called Trump "A Climate Arsonist" As The President Continued To Deny Climate Science
“It’ll start getting cooler,” Trump said in California on Monday.
Nidhi Prakash
Young Latino Voters Say The Fight For Racial Justice Is Pushing Them To Vote In November
According to a new survey, 55.8% of young Latino voters said they’d actively participated in racial equality or Black Lives Matter movements.
Ryan Brooks
Trump Used The Power Of His Office As A Prop During The RNC
The segments broke political norms of separating official government business from campaigning with a naturalization ceremony and pardon signing at the White House.
Ryan Brooks
The Couple Who Pointed Guns At Black Lives Matter Protesters Came To The Republican Convention To Fear-Monger About The Suburbs
The St. Louis couple insisted that Democrats want to “abolish the suburbs altogether,” in a brazen, thinly veiled racist attempt to win over a crucial voting bloc for Donald Trump.
Ryan Brooks
AOC Nominated Sanders Because Of Procedure — And To Make A Point
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's short nominating speech for Bernie Sanders served a convention function — and pointed to a movement's future.
Ryan Brooks
Michelle Obama’s Convention Speech Was An Urgent Plea For Voters Not To Sit Out 2020
“If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we don’t make a change in this election,” she said on the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
Ryan Brooks
The US Postal Service Is Now A Trump Target In The 2020 Election. Here's What's Going On.
The USPS is facing a three-headed problem, with the election fast approaching.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
Joe Biden Won't Travel To Milwaukee For The Democratic National Convention
Biden will accept the Democratic nomination for president in Delaware because of the coronavirus.
Matt Berman
