Politics
The Law That Led To Trump’s Family Separation Crisis Has A Racist History. Now These Attorneys Are Fighting Against It In Court.
“We regularly see people who receive years in prison for what is essentially glorified trespassing.”
Adolfo Flores
Republicans Finally Deleted That Tweet About Ye, Musk, And Trump And All It Took Was Praising Hitler
Turns out Ye saying that Hitler did some good things crossed the line and pushed the GOP to hit delete.
David Mack
Hakeem Jeffries Is Taking Over From Nancy Pelosi As Leader Of The House Democrats
The New York representative is the first Black person to lead a major party in Congress.
David Mack
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Was Convicted Of Seditious Conspiracy For His Role In The Jan. 6 Attack On The Capitol
Rhodes and another Oath Keeper are the first people since 1995 to be found guilty by a jury of the Civil War-era charge of seditious conspiracy.
Anna Betts
Trump Admitted To Dining With An Antisemite (Kanye) And A White Nationalist At Mar-A-Lago
Judge a man by the company he keeps.
David Mack
The Ticketmaster Meltdown During Taylor Swift's Tour Sale Has Prompted A Senate Hearing
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also said Ticketmaster is a monopoly that needs to be broken up.
Paige Skinner
“I Can’t Even Retire If I Wanted To”: People With Student Loan Debt Get Real About Biden’s Plan Being On Hold
“To forgive me for $20,000 is nothing. I’m 61 years old. I have been working. I’ve been paying tax.”
Venessa Wong
Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow, And The Reactionary Celebrity Elite
The furor over famous white women’s conservatism exposes the incoherent politics that an elite class keeps trying to sell.
Alessa Dominguez
A Special Counsel Will Decide Whether To Charge Trump With Crimes
The attorney general named former federal prosecutor Jack Smith to oversee two investigations into Trump.
David Mack
How The “Don’t Say Gay” Law Is Affecting Florida LGBTQ Students And Teachers
“You feel the sense of danger — like, school does not feel safe.”
Hallie Lieberman
The Senate Passed A Bill To Protect Same-Sex Marriage. Here’s What It Does And Doesn’t Do.
The bill would act as a fail-safe should the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority do to marriage equality what it did to abortion rights.
David Mack
Nancy Pelosi Is Stepping Down As Leader Of House Democrats But Staying In Congress
“Never would I have thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House speaker,” Pelosi said Thursday after more than 19 years leading Democrats.
David Mack
Republicans Have Won The House, But The Democrats Will Keep Control Of The Senate
“Things do happen,” one political science professor told BuzzFeed News, “but the intensity of partisanship makes it much, much harder to legislate in divided government.”
Stephanie K. Baer
Donald Trump Says He Will Run For President In 2024
Trump has spent most of the last two years undermining American democracy. Now he wants another chance at power.
David Mack
Arizona Rejected MAGA Candidates For Senate And Governor
The critical swing state went for former president Donald Trump in 2016 and then President Joe Biden in 2020.
Anna Betts
What It Was Like Reporting On Suspected Russian Assassinations In The UK, The Subject Of A New Streaming Documentary Series
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, inspired by a BuzzFeed News investigation, premieres Nov. 15 on Peacock.
Tom Warren
One Of The World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchanges Imploded And Here's What You Need To Know
FTX’s implosion is being called crypto’s “Lehman Brothers moment” — a reference to the investment bank collapse that was set off by the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
Tom Warren
Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Won Reelection, So Democrats Will Control The Senate
As things stand, Republicans look likely to take control of the House, but no one will know for sure until more votes are counted.
Claudia Koerner
What To Know Now That Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Has Been Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge surprised many by striking down the student debt relief program. Here’s why he did that and what might happen next to revive it.
David Mack
Gen Z Showed That Young Voters Are A Force To Be Reckoned With
“We’ve grown up in unprecedented circumstances from economic turmoil to the pandemic, to climate change, to school shootings.”
Anna Betts
Voting To Stop Inflation Doesn't Work The Way You Think It Does
Inflation was the leading issue for many midterm voters. Any policy solutions, however, would take a long time to have an effect.
Venessa Wong
I Can’t Tell If Trump Is Panicking About Ron DeSantis. Oh, Wait. Yes I Can.
After right-wing media appeared to rally behind Ron DeSantis, Trump went into meltdown mode.
David Mack
The Biden Administration Is Appealing After A Judge Ordered It To End The Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
The Trump-appointed judge called President Biden's student loan forgiveness program "one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority" in the country's history.
Stephanie K. Baer
A 23-Year-Old Democrat Ousted A Two-Term Mayor In A Conservative Louisiana Town
“I told people on the campaign trail: I'm young, but I can get it done,” Mayor-elect Tyrin Truong said.
David Mack
Wisconsin Voters Have Reelected A Governor And Attorney General Who Support Abortion Rights And Say They Won’t Enforce A Near-Total Abortion Ban
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul have pledged not to enforce the state’s near-total abortion ban, which took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Anna Betts
There Will Be A Runoff Election Between Herschel Walker And Raphael Warnock In Georgia
Depending on other races, the Georgia runoff could mean we won't know for a few more weeks which party will control the Senate.
David Mack
Republican Ron Johnson, Who Said Jan. 6 Was Not An Armed Insurrection, Has Been Reelected Senator Of Wisconsin
Through the summer, polls showed the incumbent Republican and 35-year-old progressive challenger neck and neck.
Anna Betts
Voters Turned Out To Protect Abortion Rights In Michigan, California, And Kentucky, Just Months After Roe Was Overturned
“This is a really big step in preventing any more degradation of democracy,” a Michigan woman who voted in favor of the amendment told BuzzFeed News.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
A Rundown Of Critical Midterm Election Victories So Far
Here’s why these winners are such a big deal.
Alexa Lee
Election Night Is Officially Over, And It’ll Probably Be A While Before We Know Who Controls Congress
Results in several key races, including Senate seats in Georgia and Wisconsin, are still up in the air.
Paige Skinner
