“What’s the point of having a conversation if you’re not speaking to people who don’t already agree with you?” Pete Buttigieg talks to Jon Stewart about why he goes on Fox News, the significance of President Joe Biden stepping aside to make room for Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic […]
What the candidates can (and can’t) do about police reform. Watch more 2020 US election explainers at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q Police reform is a major issue in the 2020 election, yet it’s also one of the issues the president has little control over. Police are primarily funded and managed by local governments […]
Ronny Chieng tackles Donald Trump’s continued attacks on Kamala Harris’s racial identity, this time citing… Mindy Kaling’s Instagram? JD Vance handles his own race problems with a lukewarm defense of his wife against white supremacists, and Ronny runs down Harris’s options for a running mate, who, as Desi Lydic explains, […]
Conspiracy theory researchers explain how QAnon spread through Instagram. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO At first glance, the images under the hashtags about child trafficking don’t look that different from anything else you’d expect to see on Instagram. They feature bright pastel colors with trendy fonts spelling out taglines like […]
UPDATE: In his first day in office, Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that adopts the latest Supreme Court ruling’s more expansive inclusion of LGBTQ rights under sex discrimination protections. This reverses Trump’s rulings. Without federal legislation, the fight against LGBTQ discrimination has been waged in the courts and the […]
Donald Trump thought he was cruising to victory against Joe Biden, but now he’s facing a hard fight against Kamala Harris. Jon Stewart looks at Trump’s half-hearted attempts to adjust to the new challenge and wonders if he’s hatching a devious plan to help Biden take back the nomination, January […]
Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Become a Vox member: https://www.vox.com/support-now In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million more votes than the Republican. The Democrat lost. Sixteen years later the same thing happened again. In the US, if you run for president, […]
Follow the results of the 2020 presidential election at: http://www.vox.com/2020 In a normal presidential election year, many Americans go from casting our vote before work in the morning to turning off the TV before bed, secure in our knowledge of who will lead the country for the next four years. […]
With Republican strategists begging Trump to stop the insults and focus on the issues, Desi Lydic watches his “intellectual” speech on economic policy — which inevitably goes off the rails into a rant about Joe Biden’s ice cream choices, Kamala Harris’s laugh, and the problem with Tic Tacs. Plus, Troy […]
Kamala Harris’s campaign is crushing it, and Trump is spinning out. Jon Stewart and Desi Lydic cover Trump’s week of flops, including his continued fixation on Joe Biden, denial that he has anything to do with Project 2025, (even though their leaked training videos feature every person he’s ever met), […]
