For the 50 million kids who attend public schools in the US, the 2020 election is personal. Watch more 2020 US election explainers at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q When it comes to who gets punished and removed from American classrooms, the US doesn’t treat all students equally. Black students get suspended and expelled […]
The biggest radioactive spill in US history. As World War Two was ending, the growing nuclear arms race put the US in need of uranium. It turned to Navajo Nation, where the uranium mining industry thrived for four decades — but left disease, pollution and the biggest radioactive spill in […]
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 […]
Most Americans have no choice but to drive. How do we change that? We produced this video in 2020 as part of our US election coverage. The rest of those videos are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q In the middle of the 20th century, the US government made a decision that would transform […]
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 […]
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, […]
The pandemic turned America’s housing crisis into an eviction crisis. Watch more 2020 US election coverage at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q Long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, low-wage workers in the United States were already struggling to pay their rent, and were being evicted at rates much higher than in other similar countries. […]
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. […]
A record-breaking 160 million Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election, despite the Covid-19 pandemic’s continued spread across the country. Voters across the country talked to Vox about their motivations to vote in this high-stakes election despite the challenges: waits in hours-long lines, navigating misinformation on social media, safety at […]
