April 2021 Impact Articles
- Watch GOP Gov. Jim Justice fully combust when asked why he signed a transphobic bill
- Texts from Matt Gaetz's "wingman" allege that the congressman paid for sex with a 17-year-old
- Kris Kobach, one of the Trump administration's most ghoulish villains, is mounting a comeback
- Biden has hit his 100th day in office. So what's next?
- How regenerative agriculture could sustain humanity — and Earth
- In his first address to Congress, Biden took on the country's vices: guns and police brutality
- Rudy Giuliani's house just got raided by the feds
- The U.N. says we’re screwed if we don’t cut methane emissions
- Biden's $1.8 trillion "American Families Plan" is a massive down payment on the future
- West Virginia is bribing young people to get vaccinated with cold hard cash
- A gang of hackers is threatening to leak a trove of stolen documents from D.C. police
- This very bad Florida voting bill furthers the GOP push to disenfranchise voters
- Tucker Carlson wants his viewers to sic the police on kids wearing masks
- Want to Memorize Something? Exercise 4 Hours Later
- Climate change has literally knocked the Earth off its axis
- The new Census numbers are going to make life harder for Democrats
- Rick Santorum's explanation of America's founding is a masterclass in ignorance
- Somehow, a majority of Americans still don't think climate change will affect them
- A GOP anti-masker got banned from planes, so she had to take a boat to work
- The deeply conservative Supreme Court is about to hear a chilling new gun case
- The 27 best products under $30 for thinning hair, according to experts
- The 69 most genius things on Amazon under $5
- How youth climate activists pushed through the pandemic
- Marjorie Taylor Greene's reaction to the Chauvin verdict was to compare BLM to the KKK
- Greta Thunberg ripped the U.S. for its fossil fuel subsidies: "It is the year 2021"
- Caitlyn Jenner is officially running for governor of California for some damn reason
- Perseverance, the Mars rover, just made oxygen out of carbon dioxide
- D.C. statehood just took a huge leap forward — into a near certain deadlock
- Biden's big Earth Day climate pledge did not impress everyone
- Nearly half of Asian Americans have experienced at least one racist incident, per a new survey
- The skyscrapers of the future will be made of wood
- A love letter to Minnesota's grassroots
- Watch Stacey Abrams calmly school a GOP senator on why Georgia's voting bill is trash
- Tucker Carlson was real worried about his college yearbook. Now we know why
- For real justice, it’s not Black people who need to “sacrifice”
- The DOJ will investigate the Minneapolis Police Department for "systemic policing issues"
- Millions of kids will receive free lunches, thanks to Biden extending this vital food insecurity program
- Derek Chauvin has been convicted in the murder of George Floyd
- The Green New Deal is back, baby
- When the pandemic hit, Black Americans embraced a sacred tradition of food sustainability
- Apple is letting Parler return to the App Store
- Oh god, this Matthew McConaughey thing could actually happen
- Hours after Elon Musk talked up Tesla's Autopilot, 2 people died in their driverless car
- It's been a busy few days for deranged right-wing conspiracy theorists
- Are electric cars really green?
- The 5 best home printers with cheap ink
- The new "America First Caucus" is giving off big Nazi vibes
- Texas Republicans are plotting to create a two-tier election disenfranchisement system
- The U.S. is spending millions to develop a nuke-powered spaceship
- 13-year-old Adam Toledo put his hands up. Chicago police killed him anyway
- Pfizer's CEO just admitted we'll all probably have to get a 3rd coronavirus shot
- What is court packing, and why are Democrats suddenly so into the idea?
- Oh god, why is Marjorie Taylor Greene challenging AOC to a debate?
- Google Earth's new Timelapse feature is a rude awakening for climate skeptics
- Packing the court has finally been officially introduced in Congress
- A bogus group of "frontline doctors" is pushing anti-vax propaganda
- The Florida parties Matt Gaetz allegedly frequented sound just as scummy as you'd imagine
- Daunte Wright would be alive "if he would've just complied," Minnesota police bigwig says
- The ocean is about to swallow a climate research facility, which feels fitting
- Darius, the world's longest bunny, has been stolen
- The FDA is reversing a Trump-era ban on mailing abortion pills
- The Chauvin trial is incapable of delivering real justice
- Um, Biden's big immigration deal seems pretty similar to Trump's
- Leaked calls reveal the conservative "master plan" to tank climate action
- John Cornyn is either incredibly dumb, incredibly craven, or incredibly both
- The police killing of Daunte Wright inflames existing anger in Minneapolis
- "Brood X," a plague-level cicada infestation, is coming for us this spring
- Amazon stomped out a unionization effort with allegedly "blatantly illegal" tactics
- Elon Musk's Neuralink made a device that lets a monkey play Pong with his thoughts
- Matt Gaetz, who is definitely not a sex criminal, Venmo'd an accused sex trafficker $900
- Matt Gaetz's "wingman" is likely taking a plea deal, which seems bad for Matt Gaetz
- "Enough prayers": Biden issues 6 executive orders to curb gun violence
- New York has set aside a massive, first-of-its-kind fund for undocumented workers
- These organizers are fighting to make sure non-English speakers get vaccinated, too
- Republicans aren't even pretending to be interested in democracy anymore
- JPMorgan Chase just can’t seem to quit fossil fuels
- “Thank God I’m safe”: An NRA exec bravely hid from threats of violence on a luxury yacht
- With this new bill, North Carolina is again at the forefront of the GOP's anti-trans push
- 41 things under $35 On Amazon that instantly make life a hell of a lot easier
- Matt Gaetz opposed a Florida revenge porn law. He was reportedly protecting his own collection
- March Madness might be over, but the fight for gender justice continues
- The debut of 'Gutfeld!', Fox News's new comedy show, went about as well as you'd expect
- Jailhouse lawyer Johnnie Cook is fighting for pandemic justice
- Why grand jury proceedings are so secretive
- The GOP's anti-trans crusade is ramping up — and explicitly targeting kids
- Derek Chauvin's former boss, the Minneapolis police chief, just testified against him
- Amazon fired employees in retaliation for climate activism, the U.S. labor board says
- Nearly half of Republicans believe absolute nonsense about Trump's Capitol coup
- Texas officials responded to the winter storm with propaganda they got from a pro-fossil fuel think tank
- The Derek Chauvin murder trial has featured one gut-wrenching testimony after another
- Georgia's voter suppression law is bad, Coca-Cola and Delta have finally decided
