August 2020 Impact Articles
- Rest easy smooth handfish, the first fish species in modern history to go extinct
- A piloted flying car just had its first successful test in Japan
- Wisconsin Republicans will not reconvene for talks on racial justice
- California sues Trump for the 100th time, this time to save an essential environmental regulation
- How to clean your keyboard and mouse
- In Portland, violence escalated between Trump supporters and protesters
- Rand Paul wants the FBI to arrest protesters who heckled him after Trump's RNC speech
- The NBA is going all in on voting rights after striking players push for change
- In an attempt to save face, Minneapolis police re-traumatized Black people
- RNC attendees test positive for COVID because, duh, of course they did
- 17-year-old Hayat Muse is fighting to end education inequality for the next generation
- The Milwaukee Bucks' strike was just the beginning
- The White House issued a not-so-subtle threat to a Washington Post reporter
- The government can't stop flooding, so it's just relocating entire neighborhoods inland
- This proposal would allow Puerto Rico to hold a convention to determine its future
- Our massive amounts of data might bring about an "information catastrophe," a new study warns
- Kyle Rittenhouse has become conservatives' latest folk hero
- Pennsylvania's governor wants to legalize recreational marijuana
- Hurricane Laura is coming at the worst possible time
- After the shooting of Jacob Blake, NBA teams are boycotting playoff games
- Senate Democrats' plan to fight climate change is better than nothing, I guess?
- Protests over Jacob Blake's shooting in Kenosha turn violent as white militia members storm in
- How the 19th Amendment fell short for non-white women
- Why this year's wildfire season is particularly catastrophic
- Trump apparently wanted to torture immigrants with a "heat ray" as they neared the border
- The RNC enlisted Abby Johnson, the infamous anti-abortion activist, to help Trump appeal to evangelicals
- This easy fix could save thousands of birds from bloody wind turbine death each year
- White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows brags "nobody ... really cares" that the administration keeps breaking the law
- The 19th Amendment was an incomplete victory, and these first-time voters know it
- How Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo man, was sentenced to death based on a legal technicality
- Scientists think they've solved the mystery behind Earth's second major extinction event
- Amsterdam solved its "wild peeing" problem with hemp planters you can (legally) urinate in
- For Rep. Abby Finkenauer, advancing endometriosis research is personal
- A plane that could get you from New York to Paris in 3.5 hours could soon be a reality
- Jacob Blake is paralyzed after being shot by police, and protesters demand justice
- More Americans disapprove of Trump's coronavirus response than ever before
- Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?
- DACA is once again under fire from the Trump administration
- How to create a compost for your home garden
- TikTok goes on the offensive, suing the Trump administration
- Wisconsin police shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, 7 times in front of his children
- The Earth is losing ice at a "mind-blowing" rate, scientists warn
- The asteroid hurtling toward Earth right before Election Day is peak 2020
- To save the Postal Service, the House has approved $25 billion in funding
- Face mask pollution could lead to an environmental disaster
- The 3 best cheap soundbars
- As the Postal Service is attacked by Trump, workers lament what's been lost
- The 5 best tablets under $100
- Op-ed: Why young voters will turn out in droves in 2020
- The theoretical Joe Biden Cabinet speculation is already in full swing
- Susan B. Anthony museum says "no thanks" to Trump's posthumous pardon of its namesake
- Trump says he plans to send law enforcement to the polls this November
- Trump's new USPS chief enjoyed a rare bipartisan grilling in the Senate
- How to help the Postal Service — and make sure your mail-in ballot is counted
- Greenland's ice sheet lost over a billion tons of ice per day in 2019
- The DNC has made clear that Democrats and Republicans are campaigning for two different Americas
- California can't fight the fires ravaging its state because coronavirus is ravaging its prison system
- Data-informed predictive policing was heralded as less biased. Is it?
- Feds charge "We Build the Wall" crowdfund organizers — including Steve Bannon — with fraud
- ICE accused of forcing Muslim detainees to choose between rotten halal meat and pork
- Laura Loomer, a self-described "proud Islamophobe," just became a GOP congressional nominee
- California is burning. Here's what you need to know about the wildfires currently raging in the state
- Satisfaction with the treatment of Black people in the U.S. is at an all-time low, poll finds
- Beirut's port explosion turned citizens' resilience into rage
- A black hole and a cosmic gas cloud are beating in sync and scientists don't know why
- Of course AOC's DNC speech is being wildly misinterpreted by pundits
- A new study confirms systemic racism is horrible for the environment, too
- Extreme heat could get 30 times worse by 2100
- The USPS can stay as is — for now, the postmaster general says
- Scientists just found a criminally cute elephant shrew that was missing for 50 years
- The GOP invited the gun-toting St. Louis couple to speak at the convention
- Against all logic, Trump is opening the biggest patch of wilderness left in the US for oil drilling
- Voters are suing the Trump administration for trying to sabotage mail-in voting
- Scientists have developed a way to see how much microplastic is inside of us
- "Sick and tired of being sick and tired": How intolerance fatigue has fueled protests for decades
- Arizona might be on the cusp of a major teachers' strike
- A new study says Facebook "actively promotes" Holocaust denial
- "We're out here": Formerly incarcerated activists are bringing their voices to the DNC
- Zipcar keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- Scientists think Death Valley just hit the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth
- With the USPS under siege, representatives will return to the House early for a vote
- Incredibly rare "fire tornadoes" hit California this weekend, because of course they did
- Government watchdog group finds Trump's top DHS officials are ineligible for their jobs
- The Trump administration's USPS sabotage is well underway
- Trump's RNC speech scheme isn't a sign of strength. It's a sign of laziness
- Biden says every single governor should issue a 3-month mask mandate
- Anti-ICE protesters in Oregon were pepper-sprayed by federal agents
- The feds seized $2 million in Bitcoin from al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas
- Trump is mad at showers and now that will dictate environmental policy
- This weird reptile with a 9-foot neck was "one of the most baffling animals that ever lived"
- I simply cannot believe the Trump team is trying their racist birther shit again
- Venmo or Zelle? Which money app is right for you?
- 6 former EPA heads laid out a plan to rescue the agency after Trump
- Trump's wall is threatening at least 8 endangered species, according to government emails
- Trump basically just admitted he's killing the Postal Service to sabotage mail-in voting
- In the absence of federal rent relief, guerrilla efforts are stepping in
- Kamala Harris's record, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
- A Florida sheriff has banned his deputies from wearing masks
- New research shows "terror crocodiles" had teeth the size of bananas
- Ilhan Omar wins her Minnesota primary
- Marjorie Taylor Green is set to become Congress's first QAnon member. Are they ready? Is she?
- What ever happened to those coronavirus contact tracing apps?
- Elijah McClain's family is suing Aurora, Colorado, over his death
- Obama required gas companies to fix methane leaks. Trump is set to undo that rule
- Joe Biden announces Kamala Harris as his pick to be vice president
- A murky police shooting in Chicago sparked looting that led to hundreds of arrests
- Space Force just released a document called "spacepower" that explains what it actually does
- Young Black Americans are not sold on Biden, the Democrats, or voting
- Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites into space, and astronomers are pissed
- Venmo keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- The ACLU has officially called to abolish the Department of Homeland Security
- Here's what Trump's coronavirus relief executive orders will really do
- Uber suggests drivers should have insurance or vacation, but not both
- Meet the guy who built his own personal time machine
- A 99 million-year-old "hell ant" was found in amber murdering its prey
- 9 apps to make going green easier
- In prison, even social distancing rules get weaponized
- The 5 best tablets under $200
- Why it's so hard for cities to keep federal agents in check
- The 5 best cheap printers
- Lawmakers can't come together on more COVID relief while ordinary Americans continue to suffer
- Who will Joe Biden pick for vice president?
- George Bush's immigrant-honoring portrait book is banking on Americans' short memories
- Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to tax billionaires' pandemic profits and use it to fund health care
- Trump warns that Joe Biden will "hurt God"
- An unelected group of officials has stalled Minneapolis's plan to abolish its police
- 8 ways you can help save the oceans from home
- Beirut explosion: What we know so far about the catastrophe in Lebanon
- Damaged ecosystems allow diseases like coronavirus to thrive
- New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing to dismantle the NRA
- BP says it will be carbon neutral by 2050
- A vast majority of teachers are worried about returning to school, a new poll found
- The State Department is offering $10 million to anyone with information about election hacking
- A new smart mask can translate eight languages and transcribe notes
- The officer who killed Rayshard Brooks is now suing Atlanta city officials
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis admits that Florida's unemployment system is deliberately awful
- If Trump can bully TikTok into selling, which company is next?
- Cori Bush is the latest candidate to ride the progressive wave
- This cringey interview exchange shows exactly why Joe Biden misses retail politics
- Instagram's TikTok knockoff, Reels, is finally here. Here's how to use it
- A brief history of dogs as campaign assets
- The Census Bureau will end counting a month early, likely harming immigrant and rural communities
- We've reached the "zombie cicada" stage of 2020
- Climate change will kill more people than all infectious diseases combined, new study says
- Trump's White House interview with Axios was a masterclass in callousness
- Five years after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence, an appeals court has reversed the order
- Everything we know about the alleged teen mastermind behind the biggest hack in Twitter history
- Crisis pregnancy centers, which spread lies about abortion, got millions in PPP funding
- Deborah Birx is finally warning rural communities about coronavirus
- These political candidates are embracing their criminal records
- How my white privilege protected me in jail
- The House just approved doubling funding for endometriosis research
- New research shows just how deadly right-wing extremists are
