December 2020 Impact Articles
- Of course the coronavirus vaccine rollout is going horribly
- Goodbye, Adobe Flash, the treasure trove of dorky humor from my youth
- Ben Sasse bravely announces he will not support a coup. You're welcome, America!
- "It’s just got to stop": Columbus will close 2020 as the new center of the civil rights protests
- Facebook had an anxiety-producing 2020
- 4 activists reflect on the progress we made in 2020
- Mitch McConnell is using nonsensical logic to tank the $2,000 stimulus checks
- Trump wants to sell off Alaska's wildlife refuge for oil drilling. There might not be any buyers
- Americans may no longer agree on a "baseline reality" thanks to QAnon, a new poll says
- The short, stupid life of Vybe Together, an app designed to organize pandemic parties
- 6 progressive political ideas from 2020 that we're taking into the new year
- Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his presidency on the golf course
- How cars became a deadly anti-protest weapon
- Everyone agrees on $2,000 stimulus checks — except Mitch McConnell
- A Georgia federal judge blocked yet another voter suppression lawsuit
- When nature couldn't heal: The species we lost in 2020
- Great, now climate change is causing slow and painful deaths for dolphins
- Joe Biden called out the Defense Department for stalling on the transition
- The Georgia Senate runoffs, by the numbers
- The enduring image of 2020 will be Minneapolis's Third Precinct burning
- New York will ban evictions for the next 2 months
- Trump finally signed the coronavirus bill. But relief checks are still up in the air
- From hopeful to horrific, here are the 10 most important climate stories of 2020
- Big Tech’s year of big political spending
- RIP to 2020, a year we will not miss
- Georgia's political shift is a tale of urban and suburban change
- The amount of money pouring into the Georgia senate races is just staggering
- Trump's promise to "work tirelessly" on Christmas means golfing with buddies and ignoring COVID relief
- A massive Christmas morning explosion in Nashville is being investigated as "intentional"
- Trump reportedly baffled that Mike Pence can't simply declare him president again
- House Republicans just nuked Trump's demand for $2,000 direct COVID relief payments
- Trump's latest pardoning spree is just corruption at its purest
- Can Joe Biden win the transition?
- Trump just vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act over Confederate military bases and mean tweets
- Some newly elected Republicans apparently want more guns in Congress
- Anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion groups are now raising money through Amazon
- Trump suddenly wants $2,000 stimulus checks. Will Mitch McConnell give in?
- Trump just pardoned 4 Blackwater contractors and 3 disgraced Republican congressmen
- The climate revolution will be intergenerational
- Here's what Congress is doing to end surprise medical bills
- Republicans in Texas are still trying to kill DACA
- Extreme weather is making the border more deadly for migrants
- A case of voter fraud was finally uncovered in Pennsylvania. It was a vote for Trump
- 6 tech tips for making a very weird holiday feel less lonely
- The 8 best celebrity-politician duos of 2020
- A Robert E. Lee statue was quietly removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight
- What is the 'Great Conjunction' of Saturn and Jupiter, and will it give you super powers?
- Meet the people who will be guiding Biden's environmental policy
- Congress finally agreed on a $900 billion coronavirus bill. Here's what it means for you
- The Facebook and Apple feud, explained
- "Not enough by far": 6 people react to Congress's slimmed-down $600 stimulus checks
- "We want to leave a legacy": Meet the senior citizens who are still protesting weekly for Black Lives Matter
- Michael Flynn wants Trump to send the military into swing states to "rerun" the election there
- New York City investigated the NYPD after the George Floyd protests, and the findings are ugly
- Trump's defense secretary has reportedly told Pentagon staff to stop cooperating with the Biden transition
- House Democrats ramp up the pressure on Biden to cancel student debt
- Mike Pence might literally flee the country after certifying Biden's win in Congress
- Rep. Deb Haaland is Biden's historic pick for secretary of the interior
- Trump is still trying to restrict abortion with one final, harmful rule
- Trump reportedly might pardon the Trump Organization CFO, who allegedly helped with the Stormy Daniels cover-up
- Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants are "essential" workers, a study found
- Rand Paul accidentally blurted out why Republicans don't like increased voter turnout
- The Trump administration is making showers bad again
- In a first, a coroner ruled that air pollution contributed to a child's death
- Trump's Mar-a-Lago neighbors really, really don't want him moving to Florida
- An innocent man was held at gunpoint in Texas over a totally false voter fraud conspiracy
- When wildfires hit, richer and whiter neighborhoods are more likely to get government support
- Mitch McConnell finally called Biden the president-elect, and Trump was not pleased
- Turns out Trump is running a nice grift off the Georgia Senate runoffs
- Madison Cawthorn went on Fox News to rip Rev. Raphael Warnock
- It’s looking like Pete Buttigieg will be Joe Biden’s transportation secretary
- Exxon's plans to reduce emissions are meaningless
- Bernie Sanders does not want Democrats to give up on another stimulus check
- A new report says Amazon is polluting the oceans with 22 million pounds of plastic per year
- A Warren-led report found that prisons are essentially paying for accreditation without real accountability
- Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census is on hold — for now
- Scientists just discovered a bunch of new animals, including one of the tiniest frogs in the world
- Meet the CEO selling boxes of "ugly" produce to help solve our food waste crisis
- Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, is the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the U.S.
- Climate change could destroy the Marshall Islands in 30 years
- Who formally declares the winner of the U.S. presidential election?
- One of Tulsi Gabbard's last acts in Congress is a deeply transphobic sports bill
- One of the Senate's weirdest pairs is going to the mat for you to get another COVID stimulus check
- The DOJ is suing Alabama for its inhumane prison conditions
- Trump is mad at the FDA for being a "big, old, slow turtle" and not approving the Pfizer vaccine yet
- 126 Republican lawmakers supported the bogus attempt to overturn the election
- iPhone 11 and 11 Pro camera tips
- 2020 was the year of the online petition. Did they actually make a difference?
- Trump is trying to squeeze in five more federal executions before he leaves office
- A new California bill would require a 4-year degree to become a cop
- UN report shows we're closing in on climate catastrophe
- We need COVID-19 relief more than ever, so of course Congress is dropping the ball
- Trump health secretary Alex Azar acknowledges reality, says he's met with the Biden transition team
- Rush Limbaugh's idea of a conservative "secession" is transparently dangerous
- Abolish the Electoral College? Here are 3 ways it could be done
- The government is trying to force Facebook to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
- Anti-maskers in Idaho shut down a virtual public health meeting by targeting officials' homes
- Google's Year in Search reveals our distanced lives impacted by a rough 2020
- Exxon is putting a carbon capture project on hold while continuing to drill for oil
- The Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit over Pennsylvania's mail-in voting
- Pete Buttigieg is reportedly under consideration for ambassador to China, for some reason
- iPhone vs Android: What I learned making the switch from Apple to Samsung
- AirPods Max: Colors, features, price, and everything else to know about Apple's new headphones
- Meet the lawyers fighting to prosecute polluters as international criminals
- Coronavirus in the White House: A running list of everyone in Trump's inner circle who has tested positive
- The neverending 2020 election continues as Texas sues to overturn election results
- YouTube and its algorithm radicalized the Christchurch shooter, investigators find
- How Trump sucked up to the evangelical community
- DACA applications must reopen, a federal judge ruled
- Biden taps Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, for health secretary
- The science behind nature's most terrifying waves
- Congress has a new coronavirus relief bill — but don't expect another stimulus check
- Inside the TikTok trend shaming corporations for destroying perfectly good stuff
- Could Biden cancel student debt?
- How cocaine contributes to climate change and deforestation in Central America
- Can the Gravel Institute compete with the right-wing YouTube machine?
- New poll shows Republican voters are already salivating for a Trump in 2024
- The MORE Act just passed the House in a big step toward federally legalized weed
- "How can I trust them?": Inside Black Americans' very justified vaccine skepticism
- Trump's Twitter tantrum might actually mess up our entire military industrial complex
- A third mysterious monolith has been torn down by racists chanting "Christ is king"
- It looks like the inevitable fight between Donald Trump and Bill Barr is finally here
- A new study shows some of the most terrifying effects of climate change are already here
- Trump Jr. possibly leading the NRA is your new nightmare fuel
- Does Donald Trump actually understand what QAnon is?
- Biden's health secretary pick could tell us a lot about the future of health care
- Trump's voter fraud fantasy is starting to muck up Republicans' chances elsewhere
- Obama is the last person who should be dissing "snappy slogans"
- You'll soon be able to eat lab-grown chicken nuggets in Singapore
- How to see your top songs of the year with Spotify Wrapped — and why it might be wrong
- Even Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no widespread voter fraud
- Fences and border walls are hugely disruptive to wildlife, researchers say
- Lenka Koloma believes being anti-mask is a righteous cause. Who can convince her otherwise?
- The CDC has its likely plan for who gets a coronavirus vaccine first
- Even Wall Street won't support Trump's plans to destroy Alaska's pristine wildlife refuge
- There's finally a coronavirus relief plan — but it may never get to a vote
- The Arecibo Observatory, which helped humanity search for aliens, has collapsed
- We're scared to have children because the Earth is dying, study confirms
- The saga of the mysterious monolith just keeps getting weirder
- Why more Black elected officials hasn't necessarily meant better lives for Black Americans
