June 2020 Impact Articles
- Big advertisers are leaving Facebook in droves. Does it matter?
- House Democrats have put forward a less ambitious Green New Deal. Could it pass?
- House Democrats have proposed a $175 billion housing relief package
- The South Pole is experiencing some of the worst climate change on Earth
- The short, fraught history of the “thin blue line” American flag
- The glitz and absurdity of Las Vegas's gun playgrounds
- What is Parler and why won't conservatives shut up about it?
- Reddit bans hate speech, so r/The_Donald gets the boot
- Mourners for Elijah McClain were attacked by police with batons and pepper spray
- The Trump administration will bring federal executions back as soon as July
- The iPhone 12 might not come with two very important components
- Mississippi lawmakers voted to replace the racist state flag
- Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female
- Apple's iOS 14 update will change how you use your phone
- The Supreme Court ruled against Louisiana's anti-abortion law in a major win for advocates
- An ode to New York's rich history of queer poetry
- Trump is restarting his war on Obamacare while coronavirus surges
- Trump's town hall with Sean Hannity gave us a peek into his second-term thinking
- Colorado is reopening its investigation into the police killing of Elijah McClain
- How to contact your representatives — and make sure you're actually heard
- 3 North Carolina cops were fired after accidentally recording themselves being heinously racist
- Trump's fireworks party at Mount Rushmore is stupid in so many ways
- NASA asks public: how would you want to poop on the moon?
- The Trump administration sent $1.4 billion in stimulus checks to dead people
- Democrats are officially taking their convention virtual
- NASA has renamed its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black female engineer
- Bill de Blasio is using his Black Lives Matter mural to troll Trump
- Affirmative action will be on the ballot in California in November
- Ahmaud Arbery's killers have been charged with murder
- A twisted project that tried to predict criminals from a photo has come to an end
- Elijah McClain died after a police encounter a year ago. Why are we only hearing about it now?
- A new UN report reiterates the role climate change plays for many asylum seekers
- The Supreme Court's big DACA ruling left behind 60,000 immigrant teenagers
- A new national poll shows Biden with a giant lead over Trump
- This wasn't the Pride we wanted, but it's still worth celebrating
- Trump is bailing on coronavirus testing in 5 states, including hard-hit Texas
- D.C. statehood will get a vote in the House this week. Here's what you should know
- Police unions are spending millions to avoid change
- Texas is illegally holding nearly 150 people in a border town detention center, the ACLU says
- An online battle is raging between Nazis and 'My Little Pony' fans
- A massive ring of mysterious underground shafts was just discovered near Stonehenge
- Trump says protesters who destroy racist statues should go to jail for 10 years
- Homophobia might be hurting South Korea's fight against coronavirus
- LGBTQ rights groups are suing over Trump's new health care rule
- Everything you need to know about the massive Saharan dust plume heading our way
- Conspiracy theories are finding a hungry audience on TikTok
- June 23 primaries: 4 races to watch
- Greta Thunberg on BLM: "We cannot keep sweeping these things under the carpet, these injustices"
- The best video games for quarantine workouts
- Trump's Tulsa rally was a big flop, in more ways than one
- The moments from Joe Biden's political career that have aged the worst
- Coronavirus is a nightmare for inmates already. For mentally ill defendants, it's even worse
- Juneteenth should be a federal holiday. Here's how Congress could make it so
- Trump says he "made Juneteenth very famous" thanks to his offensive rally plans
- Trump's re-election campaign put up an ad so racist even Facebook took it down
- There are unexplainable blobs under the Earth's surface and they are bigger than we thought
- We have 6 months to figure out how to make the environmental benefits from coronavirus last, expert says
- John Bolton's book doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know
- How the FBI used Etsy and LinkedIn to track down and arrest a protester
- As coronavirus cases surge, the Trump administration is back to ignoring it
- The Supreme Court protects DACA in its second surprise decision this week
- What is the Boogaloo movement? The internet group itching for another civil war
- Facebook's Voting Information Center shouldn't be taken at face value
- Emissions are already almost back at pre-pandemic levels
- Rayshard Brooks's killer has been charged with murder
- Republicans have a police reform plan of their own
- A weird pinging inside a mountain could lead to one of the biggest scientific discoveries in history
- Jamaal Bowman's primary bid to upset New York Rep. Eliot Engel is gaining steam
- Only 14% of Americans said they're very happy right now, per a new poll
- A judge told the Trump administration to give Native tribes the coronavirus money they're owed
- Jails are using light-emitting robots to battle coronavirus
- You can now buy your own Boston Dynamics robo-dog for $74,500
- Former eBay employees allegedly responded to negative press by mailing writers cockroaches, pig fetuses
- Trump's executive order on police brutality is just a powerless gesture
- Coronavirus deaths in prisons have skyrocketed 73% in a month
- Trump’s dangerous science denial is seeping deeper into the federal government
- Is coronavirus falling harder on Black prisoners? Officials won't say
- The families of 2 Black men found hanging in California insist the deaths were not suicides
- The Supreme Court protects California's right to be a sanctuary state
- Scientists estimate there are 36 alien civilizations with the ability to communicate
- Violence against Black trans women has spurred a new wave of protests
- A new study shows how a universal basic income could help the environment, too
- Immigration officials spent money meant for migrant health on dirt bikes instead
- 'The Simpsons's 'Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge' is real thanks to a fan-made game
- The Supreme Court rules that LGBTQ workers are protected from job discrimination
- These 42 cheap, clever things genuinely make life better
- Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is showing what a police-free world looks like
- Trump: "The concept of chokeholds sounds so innocent and so perfect"
- Derek Chauvin could get a million-dollar pension — even if he's convicted of murder
- Trump's campaign is making Tulsa rally attendees sign a coronavirus disclaimer
- With "Breonna's Law," Louisville bans no-knock warrants
- Police unions are the final boss of the law enforcement abolition movement
- Trump's newly proposed asylum rules would make it even harder for immigrants
- Conspiracy theorists are sending contact tracers death threats now
- Researchers think they've figured out why mountains are so damn tall
- Amazon is banning cops from using its facial recognition tech for one year
- Trump will hold his first campaign rally on Juneteenth at the site of a racist massacre
- How much longer until Trump's troops kill someone?
- ICE agents are lurking at protests and making arrests
- The Trump administration just made it okay to inhumanely hunt baby animals
- Scientists think they finally solved the mystery behind Earth's first mass extinction
- Javier Ambler was killed by police last year. The incident was filmed by a cop docuseries
- As the economy slowly recovers, Black workers are being left behind
- Defund the police? Joe Biden wants to give them a $300 million raise
- LA County will test all incarcerated people and staff for coronavirus
- Georgia's primary was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a mess
- Meet the activists who created an ever-growing Google Doc of police violence across America
- Microsoft replaced its human editors with an A.I. that's already making racist mistakes
- Trump is pushing a full-on conspiracy theory about the 75-year-old protester shoved by police
- New York wants to make racist 911 calls like Amy Cooper's a hate crime
- Companies would like to pollute more, please
- How qualified immunity protects police officers from facing consequences
- "It's different this time": How nationwide protests are creating momentum for real change
- Moderators for Facebook Groups keep silencing conversations about Black Lives Matter
- Democrats' kente cloth stunt only reinforced their shortcomings on police reform
- What does "defund the police" really mean?
- You can see D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural from space
- Even as arrests plummeted during coronavirus, Black people were arrested more often than white people
- Tech companies denounce police brutality, but many have ties with law enforcement
- The racist roots of American policing
- The 5 strongest bike locks
- How the U.S. taught its police officers that protesters are "the enemy"
- Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.'s family may finally get justice for his killing by police
- Breonna Taylor would have been 27 today — her killers are still out there
- Trump shares letter calling protesters "terrorists"
- Of course the police are lying about brutalizing protesters
- The lethality of "non-lethal" weapons
- The DNC's climate council is trying to force Joe Biden to the left
- The preliminary hearing for Ahmaud Arbery's killers has begun
- Signal is releasing a face-blurring tool at the best possible moment
- The ACLU is suing Los Angeles County over "draconian" curfews
- Amazon employees are suing the company for failing to protect them against coronavirus
- Manuel Ellis told police "I can't breathe." Now his death has been ruled a homicide
- Top generals are calling out Trump's fascist behavior — years after everyone else
- The Trump administration broke its own rules to separate dozens of immigrant families, per a watchdog report
- Every Minneapolis cop who helped kill George Floyd has now been charged
- The Earth is currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction — and it's accelerating
- The majority of Americans know why people are protesting, and they support it
- "A nightmare I cannot seem to escape": What it's like to have a parent in prison right now
- An account mimicking Trump's tweets verbatim got suspended by Twitter
- Philadelphia finally removed its statue of a racist and homophobic former mayor
- Ferguson's Ella Jones just made history
- The Minneapolis Police Department is being investigated for civil rights violations
- Joe Biden addressed the country's racial unrest in the safest way he could
- I was an organizer in Minneapolis for years. This moment was a long time coming
- A white nationalist group was behind a fake antifa Twitter account
- How to film police and protests safely and ethically
- At least 4 people were shot and killed this weekend as protests continued
- "There isn't a neutral position on racism": Why Facebook employees are irate at Zuckerberg
- America is on fire and Trump is nowhere to be found
- New research suggests dinosaurs turned to cannibalism during desperate times
- The history of "coming out," from secret gay code to popular political protest
