May 2020 Impact Articles
- No, your coronavirus quarantine is not just like being in prison
- "We need you out here:" A firsthand account of Brooklyn's protest for George Floyd
- The June 2 primaries are surprisingly stacked. Here are 6 races to watch
- The police officer who killed George Floyd has been charged with murder
- This is what it looks like when no one is in control
- Trump threatens Minneapolis protesters: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"
- A Texas firm got a $39 million contract to deliver food. Food banks have received nothing
- The Trump administration is quietly continuing family separation
- Trump's executive order on social media is "deluded," according to legal experts
- A new report says 50 billion years of evolution is being threatened by stupid humans
- Protests over George Floyd's death are escalating in Minneapolis and beyond
- Is it safe for colleges to reopen this fall? Experts weigh in
- The ACLU is suing the government for restricting telemedicine abortion access
- A quarter of American workers have filed for unemployment in the last 2 months
- Right-wing media has warped what the word "media" even means
- Trump threatened to "close" social media platforms after Twitter fact-checked him
- Grubhub keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- "Space junk" is a growing problem. Could a new proposal to rein it in actually work?
- The government has pledged almost $2 billion to companies with no experience making medical supplies
- After police killed George Floyd, protests in Minneapolis's streets turned ugly
- Will coronavirus cancel my student debt? All your questions about the HEROES Act, answered
- Abortion providers in Oklahoma can soon be sued for "wrongful death"
- The Supreme Court denied a White House request to keep at-risk inmates in prison
- The Trump vs. Scarborough Twitter battle has a ton of collateral damage
- A Black man in Minneapolis died after a police officer kneeled on his neck
- SpaceX is launching two people into space. Here's everything you need to know
- Spotify keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- Coronavirus threatens Brazil's indigenous population with "genocide," activists say
- 7 calming games to play when you're sick of 'Animal Crossing'
- A world without sports has happened before, but this time it's different
- 10 ways to spot online misinformation
- I was sentenced to life in prison at 16. Gardening gives me hope for my future
- The 5 best hair cutting shears
- The 470,000 potential voters most likely to be disenfranchised next election
- Trump says he won't close the country if a second wave of coronavirus hits this fall
- A church that challenged coronavirus guidelines was burned to the ground
- Coronavirus has made Texas prison food even more gross
- Here's how Michelle Obama plans to increase voter turnout for 2020
- For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act of resistance
- A Montana judge shut down a threat to Native people's voting access — for now
- "All this could have been prevented": How failing dams left a Michigan town underwater
- How the Trump administration plans to learn citizenship status without a census question
- This NASA job listing offering an escape from civilization is looking pretty good right about now
- Trump could've saved 36,000 lives if he acted 1 week earlier on coronavirus, per new modeling
- What will happen to the environment if we decide to abandon offices for good?
- The Pentagon spent hundreds of millions for useless mask-washing machines
- Even most Republicans think masks are a matter of public health, new poll finds
- Republican voter suppression efforts are focused on a few key areas
- Senate Republicans are advancing their controversial investigation of Hunter Biden
- Op-ed: Colleges owe students refunds — especially if they want them back next fall
- BLM has launched a new webseries titled 'What Matters'
- An Ohio county just labeled "racism" a public health crisis
- The Trump administration demanded the U.N. remove abortion access from its pandemic response plan
- A man in Singapore was sentenced to death over Zoom
- New report says greenhouse gas emissions have dropped a staggering 17 percent during coronavirus
- President Trump wants the border wall painted black. His wish is set to come true — for $1.3 billion
- The small Native American tribe fighting Trump's wall in South Texas
- How much power does a vice president really have? It's complicated
- Over 400 Ivy League classes are now free online
- Trump wants to cut WHO funding to wage a PR war with China
- A new parasite that attaches to the genitals of its host has been discovered on Twitter
- In 2017, Ahmaud Arbery was sitting in his car in a park. Police tried to tase him
- A new report suggests Amazon failed to protect workers amid coronavirus outbreaks
- California's cash assistance program for undocumented residents has begun
- A teenage all-girl robotics team is building ventilators for Afghanistan
- The race for the Senate depends on these contests
- The cruel irony of social distancing when you’re stuck in solitary
- Disney has taken down a Club Penguin clone filled with hate speech and "penguin e-sex"
- The Trump-Pompeo-inspector general scandal just got a little deeper
- The Noah's Ark photo project hopes to capture images of 15,000 animals
- Eric Trump claims coronavirus will "magically disappear" after Election Day
- To save money, California will close its youth prison system
- Democrats have launched a super PAC dedicated to ousting Lindsey Graham
- Trump tries to rally support around a "super duper missile"
- Op-ed: Coronavirus has proven that we need more young Black policymakers
- Here's how a presidential pardon actually works
- Trump's company has made nearly $1 million from U.S. taxpayers, records show
- Joe Biden denies Tara Reade's claim, but says voters "shouldn't vote for me" if they believe her
- "The need hasn't stopped": Immigration activists are still hard at work
- New Orleans sanitation workers strike for hazard pay: "We just want to be compensated"
- There's no coronavirus vaccine — but that hasn't stopped anti-vaxxers from spreading conspiracy theories about it
- The best show in late-night is on 'Animal Crossing'
- How teachers unions are responding to the new reality of remote learning
- Renewable energy is about to overtake coal for the first time in U.S. history, despite Trump's best efforts
- The Fed chairman urged Congress to pass more coronavirus aid to avoid calamity
- GOP Sen. Richard Burr got served an FBI warrant over his shady-seeming stock dealings
- New Pew data on Gen Z confirms they're the most diverse, most progressive generation
- The attorney general said to "maximize" releasing prisoners. It hasn't happened
- The 3 best smart bulbs for Alexa
- Trump is pivoting to his safe space of Obama-bashing amid his pandemic woes
- What will cities look like after coronavirus?
- The DOJ let Michael Flynn off the hook — but he's not free yet
- Will coronavirus delay the general election? All of your 2020 questions, answered
- Facebook plans to influence public opinion and politicians with NRA-style lobbying group
- Breonna Taylor was killed in her home by police who "blindly fired," family says
- You can have a drink at your favorite local bar on Zoom now
- Trump is reportedly pressuring the CDC to revise down its coronavirus death toll
- Teenagers reveal what they really think of Donald Trump
- House Democrats just unveiled a new $3 trillion coronavirus aid plan
- If Trump gets coronavirus, what happens?
- Rejoice: 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater' is coming back
- Elon Musk has reopened a California Tesla factory, literally asking to get arrested
- An unreleased White House report found coronavirus is worsening in many U.S. cities
- 4 public defenders on how coronavirus makes it impossible to fight for their clients
- Trump's Supreme Court reckoning over his finances is about to begin
- A terrifying robot dog is enforcing social distancing in Singapore
- How a universal basic income could improve mental health
- 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons': Getting rid of unwanted villagers
- The 5 best electric burners
- Can college towns survive coronavirus?
- Coronavirus is keeping prison families from saying their last goodbyes
- The 5 most comfortable men's socks
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom institutes universal mail-in voting for 2020
- Are the party conventions still happening?
- The White House is pumping the brakes on coronavirus relief negotiations
- What is a contact tracer's job and how do they contain coronavirus?
- Op-ed: For Ahmaud Arbery, a prayer for the runner
- U.S. unemployment hits nearly 15%, the highest rate since the Great Depression
- Trump's 'Fox & Friends' interview revealed how he sees the world right now
- Coronavirus is putting America's broken bail system on full display
- A new study shows 'Jurassic Park' got something important wrong about raptors
- What would rent forgiveness look like?
- Trump's anti-mask agenda is such an unnecessary escalation of risk
- Zoom just bought a company that could solve a lot of its security issues
- Ahmaud Arbery was killed in February. Two months later, the nation has noticed
- Native American communities are in "crisis," lacking coronavirus aid
- How the new Title IX regulations will affect sexual assault cases on campus
- Trump is reportedly planning a Pentagon purge
- The race for PPE has turned into a feeding frenzy for GOP-aligned scammers
- Scientists just discovered the closest known black hole to Earth
- Swarms of genetically modified mosquitoes could soon be descending on Florida
- Trump apparently wants to spend millions to paint the border wall black
- Mail-in voting must be funded before the fall election, experts urge Congress
- What is FEMA actually responsible for?
- Another Amazon warehouse worker has died of coronavirus
- 4 incredible astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece
- Texas's coronavirus response is turning into a predictable calamity
- Why Chicago needs a memorial to Jon Burge's torture victims
- Billions could be living in Sahara-like heat within 30 years, new study finds
- Mitch McConnell's quest to remake the national judiciary has hit a snag
- Mijente's plan to make Latinx voters understand their power
- The best book club on earth is Daniel Radcliffe reading 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'
- Steam: 6 free games you can play right now
- The Trump administration is siding with a church that broke social distancing rules
- As court hearings move online, the key work of court watchers is lost
- The 9 best sex toys for couples
- The VA awarded a $34 million contract for N95 masks to a company with no relevant expertise
- "The justifications were laughable": Amazon VP quits over the company's firing of protesting employees
- Trump's damning, deadly refusal to lead on coronavirus
- Everything you need to know about the "murder hornets" terrorizing Washington State
- Trump revises his coronavirus death toll yet again, predicting 100,000 deaths
- The story of Patrick Jones, the first federal prisoner to die of coronavirus
- Students' mental health will be affected by coronavirus. Are schools ready?
- As Georgia reopens, the state reports 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day
- While Trump was downplaying the coronavirus death toll, the feds ordered 100,000 body bags
- Armed protesters stormed Michigan's Capitol over shelter-in-place orders
- Op-ed: I’ve been social distancing from my father for 31 years
- Joe Biden on Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation: "This never happened"
- How 27 years in prison prepared me for coronavirus
