2020 Election

The Recession Is About to Get Much Worse for Some

By Abby Vesoulis and Alana Abramson

Absentee Ballot Apps Inaccessible to Voters with Disabilities

By Abigail Abrams

All About the Very Uncivil Tone of the First Debate

By Madeleine Carlisle

Trump Gives White Supremacists a Huge Win

By Vera Bergengruen and Lissandra Villa
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Trump Repeatedly Attacked Mail-In Voting During the Debate. There's No Evidence Behind His Claim

The chaotic inaugural presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden culminated in one of the most contentious exchanges of the night, with Trump doubling down on his intent to sow...

By Alana Abramson

Shouting Over Each Other

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off on the debate stage during one of the most turbulent periods in modern American history Tuesday. A viral pandemic has killed 200,000 Americans and...

By Brian Bennett , Vera Bergengruen and Philip Elliott

Trump vs. Biden: Facing Off on Taming a 'Rising China'

As President, Donald Trump has cast China as a global villain: a malevolent actor that all but launched a worldwide pandemic on an unsuspecting world, robbed Americans of their jobs and stole U.S. business secrets....

By Kimberly Dozier

McMaster: No Military Role in Election Transition

President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the presidential election

By Sanya Mansoor

TikTok or Not, Gen-Z Voters Are Mobilizing to Show Up on Election Day

First-time voter Elise Joshi joined TikTok about a month ago to help get the word out about climate change. But it was her video that landed on the app’s “For You” page about why she’d...

By Mariah Espada

‘Plan for the Worst and Hope for the Best.' Why Law Enforcement Officials Are Worried About Post-Election Violence

By refusing to pledge a peaceful transfer of power if he loses to Joe Biden in November, President Donald Trump is raising the stakes on an already contentious election by signaling how his supporters should...

By W.J. Hennigan

In Wildfire Zones, Voters Face Challenges

Early last week, as wildfires approached her neighborhood in Rogue Valley, Ore., Virginia Camberos evacuated her home. After a brief stay at her son’s residence, about an hour’s drive up the mountains, authorities gave the...

By Sanya Mansoor

‘You Bet Your Ass I've Got Regrets.’ As Election Day Nears, More of Trump’s Former Officials Are Speaking Out Against Him

Never in recent history have so many senior former U.S. officials publicly attacked the commander in chief they served, or the decisions he’s made, as the ranks lining up to say President Donald Trump put...

By Kimberly Dozier

Blind Voters Sue States Over Mail Ballots

Ricky Scott has voted in his home state of North Carolina for roughly 40 years. As a blind Black man, he is used to navigating various obstacles to cast a ballot, even with his state’s...

By Abigail Abrams

How Social Media Platforms Are Bracing For Election Chaos

If there is one thing that social media companies, political campaigns and all of their critics agree on, it is that widespread uncertainty and confusion is all but inevitable on Nov. 3. With likely delays...

By Vera Bergengruen

Why Trump’s Move to Fill the Court Raises the Election's Stakes

There are many theories about why Donald Trump won the presidency, but Mitch McConnell gets some of the credit. In February 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, paving the way for then-President Obama to...

By Molly Ball

Russia Back Channel Bid to GOP Biden Witness

A key witness in the new GOP Senate probe tells TIME Russia's allies offered to feed him information on Joe and Hunter Biden.

By Simon Shuster

Why Biden Wants to Keep Special Ops in the Mideast

As the so-called Islamic State captured eastern Syria and marched across northern Iraq in the late summer of 2014, then-U.S. Special Forces Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata promised then President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe...

By Kimberly Dozier

How Trump Is Weaponizing His Supreme Court Pick

Faced with a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is weaponizing his novel move to release a list of potential nominees

By Brian Bennett

'The Energy Is Unbelievable.' RBG's Death Motivates Dems

Lauren Acker stands near the Supreme Court on a crisp September night as thousands of people gather around in tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The perimeter of the Supreme Court lawn is starting to...

By Lissandra Villa

How Black Organizers Shored Up the Democratic Base

Long before the Iowa Caucus, before Joe Biden beat Bernie Sanders and COVID-19 cancelled canvassing, before the Biden-Harris ticket was a twinkle in Democrats’ eye, LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright were crisscrossing the country to...

By Charlotte Alter/Flint, Mich.
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