Over the past 72 hours, it’s become increasingly clear that there are two different elections: the actual 2020 presidential election; and the one living in the heads of Trump supporters. The actual 2020 presidential election […]
Stacey Abrams Has Also Written Nine Thrillers, What’s Your Excuse?
It’s no question that this election has been a nail-biter — with Georgia flipping to blue early Friday — so it’s fitting, really, that Georgia politician Stacey Abrams has a thriller coming out in May […]
Pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ Group Is Rapidly Expanding, and Facebook Is Letting It
A massive Facebook group Stop the Steal, which is spreading misinformation about election fraud, has accumulated more than 300,000 members in less than 48 hours, racking up hundreds of thousands of total impressions, according to […]
How ASMRtists Are Alleviating Our Collective Election Anxiety
During Election Night, as MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki manically bopped around in front of a heat map, tens of millions of Americans clenched their fists and collectively tried not to stroke out from anxiety. The antidote […]
The Election Could Be a Turning Point for QAnon Believers
One of the central (and, frankly, more insufferable) tenets of improv is the principle of “yes, and” — essentially, agreeing to everything your scene partner suggests and then building on it. The purpose of this […]
Oregon Decriminalizes All Drugs, While D.C. Decriminalizes Psychedelics
While the 2020 presidential results remained unclear the morning after Election Day, one thing for certain is that voters overwhelmingly approved a series of measures aimed at the war on drugs, including the legalization of […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene Becomes First QAnon Congressperson
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP congressional candidate who has endorsed the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, has won the 14th congressional district of Georgia, making her the first congressperson to officially endorse the conspiracy theory. Taylor […]
TikTok Is Becoming a Vector of Election Violence Rumors
In the lead-up to Election Night, most coverage has focused on how platforms like Facebook and Twitter are working to prevent election-related misinformation and disinformation, in an effort to avoid a repeat of what happened […]
People Are Impossibly Horny for Fivey, the FiveThirtyEight Fox
We all deal with election-related stress in different ways. Some of us are scheduling calls with our therapists. Some of us are buying out shelves of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. Some of us have […]
After Weeks of Protests, #EndSARS Has Become a Rallying Cry for a New Nigerian Generation
In the early 1990s, the Nigerian government set up the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The squad was tasked with cracking down on violent crime. But what was once supposed to be a beacon of safety […]
See Paul Rudd, Pete Buttigieg Talk Importance of 2020 Election During ‘Fridays for Unity’
Pete Buttigieg and Paul Rudd — who portrayed the South Bend mayor on Saturday Night Live during the Democratic debates — chatted virtually about the importance of the 2020 election as part of Rolling Stone’s Fridays for […]
Illegal Marijuana Grows Still Operating on Navajo Land, Despite Court Order
This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is published here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. FARMINGTON, NM — Three weeks ago, city police and San Juan County sheriff’s deputies […]