President Trump says students and teachers must return to the classroom. Reality says this is going to be the toughest reopening yet.

239 scientists have signed a letter urging the WHO to warn people about airborne transmission of the coronavirus.

How Netflix has upended tech, Hollywood, and how we spend our free time.

Turns out it’s just as biased as people are.

Russia allegedly paid the Taliban to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan. But President Trump’s response may be the real scandal.

Police across the country have responded to recent protests with military tactics and equipment. The Washington Post’s Alex Horton investigated how two military helicopters were used as a show of force against protesters in the nation’s capital.

Hospitals are stretched to their breaking point in Texas, Arizona, and other states where Covid-19 cases are rising sharply. Vox’s Dylan Scott says the US could be in store for more lockdowns. And more reopenings. And more lockdowns…

There hasn’t been an arrest in the case in the three months since police shot and killed Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky. But now the “Justice for Breonna” movement has the potential to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

America is undergoing a new racial reckoning. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer explains why this time is different.

President Jair Bolsonaro called it the "sniffles" and recommended hydroxychloroquine. Now the country has over a million confirmed cases. Reporter Gustavo Ribeiro explains how Brazil could become the next epicenter.

With the wave of protests came waves of arrests and record-breaking donations to bail funds across the US, but reformers hope for a reckoning of one of the only for-profit bail systems in the world.

Attorney General William Barr tried to quietly push out the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan on Friday night. Then everybody noticed.

The celebration of emancipation is as vital today as ever.

In a major decision from the Supreme Court, DACA lives to fight another day. But it's not in the clear yet.

There are two ways to do it: safely or not so safely. Guess which one we’re heading toward in the United States?

Some are calling six blocks of a Seattle neighborhood the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. KUOW’s Casey Martin spent a week within its loosely guarded walls.

The Supreme Court of the United States has decided the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

After 33 seasons, the reality TV show Cops was canceled this week. Should scripted police dramas follow?

Vox’s Dylan Scott says it’s hard to tell because the United States is riding 50 different Covid-19 waves.

The United States has a policing problem and Congress wants to fix it. Vox’s Li Zhou explains whether the Democrats’ new bill will go anywhere.

Minneapolis City Council member Alondra Cano explains what the city wants to do and what might get in the way.

Pandemic, protests, and the best poll numbers yet for Joe Biden.

Two mothers talk to their teenage sons about race and police brutality in the United States.

It’s not what you think.

Even after Derek Chauvin was captured on video killing George Floyd, he could still get his job back. BuzzFeed’s Melissa Segura explains how.