“As a white man, a white Christian, Anthony Quinn Warner gets a benefit of the doubt—has a certain privilege shall we say—that people who look like me, and with names like mine, never get,” says Mehdi Hasan on the...
GOP senator to force vote on Electoral College results
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said he will object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes next week, which will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to vote on whether to accept the results of...
George Conway reacts to Hawley’s plan to force vote on election results
Conservative lawyer George Conway and CNN’s Jake Tapper discuss the political motives behind contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19 complications
Luke Letlow, a Louisiana Republican who was just elected to Congress last month, has died of complications from COVID-19 at the age of 41. He announced he was fighting the virus last week.
Misinformation spreads on social media ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs
With less than a week to go until the Senate runoffs in Georgia, a piece in The New York Times looks at the misinformation campaigns targeting voters there. Sheera Frenkel co-wrote the story, and she spoke with Jamie...
Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine gets approval in the U.K.
British regulators have authorized emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford and AstraZeneca, which is cheaper and easier to store than the Pfizer vaccine. This comes a day after a more contagious U.K. variant...
“Left me with nothing”: Small business owner on being forced to close in pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has been hard on many sectors of the economy, especially those that are built around gathering together indoors for extended periods of time. Nicole Maddox lost her co-working office space...