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2020 Presidential Election

2020 Presidential Election

Vox answers your biggest questions about the 2020 US presidential election.

How to avoid another election year like 2020

By Jen Kirby

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America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.

By Ian Millhiser

Joe Biden’s impossible mission

By Ella Nilsen

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Can the Republican Party be saved?

By Sean Illing

“We are going to make you beg for mercy”

By Zack Beauchamp

How Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis took on Donald Trump

By Andrew Prokop

Trump’s Georgia indictment, briefly explained

By Nicole Narea

Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election

By Nicole Narea

The Georgia Trump election investigation keeps getting bigger

By Ellen Ioanes

Why a record-shattering settlement still might not change Fox News

By Nicole Narea

Fox pays $787 million for its 2020 election lies

By Nicole Narea and Andrew Prokop

Sean Hannity’s damning deposition in the Fox News defamation lawsuit, explained

By Nicole Narea

What the January 6 hearings accomplished

By Ben Jacobs

A new Supreme Court case is the biggest threat to US democracy since January 6

By Ian Millhiser

The Arizona “audit” finally seems to be wrapping up. Prepare for a blizzard of disinformation.

By Aaron Rupar

Trump’s lies about the 2020 election are endangering America’s election workers

By Ian Millhiser

New data helps explain Trump’s gains among Latino voters in 2020

By Nicole Narea

What’s behind Arizona’s bizarre, haphazard, and highly partisan “audit” of the 2020 election

By Ian Millhiser

The pandemic made live events surprising again

By Emily St. James

After Georgia, companies are banding together to condemn restrictive voting laws

By Terry Nguyen

Why some Democrats are quietly unhappy with the House’s big voting rights bill

By Andrew Prokop

Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

Jody Hice tried to overturn the 2020 election. Now he wants to be in charge of Georgia’s elections.

By Ian Millhiser

The teenager behind last year’s big celebrity Twitter hack is going to prison

By Sara Morrison

Russia tried to help Trump’s 2020 reelection, US intelligence says

By Alex Ward

The new Republican war on voting rights, explained

By Ian Millhiser

Georgia Republicans vote to roll back no-excuse absentee voting after Trump’s loss

By Jerusalem Demsas

QAnon believers think Trump will be inaugurated again on March 4

By Nicole Narea

The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts

By Sean Illing

The Voting Rights Act had a surprisingly good day at the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

Two Supreme Court cases could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court hands two final defeats to Trump

By Ian Millhiser

How Congress can permanently disqualify Trump from office after impeachment

By Ian Millhiser

OAN prefaced Mike Lindell’s election “documentary” with a hilariously massive disclaimer

By Aaron Rupar

Mike Bloomberg’s data firm for Democrats is closing

By Theodore Schleifer

State GOPs have already introduced dozens of bills restricting voting access in 2021

By Gabby Birenbaum

The $1.3 billion lawsuit that could bring down Rudy Giuliani, explained

By Ian Millhiser

Donald Trump’s presidency was the worst thing that happened to the Trump brand

By Alex Abad-Santos

The Next Four Years: A Weeds series

By Lauren Katz

Why Biden’s national mask mandate is a national mask suggestion

By Sara Morrison

The Kamala Harris identity debate shows how America still struggles to talk about multiracial people

By Nisha Chittal

The Capitol rioters put themselves all over social media. Now they’re getting arrested.

By Sara Morrison

The Trump presidency is over, and Obamacare is still alive

By Dylan Scott

What we know about Biden’s inauguration plans

By Nicole Narea

The GOP’s existential crisis, explained by a former Republican Congress member

By Sean Illing

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