Joe Biden got nearly 13 million more votes in 2020 than Barack Obama did in 2008, but won in several hundred fewer counties. Record turnout in urban areas added millions of votes to Biden’s total.

In a year of subtraction, it’s hard to begrudge anyone a bit of verbal addition, even if doubling the consonant when the stress falls outside the suffixed syllable hasn’t been standard in American ...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2020 -- A monitor shows the trading infomation at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, March 12, 2020. Intensifying coronavirus fears battered Wall Street on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dec 28, 2020, 07:30am EST Dec 28, 2020, 03:16pm EST This article ...

To look back at the year in fashion is to look back at a year of crisis. In the first few months of 2020, as the severity and scale of the coronavirus pandemic became clear, businesses around the ...

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In the ongoing experiment that is democracy, every election creates ripple effects for the ones to follow. But occasionally there is an election cycle so disruptive, it changes practically everything.

Which were the pivotal years of the past century? An argument could be made for 1929, when the worldwide financial crash ushered in the crisis that led to the rise of Nazism (and of the New Deal) and, ...

Lives lost, families torn apart, economies ruined – these tragedies are just some of the devastation caused by the deadly novel coronavirus as it swept the globe in 2020. The pandemic brought the ...

2020 will likely be remembered as the year of the Pandemic, but the year also marked a sea change in racial justice activism, as Black Lives Matter protests brought calls for police reform from the ...

It's been decades since one world event has dominated the news cycle so completely. 2020 will go down in history as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic -- the lockdowns, economic pain, overflowing ...