On Monday, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes announced he would resign from Congress at the end of the year in order to become the chief executive officer of former President Donald Trump’s new media company. The move is puzzling on the surface, given that the 2022 midterms are shaping up to be a good year for […]
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Why Republican Support For Peaceful Racial Justice Protests Was Short-Lived
After being acquitted on all charges related to shooting three men, killing two and injuring one, during protests against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse told Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson that he actually supports the Black Lives Matter movement and peaceful protests. Rittenhouse has been heralded as a hero […]
How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts
When former President Donald Trump left office in January, one of the most formidable aspects of his legacy was his imprint on the federal courts. In Trump’s four years in the White House, he appointed three Supreme Court justices, 54 appeals court judges and 174 district court judges, filling the judiciary with a raft of […]
Why Stacey Abrams And Beto O’Rourke Are Going For It In 2022
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses God, COVID-19 and the 2022 midterms.
Politics Podcast: Most Americans Don’t Blame God For All The Bad Stuff That Keeps Happening
On today’s Politics Podcast, the crew gets into God, COVID-19, and the midterms. So, the usual. They discuss a new poll about whom Americans blame for misfortune — is it a higher power, or the unending, uncontrollable, unyielding chaos of the universe? Then they pivot to what causes so much of our misfortune these days: […]
Do You Buy That … Stacey Abrams And Beto O’Rourke Will Win Their Governors’ Races?
What 2021’s Biggest Upset Elections Tell Us About The Losing Parties
2021 was bookended by high-profile elections. In early January, traditionally GOP-leaning Georgia sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate in two runoff elections, tipping control of the chamber into Democratic hands. Less than 10 months later, on Nov. 2, blue-leaning Virginia elected a Republican to statewide office for the first time since 2009. To be […]
Americans Are Worried About Omicron — And Are Ready to Take Most Precautions
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. After nearly two years of living in a pandemic, many Americans have started to return to “normal” life. In fact, 74 percent of Americans said their lives had returned to normal, according to a November Yahoo News/YouGov poll. But the new COVID-19 variant, omicron, could once again change […]
What Went Down At The Oral Arguments On The Mississippi Abortion Law
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in one of the highest-profile cases of the term. The question is whether Mississippi’s law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, senior writer and legal reporter Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux discusses how the justices approached the question […]
Politics Podcast: What The Supreme Court — And Americans — Think About Overturning Roe v. Wade
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the most high profile cases of the term, and the question now before the court is whether Mississippi’s law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. So far, the law has been blocked from going into effect because of the legal […]