In this week’s politics chat, we talk about Hillary Clinton’s new book. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Today’s chat topic: The media reaction to Hillary Clinton’s new book, released on Tuesday, “What Happened.” We’re going to do this in two parts. First, we’ll talk about how the media […]
Hillary Clinton gives her account of why she lost the 2016 presidential election in a book that’s titled “What Happened” and is coming out this week. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team discusses her assessment, from the role of the “Comey letter” to the media’s coverage of her email scandal. Plus, in the wake of Hurricanes […]
It’s time for some probability theory. Imagine you’d passed out on Lime-A-Ritas before kickoff on Sunday night and woken up in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. to read the headline, “New England Patriots win 34-28.” That would have been about the least surprising Super Bowl result imaginable. The Patriots were favored before the game […]
It’s time for some probability theory. Imagine you’d passed out on Lime-A-Ritas before kickoff on Sunday night and woken up in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. to read the headline, “New England Patriots win 34-28.” That would have been about the least surprising Super Bowl result imaginable. The Patriots were favored before the game […]
Say you’re sitting in an airport on the way to Las Vegas reading about the presidential race, and you’re so sure that Donald Trump will pull an upset that you want to put some money on it. You get to a casino, march up to a sports book window and try to put down your […]
