Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Our question for today: Why do Americans hate/distrust the press so much? I’m thinking we’ll break this down into three parts: Who hates what? What do we know about which groups of Americans distrust which media outlets/types? […]
Things are about to get exciting again for election junkies. Next week, we’ll be treated to the first congressional election since December’s contest for one of Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats: a special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. And another Democratic upset could be in the works: Polls show a tight race in this very […]
Donald Trump is the worst president? Ever? In the entirety of U.S. history? Throughout all time and space? After only one year? Yes, said 170 presidential scholars who were asked last month to rate the performance of all Oval Office-holders as part of a survey published by two political scientists, Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin Vaughn. […]
The Rev. Billy Graham, the pastor and evangelical leader who died last week and is being laid to rest in Charlotte on Friday, built relationships across party lines, illustrated by the praise Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump delivered after his death. But it likely will be hard for an […]
Hope Hicks isn’t just any White House communications director. Until her abrupt announcement Wednesday that she would be leaving the White House, Hicks has been part of what we dubbed the “Friends and Family” wing of the Trump administration — a group of people, including first daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who entered […]