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Politics Podcast: What’s So Wrong With Nancy Pelosi?

Nancy Pelosi has been a key figure in Republican attack ads for years, and this year is no different. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team debates why she is the focus of so much negative attention from the right (and often the left, too). The crew also breaks down the findings in a new study claiming […]

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Politics Podcast: 2016 Anniversary Edition

It has been a year since President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The election was historic from start to finish, and it was often challenging to make sense of in the moment. In a special edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, editor-in-chief Nate Silver and politics editor Micah Cohen sit down […]

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Bored With ‘Balance’ In Baseball? 2016 Could Be Your Year

The arrival of spring training brings with it a number of treats. If you’re a fan, it’s the hope that this might be the year your team wins the World Series. If you’re Yoenis Cespedes, it’s a cavalcade of rides that would make Birdman jealous. And for number crunchers, it’s a fresh batch of projections, […]

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Bored With ‘Balance’ In Baseball? 2016 Could Be Your Year

The arrival of spring training brings with it a number of treats. If you’re a fan, it’s the hope that this might be the year your team wins the World Series. If you’re Yoenis Cespedes, it’s a cavalcade of rides that would make Birdman jealous. And for number crunchers, it’s a fresh batch of projections, […]

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