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Emergency Politics Podcast: Paul Ryan Is Moving On And So Is His Party

House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he won’t seek re-election in 2018, marking the retirement of one of the two most powerful Republicans in Congress. In an emergency edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Julia Azari and Perry Bacon Jr. react to the news. While it’s a big retirement, it’s not exactly unexpected. You […]

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Politics Podcast: Will Trump Keep Pruitt?

Imagine if Russian hackers entered the U.S.’s election infrastructure, changed the information on voter rolls and switched votes from one candidate to another. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team dives into what that kind of nightmare scenario would look like, based on Clare Malone’s reporting about potential weaknesses in the system. The crew also discusses the […]

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Emergency Politics Podcast: FBI Raids Trump’s Lawyer’s Office

The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team reacts to the news that the FBI raided the home and office of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The crew debates how serious the raid is for Trump and what the implications could be for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. You can listen to the episode by clicking the […]

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Politics Podcast: Let’s Play Family Feud!

What are President Trump’s strengths and weaknesses? The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team plays “FiveThirtyEight Family Feud” — a new game we made up — to try to find an answer. The team also debates the merits of the census’s new citizenship question and discusses its potential effects on political representation in the U.S. You can […]

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Politics Podcast: What The Cambridge Analytica Story Is Really About

In a special episode of FiveThirtyEight’s politics podcast, Jody Avirgan and Clare Malone are joined by Daniel Kreiss of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Kreiss studies how political campaigns use data, and he was the lead guest on our 2016 series on the history of political data. The three of them untangle the many […]

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