If another continuing resolution to fund the government is passed Thursday without an immigration deal, Democrats will learn a hard lesson from history: If you’re in Congress and planning to shut down the government to score political or policy points, you might want to think again. The idea that every shutdown has political “winners” and […]
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): With the Dow nosedive on Monday, here’s our topic for today: Should President Trump be freaking out about the stock market, and/or should Democrats be freaking out about the economy? Let’s take those in order! clare.malone (Clare […]
This week, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast discusses whether the Nunes memo was much ado about nothing — and even if is is, whether it could still cause political consequences. The crew also discusses whether Trump has molded the GOP in his image and what it takes to shift a party’s ideology — and the ideology […]
The stock market fell on Monday. A lot. After a roller-coaster day, the Dow Jones industrial average ended down 1,175 points, making for the largest single-day point decline in its history. In percentage terms, the decline isn’t nearly as bad — the 4.6 percent drop is well short of the record 22.6 percent sell-off that […]
Public opinion on the Russia investigation has been pretty stable all year — Republicans are skeptical but Americans overall support it. It’s hard, therefore, to see the much-hyped “Nunes memo,” which Trump declassified and congressional Republicans then made public on Friday, changing all that much. Trump has reportedly told friends he thinks the document — […]