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Significant Digits For Friday, May 24, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. If I had a nickel for every fake account that Facebook said …
Quinnipiac University
Is The Economy Protecting Trump From A Trade War Backlash?
FiveThirtyEight - By Dhrumil Mehta
Trade wars can sting. Talks between the U.S. and China broke down this month, and President Trump raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports …
What The Potential 2020 Candidates Are Doing And Saying, Vol. 20
FiveThirtyEight - By Adam Kelsey, Will Steakin and Sruthi Palaniappan
Welcome to a weekly collaboration between FiveThirtyEight and ABC News. With 5,000 people seemingly thinking about challenging President Trump in …
WNBA
The WNBA Is Uniquely Suited To Survive Its Many Star Absences
FiveThirtyEight - By Neil Paine
When it was announced this week that Seattle Storm point guard Sue Bird would miss the 2019 WNBA season with a knee injury, it was just the latest in …
Texas Longhorns
Politics Podcast: What We Can Learn From A Database Of Trump’s False Statements
FiveThirtyEight - By Galen Druke
The folks at The Washington Post’s Fact Checker recently hit a data-collection milestone. In late April, its count of false or misleading claims that …
NBA Finals
Who Should The Warriors Be Rooting For In The East?
FiveThirtyEight - By Tony Chow and Neil Paine
Although the Eastern Conference finals are still tied at two games apiece, we’re already looking ahead to the NBA Finals. In the video above, …
Sports
MLB Curves And Sliders Have Gotten Alarmingly Nasty
FiveThirtyEight - By Travis Sawchik
Major League Baseball seems to be on an unstoppable pathway to more and more strikeouts. After a record share of plate appearances ended in a …
Michael Avenatti
Significant Digits For Thursday, May 23, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. President Trump walked out of a meeting with the Democratic …
New Hampshire
The Candidates Who Are Going All In On Iowa Or New Hampshire
FiveThirtyEight - By Nathaniel Rakich
Some presidential candidates like to put all of their eggs in one early-state basket. Chris Dodd moved his entire family to Des Moines. Jon Huntsman …
Politics
Are More Moderate Democrats More Electable?
FiveThirtyEight - By Nate Silver
I don’t know, but they seem to be polling better with general election voters. I have a dilemma for you, dear reader. I have a righteous little …
Politics
Are The Democratic Debates Already A Mess?
FiveThirtyEight - A FiveThirtyEight Chat
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): …
Quentin Tarantino
Significant Digits For Wednesday, May 22, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Earlier this week, three different wills found in the home of …
Vermont Politics
How Winning The White House Could Cost Democrats The Senate (At Least Temporarily)
FiveThirtyEight - By Geoffrey Skelley
Democrats have a challenging path to capturing the Senate in 2020. Republicans currently have a 53-47 majority, which means that to take control, …
Politics
Who White Democrats Vote For In 2020 Could Be Shaped By Why They Think Clinton Lost
FiveThirtyEight - By Pavielle Haines and Seth Masket
Every election is followed by an attempt to explain its outcome. One of the more common explanations of the 2016 presidential election was that …
Sports
The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Chances … At Equal Pay
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Hot Takedown talks to author Caitlin Murray about the gender discrimination lawsuit in advance of the Women’s World Cup, and our Rabbit Hole explores …
Abortion
Here’s Why The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Escalating
FiveThirtyEight - Graphics by Gus Wezerek
Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky and now Alabama. In the past three months, five states have enacted laws that severely restrict access to …
Toronto Raptors
The Raptors’ Offense Hasn’t Figured Out The Bucks Yet
FiveThirtyEight - By Jared Dubin
Led by Kawhi Leonard, the Toronto Raptors completely shut down the Bucks offense in Game 3, slicing Milwaukee’s Eastern Conference finals lead to 2-1 …
San Francisco Giants
The Strange Dynasty Of The San Francisco Giants Is Over. (Yes, It Was A Dynasty.)
FiveThirtyEight - By Neil Paine
Over the course of the past decade, the San Francisco Giants put together one of the strangest dynasties in baseball history. And now it is …
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 21, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. The parking situation in Washington, D.C., is so bad that …
Kentucky
Can A Republican Governor Lose In Kentucky?
FiveThirtyEight - By Geoffrey Skelley
Republican and Democratic voters choose their gubernatorial nominees on Tuesday.
Democrats
Politics Podcast: Can Democrats Win The Senate In 2020?
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The 2020 Democratic field continues to grow, most recently with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s entry into the race. The team looks at his …
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O’Rourke Ignored Cable News — And It Ignored Him
FiveThirtyEight - By Dhrumil Mehta
Beto O’Rourke is trying to reboot his campaign. After being in the race for two months, the former Texas representative is getting much less media …
Science
Where The Algorithms Can’t Find You
FiveThirtyEight - By Gus Wezerek
A man wearing a red flannel shirt and brown suspenders walks into a clearing. His beard is well kempt, the same off-white as the snowmelt behind him. …
Kawhi Leonard
Kawhi’s Defense Kept The Raptors’ Season Alive
FiveThirtyEight - By Chris Herring
Leonard shut down Giannis in Game 3, but can he keep it up for rest of series? If Toronto defies the odds and reaches the NBA Finals after trailing …
James Holzhauer
James Holzhauer Could Be Two Weeks Away From ‘Jeopardy!’ Immortality
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
After a two-week pause, regular season “Jeopardy!” returns to television Monday. And, therefore, so does current champ James Holzhauer, long may he …
Significant Digits For Monday, May 20, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - By Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. It wasn’t that long ago that a New York City taxi medallion, …
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka Would Have Made History Whether He Won Or Lost
FiveThirtyEight - By Josh Planos
Brooks Koepka bashed and buried the field over the first three rounds at Bethpage Black, and then held on for dear life Sunday to win the 2019 PGA …
Adobe Premiere
We’re Hiring A Senior Editor For Video
FiveThirtyEight - By Chadwick Matlin
FiveThirtyEight’s video team is small and mighty. We want to make it bigger and mightier, and we’re hiring a senior editor for video to help us do …
Sports
It Turns Out The Vintage Warriors Are Still Pretty Good At Basketball
FiveThirtyEight - A FiveThirtyEight Chat
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, assistant sports editor): The NBA conference finals are just three games old, but we’ve already seen two of the most …
Maine Politics
How Will Democrats’ Move Away From Caucuses Affect The 2020 Race?
FiveThirtyEight - By Geoffrey Skelley
How voters will pick the Democratic presidential nominee is confusing. Some states hold primaries where voters have all day to vote, while others …