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Florida State Seminoles
Florida’s College Football Powers Aren’t What They Used To Be
FiveThirtyEight - Josh Planos
For almost 40 years, the pulse of college football could be taken in Florida. The state won 11 national titles from 1983 to 2013. The history of …
Pizza
Can You Fool The Bank With Your Counterfeit Bills?
FiveThirtyEight - Edited by Oliver Roeder
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two …
Sean Spicer
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 23, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate, has …
Elizabeth Warren
Four Interesting Findings From The Recent Flurry Of 2020 Polls
FiveThirtyEight - Perry Bacon Jr.
We’ve had a flurry of new polls about the 2020 presidential race released over the last week. The results confirm some broad dynamics that have been …
Politics
The Narrow Path For Black Politicians Who Want To Be President — And How It’s Changing
FiveThirtyEight - Perry Bacon Jr.
The Congressional Black Caucus has existed since 1971. It included 12 House members in its early days and has gradually grown to a record-high 51 …
Sports
For Decades, Relievers Pitched Better Than Starters. Not Anymore.
FiveThirtyEight - Travis Sawchik
Over the years, bullpens have eroded the workloads of starting pitchers. This season, relievers have accounted for the greatest share of pitching …
Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper Is Running For Senate. But Did He Miss His Chance?
FiveThirtyEight - Nathaniel Rakich
Chuck Schumer got his man. After months of recruitment from the Senate minority leader, and just days after he dropped out of the Democratic race for …
Schools
Transfer Quarterbacks Are All The Rage, But Do They Deliver At Their New Schools?
FiveThirtyEight - Jake Lourim
Polling
Politics Podcast: Your Best 2020 Preview May Be The 2019 Elections
FiveThirtyEight - Galen Druke, Nathaniel Rakich and Geoffrey Skelley
Even if you’ve been paying attention to political coverage lately, you’re forgiven for not knowing there are elections in just a couple months. But …
Jay Inslee
Democratic Voters Care About Climate Change, But Not Enough To Support Jay Inslee
FiveThirtyEight - Geoffrey Skelley
He’ll now focus on running for a third term as governor. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee got into the presidential race because climate change is the “most …
Jim Thome
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, …
Surveillance
Political Confessional: The Man Who Thinks Mass Surveillance Can Work
FiveThirtyEight - Clare Malone
Welcome to Political Confessional, a column about the views that Americans are scared to share with their friends and neighbors. In an increasingly …
Red Flag Law
Can We Prevent Mass Shootings By Preventing Suicide?
FiveThirtyEight - Maggie Koerth-Baker
Imagine a doctor who wanted to treat a broken leg with chemotherapy. Or treat cancer with a cast. Just because cancer and broken legs are both things …
Economics
We’re Hiring A Copy Editor
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The hallmark of FiveThirtyEight journalism is rigor, accuracy and precision. And no role in our newsroom is more important to maintaining those …
Christian Yelich
Is A 40-Homer Season A Big Deal Anymore?
FiveThirtyEight - Travis Sawchik
The baseball world hasn’t witnessed a home run race like this since the height of the steroid era. When Mets star Pete Alonso set the National League …
Recession
Economists Are Bad At Predicting Recessions
FiveThirtyEight - Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Every president’s election-year nightmare — a recession — is suddenly looming over the 2020 race. In a survey released earlier this week by the …
Impeachment
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Twitter removed 936 accounts from its service — and suspended …
Tom Steyer
Who’s Running The Best Campaign Ads?
FiveThirtyEight - A FiveThirtyEight Chat
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): On …
Sports
Baseball Is For The Youths
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Hot Takedown examines the era of youth dominance in MLB, the upcoming college football season and the Little League World Series. This past week …
Sports
Behold, The 2019 MLB All-Average Team
FiveThirtyEight - Neil Paine
A year ago, we conducted an exhaustive statistical search for the team that most stood out by specifically not standing out. The not-so-proud …
Steve King
GOP Leaders Really Want Steve King Gone. Could He Lose In 2020?
FiveThirtyEight - Geoffrey Skelley
Rep. Steve King is no stranger to controversy. The Republican congressman’s recent comments about rape and incest have Republican leaders calling for …
Howard University
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Seventy-four percent of American business economists, as …
Evangelical Christianity
Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP?
FiveThirtyEight - Daniel Cox
A central message of President Trump’s insurgent candidacy in 2016 boiled down to this: Millions of Americans are losers — economically, culturally …
Elizabeth Warren
Politics Podcast: What’s Driving Elizabeth Warren’s Comeback?
FiveThirtyEight - Galen Druke, Clare Malone, Micah Cohen and Perry Bacon Jr.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren overtook Sen. Bernie Sanders to claim second place in the Real Clear Politics average of national primary polls, a position …
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren Is Attracting More Supporters And More Media Attention
FiveThirtyEight - Dhrumil Mehta
Of all the 2020 Democratic candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has stood out for making incremental but relatively steady gains. And along …
Foreign Policy
The 2020 Democratic Field Is More Anti War Than Obama Was
FiveThirtyEight - Perry Bacon Jr.
Former President Barack Obama substantially increased U.S. troops in Afghanistan early in his tenure, gave military support to rebels to help them …
Sports
DeMarcus Cousins’s Latest Injury Puts Him In Uncharted Territory
FiveThirtyEight - Chris Herring
His career is in jeopardy — and the Lakers’ championship chances took a hit. If you’ve logged off the NBA circuit for the summer — understandable …
Politics
Recalling Governors Is All The Rage This Year
FiveThirtyEight - Nathaniel Rakich
Recall elections were once a rarely used, “break glass in case of emergency” tool to remove politicians from office. But now, several factors have …
City University of New York (CUNY)
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 19, 2019
FiveThirtyEight - Oliver Roeder
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. For more than 10 weeks, pro-democracy protestors, spurred by …
Politics
Can You Tell Sports Commentary From Political Punditry? We Couldn’t.
FiveThirtyEight - Tony Chow
The game was supposed to be simple: I read a quote, you tell me if the quote was from either a sports broadcast or a political discussion about the …