FiveThirtyEight is seeking a part-time video and motion graphics producer to help us create weekly political videos to enhance our election coverage. The produc… | Continue reading
Gavriel Kleinwaks wants to get COVID-19, and she can’t understand why I find that surprising. The 23-year-old grad student is one of more than 30,000 volunteers… | Continue reading
If you’re waiting for a break from bad news about COVID, don’t hold your breath — or, actually, do hold your breath. Experts have understood for months that the… | Continue reading
Is partisanship making the COVID-19 pandemic worse? | Continue reading
Graphics by Ryan Best Design by Emily Scherer When the coronavirus outbreak threatened to rock Philadelphia’s predominantly Black neighborhoods, Dr. Ala Stanfor… | Continue reading
Just before 6:30 a.m. on June 15, sleep-deprived and feet afire with blisters, Joe “Stringbean” McConaughy crossed over Vermont’s border with Massachusetts. Aft… | Continue reading
Mask mandates have become a polarizing issue across the country, from Arizona to Georgia. So, where do we draw the line between public health and civil libertie… | Continue reading
We talked to the people inside the plush, furry costumes that are symbols of North American sports teams. | Continue reading
MLB stadiums could be entering a new era. | Continue reading
The economists in our survey think Congress could tank the economy. | Continue reading
The spring of a presidential election year is often a busy time for adding new voters to the rolls, and a recent report from the Center for Election Innovation and Research shows registration numbers were even stronger in early 2020 than early 2016. But things changed dramaticall … | Continue reading
Before every fashion retailer was selling their own cloth face covering, before a piece of fabric over your nose and mouth became a personal political statement… | Continue reading
Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change. | Continue reading
Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Across the U.S., demonstrators have spent the past few weeks protesting against racial disparities in the country’s criminal justice… | Continue reading
DACA is safe — for now. On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can’t immediately end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri… | Continue reading
An excerpt from poker pro Maria Konnikova's new book. | Continue reading
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We asked fans what teams they back and who they vote for. | Continue reading
Huskers will have an entire team dedicated to their personal brands. | Continue reading
Graphics by Ella Koeze Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Independent voters will decide the election. Or better yet: Moderate voters will decide the elec… | Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS — Last Wednesday, Marcell Harris was hit by a rubber bullet. He had joined the second day of protests in this city over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes while bystanders filmed. | Continue reading
Last week, Twitter tried something new. When President Trump tweeted that “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially… | Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS — Last Wednesday, Marcell Harris was hit by a rubber bullet. He had joined the second day of protests in this city over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes while bystanders filmed. | Continue reading
Six years after nationwide protests against police violence captured the country’s attention, the recent killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have put th… | Continue reading
The coronavirus crisis has transformed our system for compensating jobless workers. | Continue reading
One side effect to the huge (and growing) scale of the 2020 Democratic field is geographical diversity. The candidates hail from everywhere from Vermont to Hawa… | Continue reading
Daniel Arlein has already had COVID-19. In March, the 36-year-old small business owner and DJ, who lives in Brooklyn, tested positive for the viral infection an… | Continue reading
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): FiveThirtyEight alu… | Continue reading
Remember last month, when the jobs report was bad but not apocalyptic? Those were the days. The most recent jobs report is a stunning picture of how the pandemi… | Continue reading
Anti-Donald Trump activism among conservatives — known informally as the “#NeverTrump” movement — started in early 2016 as a way to stop the businessman from … | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for wondering how a disease as fast-moving and deadly as COVID-19 could just appear naturally, out of nowhere, seemingly overnight. Presid… | Continue reading
Like every other professional sports league headquartered in the United States, the NHL has been suspended for more than a month because of the COVID-19 pandemi… | Continue reading
Most young people who get COVID-19 get pretty nasty flu-like symptoms but fight off the infection on their own with bed rest and over-the-counter pain medicatio… | Continue reading
There are still not enough Americans being tested for COVID-19, but there are now many, many ways to be tested. The U.S. started this pandemic with a single dia… | Continue reading
As the coronavirus crisis stresses almost every facet of American life, we’re featuring the stories of people who are struggling to stay afloat, finding unexpec… | Continue reading
We’re currently battling a global pandemic unlike any we’ve seen in over a century. But it’s also not the first modern virus we’ve faced. | Continue reading
Check out all the latest coronavirus polling we’ve collected. | Continue reading
We’re currently battling a global pandemic unlike any we’ve seen in over a century. But it’s also not the first modern virus we’ve faced. | Continue reading
There is increasing evidence that New York City and New York state are turning a corner in their efforts to fight back COVID-19, and the timing suggests that the shifts may be a result of social distancing measures. | Continue reading
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The sheer job-loss numbers for this recession are difficult to comprehend | Continue reading
In mid-February, Wall Street was celebrating the stock market reaching record highs. But the stock market has since lost roughly 20 percent of its value in the … | Continue reading
The fight song of the University of Wisconsin is “On, Wisconsin!” — and, for better or for worse, the state is certainly heeding that call this week. Even thoug… | Continue reading
*Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated. | Continue reading
*Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated. | Continue reading
Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really ge… | Continue reading