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March 19, 2020
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Walter Shapiro
The Political Media’s Blurred Reality
How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism
November 18, 2019
Aaron Timms
The Fall of Nate Silver
His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo.
September 9, 2019
Walter Shapiro
The Also-Rans Hoping for a New Hampshire Miracle
Do Klobuchar, Booker, and Bennet have a shot in hell at the nomination?
August 23, 2019
Alex Shephard
Is the Biden Bubble About to Burst?
The Democrat still shines in most polls, but as a Trump loss grows more likely, the former V.P.'s "electability" pitch is losing its luster.
July 12, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.
June 21, 2019
Magazine
Walter Shapiro
The Polling Industry Is in Crisis
Everyone knows the numbers are as unreliable as ever, and yet the political press still hypes every little rise and fall.
July 19, 2018
Matt Ford
Republicans disagree with the rest of America about Trump’s handling of Putin.
December 29, 2017
Eric Armstrong
Minnesotans don’t want Al Franken to resign.
August 11, 2017
Clio Chang
Trump has gotten extremely cocky about his supporters’ loyalty, which is eroding.
January 17, 2017
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump is trying to unskew his historic unpopularity.
December 14, 2016
Nicole Narea
After 2016, Can We Ever Trust the Polls Again?
Data was a rare source of clarity in the 2008 and 2012 elections. In 2016, it failed catastrophically.
November 9, 2016
Nicole Narea
Hillary Clinton desperately needed to win Virginia—and it looks like she did (thank god).
November 4, 2016
Graham Vyse
What If the Polls Aren’t Wrong?
The only thing that needs unskewing is the media coverage of Donald Trump's chances.
July 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
Outlier polls are (probably) going to get a ton of coverage over the next four months.
June 29, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Europeans have even less confidence in Donald Trump’s judgment than Americans.
March 9, 2016
Adam Peck
Despite what Donald Trump claims, Hillary Clinton continues to beat him soundly in the polls.
February 22, 2016
Adam Peck
Super Tuesday? More like HUGE Tuesday.
February 21, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
South Carolina is the most ungrateful state.
December 28, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Crime in U.S. cities fell slightly in 2015, but not according to citizens.
December 18, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Do 30 percent of Republican primary voters support bombing an imaginary Disney country?
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