Much of my summer was spent on a consulting project that I did in conjunction with ESPN, in which I helped them a design a soccer ratings system known...
FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, I was sent an e-mail from the Stand for Marriage Maine campaign, which I signed up for under a secondary e-mail account. The message sugges...
RJ Eskow | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The opt-out is a hard blow to the public option, and potentially a crippling one. When a solution sounds too good to be true -- we can compromise and still get everything we want! -- it probably is.
fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
One of the things about the so-called Gang of Six -- the group of Senators to which Max Baucus issued an exclusive invitation to participate in health...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.
fivethirtyeight.com | Nate Silver | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
In spite of last week's better-than-expected jobs report, many intelligent observers seem convinced that the unemployment rate, which fell nominally t...
Five Thirty Eight | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
The AP may be right that Baucus's bill will cost less than $1 trillion, but it accomplishes that by shifting the burden to middle-income families, som...
FiveThirtyEight | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
To hear the defeatism and paranoia on some liberal blogs this afternoon, the "timeout" that Harry Reid and the Senate called on health care today -- t...
fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
I'll be boarding a plane in the next few minutes headed to Las Vegas, where I'll be for the next several days to conduct some research (yes, really!) ...
Five Thirty Eight | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Alaska isn't the first place you'd expect to see a woman elected to higher office. With its harsh climate and reliance on traditionally male-dominated...
Five Thirty Eight | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Since the Republicans, to say the least, do not seem particularly inclined to curry favor with Hispanic voters by playing nice on Sonia Sotomayor, it'...
Economist | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
NATE SILVER has been called a "prodigy", a "wunderkind", and a "genius". Using his unique methodology, he was able to correctly predict every state bu...
Stanton Peele | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media
When Iowa's Supreme Court voted unanimously that a state law banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, Times editorial and op-ed writers were unhinged.
Chicago Magazine | Nate Silver | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago
Our statistical wunderkind predicts the booms and busts of the 2009 Cubs and White Sox....
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Rather than looking at the overall picture of how Obama's doing in the polls, I have been noticing something interesting which I don't believe others have picked up on.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
After the 2008 Election, it was generally decided that Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight.com was to be crowned the new God of The Maths and King Kahuna ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
In the clearest sign yet that CNN has maybe laid off all the wrong people, comes news that a poll has been created and edited by people who were vastly unclear on the whole concept of polling.
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.01.2009 | Chicago
With under three days before Democratic voters will choose a nominee to replace Rahm Emanuel in the Fifth Congressional District, the eager candidates...
Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that the our future lies in positioning ourselves as the world's most networked nation, the hub of information, ideas, and resources flowing though the global economy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Ugh. This is the sort of day that it's been, that I've found myself slogging through the two sides of a terrifically boring blogfight between Open Le...
New York Magazine | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment
After spending most of 2008 predicting the success of political actors--also called politicians--it's only natural that Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.c...
FiveThirtyEight | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
No, not Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and Christina Romer. Instead, the most powerful women in America might be the club of four Rep...
Tom Roberge | Posted 02.11.2009 | Entertainment
As a fan, I sense a growing rift in the way baseball is discussed and appreciated -- those who hail the system of analytical tools as a godsend are younger, while those who decry it as hogwash are older.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
To get rid of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" we must proceed deliberately and according to a plan, which will not require grandstanding, but rather actual leadership.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Over at FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver digs down a little deeper into his recent awkward interview with John Ziegler, who had Zogby put a poll out i...
FiveThirtyEight | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports