Evan McMullin Is Not A Democrat. Utah Democrats Are Supporting His Senate Campaign Anyway.

Evan McMullin Is Not A Democrat. Utah Democrats Are Supporting His Senate Campaign Anyway.

Evan McMullin is a conservative running for the US Senate in Utah… with the support of the state’s Democratic Party. Democrats have thrown their support behind the former Republican to try to oust Senator Mike Lee, an ally of former President Donald Trump who was trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results. In … Read more

What’s Behind FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 Election Forecast (As Told By Nate Silver)

What’s Behind FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 Election Forecast (As Told By Nate Silver)

The FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm prediction is live and shows the Republicans are strong favorites to win the House of Representatives, while the Senate is contested between the two parties. In the first “Model Talk” episode of the 2022 midterm cycle, Nate Silver and Galen Druke discuss the factors behind this prediction.

The Political Consequences Of Overturning Roe v. Wade

The Political Consequences Of Overturning Roe v. Wade

In Part 1 of this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the crew discusses the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. Which states now have abortion bans, how have Americans across the political spectrum reacted to them, and how could this decision affect the 2022 midterm elections? The … Read more

Emergency Politics Podcast: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

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On Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned its previous rulings granting a constitutional right to abortion. While five conservatives in the court supported Roe’s ouster, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a unanimous opinion that he advocated maintaining the Mississippi statute without completely overturning the 49-year precedent. The three Liberals on the Supreme Court delivered … Read more

Here’s What Overturning Roe Means For Abortion Access Across The U.S.

Here’s What Overturning Roe Means For Abortion Access Across The U.S.

The Supreme Court just ruled Roe v. Wade lifted. To date, the right to abortion has been protected by the US Constitution, which meant state legislatures could not outlaw the procedure if they wanted to. Now states have a free hand to ban abortion, restrict abortion, and regulate abortion. What happens next? Here are the … Read more

What the Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Means For Gun Control

What the Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Means For Gun Control

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court just dramatically expanded Americans’ right to bear arms. In a 6-3 opinion, in which the court’s Republican-appointed justices were in the majority, the court ruled that a New York law severely restricting the ability to carry a concealed handgun in public was violated violates the constitution. This … Read more

Why It’s Possible For Some Americans To Support Abortion Yet Oppose Roe

Why It’s Possible For Some Americans To Support Abortion Yet Oppose Roe

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images A common assumption in the debate surrounding the fall of Roe v. Wade, who established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973, is that there are only two sides. On one side, the thinking goes, are those who think abortion should be legal and that Roe should be … Read more