The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century

The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century

MANDEL NGAN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images The slaughter was impossible to deny. When the House Special Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol presented its evidence that former President Donald Trump was the catalyst behind the attack on American democracy, a 12 minute video showed the full consequences of … Read more

Everything You Need To Know About the Special Election In Alaska

Everything You Need To Know About the Special Election In Alaska

Mark Thiessen / AP photo A groundbreaking new voting structure. The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. Santa Claus. What Not the special election for Alaska’s seat in the US House of Representatives? Well, a winner. This Saturday is technical election day for the first round of the special election being held to replace legendary former … Read more

Partly Cloudy With A 75 Percent Chance Of COVID Exposure

Partly Cloudy With A 75 Percent Chance Of COVID Exposure

PHOTOILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER/GETTY IMAGES It’s 6:30 am and your third alarm is ringing. Another 10 minutes and you’ll have to skip breakfast before you go to work. You get up, brush your teeth, shower, and set out a pot of coffee while you watch the morning news. After the station meteorologist tells you it’s … Read more

We’ve Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years

We’ve Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years

AP Photo / Ed Andrieski The following is an updated version of this articlepublished in 2018. The horror in Uvalde, Texas last week was chillingly familiar to Mary Ellen O’Toole. As part of a small group of academics, law enforcement experts, and psychologists who published some of the first research on mass school shootings more … Read more

Americans Are Unusually Lukewarm About A Second Biden Term

Americans Are Unusually Lukewarm About A Second Biden Term

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly poll roundup. President Biden says he will stand for re-election in 2024. But some Americans don’t believe him — and many don’t want him throwing his hat in the ring for a second term either. Already before Biden was elected in 2020, There … Read more

FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring A Temporary Full-Time Video Producer

Politics Podcast: The Last Debate Is Over And The Final Stage Of The Campaign Has Begun

FiveThirtyEight is looking for a temporary video producer to join our team full-time from mid-July to mid-November. This person will host videos about US politics, create and edit storyboards, and play an integral role in our coverage of the 2022 midterm elections. The Video Producer will report to and work with the Senior Video Producer … Read more

What The History Of Back-Alley Abortions Can Teach Us About A Future Without Roe

What The History Of Back-Alley Abortions Can Teach Us About A Future Without Roe

Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images A metal coat hanger cannot speak, but it can send a message. Long a symbol of the dangers faced by people living in the years before Roe B.C. Wade attempting to terminate pregnancies, hangers are synonymous with a whole range of physical horrors, most of which never specifically involved hangers. In recent … Read more