Saturday’s evacuation order follows a series of warning signs on Friday, from Biden administration officials saying an invasion could happen before the conclusion of the Olympics on Feb. 20 and the Pentagon sending 3,000 more troops to Poland. President Joe Biden is scheduled to hold a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday morning … Read more
US spies have reportedly discovered details about Russia’s ‘invasion plan’ for Ukraine, with Brits and American citizens being told to leave the country immediately Ukraine: Government advises UK citizens to leave the country Russia could invade Ukraine on Wednesday after US spies reportedly discovered details about an invasion plan. It comes as Vladimir Putin pulls … Read more
Republicans and Democrats disagree on all manners of things. Surveys suggest they often don’t even like each other, and voting data shows they each commonly live among like-minded Americans. But in this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan suggest that focusing on the left/right divide in American … Read more
Political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan join the podcast to discuss their new book “The Other Divide.” They suggest that focusing on only the left/right divide in American politics is reductive. By doing so, we are missing another important divide, one that may actually run counter to the idea that America is hopelessly … Read more
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Americans who need help getting out of Ukraine if Russia invades the country could be brought through Poland and receive support from US troops, a senior defense official and a US official told NBC News on Wednesday. If US troops are needed to support an evacuation, soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division would be called … Read more
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The White House has signed off on a Defense Department plan for US troops stationed in Poland to help American citizens flee Ukraine if Russia invades — as the Biden administration tries to avoid a repeat of the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, according to a new report Wednesday. Some of the approximately 1,700 paratroopers with the … Read more
Are there really more Americans identifying as Republicans than Democrats now? For decades, more Americans have tended to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, even if the gap has sometimes been small. But in January, Gallup found that Republicans had taken the lead in party ID during the last three months of 2021: On average, … Read more
In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how Americans are feeling about the pandemic and the types of restrictions they do and don’t support to stop the spread of COVID-19. They also talk about some recent big developments in the redistricting process happening around the country now.