The United States and Saudi Arabia will announce on Tuesday that President Joe Biden will visit the Gulf state next month for bilateral talks and will meet with the country’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, three sources said planning NBC News with. The sources said the two-day trip is scheduled for July … Read more
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
President Joe Biden speaks at a joint session of Congress as US Vice President Kamala Harris and US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi applaud at the US Capitol on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Melina Mara/AFP via Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for only $2 a month! Thank you … Read more
Daniel Muessig, a former Pittsburgh attorney, is to be sentenced to five years in prison for selling marijuana. In this still from an ad for his former law firm, he insists that “laws are arbitrary.” (Grustle Merch on YouTube) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for only $2 a month! Thank you for signing … Read more
In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses what high gas prices have meant for politics historically and outlines the debates in Washington about how to bring those prices down. And two-plus years since the coronavirus pandemic hit the US, the crew uses data to explore some of the ways American life … Read more
Pro-choice supporters with Planned Parenthood staff rally outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St Louis, Mo. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the nationcheck … Read more
(Aimee Dilger / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the nationcheck out our latest issue. Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as … Read more
It was a night of firsts: the first midterm primary of the year, in Texas, and President Biden’s first official State of the Union address. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew discussed the key takeaways in Biden’s optimistic speech and analyzed the outcomes of the Texas primaries as results came in. You can listen to the … Read more
US Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, speaks during a press conference in May 2019. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images) In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will touch on the issues of the moment as he discusses Ukraine, inflation, and the nomination of the first Black woman to sit … Read more
Ketanji Brown Jackson during her hearing to become a US Circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 28, 2021, in Washington, DC (Kevin Lamarque-Pool / Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for … Read more
