U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions along with Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young after presenting his fiscal year 2023 budget proposal March 28 in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for only $2 a month! Thank … Read more
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In the last two weeks or so, President Biden’s approval rating has ticked up from 41.1 percent to 42.9 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker. The share of Americans who disapprove of the job he’s doing has … Read more
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President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress as US Vice President Kamala Harris and US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi applaud at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2021. (Melina Mara / AFP via Getty Images) This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded … Read more
This year’s State of the Union will be — believe it or not — the first since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States. And unlike last year’s speech (which was technically a speech to a joint session of Congress, not a State of the Union), attendance will not be capped this year … Read more
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have far more serious repercussions around the world than on US domestic politics. We at FiveThirtyEight are experts on the latter, though, so here’s a look at how the conflict might affect President Biden’s political standing. (With war breaking out only this week, it’s too early to say anything for … Read more
It’s time for another episode of Confidence Interval, where we share a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. This time, politics reporter Alex Samuels examines why President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee might motivate Republican voters more than Democrat voters in the upcoming midterms.
Migrant-tracking technology the US government is using in part to fulfill President Biden’s pledge to close for-profit detention centers is sold by the subsidiary of a major for-profit detention provider, Axios has learned. why it matters: Human rights advocates and labor unions have long objected to for-profit prisons, saying the financial incentive for mass detention … Read more
A White House official said the Biden administration is coordinating with Canadian officials to establish alternate traffic routes, while pressing the Canadian government to resolve the dispute through federal powers. The person also said administration officials are in touch with US auto companies, agricultural groups and other affected industries. But privately, other White House and … Read more
It didn’t take long after Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement for conservative politicians and pundits to criticize President Biden’s campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas denounced Biden’s promise as “offensive” while GOP Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi preemptively dismissed the prospective nominee … Read more
