Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) speaks at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions January 11 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Greg Nash Pool/Getty Images) Rand Paul is a doctor-turned-politician. That should have made the Kentucky senator a valuable voice during a pandemic. Instead, the ophthalmologist has abandoned any claim to … Read more
The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, despite indications it won’t get 60 votes, nor will key Democrats vote to change the filibuster to include the Voting Rights Act a simple law can be passed by a majority. In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the … Read more
After the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, academics and journalists have proliferated took seriously the possibility of further political violence in the US And polls suggest Americans are worried about that, too. In a December University of Massachusetts Amherst Survey62 percent of respondents said they were at least slightly concerned about violence in … Read more
Americans are exhausted, especially when it comes to COVID-19 and former President Donald Trump. According to the results of a current survey from Axios. On this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates what these findings actually mean and how a sense of exhaustion could shape the nation’s politics. They also discuss what … Read more
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it appeared that the Republican leadership might be ready to sever ties with then-President Trump once and for all. His attempts to overturn the 2020 election results were just as evident as his support for the people entering the Capitol and his … Read more
Illustration by Katrien de Blauwer. In July 2016, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign released an ad titled “Role Models.” It starts off with what appear to be exterior shots of a single-family home in the rural Midwest and then of an inner-city rowhouse. Next we see children, representing numerous target demographics, watching TV inside dimly lit … Read more
At the end of the year, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew looks back at the opinions of Americans on some of the biggest political and cultural issues of 2021. They play a game of “Guess What Americans Think” in which panellists have to guess Americans Opinions on a wide variety of topics including Elon Musk, … Read more
President Biden’s US $ 2 trillion social spending and climate change agenda is in its poorest position yet. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced in a TV interview on Sunday that he would not support the Build Back Better Plan. On this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discuss Manchin’s rationale and where … Read more