America is stuck in so many cycles of violence and grief. For a small but important slice of Americans, the desire to change the status quo is also cyclical. fivethirtyeight.com/features/suppo…

.Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux is easily one of the best abortion reporters in the country and is really showing it today. We just published her meditation on how abortion has defined the last half-century of politics, and will likely do the same for the next half-century. fivethirtyeight.com/features/roe-v…

The connections between individuals charged in relation to Jan. 6 reveals how the right ideology can engage disparate extremist groups on the right and create a powerful, dangerous coalition. My latest, with Holly Fuong using data from @MikeAJensen fivethirtyeight.com/features/jan-6…

Essential reporting (and counting) from Nathaniel Rakich Kaleigh Rogers and Humera Lodhi fivethirtyeight.com/features/at-le…

We've now got 4 special elections post-Dobbs, and yes -- they really do show a shift toward Democrats: fivethirtyeight.com/features/yes-s…

We used news reports, debate footage, campaign materials, social media & contacted every single GOP nominee for the House, Senate, governor, secretary of state and attorney general to determine their position on the 2020 election. Here's what we found: projects.fivethirtyeight.com/republicans-tr…

The Pelosi assault has me thinking back to this Maggie Koerth Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux piece from last year on our radicalized republic: fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-r…

New data, exclusively shared with FiveThirtyEight, indicates that at least 10,000 women were unable to get an abortion in July and August because of Dobbs. fivethirtyeight.com/features/overt…

Set your clocks -- and anxiety-levels -- accordingly. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/when-election-…

We've been so busy live blogging that I haven't had a chance to say my extraordinarily talented colleagues are live blogging: fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2022…

What do you do when you have basically become a minor deity to a species of butterfly that relies on you to guide its life across generations — and the damn thing won’t be fruitful and multiply? fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…

When I blab about the potential of data-driven feature journalism, this Maggie Koerth feature is what I am talking about. About one endangered butterfly, and what it can teach us about finding hope in climate uncertainty. fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…

I've spent 9.5 years at FiveThirtyEight, but won't make it 10. I was laid off today as part of Disney's cuts. My colleagues and I built a website out of nothing, and journalism changed because of it. There are worse legacies. More reflections to come once things shake out.

God it's dusty in here. Shaking off the cobwebs to say that I, too, have started a newsletter. It's not about the news! It's called Writ Small, and it's about the best in kids' media. Weekly, essayistic, free. First one is up: open.substack.com/pub/writsmall/… Subscribe as you see fit!

We're starting something new at Bloomberg. Pointed, our new weekly news quiz, is a mashup of pub trivia, Learned League, and your neighborhood poker game. A news quiz that tests your strategy, not just your recall. bloomberg.com/games/pointed