JoJo Siwa, now 19 years old, has racked up billions of views on YouTube for her performances since she was a child. “Kidfluencers” — children whose social media presence is followed and monetized — are a notable part of the growing business of social media. But this industry lacks protectionsContinue Reading
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver considers the impact young voters had on the midterm election results on “This Week.”Continue Reading
MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images Democrats now have a slightly bigger Senate majority but not much to do with it. And so, it’s time for more judges. Retaining the Senate means that President Biden and Senate Democrats will be able to continue nominating and confirming federal judges, and,Continue Reading
What a year 2022 has been. There was so … much … news. We saw record-high inflation, war in Ukraine, a landmark Supreme Court session, continuing effects of the pandemic, the Winter Olympics, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the World Cup and, of course, the midterms. In typical FiveThirtyEightContinue Reading
This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.” Transcript Maya Sweedler: One of the most important numbers coming out of 2022 is nine. That’s the difference between the number of seats Republicans won in the U.S. House of Representatives in November and the number of seatsContinue Reading
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO AND EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES A few weeks before the midterms, I attended an election-denying group’s Zoom meeting. There had been alarming reports of a massive, well-funded campaign to place election deniers in voting centers that could cause havoc on Election Day. I wantedContinue Reading
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Here’s a prediction that 100 percent, absolutely, positively will come true: I will get something wrong in 2023. Here at FiveThirtyEight, we make a lot of predictions every year; some of them work out, but we can’t get every single one right. Continue Reading
This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.” Transcript Monica Potts: One of the most important numbers of 2022 was 9.1 percent. That was the inflation rate in June — the highest yearly increase since 1981. Inflation affected all Americans, but its severity varied by region.Continue Reading
This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.” Transcript Maggie Koerth: I have two important numbers for you this year. Some good news. And some bad news. First, there’s four … That’s the number of harmful per- and polyfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, that the Environmental ProtectionContinue Reading
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, might not have any credibility as a pollster in FiveThirtyEight’s rating system, but he’s a pollster nonetheless. Kinda. Soon after he took control of Twitter in October, the once-richest person inContinue Reading
