Which Democratic Priorities Will Make It Through Congress This Fall?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): With Congress fully...
Immigration
Does Studying Economics Make You More Hostile to Immigration?
Surprisingly, yes, at least for this group of U Mass Amherst students. We find no discernible effect of studying economics...
Republican Views On Immigration Are Shifting Even Further To The Right Under Biden
In early August, President Biden took aim at Republican governors like Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas...
Most Republicans Still Won’t Accept That Biden Won
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Once again, we’re switching up the format a little, so please let us...
An Immigrant’s Story
I greatly enjoyed Russ Roberts’s masterful interview of Roya Hakakian and her story of immigrating from Iran to the United...
How Democrats Became Stuck On Immigration
In 2019, when more than two dozen Democrats were vying for the party’s presidential nomination, they all seemed to agree...
What We Know About The New Voting Restrictions Many States Are Considering
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew contextualizes Georgia’s new voting laws and discusses the challenges facing...
Politics Podcast: Democrats Are Struggling On Immigration Policy
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses a package of voting rule changes signed into law...
Biden’s Initial Batch Of Executive Actions Is Popular
The slew of executive actions that President Biden started off his presidency with are popular with the public, according to...
