Why A 9/11-Era Political Consensus Seems Impossible These Days
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Jennifer Merolla, a political science professor at UC-Riverside, and Hannah Hartig, a...
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Politics Podcast: How Politics Have Changed Since The Days After 9/11
FiveThirtyEight U.S. politics have changed a lot in the 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which defined a generation...
Biden to lay out new strategy against delta variant of COVID-19
The Thursday remarks come as children head back to school and cases remain high.September 7, 2021, 7:40 PM• 7 min...
Biden escalates shutdown stare-down with hurricane aid, Afghan resettlement plea
President Joe Biden's budget office is calling for more than $14 billion to address disaster aid needs prior to Hurricane...
Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
When she was hired as a professor by Harvard University in 2013, Lorgia García Peña was the only Black Latina...
Republican on Jan. 6 committee: McCarthy warning is ‘really bad politics’
McCarthy has been vocal in his opposition to the move, threatening that “a Republican majority will not forget” which telecom...
Texas abortion law could still be ‘destroyed’ by Supreme Court, Cassidy says
“If it's as terrible as people say it is, it‘ll be destroyed by the Supreme Court,” Cassidy said. He added...
What Texas’s Abortion Ban Could Mean For The Rest Of The Country
Late Wednesday night in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to block a Texas law banning most...
Jan. 6 committee leaders call McCarthy’s Trump comments ‘baseless’
“We’ve received answers and briefings from the relevant entities, and it’s been made clear to us that reports of such...
Two senior Dem centrists send Pelosi demands for $3.5T megabill
Their requests include: that the bill be “pre-conferenced” with the Senate to avoid having to make any major changes in...
