Silver, the author of the newsletter Silver Bulletin, spoke with The New York Times about a recent fantasy-style draft he ...

With a weaker economy than in his first term, the president's actions in Iran could create a "lame‑duck" feel.

While the Lone Star State is not turning blue overnight, new analysis suggests the race could be more competitive than usual.

Donald Trump made a "not super smart" move that could come back to bite the GOP, according to a veteran polling analyst. Election forecaster Nate Silver, a longtime data analyst who covered the 2024 ...

A heated discussion erupted on social media on Thursday over media coverage of the ages of former US president Joe Biden and president Donald Trump, involving Neera Tanden, former White House official ...

In an interview with Jon Karl on ABC’s “This Week,” Silver, who recently relaunched his FiveThirtyEight franchise, gave Republicans a 60-percent chance of winning a Senate majority during the 2014 ...

Mr. Silver is the author of “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.” Mr. Guida is an editor in Times Opinion. Voting has started in the 2026 midterms — in Texas, ahead of a big primary on March 3 ...

If we lived in some kind of Orwellian dystopia, we could hook a nanobot to everybody's brain and scientifically measure just how much influence each human being has on every other. Whom do we trust?..

Among the many pollsters and pundits who were oh so wrong were Nate Silver, the statistician who's founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, the website owned by ESPN and ABC that analyzes data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Political pollster Nate Silver has some early thoughts about the 2028 Democratic presidential primary race. Silver was joined by ...

What Nate Silver does on fivethirtyeight.com — and this is my understanding of what he does, not his description of it — is search data for the underlying order of the universe that is depicted by ...