President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is overwhelmingly popular: Seventy percent of adults said they were in favor of the legislation, compared to just 28 percent who opposed the bill, according to a ...

Check out FiveThirtyEight’s Women’s World Cup predictions. On Saturday, two dozen women’s national soccer teams — the most ever to be featured in the same tournament — will begin play at the 2015 FIFA ...

Joe Biden took center stage on the final night of the Democratic National Convention to accept his party’s nomination for president. In a late-night taping, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew ...

Results are as of April 9. In some cases, results are unofficial. * Election featured multiple candidates of the same party; the vote margin is calculated using the total vote share of all Democratic ...

Two senators have come under fire for suspiciously timed stock market trades that came right as the market tumbled in February amid the deepening coronavirus crisis: Republican Sens. Richard Burr of ...

With the fourth Republican debate happening on Tuesday, we used this week’s politics Slack chat to check in on the state of the GOP primary. But this is FiveThirtyEight, so instead of just spouting ...

[Editor’s Note: The following has been updated as of 11:41 a.m. Eastern with the latest results.] Tuesday marked the first vote on abortion in a post-Roe landsc… ...

The use of the death penalty at the state level has been declining, particularly in liberal-leaning states but also in conservatives ones. At the federal level, the government had not executed someone ...

In Austin, Texas, a controversial proposition that would’ve forced local officials to drastically increase the city’s police force appears doomed. According to … ...

A most strange storyline has emerged with regard to the provincial vote totals for the Iranian election. Around 1600 GMT Sunday, the ministry of Interior released the official vote totals by province.

We continue our Presidential Geography series, a one-by-one examination of each state’s political landscape and how it’s changing. Here is a look at Colorado, the Centennial State. FiveThirtyEight ...

It has become fashionable to speak of a Democratic comeback, but we’re not really seeing one in our forecasting models. Certainly there are some individual races — particularly on the East and West ...