Politics

Time for the media to start taking him seriously.

It's not too early to examine which future presidential candidates had the best 2019 — and what to watch from them next.

The former New York City mayor has spent almost $200 million, and he still has billions left in his account.

Be prepared for surprises as voting begins in the Democratic nominating contests next month.

Cybersecurity experts have been warning about the emergence of digital disinformation.

Bernie Sanders is gambling that the strategy that won him a mayor's race in Burlington, Vermont, and broke the back of the local establishment, can be scaled nationwide.

This is an important decade for mankind. It is a decade in which we will need to find answers to questions that hang over us like last night's celebrations.

As the project investigating hate in America comes to an end, we look back at reporting highlights and the impact of our work.

It's no coincidence that our politics and our mental health have declined so rapidly, at the same time.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro ended his presidential bid Thursday, his campaign announced.

It's no coincidence that our politics and our mental health have declined so rapidly, at the same time.

Backers of Kataib Hezbollah, who had converged on the embassy to protest US airstrikes that had killed 25 fighters Sunday, began dismantling their tents and leaving the area.

The vice president had spent most of his career trying to lift the restraints on presidential authority. After 9/11, he did just that.

John Adams worried that "a division of the republic into two great parties... is to be dreaded as the great political evil." America has now become that dreaded divided republic.

Margaret Atwood's sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" raises the possibility that individuals, with suitable luck, bravery, and cleverness, can fight back. But can they?

"Mayor Pete" has been perpetually dogged by a major issue: the youngest and most activated voters in his party all seem to — how to put this delicately? — hate his guts.

This year, Americans will almost certainly elect the oldest president, the youngest president, or the only president to ever win reelection following impeachment.

The project outside Las Vegas also includes huge amounts of energy storage. One of Warren Buffett's utilities will buy the power.

US Chief Justice John Roberts will be a central figure in the ongoing drama of the Donald Trump presidency in the coming months.

The United States is deploying soldiers to the Middle East after protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in response to airstrikes in Iraq and Syria conducted by US forces on Sunday.

A 2004 National Intelligence Council report was eerily prescient in some ways, and totally off in others.

In the 2010s, America achieved late capitalism.

Alarm is growing in the United States over the way people are aggressively removed from the voter rolls.

Joe Biden told voters in New Hampshire on Monday that he would consider choosing a Republican as a running mate, but added, "I can't think of one right now."

In the early aughts the internet was less dangerous than it was disruptive. That's changed.

Activists, union organizers and dissidents are being killed. Why isn't the government doing more to protect them?

From Trump's impeachment to Baby Yoda, here are the most significant moments in culture and politics in 2019.

Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president's rallies.

The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.

The icon of the movement for action on climate change is a teenager. Shouldn't that worry us?

They're far more conservative on immigration than the average American.

In Japan campaigns last 12 days, in Australia they last 33 to 68 days, and in America they last forever. Why?

The battle over Donald Trump's rightful place in the presidential tallness hierarchy has waged on over the past several years, without ceasefire, on the Wikipedia page "Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States" &mdash an edit war so bitter and petty and senseless that only our current president could have manufactured it.

They're all truly awful. Enjoy.

The long-dominant ideology brought us forever wars, the Great Recession and extreme inequality. Good riddance.

Three years after Clinton's loss, her Twitter feed is its own lingering social media phenomenon. It might not mean what her fans think.

The West Bank city of Bethlehem is a popular tourist destination for Christian pilgrims. But Israeli settlements are hurting its economy.

Speaking at a at a conference in Florida, President Donald Trump went on a long, unscripted soliloquy about windmills.

Tracking down the editor who tracks every move the South Bend mayor makes.

The brutality of Fashion Nova's hyperaccelerated production model was always an open secret, but the fashion industry rewards willful avoidance.

A USA TODAY Network investigation revealed sex assaults, routine use of physical force, poor medical care and deaths at facilities overseen by ICE.

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Thursday's debate featured few gotcha moments and many familiar shticks.

Americans have taken to the streets in more than twenty thousand protests since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Count Love catalogues those events by crawling the web for news stories about protest. The data only includes events that were covered in the media. However, Count Love offers a rich look into protest in the public eye.

An analysis of millions of articles shows how coverage of hot-button topics changed in the 2010s.

Thousands of asylum seekers remain at risk in Mexican border towns, waiting for humanitarian aid.

Climate change is already forcing people to move. Yang has a plan for getting them out of harm's way.

With just seven candidates on the stage, tonight will mark the most intimate gathering of the 2020 Democratic contenders yet. And although we at FiveThirtyEight are hesitant to put too much weight on any one event, time is running out for these candidates to make an impression on voters.

Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang will participate in the sixth Democratic debate tonight. Watch it live here.

Seven presidential contenders take the debate stage Thursday. What will it mean for Silicon Valley if one of them wins the White House?

Isaac Chotiner talks to Niraja Gopal Jayal, the author of several books on Indian democracy, about the new legislation that leaves the nation's Muslims behind.

By the time "Carol of the Bells" became a global hit, its original composer had been killed by the Soviet secret police.

The company is to clamp down on ads that portray taking part in the census as "useless or meaningless."

Though the "Harry Potter" author has been criticized for veiled transphobia before, her recent tweet makes it plain.

When it comes to America's last-ditch effort to prevent North Korea from becoming a nuclear power, timing has been everything. Now time's running out.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said as many as three dozen lawmakers have expressed interest in delaying a Senate trial until Republicans agree to call additional witnesses.

Here's how major newspapers covered the momentous vote on their front pages:

The Trump administration, not known for its attention to detail, chalked it up to a lack of attention to detail.

As Donald Trump faces the brink of impeachment in the House of Representatives, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer unearthed a fascinating interview he gave back in 2008, where he called Nancy Pelosi a "very impressive person" and opined that Bill Clinton should not have been impeached over "something totally unimportant" but George W. Bush should have over the war.

As impeachment looms, President Trump has repeatedly urged everybody to "read the transcript" of his call with Ukraine's president. Jordan Klepper wanted to know: have the president's supporters read the transcript?