Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Protests in Iran have been raging on for nearly two weeks because 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the “morality police” aft...
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week On Wednesday, I wrote about what political science and polls about foreign policy can tell us about the impact of the curr...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-dont-know-what-to-think-about-trumps-iran-strategy/
The American-ordered drone strike that killed one of Iran’s most powerful military leaders, Qassem Soleimani, has triggered retaliation from Iran and put American troops in the Middle East on h...
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Last week, U.S. officials announced that President T...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-might-iran-change-the-2020-race/
Late Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the United States killed Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, “at the direction of the President,” in an airstrike in Iraq. Iran has since vowed ret...
President Trump’s decision to authorize a drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani near the Baghdad airport last week has reignited broader questions about both the rol...
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week After an attack on a Saudi oil facility last Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo swiftly pointed the finger at Iran, and...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-want-u-s-forces-to-defend-saudi-arabia/
The first Democratic primary debates are scheduled for later this week, but the candidates are already butting heads. Joe Biden’s comments about his past work with segregationists in the U.S. S...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-are-lanes-emerging-in-the-democratic-primary/
Over the next few days, FiveThirtyEight will be examining each of the eight groups in the 2018 World Cup, which begins June 14 in Russia. Read about Group A here. Group B features what could have...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-morocco-squeeze-past-spain-or-portugal/
Last year, as it became clear that President Trump was determined to roll back much of what Barack Obama had done as president, we came up with a list of Obama’s 10 biggest accomplishments. It�...
President Trump ditched two key members of his foreign policy team in the span of two weeks, and perhaps no international agenda item is now set to undergo as big a change as the U.S. posture on ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/four-ways-trump-could-dump-the-iran-nuclear-agreement/
President Trump boldly announced last week that he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to talk disarmament, working to fulfill his recent State of the Union promise to prevent Pyongya...
President Trump has revealed his strategy on the Iran nuclear deal: Pressure Congress to take the heat for killing it or incur the blame for keeping it. Out of the gate, there is little sign that...
President Trump is expected to “decertify” the Iran nuclear deal this week. The move might seem like the start of a conflict with Tehran, but it really would just force members of Congress to...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/decertifying-the-iran-deal-would-probably-be-mostly-symbolic/
Canada gets the most foreign news coverage in U.S. newspapers, but Iran gets searched on Google much more often by Americans. We checked which countries get the most newspaper coverage last month...
To attend or not attend? That has been the question dogging congressional Democrats in the runup to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Tuesday. The majority of De...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-some-democrats-attended-netanyahus-speech-and-some-didnt/
Jeb Bush gave his brother, former president George W. Bush, a big bear hug today — foreign policy wise, at least. In a speech before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Jeb laid out a hawkis...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-like-the-bushes-stances-on-foreign-policy/
After thrashing Portugal 4-0 in its first game, Germany has seen its probability of winning the World Cup steadily rise, to 13.4 percent from 10.7 percent. That increase is more than any team’...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-crib-notes-day-10/
The United States kicks off its 2014 World Cup campaign on Monday against Ghana, the team that eliminated the Stars and Stripes from the 2010 tournament in the round of 16. That’s the must-watc...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-crib-notes-day-5/
By the time he died in 1985, Calvin S. Hall Jr. had collected about 50,000 dream reports. Hall had started off analyzing rats, but he switched to college students because he found their “will...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/turning-dreams-into-data/