Hey everybody, it’s Earth Day again. Time to kick off your shoes, stretch your toes in the warm grass and inhale the stench of a million PR firms trying desperately to capitalize off your posit...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/earth-day-is-the-victim-of-its-own-success/
State Rep. Jeff Hoverson didn’t want anyone getting in the way of using fossil fuels in North Dakota. Not the United Nations. Not international nonprofits. Certainly not the Intergovernmental P...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/red-states-are-trying-to-fight-the-world-on-climate/
UPDATE (April 14, 4:40 p.m.): As of April 14, the Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on restrictions of mifepristone while the justices evaluate whether they will issue a formal stay. Two ...
A few weeks ago, Jessica Marchbank got a call from a woman whose abortion had just been canceled. The woman had driven more than two hours from Louisville, Kentucky, to Indianapolis, leaving thre...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/post-dobbs-abortion-access-66000/
UPDATE (April 14, 4:40 p.m.): As of April 14, the Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on restrictions of mifepristone while the justices evaluate whether they will issue a formal stay. Two ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mifepristone-ruling-abortion-access/
We thought we were safe. The flu season was tapering off. Spring was in the air (sort of, some places). As flu cases flatlined through January and February, Americans breathed a sigh of relief, k...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tis-the-season-for-gonorrhea/
In their first full legislative sessions after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, Republican state legislators are being pressed on what “pro-life” really means. There are plenty of bil...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gop-legislators-trying-pro-life-not-just-anti-abortion/
The Department of Energy says COVID-19 was caused by a lab leak. But that doesn’t mean COVID-19 was definitely caused by a lab leak. In fact, the agency’s report, which made headlines last we...
UPDATE (April 14, 4:40 p.m.): As of April 14, the Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on restrictions of the drug while the justices evaluate whether they will issue a formal stay, followin...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mifepristone-lawsuit-fda-approval/
In the first month of 2023, 25 people lost their lives in four mass shootings in California over just eight days. It’s a grim statistic, made all the more distressing when you consider the fact...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/absence-of-evidence-gun-laws/
Alarm bells seemed to sound in teachers’ lounges across America late last year with the debut of ChatGPT — an AI chatbot that was both easy to use and capable of producing dialogue-like respo...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/teaching-in-the-age-of-ai-means-getting-creative/
What a year 2022 has been. There was so … much … news. We saw record-high inflation, war in Ukraine, a landmark Supreme Court session, continuing effects of the pandemic, the Winter Olympics,...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-numbers-that-defined-2022/
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s a decent chance that it’s dark outside as you’re reading this. Bleak midwinter, indeed. The darkest part of the year is preceded by the switc...
In 2022, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered the midterm elections, the end of Roe v. Wade and sports stories ranging from the World Cup to changes in Major League Baseball’s pitch t...
It used to be, if you wanted to see a Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, the thing to do was go out on the prairie and stare into the middle distance, like you were trying to see a sailboat buried ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-butterfly-effect-2/
“Our generation grew up watching as the climate crisis got worse and worse and politicians did nothing.” That might sound like a quote from teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, but it’s ac...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-focusing-on-climate-change-help-win-elections/
The next few months are going to be exciting — and busy! — for the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast. We’re seeking a freelance audio editor to work two days a week and help make our Politic...
In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican repr...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-natural-disasters-can-change-a-politician/
This 2016 story followed a team of Waffle House operations analysts as they decided whether to close any of the chain’s locations in preparation for Hurricane Matthew, a Category 5 storm that e...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/waffle-house-hurricane/
When you’ve lived through two-plus years of a pandemic, it can feel weird to see “disease” and “good news” in the same sentence. But here we are, watching a disease decline, with cautio...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/monkeypox-public-health/