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.

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 ...

Renowned statistician Nate Silver on Wednesday revealed his general-election forecast on ABC's "Good Morning America," and he's placing Hillary Clinton at a near 80% favorite to win in the fall.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating is sliding toward new lows, with recent polling suggesting his strongest supporters are actually drifting away faster than critics, according to a new analysis ...

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?..

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 ...

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 ...