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Nate Silver
November 8, 2022
Pablo Manríquez
Meet the Twentysomething Election Forecasters Who Keep Nate Silver on His Toes
In a crowded field, the quartet of partners at Split Ticket explain what makes them different.
November 18, 2019
Aaron Timms
The Fall of Nate Silver
His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. 
December 18, 2018
Jeet Heer
Russian social media propaganda targeted Robert Mueller.
November 9, 2018
Jeet Heer
Bret Stephens’s dismissal of the size of the blue election was overly hasty.
December 19, 2017
Jeet Heer
The Democrats’ Risky Pursuit of Suburban Republicans
The strategy threatens to alienate the party's base in the age of Trump.
June 13, 2017
Graham Vyse
Bernie Sanders’s Army Is Not the Democratic Base
The party's most reliable voters are older black women. So why do some journalists suggest otherwise?
December 14, 2016
Nicole Narea
After 2016, Can We Ever Trust the Polls Again?
Data was a rare source of clarity in the 2008 and 2012 elections. In 2016, it failed catastrophically.
November 7, 2016
Graham Vyse
Is Nate Silver doing it all wrong?
July 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ignore the Polls. Trump’s Campaign Is a Hot Mess, and That’s All That Matters.
March 24, 2016
Adam Peck
Nate Silver’s electoral map prediction is the stuff of nightmares for the GOP.
June 16, 2014
Alex Massie
Nate Silver and His Equations Don't Understand the World Cup
The dubiousness of Big Data's soccer predictions
May 8, 2014
Tom Bonier
538 Is All Wrong About My Turnout Projections
Conventional outlets don't get to look at voter files. I do.
March 31, 2014
Marc Tracy
The Original Nate Silver Also Thinks Pundits Are 'Stupid'
Bill James on “moneyball” in 2014 and backward political thinking
March 30, 2014
Danny Vinik
Stop Beating Up on Nate Silver!
March 25, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Democratic "Smackdown" on Nate Silver Is Awfully Tame
March 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Emptiness of Data Journalism
Nate Silver could learn a lot from those op-ed columnists he maligns
March 17, 2014
Marc Tracy
Nate Silver’s Not As Foxy As He Thinks He Is
November 20, 2013
Marc Tracy
David Leonhardt Explains How the NYT Will Replace Nate Silver
November 13, 2013
Marc Tracy
Don’t Panic! The ‘Times’ Is Losing Staff, But It Will Be Fine
August 20, 2013
Marc Tracy
How to Build a Smarter Times, According to the Times’ Own Journalists

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