Brock Purdy Was Mr. Irrelevant. Now He’s Mr. Impossible.
Joe Montana. Steve Young. Yelberton Abraham Tittle. Some of the best quarterbacks to ever set foot on an NFL field played for the San Francisco 49ers, but none …
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Kamala Harris Is Biden’s VP Pick — Here’s What It Means For The Election And Beyond
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate today. Here’s a look at what this choice mea…
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The Terrible Jobs Report Gets Worse The More You Read It
Remember last month, when the jobs report was bad but not apocalyptic? Those were the days. The most recent jobs report is a stunning picture of how the pandemi…
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The Republican Party May Be Failing
“The Party Decides,” the 2008 book by the political scientists Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel and John Zaller, has probably been both the most-cited and th…
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Why A Fringe Idea About The Supreme Court Is Taking Over The Left
In the calm before 2020, FiveThirtyEight is taking a look at the ideas and people who are nudging the country’s rapidly changing political conversation in one d…
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LeBron Is Still Getting Better
LeBron James might remain the best player in the NBA. He might remain the most valuable. He might even remain a player around whom a team can build a perennial …
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American Chess Is Great Again
A wealthy patron and a trio of grandmasters are coming for Bobby Fischer’s legacy.
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NFL Coaches Yell At Refs Because It Freakin’ Works
In the first quarter of a scoreless 2016 AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots, Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos faced third-and-6 from their own 44-yard line. Wide receiver D…
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Star Wars Killed A Universe To Save The Galaxy
In the spring of 2014, on the editor forum of one of the internet’s most comprehensive encyclopedias, a project was underway. Mere days before, more than 90 percent of the content on the wiki…
