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Chadwick Matlin is a deputy editor at FiveThirtyEight. @ChadwickMatlin Sarah Frostenson is FiveThirtyEight’s politics editor. @sfrostenson Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight. @ameliatd Geoffrey Skelley is an elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight. @geoffreyvs

On today’s Politics podcast, the crew gets into God, COVID-19 and the midterms. So, the usual. They discuss a new poll about whom Americans blame for misfortune — is it a higher power, or the unending, uncontrollable, unyielding chaos of the universe? Then they pivot to what causes so much of our misfortune these days:…

Early 2020 was a hopeful time for Ethiopia’s startups. Venture capitalists were increasingly eyeing Ethiopian startups, and the country improved its rank on the World Bank’s 2019 Ease of Doing Business report. Just before the start of the war, over a year back, Ethiopia was seeing a fast-growing pool of companies launching various digital services…

In 2016, at age 12, Autumn Peltier came face-to-face with Justin Trudeau and, in front of hundreds of people in a conference hall in Gatineau, Que., she challenged his environmental record, extracting a promise from the Prime Minister that he would “protect the water.” Peltier, who turns 18 next year, has since emerged as a…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. There’s a tactic that some teachers find effective: ignoring a student’s bad conduct and instead praising other students’ more appropriate behavior. The theory is that if the student is…

Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D- MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that it was not “fair” that the media acts like there are two equal sides when covering politics because Republicans were destroying democracy and favoring “authoritarianism.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I want to make clear as someone who worked  at the highest levels of the…

KUCHING: Three PKR candidates – Ahmad Nazib Johari, Datuk Dr Nor Irwan Ahmad Nor and Cherishe Ng – have started campaigning for the Sarawak state election by organising a gotong-royong session. Ahmad, Dr Nor and Ng began cleaning up the Kuching Waterfront at 8.30am on Tuesday (Dec 7) morning. Ng, 24, who’s PKR’s youngest candidate,…

Devin Nunes’ Cow, the Twitter account that the Congressman unsuccessfully attempted to sue in 2019, is among those celebrating his departure from politics to serve as CEO of Donald Trump’s new media company. “Anybody up for an epic party?” the account tweeted shortly after the news broke on Monday. “#DevinNunesIsAnIdiot.” The message was followed by…

Australians want to see more women in politics, new research has found. The research – conducted by Women for Election, an organisation which provides support and training to women wanting to enter politics – found 69 per cent of people surveyed agreed more diversity in politics would lead to better outcomes for everyone. Despite representing…

It’s another step in the outgoing Queensland MP’s plan for building a conspiracy-theorist audience for his post-politics life. (Image: Supplied) George Christensen’s continued embrace of increasingly extreme and fringe ideas has tightened even further with an appearance on a show hosted by one of the world’s most prominent conspiracy theorists, Alex Jones. Jones has spent…