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FiveThirtyEight's Demise and the Rise of Silver Bulletin

2025-03-06

Following Disney's layoffs impacting FiveThirtyEight, the author reflects on the site's history and challenges. While acknowledging FiveThirtyEight's success in data journalism, the author points to a lack of business strategy and sufficient personnel as contributing factors to its struggles. The author's new venture, Silver Bulletin, aims to continue some of FiveThirtyEight's work, particularly in publicly releasing polling data and enhancing data analysis and forecasting models. Silver Bulletin will adopt a subscription model for sustainability and plans to expand its data analysis scope, including launching a Trump approval rating dashboard and college basketball predictions.

Trump and Musk's Daylight Saving Time Plan: A Battle Over Sunlight

2024-12-21

President-elect Trump and Elon Musk propose eliminating Daylight Saving Time, calling it "inconvenient and costly." Nate Silver's analysis uses data to counter this, showing that abolishing DST would significantly reduce daylight hours during summer, negatively impacting schedules and health. Year-round DST, conversely, would cause very late sunrises in winter. Silver argues maintaining the status quo or allowing states to opt for year-round DST are more sensible options.