Nate Silver established his reputation with predictions of political elections, and he now runs the website FiveThirtyEight, which is owned by ESPN. We asked Silver to explain his prediction for ...

That’s what election prognosticator Nate Silver wrote after running his model for the final time this year. To get deep in the weeds, Silver ran 80,000 election simulations using his model ...

The battle between New York Times political stats wizard Nate Silver and the beltway punditry — what The Atlantic's James Fallows calls a fight between Moneyball-type "quants" and gut-based ...