Laura Bronner
FiveThirtyEight
New York, NY, United States
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Want To Know Where The Supreme Court Goes Next? Look At Alito’s And Thomas’s Dissents.
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been angry for years. Over and over, they watched as conservative justices joined the liberal justi… → Read More
Just How Sharp Was The Supreme Court’s Rightward Turn This Term?
Conservatives got what they wanted from this year’s Supreme Court term — and then some. In a flurry of decisions released at the end of June, the court’s … → Read More
Support For Ukrainian Refugees Is High In Europe. That May Not Last.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion, millions of refugees are fleeing Ukraine. Support for these refugees is currently very high: Recent polls have found residents… → Read More
Europeans Want To Admit Ukrainian Refugees — For Now
In Part 2 of this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, FiveThirtyEight contributor Laura Bronner joins to discuss where public opinion stands on accepting U… → Read More
How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.
After an excruciating wait for many families, children ages 5 and older can now be vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision marks a turning point in the pandem… → Read More
The Roberts Court vs. The Trump Court
The conservative justices’ fight over how fast — and far — to move the court to the right. → Read More
Which Senators And Representatives Vote In Favor Of Democracy?
How pro-democracy is Congress? → Read More
The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is Just Beginning To Flex Its Muscles
In many ways, the recently completed Supreme Court term was our first comprehensive look at one of the most consequential legacies of the Trump presidency: his … → Read More
Our Democracy Gives Republicans An Unfair Advantage. That’s Threatening Majority Rule.
In the United States, the deck is often stacked to favor Republicans. In the U.S. Senate, House and other institutions, Republicans can govern without winning t… → Read More
Advantage, GOP
In tennis, the two players switch sides of the court after every odd game — to even out any advantages that one player might have due to the sun. Democracy is n… → Read More
Police Misconduct Trials Are Rare. Instead, Cities Pay Millions To Settle Misconduct Claims.
FiveThirtyEight’s quantitative editor Laura Bronner speaks with Galen Druke about FiveThirtyEight and The Marshall Project’s investigation into the amount of money America’s cities have spent on police misconduct settlements — in the range of $3 billion over the last decade. What’s less clear is whether the situation has improved within that time period. → Read More
Why Polling On The Issues Probably Isn’t As Broken As Horse-Race Polling
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. How many Americans support legalizing marijuana? Sixty-eight percent, per Gallup. And according to Morning … → Read More
Police Misconduct Costs Cities Millions Every Year. But That’s Where The Accountability Ends.
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. In the spring of 2… → Read More
A Majority Of Americans Want To Bar Trump From Office
Former President Donald Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice by the House of Representatives. And the fact that his second impeachment trial… → Read More
Do Americans Support Removing Trump From Office?
FiveThirtyEight is tracking polls that ask whether respondents support removing President Trump from office before the end of his term. → Read More
How Democrats Won The Georgia Runoffs
On Tuesday, Democrats won both Georgia runoff elections — and control of the U.S. Senate. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler 50.8 … → Read More
Live Georgia Election Updates And Results
With an estimated 95 percent of the expected vote in, here’s where the two races stand in the counties that are almost done reporting. As you can see, there is … → Read More
Why The Suburbs Have Shifted Blue
President Trump spent the last few months of the presidential campaign appealing to — and sometimes even pleading with — suburban voters. At a rally in Pennsy… → Read More
Don’t Believe Anything The 2020 Exit Polls Tell You
Since the 2020 election, you may have seen headlines make bold claims about how certain demographic groups voted. As quantitative editor Laura Bronner explains, it’s always difficult to figure out trends in voter preferences — and a pandemic has only made it harder. → Read More
What We Know About How White and Latino Americans Voted In 2020
As results rolled in from Florida on election night, one thing became clear almost immediately: Joe Biden was underperforming in Miami-Dade County, home to most… → Read More