Politics

Trump vs. Clinton: Who’s Winning Today’s Forecasts of Who Will Win the Election?

Find out with the Slate ~100 Percent Accurate Electoral Forecast Averagifier.

Sept. 29 2016 4:05 PMThis Is the Florida Man ElectionEven if Donald Trump is only half a Florida Man.Craig Pittman

Sept. 27 2016 1:35 PMIs Anyone Buying Trump’s Impression of a Small-Government Conservative? In need of traditional Republican support, he mostly stuck to traditional Republican nostrums.Reihan Salam

Sept. 27 2016 1:38 AMMaking It Up as He Goes AlongDonald Trump’s genius for improvisation and why it failed him at the first debate.Franklin Foer

Sept. 27 2016 1:09 AMWhat Donald Trump Means When He Talks About Stop-and-FriskIn Trump’s America, there are two sets of laws: one for white people and one for everyone else.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 26 2016 6:07 PMWhat Twitter Pundits Are Saying About the First Presidential DebateCheck out the instant spin room.Andrew Kahn and Jeremy Stahl

Sept. 25 2016 5:03 PMHow to Beat Trump in a DebateHe has three weaknesses.Jim Newell

Sept. 20 2016 6:31 PMTerrorism Doesn’t Help TrumpJust look at the polls.William Saletan

Sept. 19 2016 5:48 PMHillary’s Play for MillennialsClinton makes the case that she’s the authentic one.Jim Newell

Sept. 16 2016 4:59 PMHow to Play the National Media, in Eight Simple StepsDonald Trump’s birther event was a living, breathing act of media criticism.Jim Newell

Sept. 15 2016 6:52 PMGary Johnson Is Not Worth Any Liberal’s Protest VoteHe’s a free-market ideologue who would work to undermine large pieces of the left’s program.Jim Newell

Sept. 14 2016 3:47 PMThe Violent, Racist Meaning of “Redemption”In foretelling bloody insurrection in the event of a Clinton victory, Kentucky’s governor invoked America’s history of racial reaction.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 14 2016 8:36 AMThe GOP Is in an Ideological Civil WarDonald Trump’s family leave plan proves it.Reihan Salam

Sept. 13 2016 4:36 PMTrump’s SecretUnlike Clinton, he isn’t transparent about anything, but he has dictated how the press judges him.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 12 2016 6:18 PMBob Timberg’s ScarsYears after his face was blown off by a Viet Cong grenade, the writer and Marine held up a mirror to himself and his country.Stephen Rodrick

Sept. 10 2016 1:55 PMElection Day Shouldn’t Be a News-Free ZoneThis Nov. 8, Slate will publish real-time projections based on voter turnout, so citizens will finally know as much as the campaigns do about who is winning and why.Sasha Issenberg

Sept. 28 2016 12:29 PMWeapon of Self-DestructionHow the Iraq war wrecked the GOP.William Saletan

Sept. 27 2016 9:44 AMThe Art of the VenalDonald Trump thinks politics is business, and business is theft.William Saletan

Sept. 27 2016 1:33 AMTrump’s Campaign Can’t Answer Whether He’s Paid Federal Income Taxes, EitherThe scene in the spin room.Jim Newell

Sept. 26 2016 10:27 PMWho Won the First Presidential Debate?Vote in our totally unscientific online poll.Andrew Kahn

Sept. 26 2016 2:30 PMThe 66 Things I Am Worried Will Go Wrong for Hillary Clinton in the DebatesI am Pokémon Go-ing to have a nervous breakdown.Andrew Kahn

Sept. 22 2016 1:15 PMThe Clintons Didn’t Screw Up Haiti Alone. You Helped.Trump has turned Haiti into the new symbol of Bill and Hillary’s crookedness. If only things were that simple.Jonathan M. Katz

Sept. 19 2016 8:47 PMThe Official LieThe Republican party is now embracing Trump’s birther bullshit.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 16 2016 5:07 PMNah, Trump’s Still a BirtherIt’s the core of his political identity.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 16 2016 11:48 AMRemember When George H.W. Bush Puked on the Japanese Prime Minister?Clinton wobbled, and the media freaked. Bush ralphed, and the media cooed.Osita Nwanevu

Sept. 15 2016 10:24 AMTrump Proposes Home-School Vouchers for Poor Kids. It’s a Dumb Idea That No One Wants.It’s also not about poor kids.Jessica Huseman

Sept. 14 2016 2:46 PMA Poll Says Trump’s Up Five Points in Ohio. Is It Time to Freak Out?A dialogue.Jamelle Bouie and Jim Newell

Sept. 13 2016 4:54 PMTrump’s Campaign Against Clinton Is an Exercise in Projection“Unstable,” “bigoted,” “grifter.” The truest descriptions of Trump are his descriptions of Hillary.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 12 2016 7:56 PMHow to Cover Hillary Clinton Aggressively in the Age of TrumpA conversation about “false balance.”Jacob Weisberg and Michelle Goldberg

Sept. 11 2016 11:47 PMDo Half of Trump’s Supporters Really Belong in a “Basket of Deplorables”?Yes.Jamelle Bouie

Sept. 9 2016 6:47 PMAnother Reason Trump Loves PutinThey swim together in the white nationalist fever swamps.Jamelle Bouie