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December 2016

Magnus Carlsen Wins The 2016 World Chess Championship
Significant Digits For Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
Pollsters Probably Didn’t Talk To Enough White Voters Without College Degrees
I Think I Lost My Faith. How Do I Get Out Of My Office Bible Study?
DeMar DeRozan Is Less Than The Sum Of His Points
Democrats Shouldn’t Count On An Unpopular Trump To Win Back Governorships
Can You Unmask The Secret Santas?
Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 2, 2016
How Much The Polls Missed By In Every State
Trump Will Benefit From Obama’s Strong Job Market
We’ve Never Seen A Player Quite Like Giannis Antetokounmpo
What Trump May Have In Store For Americans’ Health Care
Rob Gronkowski Is The Randy Moss Of Tight Ends
The Browns Can’t Beat Anyone. Not Even The Spread.
Democracy, Meh?
Police Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock
One Last Dispatch From The Land Of Chess Kings And Billionaires
Ohio State’s Chances Are Better Than Most
We Updated Our College Football Model, And Now Michigan Looks Slightly Less Screwed
Adam Conover Explains Everything About ‘Adam Ruins Everything’
An FBI Error Opens A Window Into Government Demands For Private Info
Why Trump’s Carrier Deal Isn’t The Way To Save U.S. Jobs
The Supreme Court Tackles The Political Riddle Of Race-Based Gerrymandering
Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 5, 2016
Sorry, Penn State: The Four Best Teams Got In To The College Football Playoff
We Rate Alabama The Strongest Team In College Football History
It’s Much Harder To Protect Southern Black Voters’ Influence Than It Was 10 Years Ago
Politics Podcast: Everyone’s Still Mad At Everyone About The Election
When Should You Buy Into A Movie’s Hype?
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016
If Waffle House Is Closed, It’s Time To Panic
Louisiana’s Senate Runoff Probably Isn’t Going To Make Democrats Feel Better
Broncos-Titans Is The Biggest Game Of Week 14
The Jeff Fisher Rams Are An Offensive Tragedy
Jill Stein: Democratic Spoiler Or Scapegoat?
Fewer Than 1 Million American WWII Veterans Survived To Pearl Harbor’s 75th Anniversary
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016
Can Russell Westbrook Keep This Up?
In One Of Latin America’s Poorest Countries, Boosting The Economy Is Women’s Work
How The Public Views Ohio’s Abortion Bill
Patrice Bergeron Is Doing It All — Except, You Know, Putting The Puck In The Net
LeBron Plays A Little Worse Against His Friends
Significant Digits For Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016
Older Americans Went Back To School During The Recession. Did It Pay Off?
The Southeast Is Becoming A Wildfire Hotspot
Raiders-Chiefs Shows That Thursday Night Isn’t The NFL’s Trash Heap Anymore
The College Football Playoff Pits Two Balanced Teams Against Two Great Defenses
Inequality Is Killing The American Dream
Oklahoma May Resist Federal Regulation, But Its Environmental Record Isn’t Terrible
You Can’t Get Much More Popular Than John Glenn Was
Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 9, 2016
How Much Gold Would Push You Into A War?
55 Conversations Later, Here’s What Our Data-And-Society Podcast Taught Me
It’s Not All About Clinton — The Midwest Was Getting Redder Before 2016
The AFC South Is Not That Bad
UCLA’s Lonzo Ball Is A Unique, Must-Watch Star
Three Things We’ve Learned About How Trump Will Govern
Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 12, 2016
Pitchers Won’t Throw Strikes, So Batters Are Getting Better At Hitting Bad Pitches
The Packers’ Hot Streak May Have Come Too Late To Save Their Season
We’re Looking For Part-Time And Freelance Politics Writers
Le’Veon Bell Is The Most Dominant Player In The NFL
Politics Podcast: Russian Interference
Here Are The Russia Hawks Who Could Kill Tillerson’s Nomination
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016
Rex Tillerson Is Already A Diplomat — For Exxon Mobil’s Shareholders
How Americans Die May Depend On Where They Live
Why The Bulls Beat The Best Teams And Then Lose To The Worst Ones
Will Trump Take A Honey Badger Approach To Congress?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016
What Percent Virus Are You?
There’s Still Something Missing From Andrew Wiggins’s Game
New York’s First Freeze Came Late (Again)
Lions-Giants Is The Biggest Game Of Week 15
All Of A Sudden, Russia Has Become A Partisan Issue
Scientists Protest Climate-Change Deniers Among Trump’s Cabinet Picks
How Trump’s White House Could Mess With Government Data
Significant Digits For Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016
Star Wars Killed A Universe To Save The Galaxy
Michael Lewis’s New Book Examines How We Think About Thinking
A Cheaper Christmas Tree May Be Just Around The Corner
The Government Finally Has A Realistic Estimate Of Killings By Police
Everything’s Mixed Up. Can You Sort It All Out?
Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 16, 2016
Nate Silver Interviews Michael Lewis About His New Book, ‘The Undoing Project’
Clinton May Gain Nearly 30,000 More Votes Over Trump In New York City
Star Wars, In One Chart
The NFL Is Botching Kickoff Returns
Will Trump Enforce The Tough New Rules On Reporting Police Killings?
The Latest Zika News Is More Bad News
Grading The Many, Many, Many College Football Bowls
The Last 10 Weeks Of 2016 Campaign Stops In One Handy Gif
Democrats Need To Win Elections, Not Flip Electors
Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 19, 2016
How Much More Money Could ‘Rogue One’ Make?
What A Balloon’s Pop Tells Us About The End Of The World
Tim Duncan Moved The Spurs Up The Retired-Jersey Rankings
The Electoral College Has Become Another Partisan Issue
Why College Football’s New All-Time Rushing Leader Isn’t Really Its All-Time Rushing Leader
Politics Podcast: Looking Back On 2016
Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016
Virginia Was A Little Old To Still Believe In Santa
Syria’s Civil War Is Spilling Into Turkey’s Streets — And Art Galleries
Why Are The New York Giants This Good?
The ‘Most Powerful Political Players Of 2017’ Draft Extravaganza!!
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016
Is The College Bowl System Unfixable?
Christmas Is Bird-Counting Season For 60,000 Americans
Yes, The Carolina Panthers Can Still Make The Playoffs
The 2016 Cubs Won Just Like The 1997 Marlins Did
The ‘War On Christmas’ Is As Stale As Last Year’s Fruitcake
The Definitive Analysis Of ‘Love Actually’
Significant Digits For Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016
Trump’s Cabinet Choices Have Given A Lot Of Money To Senators
We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver
Dolphins-Bills Is The Game To Watch In Week 16
How Much Did WikiLeaks Hurt Hillary Clinton?
Significant Digits For Friday, Dec. 23, 2016
Build Your Own Death Star And Defeat The Stormtroopers
Where To Say ‘Merry Christmas’ vs. ‘Happy Holidays’ — 2016 Edition
The Cavs And Warriors Might Be Doing This Finals Thing For A Long Time
The Thunder Are At The Kids’ Table This Christmas
Trump Would Need Larry Kudlow To Be Focused On Economics, Not Politics
Are The Browns Really Going To Go 0-16? (Update: No.)
Politics Podcast: Good Use Of Polling Or Bad Use Of Polling — In “The West Wing”
Three Economic Lessons From 2016 — And Three Questions For 2017
Am I Overthinking This Routine Social Interaction?
Which Bowls Are Usually The Best — And Worst?
Damn, We Wish We’d Written These 11 Stories
The Week 17 Games That Actually Matter
The Best And Worst Data Stories Of 2016
Buffalo’s Merry-Go-Round Of Head Coaches Spins Again
Some Of Our Best Work From 2016
Can You Deal With These Card Game Puzzles?
Is Deshaun Watson Better Than Lamar Jackson? Depends On What Skills You Value
The 52 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2016