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August 2017

Baseball’s Richest Just Got Much Richer
Trump Is About To Make A Key Obamacare Decision
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017
Trump’s Opioid Commission Listened To Public Health Experts
Women Are Making Over The Beauty Industry’s Boy’s Club
Trump Came In As A Weak President, And He’s Made Himself Weaker
Opioid Prescriptions Across The U.S.
How To Know When The GOP Is Serious About Tax Reform
Significant Digits For Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Wait, The Cubs Won The Trade Deadline?
Medicine Is Getting More Precise … For White People
Lots Of People In Cities Still Can’t Afford Broadband
Chris Sale Still Has Nothing On Pedro
Why A Trump Pivot Might Backfire
Significant Digits For Thursday, August 3, 2017
We Analyzed 1,000 Fortune Cookies To Unlock Their Secrets
Democrats Aren’t In Lockstep Over Abortion — That’s Why They’re Fighting
Lonzo Ball Is The NBA’s Most Talked About Rookie In Years
Tom Brady Will Be Bad Eventually
Trump’s Problems Are Piling Up, So What Should He Do Now?
Trump’s Plan To Cut Legal Immigration Could Hurt The Economy
Significant Digits For Friday, August 4, 2017
Is This Bathroom Occupied?
The Job Market Is Having A ‘Goldilocks’ Moment
We’re Looking For A Fall 2017 Art And Design Intern
The Senate Seems More Willing To Push Back Against Trump Than The House — Why?
The Neymar Deal Was Certainly Crazy. But Was It Smart?
The Congressional Map Has A Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats
Significant Digits For Monday, August 7, 2017
My Company Wants Everyone To Chip In For The Boss’s Gift. Is That Appropriate?
The Dodgers Have A Real Chance To Break The All-Time Wins Record
Rachel Lindsay’s ‘Bachelorette’ Season, In Three Charts
Baseball Is Finally Realizing That The Save Is Dumb
Politics Podcast: Enter The Grand Jury
‘Diagnosing’ Trump Is More About Politics Than Mental Health
Significant Digits For Tuesday, August 8, 2017
How Gender, Age And Race Shape Our View Of What Makes A Great Black Athlete
We Asked Two Eclipse Chasers What Keeps Them Hooked
Are Lefty Quarterbacks Going Extinct?
American Chess Is Great Again
What Kind Of Republican Might Challenge Trump In 2020?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017
Football Season Is Here! No, The Other Football
Trump Picks A Favorite In Alabama’s GOP Senate Primary
The Solar Eclipse vs. Solar Electricity
Will The PGA Championship Be Jordan Spieth’s Great White Whale?
Colin Kaepernick Is Not Supposed To Be Unemployed
The Future Of The Democratic Party Is … White Guys?
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017
While Some Communities Become Sanctuaries, Others Are Happy To Help With Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
What’s New In Our 2017-18 Club Soccer Predictions
The Eclipse Was A Big Deal in 1878, Too
Trump’s Military Ban Could Hurt More Than Just Transgender Troops
The English Premier League Is Back And So Is Manchester City
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 11, 2017
Can You Plug The White House Leak?
If Trump’s McConnell Bashing Is A Strategy, It’s A Dumb One
Baseball’s ‘Hot Hand’ Is Real
Presidential Responses To Racial Violence Have Often Been Weak. Trump’s Is Weaker.
Charlottesville And The Rise Of White Identity Politics
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors
The Normal Rules Of Politics Still Apply To Trump — And To Republicans In Congress
The Jets Are Bad, But Are They 0-16 Bad?
Giancarlo Stanton Will Need To Slug Like Barry Bonds To Beat Roger Maris
Politics Podcast: Trump’s Response To Charlottesville
What To Watch For In Tonight’s Alabama Senate Primaries
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017
Democrats Have Their Own Challenges In Talking About Racial Issues In The Trump Era
The Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Might Start With Vaccines
The Unlikely Resurgence Of Baseball’s Aces
The NBA Is Giving Teams No Excuses To Sit Stars In Big Games
Is Trump’s Response To Charlottesville Really About Politics?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017
The GOP Establishment Got What It Wanted (Sorta) In Alabama’s Senate Primary
Do Athletes Really Run Hot And Cold?
Blake Bortles Is The Tom Brady Of Garbage Time
There Are Still More Than 700 Confederate Monuments In The U.S.
Is Garry Kasparov Too Old To Dominate Chess Again?
The Sheer Number Of Democrats Running For Congress Is A Good Sign For The Party
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017
One Art Lover’s Crusade To Catalog The World
Look! We Found Something Republicans, Democrats And Jared Kushner Actually Agree On!
Buster Posey Has Quietly Become A Lock For Cooperstown
Americans Fear North Korea And Don’t Trust Trump To Defuse The Situation
Mets vs. Yankees? America Couldn’t Care Less, New York
Trump Keeps Derailing His Own Agenda
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 18, 2017
Can You Unravel These Number Strings?
Few SEC Running Backs Have Found The NFL To Be ‘Really Easy’
Lots Of Americans Aren’t Sure If We Should Take Down Confederate Statues
Earth Has The Solar System’s Best Eclipses
Mayweather Is Defined By The Zero Next To His Name
Emergency Politics Podcast: What Does Bannon’s Exit Mean?
Bannon May Be Out, But Nationalism Probably Isn’t
Trump’s Populism Isn’t Popular — But That’s On Him, Not Bannon
How Big Is The Bannon Wing Of The Republican Party?
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 21, 2017
Joey Votto’s Greatness Is Wasted On The Reds
Now Stare Directly At This Eclipse Story
Politics Podcast: How Trump Talks About Race
The Ever-Changing U.S. Plan In Afghanistan
Mayweather. McGregor. What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017
Global Club Soccer Rankings
Fake Polls Are A Real Problem
Real Madrid, Arsenal, LA Galaxy, Boca Juniors — In One Giant Power Ranking
Trump’s Reluctant Voters Are Getting More Reluctant
The Cavs Thread The Needle With Kyrie Megadeal
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017
Can College Football Schedules Be Fixed?
Which College Football Teams Are Always Overrated in August?
How To Avoid Falling For A Fake Poll
The Celtics Didn’t Mortgage Their Future — They Insured It
Baseball Is Overrun By Adam Dunns
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017
7 Rules For Reading Trump’s Approval Rating
Which College Football Teams Do The Most With The Least Talent? (And Vice Versa)
What I Learned From 7 Months Of Watching The Trump White House
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 25, 2017
Work A Shift In The Riddler Gift Shop
Conor McGregor Is Not A Pioneer
Believe The Meteorologists. Harvey Is Incredibly Dangerous.
Will The Champions League Finally Get A New Champion?
Will The Arpaio Pardon Make Trump More Unpopular?
The Arpaio Pardon Encapsulates Trump’s Identity Politics
Trump Is A 19th-Century President Facing 21st-Century Problems
Hurricane Harvey Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 28, 2017
Is Trump Losing Advisers Unusually Fast?
The Texas Rangers Got Better, But Their Record Got Way Worse
How The Dodgers Are Using Baseball’s New DL Rules To Get An Edge
Politics Podcast: Trump’s Biggest Domestic Crisis Yet
The Arpaio Pardon Has Plenty Of Precedents … That Got Other Presidents In Trouble
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017
What Can We Do If A President Has A Conflict Of Interest But Doesn’t Think He Does?
NFL Preseason Found A Way To Get Even Worse
Can A Third-Party Ticket Win In 2020?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017
What Happens If The Kyrie-Isaiah Trade Falls Through?
Albert Pujols Is The Worst Player In Baseball
The Mayweather-McGregor Fight, As Told Through Emojis
Six Charts To Help Americans Understand The Upcoming German Election
It’s Time To Ditch The Concept Of ‘100-Year Floods’
Trump Voters In Alabama May Be About To Teach Trump A Lesson
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017
Disaster Politics Can Get In The Way Of Disaster Preparedness
Michigan’s Lineup Was Gutted. How Much Will It Matter?