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February 2018

Five Blue States Could Determine Who Controls The House In 2018
Significant Digits For Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018
Is Anyone In The NBA Not Injured?
How Much Sugar Would It Take To Get A Rocket To The Moon?
This Is How The Eagles Coaching Staff Brought Nick Foles To The Super Bowl
The Patriots Defense Needs 30 Minutes To Figure Out How To Beat You
What Happened To The Democratic Wave?
James Harden’s 60-Point Triple-Double Pushed The Boxscore To Its Limit
Beside The Points For Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018
Texas Dislikes Trump, But That Doesn’t Mean It Will Go Blue In 2018
Significant Digits For Friday, Feb. 2, 2018
Will The Grasshopper Land In Your Yard?
Why Almost No Lead Feels Safe Against Tom Brady
Why The Nunes Memo Probably Won’t Do What Trump Wants It To
Sneaky Stats That Could Decide The Super Bowl
No City Needs A Championship As Badly As Philadelphia
What Went Down In Super Bowl LII
America May Finally Be Ready To Fix Its Infrastructure. Too Bad The Timing Stinks.
The Eagles’ Offense Needed To Be Virtually Flawless. And It Was.
Beside The Points For Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
Significant Digits For Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
How The Eagles Went From Catastrophe To Champion In Two Years
Could A Stock Market Downturn Tank Trump’s Approval Rating?
Politics Podcast: Has Trump Remade The GOP?
Americans Haven’t Changed Their Mind Much On Abortion, But They Have On Other ‘Cultural’ Issues
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018
The 2018 Gubernatorial Map Favors Democrats
Michael Beasley Is Instant Offense, But He’s Stuck Being An NBA Nomad
Screw It — Let’s Debate Some Hypothetical LeBron Trades
Who Should Be More Freaked Out About The Economy — Trump Or The Democrats?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions Is Trying To Take Criminal Justice Back To The 1990s
NHL Players Aren’t At The Olympics. So Who Are These Guys?
20 Years Of Congress’s Budget Procrastination, In One Chart
The Shutdown Lesson People Seem To Have Trouble Learning
Significant Digits For Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
White Democrats Have Gotten Way More Liberal On Identity Issues
The Cavs Fixed Some Big Problems. Will It Be Enough?
Beside The Points For Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
Which Winter Olympic Sport Is Best For You?
Significant Digits For Friday, Feb. 9, 2018
Will Your Picture Frame Come Crashing To The Floor?
Our Data
Why The Cavaliers Blew It All Up At The Trade Deadline
Why Democrats And Republicans Did A Sudden 180 On The FBI
Why Tennessee — The Men! — Could Easily Get A No. 1 Seed
The 7 Governorships Republicans Could Pick Up This Year
Significant Digits For Monday, Feb. 12, 2018
What A Badass Olympic Skier Can Teach Us About Work-Life Balance
Beside The Points For Monday, Feb. 12, 2018
Yu Darvish Makes The Cubs A Top-Tier Team Again
Which Winter Olympic Sports See The Most Wipeouts?
Politics Podcast: What’s So Wrong With Nancy Pelosi?
Americans Want Prison Reform. But Does Trump?
The Path To A Bipartisan Immigration Bill
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018
Harry Kane Is Making His Case For World’s Best Striker
The Economy Is Soaring, And Now So Is The Deficit. That’s A Bad Combination.
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018
Tips To Improve Your Relationship, Courtesy Of International Relations
What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?
St. John’s Is On The Most Unlikely Hot Streak In College Basketball History
How To Find The Best Soccer Matches Of The Week
From Where I Sit, The Trump Era Began In 2014
Significant Digits For Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
Can The NBA All-Star Game Be Fixed?
The Dutch Own A Single Sport Like No Other Country In The Winter Olympics
The Thunder Are Falling Apart Without Andre Roberson
Can Anything Stop Romney From Winning Utah’s Senate Seat?
Beside The Points For Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
5 Questions To Ask Every Time Someone Leaves The Trump Administration
Republicans Are Coming Home To Trump
Who Will Survive The Dodgeball Duel?
Significant Digits For Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
The U.S. Stunk At The Winter Olympics Until Extreme Sports Came Along
‘Black Panther’ Is Groundbreaking, But It’s Shuri Who Could Change The World
Emergency Politics Podcast: Lots More Indictments In Mueller’s Russia Investigation
The Russia Investigation Is Moving Really Freaking Fast
How Much Did Russian Interference Affect The 2016 Election?
The U.S. Is On Pace For A Lousy Olympics
How The Media Bungled The John Kelly Story
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
Pennsylvania’s New Map Helps Democrats. But It’s Not A Democratic Gerrymander.
Oscars 2018: Here Are Our Final Predictions
The Disappointment Continues For Team USA
Politics Podcast: The Gun Debate
Does America Want A Third Party? (Or Is It Just David Brooks?)
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018
Putin’s Russia Just Can’t Seem To Win Olympic Hockey Gold
It’s One Thing For Trump To Like Uranium. It’s Another For Him To Save It.
The 18 (!) Governorships Democrats Could Pick Up This Year
Significant Digits For Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
The Big Questions We Have About NBA Contenders After The All-Star Break
Would Adam Silver’s Playoff Proposal Be Good For The NBA?
Why Trump Isn’t Taking Democrats’ Offer For A Wall
Beside The Points For Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
Even Dictators Like Kim Jong Un Need To Keep Some People Happy
How Happy Should Joe Biden Be About His Lead In 2020 Democratic Primary Polls?
Can You Rescue The Paratroopers?
Significant Digits For Friday, Feb. 23, 2018
Behold The Most Prestigious Prize In Hollywood: The John C. Reilly Award
America Loves Curling — Until It Forgets About It For Four Years
Mueller Had Another Busy Week
This Year’s Super Bad Flu Season In 20 Maps
How Gun Laws Could Change Even If Republicans Don’t Embrace Restrictions
Could The Supreme Court Really Bust Public-Sector Unions?
Significant Digits For Monday, Feb. 26, 2018
Beside The Points For Monday, Feb. 26, 2018
A Decent Second Week Saved The U.S. From Olympic Catastrophe
Politics Podcast: A Turning Point In The Guns Debate?
Why Dozens Of Mass Shootings Didn’t Change Americans’ Minds On Guns
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018
The DOJ Wants To Stop Drug Sales On The Dark Web, But That’s A Tough Task
What’s The Worst Best Original Song In Oscar History?
Should The GOP Move To The Middle To Keep The House?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018
Damn, We Wish We’d Done These 6 Stories This Month
Henrik Lundqvist Deserves Better Than The Rangers