FiveThirtyEight is using data from Kantar/Campaign Media Analysis Group to show what campaign ads are being aired across the country and how much candidates and outside groups are spending on them. Ad airings are grouped by state. But because media…

On Nov. 6, 2018, I was elected to Congress ; at 31, I was one of the youngest women ever elected to the House of Representatives. One year later, I was sitting on a train to New York to meet with my lawyers about suing The Daily Mail for cyber…

Turning Point: In July, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would fine Facebook $5 billion, the largest penalty ever levied by the agency for consumer privacy violations. A decade ago, Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard professor and renowned…

U.S. officials investigating the deadly attack by a Saudi aviation student at a naval air station in Florida were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism. An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom…

“Thank God for Mississippi.” That's a phrase people would use when national education rankings came out because no matter how poorly your state performed, you could be sure things were worse in Mississippi. Not anymore. New results on…