In his new book, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, Nate Silver argues that they all exist in what he calls "the River" – a community of like-minded power brokers taking quantitative risks.

The tech world and Wall Street are controlling the levers of society at the expense of more risk-averse institutions, such as the government, academia and the news media.

Elections analyst Nate Silver discusses his new book 'On The Edge' and polling twists and turns in the Trump-Harris matchup in an interview with FOX News host Bret Baier on 'Special Report.' BRET ...

Silver begins his tour downriver, working his way upstream. Poker dominates the early part of On the Edge — that last word refers to any sustainable betting advantage.

Nate Silver says that risk-takers are controlling society. Silver is an election forecaster, and admits that political institutions don’t take as many risks as sectors like technology or finance.

Read an excerpt from “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” by Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight.

Although Silver admittedly spends a lot of time talking about poker, “On the Edge” is a thought-provoking interdisciplinary book that covers a host of timely topics from artificial ...

Columnist Michael Taylor is reading “On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” by Nate Silver. It’s the book of the season, if you share his frame of mind.

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything Nate Silver. Penguin Press, $32 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59420-412-8 ...

Nate Silver is famous for his election predictions. Over the past year, he predicted Democrats would lose if Joe Biden was at the top of the ticket. Now that Biden is out, he sees the race as a ...