Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 10, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the 2011 film “Moneyball,” a contrarian geek working for the Oakland Athletics baseball team clashes with ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. Election forecaster Nate Silver's book, "On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything," is coming out in paperback. In it, Silver writes ...

Nate Silver is just asking questions. “Is Epstein the new Russiagate?,” the famed statistician wondered in his newsletter this week. For over a month now, President Donald Trump has faced increasing ...

It's very, very hard to sell books these days. So you'd figure Nate Silver would jump at the chance to be on "The Daily Show" last fall, when he was promoting his new book. Nope. Silver said he'd ...

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer. Mr. Silver writes the newsletter Silver Bulletin. Ms. Smith was a senior adviser to Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. Frank Bruni, a contributing ...