[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Hey everybody, it’s Earth Day again. Time to kick off your shoes, stretch your toes in the warm grass and inhale the stench of a million PR firms trying desperately to capitalize off your positive impressions of the natural world.  Whether it’s computer companies promising to…

[ad_1] North Dakota recently passed a law seeking to exempt the state from international climate regulations. Matthew Brown / AP Photo State Rep. Jeff Hoverson didn’t want anyone getting in the way of using fossil fuels in North Dakota. Not the United Nations. Not international nonprofits. Certainly not the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. So…

[ad_1] Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): Money makes the campaign world go round — and last weekend, we got our first glimpse at the money race so far in the 2024 cycle. April 15 was the deadline for federal candidates to report…

[ad_1] The Details We consider an endorsement to be a public display or pronouncement of support that articulates or strongly implies that a candidate is the endorser’s current No. 1 choice for president. That’s a wordy description, but it makes a few important points: The endorsement must be made publicly. A New York Times article…

[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Today, FiveThirtyEight is launching our endorsement tracker for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. And while it’s early in the primary season, former President Donald Trump currently has a commanding lead. As we did for Democrats and Republicans in 2016 and Democrats in 2020, we’re tracking whom…

[ad_1] PUBLISHED Apr. 19, 2023, at 6:00 AM We’re tracking endorsements in the 2024 primary, weighted by the prominence of each endorser. Read moreMethodology Point system 10 points Former presidents and vice presidents Current national party leaders 8 points 6 points 5 points Former presidential and vice-presidential nominees Former national party leaders 2024 presidential candidates…

[ad_1] The Supreme Court is set for another high profile clash over abortion rights. Last Friday Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary stay in a case challenging the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions. It means that for now the status quo stands, but in part 1 of this installment of…

[ad_1] In part 2 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses South Carolina Senator Tim Scott’s pitch to Republican voters after he announced the launch of his exploratory committee for president. They also look at the potential impact of Montana Republicans’ decision to change the state’s election laws in the 2024…

[ad_1] Samuel Metz / AP Photo For a time in recent memory, it looked like Utah might be an outlier among red states. While other states moved to prohibit transgender students from competing in girls’ sports, a Utah state Senate committee refused to move forward with such a ban in 2021. Lawmakers in the Beehive…