Road Rules
Driving Tips: How You Can Help Limit Traffic Jams
Some driving advice should be obvious, but a subtle thing like tapping on your brakes could have effects miles behind you.
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Credit Who Will Be President?
The Upshot’s presidential forecast, updated daily.
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CreditPhilipp Dornbierer Public Health
We’re So Confused: The Problems With Food and Exercise Studies
Among the drawbacks: poorly designed research, a variety of ways to measure and report outcomes, and a bias toward reporting “interesting” results.
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CreditJohn Locher/Associated Press The 2016 Race
Do Republicans Need the Hispanic Vote?
Yes, Florida is a crucial state, but there are more than enough whites to put a Republican candidate like Donald Trump over the top.
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The 2016 Race
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Credit Donald Trump’s Red-State Problem
He’s winning whites without college degrees, but there’s little way to gain in the South — and more room to fall — because that group already tends to vote Republican.
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Public Health
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CreditBrittany Greeson for The New York Times Obamacare Appears to Be Making People Healthier
A new survey of low-income people isn’t perfect, but it suggests that new health insurance options have improved people’s health.
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The 2016 Race
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CreditScott McIntyre for The New York Times A Favorable Poll for Donald Trump Seems to Have a Problem
It relies in part on how panelists say they voted in 2012, but people tend not to report their past votes very accurately.
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Credit Introducing The Run-Up, Our New Election Podcast
It’s 90 days until the election. Twice a week on our new podcast, the campaign team at The Times will make sense of the final, delirious phase of the campaign.
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Economic Trends
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CreditChristopher Capozziello for The New York Times We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here?
Economic growth in advanced nations has been weaker for longer than it has been in most people’s lifetimes.
