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MS NOW White House Correspondent Akayla Gardner prepares to report from a street corner outside the White House grounds after being denied entry on Sept. 19, 2026. Graeme Sloan/Getty Images

When presidents ban journalists from the White House, the First Amendment is not the only constitutional right at stake

When President Trump barred three news organizations from the White House, a lawsuit followed. In it, the news outlets invoked their Fifth and First amendments rights.
People wager on potential Democratic presidential candidates on the predictions market site Polymarket on Feb. 25, 2026. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Prediction markets are opening many new opportunities for unregulated insider trading and unethical bets – in the name of making a game out of politics

The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
CNN’s Magic Wall map with U.S. presidential results is seen on a mobile phone on Nov. 7, 2024. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Better but not stellar: Pollsters faced familiar complaints, difficulties in assessing Trump‑Harris race

With a history of presidential polls getting it wrong − sometimes very wrong − how did this year’s polling fare? Some US pollsters did better, but a Brazilian pollster did the best.
Online alt-media shows defy traditional left-right categorization, but they trend in the same direction: Trumpism. natrot/istock via Getty Images Plus

RFK Jr.’s pivot to Trump is a journey taken by many populists swept along the left‑to‑right alternative media pipeline

How to explain Kennedy’s slide from lefty skepticism into full MAGA? A scholar of populism found some answers in his appearances on alternative podcasts like ‘Breaking Points’ and ‘Joe Rogan.’
Political surveys conducted for CNN and other major media outlets can shape the nation’s perception of a presidential race. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Why CNN is changing up its polling for 2024

Polls help set the public’s expectations in a presidential race. In 2020, presidential polls overall were the worst in 40 years. No misfire was more striking than CNN’s. Will CNN do better in 2024?
Two pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discuss politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper. The Conversation

Pundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trust

Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more from them this election year. Is their rank opinion good for democracy?
Polls showed Joe Biden, right, holding double-digit leads over Donald Trump, left, in the run-up to the 2020 election, but he won election by only 4.5 percentage points. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File

Often in error but still seductive: Why we can’t quit election polls

The unusual candidacy of former President Donald Trump has made election polling especially appealing, more than a year from the election. But consumers beware: Those polls may be wrong.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters, like these two, are more likely to be polarized by TV news than online echo chambers. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed

Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization – cable news has a bigger effect, study finds

Studies of online echo chambers don’t paint the full picture of Americans’ political segregation. New research shows that the problem is more Fox News Channel and MSNBC than Facebook and Twitter.

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