Nate Silver

Paul Wells on how Harper’s winning issue is losing its kick

Colby Cosh on the Sports Guy and the Witch

Psy and a Jay-Z’s baby topped music charts, while a blogger and Kim Jong Un also earned the world’s attention.

Sonia Sotomayor hits Sesame Street, Robert Mugabe is the new Cecil Rhodes, plus a king-in-not-waiting

Obama’s odds, no-money-down tuition, Halo 4 & a drug bust

Colby Cosh works to extract a signal from the noise while offering a lesson from the Alberta election

Jamie Weinman on the gap between trusting your gut and stats

Nate Silver’s attackers don’t know what they’re talking about. (Nor do his defenders)

Colby Cosh finds out what subsets, modelling assumptions and ’non-probability samples’ have to do with polling these days

Nate Silver measures the impact of campaign advertising.