Nate Silver's Politics Pod Gets a Second Life at Crooked Media

Here's a resurrection nobody saw coming: Crooked Media just scooped up Nate Silver's "FiveThirtyEight Politics" podcast and is bringing it back to life under a fresh name. The show, which featured Silver alongside Clare Malone and Galen Druke breaking down the numbers and noise around American politics, will relaunch as "Still Counting" next month.

Timing matters here. With the 2026 midterms on the horizon, there's real appetite for a show that can cut through the fog and talk strategy without all the cable-news hysteria. Crooked Media—the pod network founded by former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor—has been building a solid stable of political content. Adding Silver's track record and the crew's chemistry makes sense.

The new name signals a shift in tone, maybe. "Still Counting" feels less like pure statistical analysis and more like an ongoing conversation about what the numbers actually mean for the country. That could work. Politics is moving fast; a weekly check-in from people who know how to read the data without losing the plot sounds useful right now.

We'll see if the revival sticks.

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