It looks like their focus is all major current events under a statistical/data lens.

The top post is actually their "manifesto": http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/

> We are going to screw some things up. We hope our mistakes will be honest ones. We hope you’ll gain insight and pleasure from our approach to the news and that you’ll visit us from time to time. We hope to demonstrate the value of data journalism as a practical and sustainable proposition.

> It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier.

I am so excited. This is going to be great.

I thought the NY Times bought/owned the fivethirtyeight brand?

They parted ways last summer, purportedly because the new NYT CEO did not think much of his non-politics-season value:

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/5-takeaways-york-magazines-profile-...

They had it for a while, but either Silver bought it back, or it was a time-limited license. Fivethirtyeight is affiliated with ESPN now.

I didn't see a RSS icon on their page, and had to open the source of the page to get it. Here it is, for anybody else out there that still uses RSS: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/feed/

Read http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/ to learn what the relaunch is about.

No "About" page... I have no idea what I'm looking at, and the highly descriptive name doesn't make it easier either. A new news-site?

Here's the introductory post: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/

You can read more about Nate Silver at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver

What's exciting about FiveThirtyEight is their scientific/data-driven approach to journalism. While all other news outlets clamor over one another in their quest towards the elusive notion of "objectivity", FiveThirtyEight actually seems to be making strides in that direction.