There are different ways to measure how effective a political campaign is. Meet the analyst who’s applying a baseball stat to the campaign trail. Plus, searching in vain for accurate representation of Latinx people in video games.
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Getty ImagesArizona appears set to add a new town. Unofficial results from Tuesday's election in Pinal County show San Tan Valley residents support incorporation by a roughly 2-to-1 margin. -
Getty ImagesBaseball has been kind of obsessed with advanced analytics since the book "Moneyball" came out in 2003; the movie followed in 2011. The idea was to find value in undervalued players — which allows teams to spend less money to win. Lakshya Jain has taken that stat and applied it to political candidates. -
Pedro Iniguez, Space Cowboy BooksPoet Pedro Iniguez grew up watching fantasy and sci-fi movies with his dad. He spoke more with The Show about his work, which won a Bram Stoker Award for poetry — Iniguez is the first Mexican-American to win the award. -
The University of Arizona PressCarlos Kelly is Mexican-American, and he was drawn to the participatory storytelling of video games, where the main character is almost always a stoic white guy. -
KJZZOne of the main goals of shade is to get us out of the sun and cool us down. And while that can make us feel better on a hot day, it can also be important for our health. -
New York LibertyLesbians are an important part of the fan base for the WNBA. Many of the players are out, and fans have a safe place to be out and proud. But that wasn’t always the case. Not too long ago, Rachel Corbman says, the WNBA was trying to brand itself very differently.
