About a third of Political Wire members got a perfect score on this week’s quiz.

So how well did you pay attention to the news this week?

Take the quiz to find out.

The following features on Political Wire have updated: Polling Dashboard, Trending News, Political Calendar and On This Day in Political History.

Please leave your thoughts comments and let me know if you see any bugs.

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My son has launched another political game — and this one is especially fun.

It’s called Pollster and the idea is simple: You’re shown a real polling question and have to guess the percentage of Americans who gave a particular answer.

The questions come from major polling organizations and some of the answers are much harder to predict than you might expect.

Like his other games, it only takes a few minutes to play. But it’s surprisingly addictive.

It joins Yea or Nay, where you try to predict how senators voted on key legislation, and Split Decision, his Supreme Court game.

Only 20% of Political Wire members got every question right on the Weekly News Quiz.

Can you join them? Take the quiz.

I’ve completely rebuilt the Favorites feature on Political Wire — and since many members probably didn’t even know it existed, it’s worth a quick re-introduction.

Favorites are the easiest way to save a Political Wire post you want to come back to later.

You’ll now see a small bookmark icon next to the Comments link beneath each headline. If you’re logged in, just click the icon and that post will automatically be added to your My Favorites page.

That gives you one place to keep stories, analysis or other posts you may want to reference again without having to search for them later.

And when you’re finished with something, you can remove it from your Favorites page with a click.

It’s a simple feature, but one I think makes Political Wire much more useful as an archive — especially if you regularly find yourself thinking, “I’m going to want to find this again.”

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Political Wire has a new Polling Dashboard tracking President Trump’s approval rate, the generic congressional ballot and eight key Senate races.

And there are some additional changes to the Trending News page as well.

Political Wire’s timeline game Hindsight has been completely revamped and is now called The Way It Was.

There’s a new game every day — and it’s now available to all readers.

Give it a try!

(And let me know if there are any bugs.)

Just finished up a fun discussion on this week’s primaries with the great Julie Mason.

You can listen here.

Only 17% of Political Wire members got a perfect score on this week’s news quiz.

Think you can join them?

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Today’s Yea or Nay takes you back to 2013 when Congress considered gun control and immigration reform.

It’s a new day, which means there’s a new Yea or Nay challenge waiting.

Here’s a fun new game for political junkies.

Yea or Nay gives you five senators and three bills each day — and challenges you to guess how each senator actually voted.

It sounds easy. It’s not. But it’s surprisingly addictive. And there’s a new game every day.

Play Yea or Nay.

Here’s fun way to test just how well you know the U.S. Senate.

Yea or Nay gives you five senators and three bills each day — and challenges you to guess how each senator actually voted.

It’s deceptively hard, highly addictive and a lot of fun.

We’re putting together a summer mailbag episode of Trial Balloon for later this month and we want your questions.

Ask us about the latest political developments, the 2026 midterms, the future of the two political parties, what goes on behind the scenes at Political Wire — or anything else you think we should tackle.

We’ll answer as many as we can on the podcast. And if the mailbag is overflowing, I’ll answer the rest in some members-only posts.

So what do you want to know? Send your questions our way.