This story represents a lot of firsts for me. This is my first politics-heavy story, my first story that required extensive data collecting and investigative work, the first time I worked in partnership with another writer, and the first time I worked so closely with an editor throughout the entire process. I loved it and I hope to do more of all those things. The idea was to write the overarching story of the Trump administration's impact on federal science through the loss

Election interference, in which one country conspires to elect a favored candidate in another country, is a classic example of a non-cooperative game. Game theory pits two opponents against one another to achieve a goal, wherein one player’s path to success is contingent upon the strategy of the other. Therefore, when news of suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election made headlines, economist and mathematician David Dewhurst set out to model the allega