Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
For a few years now, I have been experimenting with a way to display demographic, economic, political, and other data via "size/intensity" or "box" plots. The idea is that if you want to compare some ....
Carol Anderson’s essential One Person, No Vote tells how the Jim Crow era prevented African Americans from voting, offering some surprising facts about a story we thought we knew. It goes on to describe how ....
Photo of federal officers, Portland, Oregon, 6/18/20, REUTERS/Nathan Howard, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-government-under-scrutiny-for-crackdown-on-portland-protesters?ref=hvper.com. 1) Everything Trump does is about publicity. He didn't want a Wall to stop illegal immigrants, he wanted a Wall to symbolize stopping illegal immigrants. ....
Jane Mayer’s article “Back to the Jungle,” in the 20 July New Yorker, looks at the labor struggle in a Delaware poultry plant as a microcosm of how food workers in America today are at ....
The Senate is currently 53/45/2 Republicans/Democrats/Independents (the 2 Independents usually vote with the Democrats). Given how the country is sick, economically depressed, and wracked by protests under the guidance of the Republicans, Democrats have a ....
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
Excel spreadsheet: policeJournalists-1Download Journalists have made numerous reports this past weekend of attacks on themselves by police. This has occurred in many jurisdiction and (especially in Minneapolis) to many different news sources. I've created this ....
I have seen graphs of COVID-19 casualties in individual states and in the country as a whole. Here I display death statistics in a new way that more clearly summarizes the pandemic impact across the ....
It feels like the winter of our covidiscontent has lasted for years, and the date of each new emergency has already become hazy. Therefore I created a chart (see below for image and link to ....
One of the main threats of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it will overwhelm the medical system. Therefore when thinking about that risk, it would be useful to know how big the medical system is. ....