In the last seven years, Brazilian public funds were used to pay for, on average, two steakhouse dinners every day.
Since December of 2009, when all the expenses paid with government-sponsored...
Latest general election results from the UK’s 650 constituencies. Theresa May’s gamble has failed; the Conservatives have lost their parliamentary majority and have turned to the DUP to support...
With the decision for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade looming back in early May 2022, Insider produced a package of stories focused on the 13 “trigger law” states. These states had...
Repetitions are vital when subtleties need to be stressed. If one has the luxury of time, repeating something becomes simple. When the medium of expression is space, however, stressing or...
The traditional categories used for describing countries (Developed and Developing) do not provide an accurate description of the current status of any country. These categories were helpful in the...
Obamacare’s insurance marketplaces are in a precarious position.
Aetna quit the Obamacare marketplaces last week, leaving Nebraska and Delaware.
In Iowa, a smaller plan called Medica has...
Over eight months into the Mosul offensive, Islamic State militants have been dislodged from all of the city. The fall of Mosul marks the end of the Iraqi half of Islamic State’s self-styled...
This map visualization depicts the human cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2008 until October 7, 2023, the date of the large-scale Hamas attack that precipitated the current crisis. The...
Nichelle Smith, an investigations team editor at USA TODAY, recalls attending a lecture at the Library of Congress in early 2018 where she listened to scholars discuss the landing 400 years ago of...
Assessing population well-being is as complex as it is sensitive, requiring careful consideration of various factors contributing to individuals’ quality of life. While established metrics such as...
When police fail to follow operating procedures, the consequences can be deadly.
The Review of New South Wales Police Force responses to domestic and family violence incidents, published in June...
This visualisation aims to showcase the degree of freedom across the globe in 5 major economic areas that break down into subsequent components using the economic freedom index from Fraser...
"Unheard Voices: India's Hidden War on Women" highlights the alarming reality of sexual violence in India from 2001 to 2010. Through this visualization, I aimed to demonstrate that behind every...
The world needs deep and rapid cuts in CO2 emissions to keep us on track for 1.5 degrees. The G7 nations represent 40 percent of the global economic activity and a quarter of the total global...
328 religious communities were invited by the Canton of Bern to participate in a survey. The purpose of the survey was to learn about the growing diversity of the religious landscape in the canton...
We have improved and developed our election results website, which we create for every election, to provide a better experience for both internal teams and external readers.
Taiwan undergoes...
This story investigated and explained sanctions during the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially why certain individuals/entities were not sanctioned over their critical...
On April 15th, a fire broke out on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Huge gray smoke floated into the sky which was reported by China News on April 16th.
“404”represents...
Each year The Atlantic Council's Freedom and Prosperity Center publishes their Freedom and Prosperity Indexes, dedicated to exploring the relationship between freedom and prosperity in both...
On March 16, 2021 a series of racially motivated murders happened at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia during which eight people, including six Asian women, were killed. This horrific event, occurring...
A compelling narrative created for Civic Influencers, an NGO, to showcase the potential impact of American youths’ interest in and access to votership, highlighting to both donors and students the...
What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are addressed in the web-based article “Inter...what?...
The U.K. wants to negotiate a sweeping free-trade deal with the EU to replace its single-market membership after Brexit. But the data show it's not in a great negotiating position. We visualized...
Making important decisions is part of everyday life, yet understanding how people arrive at their choices has remained a persistent challenge in Behavioral Science, market research, and related...
The Japanese government is planning to release treated wastewater currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean later this summer. The plant was damaged by an...
USA Today partnered with The Associated Press and Northeastern university to revive a dormant database that tracks every mass killing in the United States, going back to 2006. The team at USA Today...
Thousands of independent businesses were threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic. But what do we really know about these businesses that constitute the the heart of our social and economic life? An...
India is a developing country with a little over 64 percent of the population living in rural areas. However, even after 75 years of independence, the public healthcare infrastructure serving these...