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The pandemic shaved nearly two years off the average American lifespan

What has Joe Manchin done for West Virginia?

The special bond between humans and orange cats

1 in 6 committed Republicans would support a violent pro-Trump coup

How to torture data

"What stage of capitalism is this?"

The global plutocracy, in one chart

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do

One hilariously bad chart

A few good charts

What happened on Wisconsin highways after wolves returned

Why there's $50 million for doulas in Build Back Better

Two things to read today

Economics has a rich dude problem

Why conservatives don't like cats

Why hunting's on the wane

Ugh fine let's talk about milk

How rom-com plots have changed over the past four decades

Florida's Delta disaster

The press is bombarding you with pseudoscience

How to lie with statistics

Americans increasingly want bigger houses in less-walkable communities

Home alone

Man, Squid Game is freaking huge

What a survival show can teach us about the role of luck in daily life

Covid restrictions crushed the flu

Biden administration defends killing of 8 wolf pups in Idaho

The GOP has lost touch with reality

An epidemic of police violence

A Nobel prize-winning prediction

Chart of the week: "Deficit attention disorder"

Playing ball with insurrectionists

Public trust in the courts is too high

Chart of the week: Chunky trucks

The best lack all conviction

An epidemic of mistrust

We are entering a new era of political violence

Minnesota police want drivers to carry a special pouch so they don't get shot during traffic stops

One chart that explains the GOP's embrace of authoritarianism

What people mean when they say "tax the rich"

New data on the epidemic of despair

Most Americans support vaccine mandates

Nobody was really "waiting for FDA approval," as it turns out

How to squander a medical miracle

Wolf hunters driven by bloodlust, not conservation

GOP Covid policy is killing GOP voters

Map: Every waterfall in the lower 48

Inequality rising in the Paw Patrol universe

Data doesn't have to be mean

An incomplete tally of fatal vaccine hesitancy

Vaccines work

Friday #NameThatData!

Almost half of Republicans prepared to "take the law into their own hands"

Why conservatives are losing their minds over Simone Biles

Cats incredibly lazy, scientists find

Too darn hot!

Friday #NameThatData

The air is toxic

We don't have to choose between Earth and space

NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment

What the Biden stimulus *really* has to do with used car prices

#NameThatData: This line goes up

Airline passenger unruliness is up 400% this year

Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede

Fitbit data traces Covid's assault on the body

A new Gilded Age

The triumphant return of #NameThatData

Covid and impotence: the evidence firms up

Vaxxed, vibing, and totally thriving

Giving a damn, and getting vaccinated

The public shaming of Sha'Carri Richardson

Trump's pandemic failures shaved years off our lives, study finds

Flying on two wheels

The triumph of jorts

A cult of personality, and a national embarrassment to boot

Getting our drink on

Why I left the Washington Post