Spreads & packages
Preexisting ConditionsHow the pandemic unmasked America’s other afflictions.
Survival of the RichestHow the great recession made income inequality worse.
Grab ’Em by the BallotsA statistical preview of the 2018 election and the congressional “pink wave.”
Behind the LinesSidebars and maps accompanying a feature on the American role in the Syrian civil war.
Don’t Tread on MeA cover package on where the Pentagon’s $600 billion-plus budget goes.
Terrorists for the FBIAnalyzing and visualzing a database of more than 500 federal terrorism cases. Part of an investigation into post-9/11 terrorism stings that won a Data Journalism Award.
Art of the StealAuditing the Trump tax cut.
ExhibitBetween 2005 and 2010, I wrote, researched and/or edited nearly 20 Exhibits, two-page spreads of stats, charts, and trivia about a wide range of topics, including credit card debt, virtual worlds, signs of climate change, intellectual property battles, the decline of print, and babies’ environmental footprint.
America’s trickle-up economy
Donald Trump’s original Cabinet, by the numbers
How taxpayers subsidize the oil industry
Charts & data viz
Planet MoneyAn interactive, live-updated map of the dark-money universe of the 2012 election.
Exploring the role of demographics in 2016
Why fast-food workers deserve a break (or raise) today.
The shadowy world of America’s biggest gun makers
How often do burritos make Americans sick?
What’s really in your phone?
More than 140 years of election spending
Random & humorous
Why the last 2 years have felt like 2,448.
Mapping the celebrity colonization of Africa
Charting Keith Richards’ Life
Almost every Obama conspiracy theory ever.
When people name their babies after politicians.
The phrenology of Glenn Beck