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Maps & Charts

The maps, charts, and graphs that explain the world around us.

Now is the best time in human history to be alive (unless you’re a farm animal)

By Kenny Torrella

The hidden calories in your booze, explained

By Julia Belluz

Where the US government is using facial recognition technology to surveil Americans

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

100 years of tax brackets, in one chart

By Alvin Chang

All the candy that’s sold during Halloween week, in one massive pumpkin

By Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina

23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better

By Dylan Matthews

It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why.

By Eliza Barclay, Julia Belluz, and 1 more

One chart that shows how much worse income inequality is in America than Europe

By Emily Stewart

How Trump’s travel ban threatens health care, in 3 charts

By Julia Belluz and Sarah Frostenson

Have donut holes gotten smaller? This compelling vintage chart says yes.

By Phil Edwards

One map that puts America's gun violence epidemic in perspective

By Zack Beauchamp

These maps show how Americans are dying younger. It’s not just the opioid epidemic.

By Julia Belluz and Sarah Frostenson

The most popular books in all 50 states, in one map

By Constance Grady and Javier Zarracina

Here’s what you have to earn to be considered low-income in the US

By Soo Oh

The risk of a single 5-day opioid prescription, in one chart

By Sarah Frostenson

The Trump budget assault on science, in one chart

By Brian Resnick and Sarah Frostenson

How much snow did Winter Storm Stella drop in your area?

By Soo Oh

The CBO’s nonpartisan report on the Republican ACA replacement plan, explained in 6 charts

By Alvin Chang

The major critics of the GOP’s health reform plan, in one chart

By Julia Belluz and Jacob Gardenswartz

22 promises Trump made in his speech to Congress, in one chart

By Alvin Chang

These maps show how early spring is arriving in your state this year

By Brad Plumer

House and Senate Democrats are facing radically different political maps

By Matthew Yglesias

37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.

By Dara Lind

9 maps and charts that explain the global refugee crisis

By Zack Beauchamp

700 years of Western inequality, in one chart

By Zack Beauchamp

What each incoming president thought was the biggest problem facing America, in one chart

By Alvin Chang

How Trump changed the way Americans see Russia, in 4 charts

By Zack Beauchamp

15 charts that show how Obamacare works now — and how Republicans would overhaul it 

By Sarah Kliff

The growth of Israeli settlements, explained in 5 charts

By Jennifer Williams and Javier Zarracina

Where America's Christmas trees come from, in one map

By Sarah Frostenson

Proof that life is getting better for humanity, in 5 charts

By Max Roser

The stunning rise of deaths from the pain drug fentanyl, in one chart

By Sarah Frostenson

Emerging nations have taken the lead on renewable energy, in 2 charts

By David Roberts

The most common words in Hillary Clinton’s speeches, in one chart

By David Roberts
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All maps are wrong. I cut open a globe to show why.

By Johnny Harris

America's unique gun violence problem, explained in 17 maps and charts

By German Lopez

How potatoes rule the US, in 2 charts

By Sarah Frostenson

There are 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans. This map shows you where.

By Zachary Crockett

Congressional Democrats have nothing to fear from standing up to Trump, in one chart

By Matthew Yglesias

Hey Donald Trump: Japanese internment was paranoid and racist

By Alvin Chang