Deep dives
Deep Dives
Multi-chart deep dives through the dashboard: each one walks a set of live charts in reading order, with the context that turns them into an argument.
2026-08-02
7 charts · 7 min
The World Rearms and Reroutes
How the wars of the 2020s left the battlefield: seven charts tracing conflict deaths, record displacement, the collapse of the Suez and Hormuz shipping lanes, repriced insurance and food, and the defense budgets rising to answer them.
2026-08-02
7 charts · 7 min
Where the Money Moves
The American migration story told through tax returns and home values: billions of dollars of income changing states, the superstar-county exodus, the rich-mover premium — and the housing-market twist where migration's winners became the places prices fall.
2026-08-02
7 charts · 7 min
The Great Hiring Freeze
Unemployment looks fine; the doors are closing anyway. Seven charts on how Big Tech learned to grow without hiring, where the payroll money went instead, and why recent graduates and job-seekers are the first to feel a labor market that froze rather than crashed.
2026-08-02
7 charts · 7 min
What America Studies
Half a century of American college majors, told through seven charts built from NCES degree records: the rise of business, the fall of the education major, the health-care degree machine, and the fifty-year rotation of the curriculum from letters to code.
Each story links every chart to its own methodology, source list, latest observations, and downloadable image.