Category: Politics

Go North, Young Man.

Borrowed from the UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report, this map compares economic development levels across US-Mexico border counties.
If Mexico’s standard of living was dramatically better than the United States’, I’d probably already be there, either legally or illegally. So would many of the Minutemen, I imagine.

A Modest Proposal to Redraw the U.S. Map

If you were shown an outline of the United States’ territory and asked to divide it into 50 distinct states, you might approach the question in any number of ways. Relative population parity might seem important. Or perhaps things like cultural heritage and contiguous metropolises and physical geography would drive your thinking.
But surely, no matter [...]

Happy MLK Day.

I wasn’t alive to witness Martin Luther King at work, but this speech makes me feel as though he’s coming right through the screen.

Telling a story is about connecting the dots, sometimes literally.

National Geographic recently published a chart examining the ROI of the United States health care system:

As designer Oliver Uberti notes in a follow-up post,
“Designing a graphic is like writing a story. You can’t include all your material, nor can you present it with uniform emphasis. To engage readers, you have to selectively edit and then [...]