Latest analysis · Data through
Evidence first. Every number sourced. Every chart explorable.
Economics, interactive
The Bureau of Labor Statistics could not collect most October 2025 prices during the 2025 lapse in appropriations, so it will not publish 12-month changes for October 2026 for the overall CPI and most other series in its Nov. 10, 2026 release.
Governance
One of six midterm beliefs holds: turnout is always “low” when that means below presidential years. The president's party lost House seats in 18 of 20 midterms since 1946. In three studies, mail rules had no partisan effect; the turnout edge has shifted. This is not a forecast.
Economics
Unemployment, inflation, wages, job gains, mortgage rates and consumer sentiment in one place, each chart drawn from official data you can download, and refreshed as new figures are released.
AI
AI is becoming infrastructure. Here’s what it can actually do today, the benefits worth pursuing, the risks we can’t ignore, and the rules that keep progress from turning into damage.
Business
UBI is moving from theory to live policy debate. Here is what drives the interest, what pilot evidence suggests, and why cost and design choices determine feasibility.
AI
AI is making phishing, voice scams, and recon cheaper and more convincing. The first wave is already here, and it favors attackers.
Economics
Consolidation can look like efficiency, but it can create single points of failure. Here is how conglomerates become de facto infrastructure, why resilience matters, and what policy can do.
Governance
A stage-by-stage, evidence-based guide to how U.S. party coalitions and ideologies evolved from Reconstruction through the Southern realignment.
Governance
As local newsrooms collapse, corruption rises, disaster response weakens, disinformation spreads, and local elections lose scrutiny. Local journalism is democratic infrastructure.
AI
Federal action is stalled, so states and cities are writing the first enforceable AI rules. Here is what the first wave actually requires, what is working, and what patchwork compliance breaks.