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With only a week left in the Bush presidency, The Atlantic offers a illustrated look at what the last eight years have brought. While some changes aren’t surprising — Apple profits up, Big 3 automaker profits down; electricity costs up, personal savings rate down — others are a bit less obvious. Like the doubling of [...]

To look at the ubiquitous red state/blue state map in the wake of the Obama landslide is a bit confusing–it’s quite red. Mark Newman of the University of Michigan has stretched and squashed the map until it makes a little more sense. His simple trick was to make a map that reflects population instead of [...]