These critical minerals are needed for tech, defense, and industry, yet most of them are mainly imported from outside of the United States.
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Visualizing Corruption Around the World
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Animation: 200 Years of U.S. Immigration As Tree Rings
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The decline of freedom has been accelerating around the world. This chart visualizes the context, data, and key countries where freedom is falling.
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The national debt keeps growing and growing. But what’s driving that trend, and when will the situation reach a critical mass of attention?
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What were the most talked about news stories of 2017? This infographic crunches the data on 2.8 billion tweets to find out.
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When do presidents start their first terms, on average? Who were the youngest and oldest presidents? It’s all here in this visualization.
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Is globalization a force for good or bad? The answer to this question depends greatly on who you ask – here is a survey of people in 19 countries.
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Much of the world’s population surfs an internet that is at least partially censored, and this map shows to which degree that is true for every country.
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Where are the world’s nuclear weapons located, how have these totals changed, and what the heck is going on with North Korea right now?
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Which country is the world’s leading economic superpower? The world is strangely divided on this question – see the surprising answers in this chart.
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Which news sources do Americans trust, and which outlets do they consider to be full of it? See the results from this survey of >8,000 Americans.
