The United States was once viewed as the uncontested global leader in scientific and technological advancements. But America’s position as a top innovator is slipping, and other countries are...
On January 4th, 2023 Israel was sent into political and social turmoil.
The newly appointed Minister of Justice announced an elaborate plan to change the way the judicial system works. Since...
Over the summer and autumn 2018, there was a hot debate about weapon exports in Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Council wanted to loosen the export regulation such that, in certain cases,...
The past week of Trump scandals for people reading mainstream news outlets has gone something like this: President Trump fired the FBI director who was investigating his campaign’s connection with...
Storylanding dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 'Kursk' submarine disater unveiling an unofficial version of the tragedy.
According to the official version, the sailors’ deaths were accidental,...
Each year The Atlantic Council's Freedom and Prosperity Center publishes their Freedom and Prosperity Indexes, dedicated to exploring the relationship between freedom and prosperity in both...
China’s coal region has been particularly hard hit as the trend for renewable energy continues to grow, with the outflow of people compounded by low birth rates and ageing populations. We analyse...
In the UK, there are 335 branches of Waitrose or littleWaitrose - a supermarket chain culturally associated with gentrification and affluence. Of these, 197 are located in London or the south east...
On 1 February 2021, Myanmar's decade-long transition to democracy was upended when the military overthrew the government. This coup triggered nationwide protests by the pro-democracy public, who...
Over the six months, Rest of World spoke to more than 70 technologists, activists, and journalists from across the globe to understand the growing threat to free expression: government-sponsored...
Data Culture partnered with Vote.org to leverage data visualization in order to bring their work preceding the 2022 election into the spotlight. The full microsite explores not only their impact in...
Nearly 2 million tweets, this is the database that WeDoData has compiled by scraping each month the tweets of the 588 deputies during Emmanuel Macron's first term.
You have the opportunity to...
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life, being educated and having a decent standard of...
Crossing the Political Divide examines the nuances of the political divide, looking at registered republicans and democrats in Cincinnati, Ohio. The story is much more complicated that a swing city...
“The Cost” is an infographic depicting the physical, mental, political, and financial costs of one of the most catastrophic disasters in U.S. history. The water of Flint, Michigan was contaminated...
Who would the rest of the world vote for? A data-driven digital experience visualizing “soft” and “human” data to discover the world’s interest in the 2016 US presidential candidates.
By looking...
During the February 2019 skirmish between India and Pakistan, an Indian Mig-21 flown was shot down in a dogfight with Pakistani Air Force. This led to media scrutiny as to why the Indian Air Force...
Donald Trump’s rise from joke candidate to Commander in Chief was extraordinary. As Delayed Gratification is a Slow Journalism magazine, which reports on events at least three months after they’ve...
This project was a follow up on a map I designed as a response to Laura Trump's "Try to impeach this" tweet (https://twitter.com/karim_douieb/status/1231216013313789955). The essay try to explain...
The growing gap between the top and bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder has been a prominent topic of public discourse in recent years. Statistics vividly portray this phenomenon. According...
When election promises are not kept, this is met with incomprehension in our society. Behind political decisions often stand compromises, which are necessary to generate majorities. They form the...
Mechanicus is an interpretation of the large machine a single human can control via stock investment and how unsustainable it is since the only common factor is profit, not the customer, employees,...
Every year Russian deputies publish their income declarations. In addition to earnings, MPs and their family members should declare real estate owned or rented (apartments, country houses, garages,...
President Trump declared that the United States would leave the Paris climate agreement, following months of infighting among Trump’s staff that left the world in suspense. He said he hopes to...
___ is more? For Millennials and Baby Boomers, there is a clear divide between those who prioritize personal experiences versus financial stability as the "more" that they value.
This piece won...
Can a metaphor with animated weather icons track the economic well-being of the United Kingdom and show the impact of Brexit over time? Here is our attempt at adding a little levity to an important...