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A breakdown of people who have been put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Most cases involved torture, rape or another felony.

The surprise announcement that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning sets the stage for the Vatican to elect a new pope by mid-March, and opens up the possibility that the papacy could be filled by a non-European for the first time in the modern era.

Andy Warner has a brilliant history of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood up at Slate. It’s definitely worth a read.

Erin Polgreen and Joyce Rice, Symbolia’s cofounders put this comic on comics journalism together to accompany CJR’s profile of Symbolia. Roll over the image to see additional notes!

We kicked off our election mapping with a series of race projections maps for the presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial races. The Fix provided the projections, from solid democratic to solid republican, and everything in between. We decided to focus on a set of...

We kicked off our election mapping with a series of race projections maps for the presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial races. The Fix provided the projections, from solid democratic to solid republican, and everything in between. We decided to focus on a set of...

Since Sandy left town, we’ve been downloading MTA subway-recovery maps to feed WNYC’s Changing Trains map. Our Steve Melendez put them together in a time-lapse GIF. Click through to the full-size image.

One of our most recognizable Olympics graphics is probably “One Race, every Medalist Ever,” a 3D rendering and video that imagines what a race of every athlete ever to medal in the men’s 100-meter sprint might look like.