Infographics

U.S. execution rates are at a historic low, but still higher than almost everybody else.

Spoiler alert: Not well.

Visualizing one of history’s biggest global crises.

Spoiler alert: The United States gets the biggest slice of the pie.

While lawmakers and outgoing U.S. officials urge Trump not to let the ‘orphaned’ Arctic slip through the cracks.

The Islamic State keeps morphing, and the United States and its allies are struggling to keep up.

This map shows how many refugees each participating country would take under a recent EU proposal, and how those countries feel about it.

Estonian parents get two years of paid leave, U.S. prisoners make $.12 an hour, and other statistics to consider this Labor Day.

These four charts show the scale of the continent's humanitarian situation.

Beijing's multi-billion dollar integration project aims to connect China to Europe with a network of roads, railways, pipelines.

The militant group's rise is leaving a trail of destruction across Nigeria's northeast.

Crowdsourced translation site Cenci gets "erased from the planet."

The world may look like it's roiling now, but the 1980s were far worse.

Welcome to this year’s Baseline Profitability Index.

Four graphs show how China stacks up against the powers of yesterday.

Using Big Data to map Ukraine's protest violence.

What big data tells us about next year’s crisis zones.

What can we learn from the ultimate sci-fi geek chart of warships?