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    Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…

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    For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…

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    John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…

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    Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…

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    Network Visualization  /  contributions, election, forbes

    Jon Bruner for Forbes reports on billionaire contributions to politicians over the past…

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