The Daily Viz

As many have noted, President Trump has shown a remarkable ability to maintain a strong base of support — about 40% of the voters — despite the myriad controversies swirling around him. Some clues about that base can be seen in the results of a fascinating survey taken recently by Pew Research... Read more →

The famously temperate* weather in Los Angeles just can't quite figure itself out this year. This year brought "Snowing in Calabasas!", which was part of the "February to remembrrr", and by April tempurates were unseasonably balmy. We also got rain and more rain and then some more rain. These ... Read more →

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's now-concluded investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian influence over the 2016 presidential election was obviously a hot topic on Twitter. More than 400,000 tweets — an average about 600 per day — mentioned the word* "Mueller" since the former FBI chie... Read more →

Despite all the controversy attached to his presidency, Donald Trump has managed to retain a relatively consistent approval rating in the last two years — especially when compared to predecessors in the modern era. The president's approval rating has climbed some in recent weeks after a signifi... Read more →

President Trump thumbed his way through another year in the White House on Twitter, compiling a good (great) collection of 2,930 touts, complaints, defenses and rants. He left 2018 with this perplexing New Year's Eve missive extolling the old-fashioned endurance of "Walls" and "Wheels" as one ... Read more →

I wrote recently about the effort to get North Korea to return some of the remains of United States troops who are still unaccounted for since the Korean War. More than 7,000 troops — almost all presumed dead — never came home after the conflict, which ended with an armistice in 1953. There's ... Read more →

Another Republican in the U.S. House — Speaker Paul Ryan, no less — announced his intention not to seek re-election in 2018, adding to the number of members leaving ahead of what's expected to be an unfavorable mid-term environment for the party. Even before Ryan's announcement, HuffPost repor... Read more →

A trade war could be looming between the United States and China, fueled by President Trump's fixation on the two nations' unbalanced import-export relationship. The trade imbalance between the two countries — which might not hurt the United States that much — stems from the fact that China se... Read more →

HuffPost is out with an interesting poll about the the public's trust in the FBI, which has been under attack recently for its role in the investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Trump and his supporters have been particularly tough on the bureau, and it shows in the polling data. A... Read more →

I posted recently about the NICAR journalism conference, held this year in Chicago — and it turns out news nerds like to tweet. To keep track of all the conference chatter, I dumped each mention of the #NICAR18 hashtag using Python, eventually collecting some 4,100 tweets. I used #nicar18 sev... Read more →