travel safety Today's plane crash: a midair collision in Arizona, killing two people on board Carla Sinclair
guns Sales of "Bulletproof" Backpacks are on the rise even though they don't protect from AR-15s Thom Dunn
health NYT chart shows all causes of death in NYC over past 20 years, then coronavirus spike Xeni Jardin
politics More than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump government shutdown Xeni Jardin
human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Business English and Welsh local governments use "terrorism" as the excuse to block publication of commercial vacancies Cory Doctorow
telecommuting Using the Internet to shop, work and chill at home reduces the US' energy use by almost 2% Clive Thompson
police America will finally gather statistics on which and how many people are killed by law enforcement Cory Doctorow
books Outliers: the statistical mysteries that hold the key to understanding John H Johnson, PhD and Mike Gluck