This week we cover ggplot, the grammar of graphics. ggplot is complicated at first but the payoff is worth the effort. ggplot can be combined with other tools to create interactive visualizations. The ...

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

Until mid-October, the Indian rupee was Asia’s worst-performing currency of 2025. It was heading for its biggest annual drop since 2022 — the year Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent oil prices soaring ...

Piezo-type mechanosensitive channel component 1 (PIEZO1), a mechanically gated cation channel involved in calcium signaling, has been recognized as a potential oncogene in some cancers. However, its ...

Don't expect to see an In-N-Out Burger on the East Coast anytime soon. Snyder said country music artist Kid Rock played a role in In-N-Out's expansion into the Southeast, adding he drew a new "map" of ...

Ellen McCarthy is a former assistant secretary of state and led the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2019 to 2021. In a world increasingly defined by uncertainty and great-power rivalry, the ...

R. Kelly is serving his 30-year prison sentence as a result of his convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities ...

A lot of design guides argue that text should, as often as possible, be printed horizontally to align with how most humans naturally read. However, the default y-axis title in ggplot2 (and pretty much ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...