Intermission: Senator Al Franken's Impressive Hand-drawn U.S. Map

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• Culture

  

  Amazing Map of All of America's Dialects

  See the regional peculiarities of how people speak where you live, and across the country

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• News

  

  Intermission: Travel the U.S. in Five Minutes

  Photographer Brian DeFrees created an amazing time-lapse video documenting his trip across the United States and back.

  by Jillian Anthony +

• Culture

  

  The Best Drunken, Hand-Drawn Infographics from Our Data Issue Launch Party

  Our favorites of the dozens of hand-drawn infographics created at our party this week

  by Zak Stone +

• News

  

  Pod People: Velomobiles Tour the U.S. This Summer

  The velomobile is "the most uncommon animal" in the personal transport kingdom. And it's coming for the U.S. this summer.

  by Zak Stone +

• Design

  

  Shantytown, U.S.A.

  Just a short drive from the U.S.-Mexican border, a densely packed community will soon hum with activity. Homes will be jammed together, with...

  by Tim McKeough +

• News

  

  The U.S. Needs a Department of Development

  Foreign assistance isn't only a moral gesture, it's also essential to our national security. The United States spends more than $20 billion a...

  by Michael Kleinman +

• Lifestyle

  

  Transparency: The Health of U.S. Teeth

  Despite the fact that dental health is so important, too many people in America lack dental coverage. This is a look at how many children have...

  by GOOD, Robert A. Di Ieso, Jr. 3

• News

  

  Handing Down Hand Me Downs Goes High Tech

  thredUP.com creates a kids' clothing exchange for the 21st century by merging online technology with traditional 'hand-me-downs.'

  by Allison Arieff +

• News

  

  U.S. Air Strikes in Somalia

  In it's first intervention since "Black Hawk Down," the U.S. launched air strikes inside Somalia at Al Qaeda members suspected of masterminding...

  by Rudy Adler +

• Environment

  

  U.S. Lags in Environmental Performance

  A biannual ranking of the world's nations by environmental performance has revealed the United States to be lagging far behind most of the...

  by Ben Jervey +

• News

  

  U.S. Rail Infrastructure: A Slow-Moving Train

  Over at Planetizen, the self-professed rail devotee Jeffrey Barg considers the slow-moving progress of rail infrastructure in the United States....

  by Brittany Wong 1

• News

  

  A Four-Minute History Of The U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relationship

  The Kingdom is getting mixed reviews, but the opening credits of the movie were a gripping and pretty informative 4-minute lesson in the history...

  by Andrew Price +

• News

  

  Proof that the U.S. Government Isn't Serious About Alternative Energy?

  As you can see from these two graphs, the U.S. government's investment in non-fossil fuel sources has been proportionally quite low during...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Culture

  

  Rock (and U.S. Oil Production) Is Dead

  Overthinking It has a thought-provoking chart (view at full size here) that pits the declining quality of rock music against the declining amount...

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  CBS's Somber Appraisal of the State of U.S. Schools

  Throughout the last week or so, education reform has vaulted into the national spotlight. That's largely thanks to the prominent role it had in...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• News

  

  The Four Most Unlikely Ways a Refugee Becomes a U.S. Citizen

  Samy may have just built himself a house inside a refugee camp, but he’s not planning on staying long. No, he’s looking to run through the...

  by Brian Merchant +

• Environment

  

  The Battle to Control the U.S. Meat Market

    It's no secret that most of the meat consumed in the United States comes from large conglomerates whose focus on efficiency and large scale...

  by Rosie Spinks +

• Business

  

  Infographic: U.S. Home Foreclosures Are Still Rising

  Even as the economy shows some signs of recovery, we are still seeing the repercussions from the housing crisis.

  by Morgan Clendaniel 1

• Design

  

  How to Decarbonize the U.S. Power Grid

  A new proposal by AMO, the thinktank arm of architect Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA, has a plan to make the United States carbon-neutral by 2050. The...

  by Alissa Walker 1

• Design

  

  A Competition to Transform 9,600 Aging U.S. Buildings

  Metropolis wants you to redesign a building to have zero environmental impact. The winning idea could be used in 9,600 structures.

  by Alissa Walker +