Investigation 009
God, Jobs, or Dopamine: What Actually Broke America?
Weekly attendance: 49% → 29%. Coupling: 72% → 58%. Suicide up. Overdose deaths tripled. Antidepressant use: 600% increase. Sixty million Americans received mental health treatment in 2023 — and the curves didn't bend. Three frameworks argue over what went wrong.
15 datasets · 3 lenses · religion · mental-health · secularization · attention
Investigation 008
Every Technology Revolution Concentrates Wealth. Except When It Doesn't.
Every major technology disruption in American history reshaped the labor market. Each time, millions were displaced. Each time, the public was told: this will create more than it destroys. Sometimes that was true. Sometimes it wasn't. The difference was never the technology. It was the conditions surrounding it.
7 datasets · 3 lenses · economics · labor · technology
Investigation 005
The cardiac signal — virus, vaccine, or neither?
Cardiac deaths and hospitalizations shifted after 2020. Myocarditis became a household word. Three frameworks argue from the same mortality, hospitalization, and dose-response data.
10 datasets · 3 lenses · health
Investigation 004
What actually killed people — a pandemic, a panic, or three crises at once?
The excess deaths are real. +23% in 2021. The debate is what caused them. Three frameworks, the same data, different conclusions.
7 datasets · 3 lenses · health