Data journalists have been busy in recent weeks with US President Donald Trump’s many controversies, whether it’s his trade war, sweeping USAID cuts, or his belligerent stances on the Russia-Ukraine war. In the run-up and after, Germany’s federal election also dominated the work of data journalism teams around the world, with polls and election forecasts, live trackers, and overviews of the voting results. This edition of our Top 10 in Data Journalism, which considered stories between February 15 and March 7, also highlights a Bloomberg analysis of satellite images showing the destruction of buildings in the Gaza Strip; Al Jazeera’s visual explanation of African countries’ borders; and Spain’s three-decades-old prison release algorithm.
Donald Trump’s Tariff Wars
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Since returning to the White House less than two months ago, Trump has imposed import duties on goods from the country’s three largest trading partners — China, Canada, and Mexico — and on all steel and aluminum imports. While he has walked back and also re-implemented — sometimes just hours or days later — some aspects of the policy, he promises more tariffs, including on EU and UK goods. But how will this affect the wallets of ordinary Americans? According to this data analysis from Axios, Trump’s trade war threatens to raise prices on everything from food and clothing to cars and computers — not counting the retaliatory tariffs that most affected partners…
