2 Dashboards · Live Companion Data Updated Apr 2026

Live data, built from the reading.

Two data explorations I've been building — one about the war on Gaza, one about the concentration of American wealth. Each grew directly out of the books on this site.

On this page

A book can teach you the history of a subject. Live data shows you where that subject stands today. The dashboards on this page are my attempts to turn topics I've been reading into something I can see changing in real time.

I build these myself, with editorial direction from me and substantial help from Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic. They're exploratory rather than journalistic — visual extensions of the reading, meant to point back toward the books where the real context lives.

Data sources are cited on each dashboard. Corrections and better data are always welcome.

The Dashboards

Two explorations, live.

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Companion to · Middle East

Conflict Casualties

Live casualty data from Gaza and the West Bank, drawn from the most reliable public sources — the Gaza Ministry of Health's administrative records, verified third-party surveys published in The Lancet, and UN OCHA field reporting. Built to make the scale of what's happening harder to turn away from.

75,200+
violent deaths estimated by the Gaza Mortality Survey through Jan 2025 (The Lancet Global Health)
17,492
children killed in Gaza as of Feb 2025 (Palestinian Ministry of Health)
12 of 36
hospitals still functioning as of May 2025 (WHO)
200+
journalists killed since Oct 2023 (Committee to Protect Journalists)

Books behind itThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine, The Eyes of Gaza, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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SHARE OF U.S. HOUSEHOLD WEALTH TOP 1% NEXT 9% NEXT 40% 30.5% 37% 30% BOTTOM 50% owns 2.5% SOURCE: U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE
Companion to · Black History · Feminism

Lacunae

The racial and gender dimensions of wealth concentration in America. The top 1% owns roughly 30.5% of the country's wealth; the bottom 50% owns 2.5%. Broken down by race and by gender, the history on the Nonfiction page stops being history.

30.5%
of U.S. wealth held by the top 1% (Federal Reserve, Q1 2024)
2.5%
of U.S. wealth held by the bottom 50%
4.3×
the average wealth of white households ($1.5M) vs Black households ($352K)
$2.7T
combined net worth of the 12 wealthiest Americans, Jan 2026

Books behind itThe 1619 Project, The New Jim Crow, Caliban and the Witch, Invisible Women

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