TPO Explains
Answering your most-asked questions with a crossword on the side and extra whipped cream on top.
Sports & Culture
See what each platform's algorithm prioritizes when the same set of posts is dropped into different feeds.
Government
Some states mail every voter a ballot. Most let anyone ask for one. A few want a reason.
The House has 435 seats split among the 50 states by population — tap your state, take a guess, and see how many representatives it pours into Congress.
How a ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico emptied the White House press pool — and what a federal judge did about it.
Every ten years, the census decides how many House seats each state gets — pick a census year, then click your state to see how its share of the U.S. House has shifted since 1790.
Justice & Legal Affairs
The trial's over. The case isn't — an interactive walk through what causes a mistrial and the choices prosecutors face next.
Match the number, seat a juror — every answer about juries is a number, so pick the one that fits.
The daily rate for state court jury service, state by state — from $5 a day to North Dakota's $100 — plus travel reimbursement and employer rules.
An interactive walk through the 12.4% payroll tax, the 40 credits, the claiming-age math, and the 2032 trust fund cliff.
Economy
When you stop working, you still need money — and across 18 countries, there are really only three kinds of plan for that.
It happened once, on January 1, 1835 — the only time the U.S. national debt ever read zero, and how quickly it came undone.
Four charts on who the federal government actually borrows from, and how much of it is owed abroad.
There's no simple definition of AI, because AI tools do a wide range of things — NASA alone has five.
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