Databases
War Tracker, state media, the Iraq War Project, and the 2007 votes — each database is its own story.
What Are They Talking About?
Every day, a robot counts which wars the world’s news covered most — and whether that coverage is rising or falling.
Read the story → Testing War — State-Media TrackingHow Often They Talk About War
How often state-run outlets talk about war — the share of headlines and the tone — for the latest digest. The other desks in this section hold the tables, the network, and the headlines.
Read the story → Iraq War ProjectCongressional Speech Catalog
House and Senate floor speeches, plus Extensions of Remarks, from the Congressional Record. Each entry is tagged as about Iraq or as a passing mention, and includes the matching sentence.
Read the story →When Congress changed its mind on Iraq — and how it explained itself
A member-by-member database of the 2007 Iraq votes, plus work on why insurgencies win and how the public judges war.
533 members tracked120 vote-flippers77% used troop-protection language
Read the story →Explore the interactive vote map (password required) →