Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Jonathan Lai |Anna Wiederkehr |Paula Friedrich |Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

JanFebMarAprMay010203040$50 Billion20242025Customs duties and related taxesCumulative year-to-date totalsLast updated May 9, 2025, 5:15 p.m. EDTPresident Donald Trump’s radical new tariff regime has brought in a surge of revenue from importers who must pay the higher duties. But is it enough to replace the income tax as the main source of funding for the federal government, as Trump administration officials have argued? Treasury Department data shows that will be a massive stretch.

Feb 5, 2025 | politico.com | Ali Bianco |Megan Messerly |Anna Wiederkehr |Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last summer disavowed Project 2025, saying he knew nothing about the effort. But many of the conservative blueprint’s ideas have made their way into his early executive orders, signaling the sweeping impact the Heritage Foundation document has already had on the Trump administration’s policy making.

Jan 18, 2025 | politico.com | Ally Mutnick |Nicholas Wu |Daniella Diaz |Paula Friedrich |Anna Wiederkehr |Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

Dec 28, 2023 | latimes.com | Abhinanda Bhattacharyya |Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee |Aida Ylanan |Sandhya Kambhampati

Every year, the Los Angeles Times data and graphics team bring readers beyond the words. The year 2023 was bookended by violence — first in Monterey Park, then in Israel and the Gaza Strip. But in between, there was plenty of joy — a booming nature project, tubular teen turtles, and a bounty of drought-relieving snow. To facilitate some end-of-year bragging, we had our team’s journalists nominate a colleague’s piece of work, then conduct short interviews about how the projects came to be.

Nov 20, 2023 | latimes.com | Jaweed Kaleem |Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

The protesters have stopped traffic, staged die-ins, filled the National Mall. Since the latest Israel-Hamas war began, nearly every state in the U.S. has seen vigils, rallies and marches aiming to sway public support, and policy, for Israelis and Palestinians. To better understand the nature of the demonstrations, The Times turned to data from the Crowd Counting Consortium, a group run by researchers from Harvard and the University of Connecticut.