Afternoon Must-Read: David Leonhardt: About Writing What We Wished to Read

…started in a similar way: A few of us here wanted to read something that we hadn’t been able to find. So we set out to write it…. Our election-night vote tracker…. The project on the growing number of Americans who aren’t working, despite being of working age…. The lack of cross-country comparisons on the state of the middle class and poor in various countries…. The interactive… that allowed readers… to understand the playoff scenarios for every N.F.L. team…