The Year in Graphics

Tesla’s Elon Musk had an… interesting year, Amazon continued its domination and Apple became a trillion-dollar company.

The midterm elections dominated U.S. news this year. Democrats won back the House, voter turnout was the highest in a century and a record number of women ran and won.

Infrastructure week, remember that? Here are some of the biggest issues in infrastructure, from trains to food. Plus, our most popular story of the year, a deep dive into how America uses its land.

Wage gaps. #MeToo. Tampon taxes. Besides winning a record number of elections, women spoke out about systemic inequities and ushered in a new era of change.

We reimagined our Best B-School ranking, spoke with people across Britain and analyzed a year of market data in these survey projects.

We analyzed the data to reveal democracy’s decline and scandals in government, pharma and courts. Here are four of our most elucidating and impactful investigations.

Beep beep boop boop. Malls are failing. Brexit is a mess. The National Health Service is broke. Plug in your headphones and see if you can save the day.

Climate change and pollution are quickly changing the world. We visualized their effects on the air you breathe, the food you eat and the water you drink.

Forget 2018; what’s next? Will China continue its rise? Will we survive the next depression? Will asteroids make us all rich? (Wait… what?) We answered some of your burning questions about the future.

A Bloomberg list wouldn’t be complete without in-depth coverage of financial markets, from cryptocurrencies to Wall Street.