
Walter Hickey is Insider's Deputy Editor for data and analysis. In addition to his work on elections and data journalism, he edits comics at Insider and writes "Numlock News," a daily morning newsletter. Previously, he worked for FiveThirtyEight as chief culture writer and at Business Insider. In 2022 Hickey won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for his work on Insider's "I Escaped A Chinese Internment Camp," which documents the plight of Uyghurs in China.
Data expert Walter Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power through entertainment.Anyone who has ever watched or read something profound and moving knows that entertainment can affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have