ARTOMETRICS · Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · DATA REPORTS

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Civics · collecting

The Power Issue

Leaders, silence, access brands, and the economics of when institutions stop protecting.

CAESAR: Power at 0.95, Then the Ides

Caesar's LTA profile shows 0.95 Need for Power and 0.31 Distrust — he built an empire on magnanimity and died when three pardoned senators proved the theory wrong.

BEYONCE: The Cost of Controlling the House

A Psychonomics profile of Beyoncé — Hermann Leadership Trait Analysis, Parkwood as institutionalized self, Lemonade’s canon economics, and an 8,000-line lyric machine.

CEOs: CEO Tenure Caps at 2.5 Years in 9,423 Departure Records

Median tenure coded at 1.0 year; "Interim" label accounts for 218 observations in TidyTuesday departures extract.

WEALTH: Middle Brackets Gained Income Share; Top Tiers Trailed the Median

Middle income groups claimed 16% more share; top earners held 6.7 points less than the 10.9% median between 1967 and 2019.

TRADEMARKS: A ¥10.3 Million Win Becomes Cultural Reckoning

Louis Vuitton won ¥10.3 million against Molly Tea in Suzhou court on 29 June 2026 for four-petal logo infringement. Chinese social media reframed the first-to-file trademark case as foreign enclosure of Tang-era motifs.

PRISONS: U.S. Jail Populations, County by County, 1970–2016

County-level population data show regional regimes that diverge for decades, not one national curve.

VOTERS: National Turnout Hit 132 Million; Most States Stayed Near 1.2 Million

National turnout reached 132.6 million in 2014 while the median state recorded 1.17 million votes across 936 elections from 1980–2014.

EMPERORS: Constantine Lasted 31 Years; the Nerva–Antonine Line Averaged 12.5 More

Constantine ruled 31 years; the median emperor lasted 6.5—dynasty membership did not close that gap.