This gist reports a redesign of the graph shown in the August 20, 2014 article by Vox.
The original diagram uses two paired bubble charts with categorical levels encoded in colors.
The re-design presented here makes use of two paired opposed bar charts.
This solutions used Plotly.js as the Javascript graphical library.
This gist can be viewed using the bl.oks.org service at the url.
Another redesign based on a slopechart is available as a gist.