Politics

Hastert

Hastert on Hastert: "What You See Is What You Get"

In 2003, novelist Jonathan Franzen explored the back story of the now-scandal-struck ex-House speaker.

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5 Chilling Pages From a Mass Shooter's Diary Debunk a Favorite NRA Talking Point

James Holmes didn't attack for the reason that gun rights activists claim.

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Dennis Hastert Was Just Indicted on Federal Charges. Read the Full Indictment.

The former House speaker is being charged with lying to the FBI and dodging the IRS.

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Mayor: 6 Months Is "an Unacceptably Long Period of Time" to Investigate a Police Shooting

A New Jersey mayor demands answers about the death of Jerame Reid.

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Hastert

Hastert on Hastert: "What You See Is What You Get"

In 2003, novelist Jonathan Franzen explored the back story of the now-scandal-struck ex-House speaker.

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5 Chilling Pages From a Mass Shooter's Diary Debunk a Favorite NRA Talking Point

James Holmes didn't attack for the reason that gun rights activists claim.

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Dennis Hastert Was Just Indicted on Federal Charges. Read the Full Indictment.

The former House speaker is being charged with lying to the FBI and dodging the IRS.

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Mayor: 6 Months Is "an Unacceptably Long Period of Time" to Investigate a Police Shooting

A New Jersey mayor demands answers about the death of Jerame Reid.

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Martin O'Malley

Martin O'Malley Is Running for President. Here's What You Need to Know

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Hastert

Hastert on Hastert: "What You See Is What You Get"

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5 Chilling Pages From a Mass Shooter's Diary Debunk a Favorite NRA Talking Point

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Mayor: 6 Months Is "an Unacceptably Long Period of Time" to Investigate a Police Shooting

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May 2015 Gallup poll on abortion views

A New Poll Has Good News for Pro-Choicers

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US Officially Removes Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

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carson

Ben Carson Isn't Waiting Until the Election's Over to Cash In

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Bernie Sanders

Read 21-Year-Old Bernie Sanders' Manifesto on Sexual Freedom

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Dennis Hastert Was Just Indicted on Federal Charges. Read the Full Indictment.

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Editor of Leading Conservative Mag Declares "Some Black Lives Don't Matter" to Activists

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George Pataki Leads 2016 GOP Crowd…

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senator

Inside the Unlikely Coalition That Just Got the Death Penalty Banned in Nebraska

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This Guy From Baltimore Is Raising a Christian Army to Fight ISIS…What Could Go Wrong?

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Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors

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A Mentally Ill Black Woman's "Sudden Death" at the Hands of Cleveland Police

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Nebraska Becomes First Conservative State in 40 Years to Repeal the Death Penalty

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This Map Shows the Price Of Weed In Every State

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Scott Walker Says Mandatory Ultrasounds Are "Just a Cool Thing" for Women

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Your City Is Probably Not Going to Be Hit By A Terrorist Attack

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Texas

Texas Wants Its Own Fort Knox

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Will Rick Santorum's "Frothy" Google Problem Return?

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Silicon Valley Discovers the Cheapest Way to Help the Homeless: Give Them Homes

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Bernie Sanders

How Bernie Sanders Learned to Be a Real Politician

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CHARTS

7 Charts Explaining Baltimore's Economic and Racial Struggles
police

The Thin White Line: Most Cops Don't Look Like the Residents They Serve

VIDEO

Screenshot from footage of the police shooting of Jason Harrison in Dallas on Ju

Here Are 13 Killings by Police Captured on Video in the Past Year

Here's What the Nepalese Earthquake Devastation Looks Like From a Drone

INTERACTIVES

Map: The United States of Legal Weed

How the Billionaire Brothers Spread Their Web of Influence Across Every Sector of Society

MAPS

What Particular Kind of Death Is Your State Known For?

This Map Shows the Freddie Gray Protests Across the Country

LONGREADS

Illustration: Max-O-Matic

The Rehab Racket: The Way We Treat Addiction Is a Costly, Dangerous Mess

My Travels on the Clinton Conspiracy Trail

PHOTO ESSAYS

gun violence survivors

This Is What It's Really Like to Survive a Gunshot

Heartbreaking Photos and Tragic Tales of San Francisco's Homeless

Photo Essays + Slideshows

10 Shots From an Incredible New Trove of Depression and World War II Photos

Travel back in time with more than 170,000 images by photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.

Heroin Users Revisit Where They Overdosed

"It wasn't my first overdose and it may not be my last."

Moving Photographs of Japanese American Internees, Then and Now

"We were citizens, but now we were not."

Check Out These Vintage Photos of New York City's 1970s Punk Playground

Two photobooks offer a visual romp through the underground art and music scenes.

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