Politics

If You're White, Married, or College Educated, There's a Good Chance You Just Got Poorer

A new Census Bureau report paints a bleak picture of the so-called recovery.

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These New Laws Are a Big Deal for People Who Care Where Their Pot Comes From

"We were able to push things further in a year than we ever thought possible."

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Richard Glossip

An Oklahoma Court Just Halted the Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man

The state's court of criminal appeals is considering new evidence in Richard Glossip's case.

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The GOP Establishment's Sneaky Ben Carson Fundraising Ploy

When is a birthday card not just a birthday card?

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If You're White, Married, or College Educated, There's a Good Chance You Just Got Poorer

A new Census Bureau report paints a bleak picture of the so-called recovery.

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These New Laws Are a Big Deal for People Who Care Where Their Pot Comes From

"We were able to push things further in a year than we ever thought possible."

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Richard Glossip

An Oklahoma Court Just Halted the Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man

The state's court of criminal appeals is considering new evidence in Richard Glossip's case.

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The GOP Establishment's Sneaky Ben Carson Fundraising Ploy

When is a birthday card not just a birthday card?

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LATEST

The Rand Paul Campaign Is Getting Desperate

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If You're White, Married, or College Educated, There's a Good Chance You Just Got Poorer

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President Obama Comes Out in Support of Teen Arrested for Homemade Clock

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This Talented 14-Year-Old Made a Clock. So His School Got Him Arrested and Suspended.

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These New Laws Are a Big Deal for People Who Care Where Their Pot Comes From

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Going to Prison Is Really Expensive—for You and Your Family

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The GOP Establishment's Sneaky Ben Carson Fundraising Ploy

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What America's Biggest Teacher Strike in Years Reveals About the Public School Wars

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Richard Glossip

An Oklahoma Court Just Halted the Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man

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What Would Life Under President Sanders Actually Look Like?

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gun and bullets

More Americans Have Been Shot to Death in the Last 25 Years Than Have Died in Every War

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Pope Francis Is About to Blow Elizabeth Warren Out of the Water

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Here's How Bernie Sanders May Be Changing Politics for Good

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Denver District Attorney Clears Police in Shooting of Native American Man

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These Schools Saddling Students With Tons of Debt Aren’t the Ones You Expected

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Does Donald Trump Send His Own Tweets? An Investigation

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Hillary Clinton

These Are the Forensic Tests the FBI Is Running on Hillary Clinton's Server

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Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum Doesn't Know What to Focus on During Wednesday's Debate

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gun

Shooting Reported at Delta State University

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Voting

California Is About to Fix Democracy

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Australia's Divisive Prime Minister Tony Abbott Is Out. Meet the New Guy.

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Germany Closes Its Border With Austria, Hoping to Stop the Refugee Flow

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The 5 Times America Elected Donald Trump

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CHARTS

If You're White, Married, or College Educated, There's a Good Chance You Just Got Poorer

One Important Suicide Fact That Nobody Is Talking About

VIDEO

Joe Biden's Raw, Emotional Interview With Stephen Colbert Is Riveting Television

If Only Every Lawmaker in the Country Performed a Whip/Nae Nae YouTube Dance to Get the Budget Passed

INTERACTIVES

Assault weapons on sheet

Here Are 3 Gun Control Proposals That Republicans Actually Support

Puerto Rico Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse

MAPS

Stop Looking Just at Europe. There's a Migration Crisis Everywhere.

This Map Shows Who Wants to Move to Your Country

LONGREADS

Here's How Bernie Sanders May Be Changing Politics for Good

This Man Sat in Jail for 110 Days—After He Already Did His Time

PHOTO ESSAYS

Chester family

Black Deaths Matter
gun violence survivors

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

Photo Essays + Slideshows

John Bonner and Richard Huntly

"It Was Kind of Like Slavery"

Backbreaking labor, vicious beatings, unmarked graves, childhoods lost—five men return to the scene of their nightmares.

Chester family

Black Deaths Matter

Why is it so hard for families of color to get justice when a loved one is murdered?

Looking for polar bears with binoculars

Stark Photos of the World's Last Legal Polar Bear Hunt

Only indigenous peoples may hunt the world's remaining polar bears. Could that soon come to an end?

Fidel Castro and Oklahoma Creek Indian missionary W.A. Reiford, wear war bonnets

120 Years of Rocky US-Cuba Relations, in Pictures

What a long, estranged trip it's been.

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