Politics

California's 3-Strike Prison Reform Is Working

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You've Probably Never Heard of America's Worst Police Force

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GOP Chair of House Science and Tech Subcommittee: I Didn't Vaccinate My Kids

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Elizabeth Warren Launches New Battle Against the Fed

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The FCC Just Approved Net Neutrality

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Watch David Corn Discuss Threats From Bill O'Reilly With Rachel Maddow

Are These the 8 Worst PowerPoints the Government Has Ever Produced?

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Elizabeth Warren

Who's Behind the Secretive Group Bashing Elizabeth Warren's Favorite Agency?

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The Brief Life and Private Death of Alexandria Hill

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A police officer writing a ticket in front of a Georgia courthouse.

In Georgia, a Traffic Ticket Can Land You in the Slammer

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Republican Congressman to DC Mayor: "You Can Go to Prison" for Legalizing Marijuana

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Jim Webb

Obama Just Vetoed the GOP's Keystone Bill, and This Democratic Presidential Hopeful Is Pissed

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The First-Ever Clinton Campaign Started With an "Area Man" Headline

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The Governor of Ohio Has a Gloriously Terrible Plan to Amend the Constitution

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Last Week’s Texas Prison Uprising Wasn't a Surprise: Inmates Had Threatened to Riot for Months

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We Have Some Good News For You About Marijuana

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Watch John Oliver Tackle One Of the Biggest—And Least Talked About—Problems in US Politics

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A Court Put a 9-Year-Old in Shackles for Stealing Chewing Gum—an Outrage That Happens Every Single Day

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Prison Phone Companies Have Found Yet Another Way to Squeeze Families for Cash

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CBS Has Released the Falklands Protest Footage Bill O'Reilly Asked For. It Doesn't Support His Claims.

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The Proofiness of Bill O'Reilly

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Obama Administration Using Century-Old Racist Case Law to Block Citizenship

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Here's What Some of California's Least-Vaccinated Schools Have to Say for Themselves

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CHARTS

How Much Money Does Gun Violence Cost in Your State?

3 Tax Day Charts to Boost Your Blood Pressure

VIDEO

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

Obama Just Burned GOP Climate Deniers in "Anger Translator" Rant

INTERACTIVES

Map: The United States of Legal Weed

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

MAPS

Do You Live in a State With Low Vaccination Rates?

This Map Shows the West's Spreading Anti-Terror Crackdown

LONGREADS

My Travels on the Clinton Conspiracy Trail
The True Cost of Gun Violence

The True Cost of Gun Violence in America

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

Fuck Love

These Photos Show What Life Is Like for Girls in Juvenile Detention

Richard Ross has spent nearly a decade documenting the lives of incarcerated kids.

Some Hopeful Images From Baltimore: Residents Uniting to Clean Up the City

During Monday night's unrest, 15 officers were injured and dozens of businesses destroyed.

Plant Tomatoes. Harvest Lower Crime Rates.

A growing body of research shows that urban farms reduce violence.

"I'm a Man in a Dress, and I'm Not Afraid to Show That"

"Beautiful by Night" captures the transformations of San Francisco's veteran drag queens.

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