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Politics

The Trustees' Report

—Bradford Plumer

Mercury fallacies revisited

Georgie's Angels

They've Got the Guns, We've Got the Numbers

—Bradford Plumer

Too Cruel for School

—Jeff Fleischer

One Big, Bad Apple? An Interview With Avi Cover

—Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Junk analysis

New at Mother Jones: The Coming Energy Crunch

—Julian Brookes

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Only a matter of time...

Abstinence makes the id grow fonder

—Julian Brookes

Blood-bath at the Beeb

—Julian Brookes

Michael Klare on the energy crunch to Come

An interview with social activist David Solnit

Immigration by the numbers

—Julian Brookes

On a lighter note: British dentistry in crisis! (No, really.)

—Julian Brookes

Is torture really all that bad?

Now on the Mother Jones homepage: Sacrificial Ram

—Julian Brookes

Opportunity, security, volatility

—Bradford Plumer

Schiavo spectacle

—Bradford Plumer

Clay Shaw's "free lunch" compromise

—Bradford Plumer

New at Mother Jones

—Bradford Plumer

An Interview With Michael Ratner

—Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins

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