Politics

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Republicans Claim Net Neutrality Will Mean Billions in New Taxes. That's Incredibly Misleading.

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Bill O'Reilly Responds. We Annotate.

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These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer

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Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem

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Walmart Is Finally Raising Its Minimum Wage

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Casino Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Is Shocked—Shocked!—by Online Gambling

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I Am a White Mother of Black Sons. Here's What I Know.

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Eric Holder Wants All Executions Put on Hold

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Why Is Big Pharma Financing a Conservative Group Trying to Destroy Obamacare?

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Mark Dayton

How One of America's Worst Politicians Bested Scott Walker—and Became the Most Successful Governor in the Country

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Clinton Courts Warren

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Why Is This US Attorney So Gung-Ho on Prosecuting a Respected Medical-Pot Dispensary?

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How Does a City Count Its Homeless? I Tagged Along to Find Out

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We Lock Up Tons of Innocent People—and Charge Them for the Privilege

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Heartbreaking Photos and Tragic Tales of San Francisco's Homeless

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Yevgeniy Vitishko

Visiting My Friend in Putin's Prison Camp

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Can Tiny Houses Help Fix Homelessness?

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Scott Nowlin

The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness

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5 States Where Republicans Are Getting Serious About Criminal Justice Reform

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "I Wasn't 100 Percent Sober" During SOTU Address

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Judge Says That Claiming to Cure Homosexuality Is Consumer Fraud

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Ted Cruz, Closet Keynesian: Read His 2009 Defense of President Obama's Stimulus

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There Will Be Fewer Child Migrants This Year, But the Crisis Isn't Over

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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

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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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