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Politics

France makes nice with Taliban

—JG

Cheney's Checkbook Democracy

—Melissa Hostetler

Execution can be fun!

—MH

Where have you gone, Upton Sinclair?

—Brooke Shelby Biggs

Uzbekistan's Not-So-Holy War

That sinking feeling

Fighting jelly with jelly

—Brooke Shelby Biggs

Marx as globalization prophet

—MH

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West Virginia's Mountain (Party) Mama

Patient rights, nurse wrongs

—JG

Missing the Forest for the Fees

—Kimberly Lisagor

Punjabi farmers killing selves

—Brooke Shelby Biggs

The Great Debate Debate

Cat burglars beware

All Turkmenbashi, All the Time

Just stop it.

—Brooke Shelby Biggs

Hothouse blues

—MH

Collateral Damage of the Environmental Kind

—Claude V.Z. Morgan

Too famous for jail

—JG

Robocop lives

—JG

Bill of Goods

—Christopher Hitchens

Good Bill? Or Bill of Goods?

—Michael Kazin and Christopher Hitchens

Good Bill

—Michael Kazin

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