Politics

Court Orders Release of Dying Prisoner After 41 Years in Solitary, But Louisiana Plans to Appeal

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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

Obama Official May Run Against Florida's Anti-Obamacare AG

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House GOPer on Government Shutdown Strategy: "I Don't Know That There Is a Plan to Win"

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6 Risky Gun Storage Products Sold by the NRA

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The 10 Saddest Government Shutdown Goodbye Notes

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Why Americans Can't Remember Afghanistan

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Republicans government shutdown

White Republican Sausage Fest Ready To Negotiate With Senate, Eric Cantor Alleges

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How John Boehner Could Lose His Speakership

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Obama Will Not Abandon Astronauts in Space During Government Shutdown

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Anti-Virus Millionaire Says He Can Protect You From the NSA for $100

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How Republicans Blocked a Key Obamacare Benefit—Without the Shutdown

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Businesses Refusing to Cover Contraception Because…Citizens United?!

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Government to Furlough Food Inspectors but Not Military Recruiters

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GOP Staffer on Vitter Amendment: "Congress Literally Threw Staff Under The Bus"

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Trent Lott on Ted Cruz: "Cut His Legs Out From Under Him"

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48 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Screw You Over

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Funny or Die Obamacare Scandal Parody

Jennifer Hudson Promotes Obamacare, Impersonates Olivia Pope in New Funny or Die Video

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Obama

Why Won't Anyone Listen to the World's Sole Superpower?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 30, 2013

Should Obama Reveal His Inner Pissed-Off President?

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Jeffrey Katzenberg

Movie Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Million for Mitch McConnell's Democratic Foe

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Map: Is Your State a No-Drone Zone?

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Need a New Stadium? Threaten to Move Here

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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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