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Politics

Letter from Mattel to the Secretary of Commerce

Internal memo of the Commerce Department

Letter from Mattel lobbyist Tom St. Maxens

Legal Drug Pushers

—Maria Tomchick

Going to Blazes

—Patrick Mazza

Fire Fighting

—Jeffrey Klein

Hiring From Within

—Michael Lind

Time Lapse

—Frank Viviano

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Planes, Supertrains, and Automobiles

—David M. Fine

Gary Bauer's Moral Dilemma

—William Saletan

GENERATION

—Lori Leibovich

Violence Lessons

—Claudia Glenn Dowling

Hellraiser: Socorro Hernandez Bernasconi

—Jessica Shattuck

Half Full of It

—Ana Marie Cox

Tall Toy Stories

The Paper Chase

—Leora Broydo

Half Full of It

—Ana Marie Cox

Danger in the Air

—Karin Winegar

Casting Call to Action

Grand Slam:

Half Full of It

—Ana Marie Cox

Chicken Sick

—Dirk Olin and Vikki Kratz

Half Full of It

—Ana Marie Cox

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