Politics

Do Vending Machines Kill More People Than Guns? (Um, No.)

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The NRA Doesn't Actually Want to Use the Mental Health System to Prevent Gun Deaths

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Will Obamacare Save Transgender Americans from Health Care Hell?

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Iraq Ten Years Later: How the Spin Worked

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Republicans Want to Tighten Your Belt, Not Theirs

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Ohio's First Privatized Prison is a Total Mess

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David Corn Has a Journalism Lesson for James O'Keefe

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Democrats Slam Obama Over Secretive Trade Talks

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Fear of a Woman President Have Basically Evaporated. Finally.

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Elizabeth Warren Student Loan

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E.W. Jackson Obama Islam

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Memo to New York Times: Judicial Nominee Wait Times Are Not A Matter of Debate

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Did the IRS Target Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson?

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House Reps Pushing Wall Street Deregulation Affiliated with Wall Street-Funded Group

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Supreme Court Voting Rights Act

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Wendy Davis is Still Talking. Here's What She's Fighting For.

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How Will Obamacare Affect Same-Sex Couples?

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The 5 Most Horrible Things Republican Men Have Said About Wendy Davis

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The NSA's Email-Reading Super Powers, Explained

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Here's How Banks Are Siphoning Away Your Student Loan Money

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Ohio School District Offers Worst Civics Class Of All Time

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The Brief, Very Odd History of Third Amendment Case Law

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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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