Politics

Twitter Reveals All It Can Tell You About Government Surveillance of Users

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The Supreme Court Is About to Hear the Case That Could Destroy Obamacare

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Inside the World of ISIS Propaganda Music

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This Scrap Metal Law Is Being Used to Disarm Pennsylvania's Gun Laws

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School Resource Officer pepper sprays students.

High School Police Ask Judge to Let Them Pepper-Spray and Arrest Unruly Students

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The Ultimate Guide to Womanhood, According to the Female Jihadis of ISIS

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Please Keep Asking Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "How Many Women on the Supreme Court Are Enough?"

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How US Companies Stash Billions Overseas—Tax-Free

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Scott Walker Wants to Know If Wind Power Is Making People Sick

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Do You Live in a State With Low Vaccination Rates?

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A lone wolf surrounded by bombs.

Lone Wolf Terrorists Are Exceedingly Rare, So Why Does Everyone Keep Talking About Them?

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America's Newest Diplomat Will Defend LGBT People Around the World

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California Bill Seeks to Get All Children Vaccinated

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A California Lawmaker Is Trying (Again) to Force Washington's NFL Team to Change Its Racist Name

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Islamic Teachings Explicitly Forbid Death by Burning, But ISIS Did It Anyway

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These Badass Russian Lesbians Just Took the Best Selfie Ever—Because It Actually Matters

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Anti-war demonstrators in Chicago 1968.

Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement in America

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The Surgeon General Is Finally Coming Around on Pot

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Walmart Cut My Hours, I Protested, and They Fired Me

— As told to Josh Harkinson

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Chris Christie Is Now Waging 23 Court Battles to Keep State Documents Secret

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Republicans Say Obama's Immigration Actions Are Making You Less Safe. So Why Are Cops All for Them?

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Hillary Clinton Says All Kids Should Get Vaccinated—But She Wasn't Always So Certain

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If the GOP Actually Repealed Obamacare, Here's What Would Happen

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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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