Politics

Ecuador's Edward Snowden Problem

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6 Mind-Blowing Stats on How 1 Percent of the 1 Percent Now Dominate Our Elections

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Snowden's Tour of the World's Least Press-Friendly Countries

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WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We're Not Telling You

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As Court Punts, Thomas Compares Arguments for Affirmative Action to Those for Slavery

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Obama Finally—Finally!—Picks 2 Nominees for the Federal Election Commission

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Report: Subcontractors in Afghanistan Do Crazy Things When They Don't Get Paid

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Jose Antonio Vargas, Documenting Himself

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Can House GOPers Be Trusted to Provide Effective Surveillance Oversight?

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Senate Zeroes In on Border Security Compromise

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Obama and Xi Jinping

Why China Will Contain Itself

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Big Business to Screw the Little Guy

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Infographic: This Lawsuit Could End the NCAA As You Know It

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The "Services Not Soccer" Protests in Brazil: What's Going On?

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GOPers Want to Keep Food Stamps From People Who Have a Cheap Car or $2,000 in Savings

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Fetuses Feel Pain at 20 Weeks, and 4 Other Anti-Abortion Myths

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VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren Opposes Obama's Nominee for Trade Representative

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Ron Paul's Immigration Conspiracy Theory

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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Preparing More Disclosures

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In Between Controversies Real and False, Obama Tackles the Biggest Issue Ever

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Rand Paul

The Secret Message in This Rand Paul Pic

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MAP: Border Security Spending Is Often Wasted

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The US Military and the Unraveling of Africa

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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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