Politics

Buying Plan B Will No Longer Require an ID or a Prescription

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Edward Snowden and the Iceland Option

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Edward Snowden

Community College Says NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Took No "Cyber-Related Classes"

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Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot

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Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera, You Shall Not Pass!

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E.W. Jackson

Virginia GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate: "Satanic Rock," Witches Destroying Society

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FISA Court Has Rejected .03 Percent Of All Government Surveillance Requests

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Sami Al-Arian

The Other Guantanamo Bay

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Advertise on MotherJones.com

"Too Much Essential Information on Intelligence Surveillance Policy Has Been Withheld"

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E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP's pick for lieutentant governor

Ken Cuccinelli's Running Mate Is More Moderate Than Him on At Least One Thing: Banning Gay Sex

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MAP: These States Rejected Federal Money to Fix Their Terrible Mental Health Systems

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Edward Snowden

Prior NSA Whistleblower Warns Edward Snowden: Government Will Seek "Revenge and Retaliation"

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"This Is Morally Wrong": Watch Elizabeth Warren on GOP and Student Loans

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Judge at Center of NSA Spying Controversy Attended Expenses-Paid Terrorism Seminar

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Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance

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a rusty lock on a door

Lawsuit Against Mississippi Prison Is the Stuff of Nightmares

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US Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs, Economy "Putters" Along

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The Domestic Surveillance Boom, From Bush to Obama

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6 Issues That Could Make Immigration Reform Implode Next Week

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Solitary confinement cell

Officials Can't Prove Holding 12,400 People in Solitary Makes Federal Prisons Safer

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Corn on MSNBC: This Is Bad, But Not George W. Bush Bad

Exclusive: Leader of Anonymous Steubenville Op on Being Raided by the FBI

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Silicon Valley's Awful Race and Gender Problem in 3 Mind-Blowing Charts

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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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