Politics

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Report: When It Comes To the Deficit, Washington is Still Acting Like It's 2010

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New Report Shows How Walmart Forces Its Employees to Live on the Dole

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NSA Spying: An Obama Scandal?

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The US Is Locking Up Undocumented Kids With Adults

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You, Too, Can Invest Like Elizabeth Warren!

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Flashback: Bush Aides Used Alternate Email Addresses, Too

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Court: Some Types of Emergency Contraception Must Be Available Over the Counter ASAP

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Report: Mansions Getting Bigger, Rental Apartments Getting Smaller

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Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.).

Montana Republicans Launch Campaign to Ban Dark Money

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 5, 2013

The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts

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On the Front Lines in Turkey: 10 Photos From the Anti-Government Protests

—By the Mother Jones news team

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Destroying a Planet Without Really Trying

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Florida Dems Snub Their Own Challenger To Rick Scott

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FreedomWorks Fallout Continues: 2 Prominent Conservatives Resign

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Time-Lapse Video of Photographer's 24 Hours in Isolation

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Depressing Lede of The Day, Marijuana Arrest Edition

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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Grassroots Movement on Student Loan Debt

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The NRA Wants This Town to Legalize Packing Heat at the Pool

—By Lois Beckett, ProPublica

How a Convicted Killer Became My Friend

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Elizabeth Warren to Hold Emergency Briefing on Student Debt

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The Protests in Turkey, Explained

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Supreme Court Okays Warrantless DNA Sampling

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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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