Politics

Jeffrey Katzenberg with Barack Obama

Meet the New George Soros

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Obama's Drug Czar Cites Useless Stat to Dismiss Legalizing Pot

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Steven Tyler Aerosmith music video Armageddon

NASA: We've Made Progress on Obama's Asteroid-Lasso Initiative

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See How Citigroup Wrote a Bill So It Could Get a Bailout

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rotten apple

Expert: Congress Shouldn't Listen to Apple's Tax Plan

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Elizabeth Warren Attacks House GOP on Student Loan Bill

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Raul Grijalva and Peter DeFazio

Progressive Dems Spar Over Who Will Succeed Markey

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Worse Than Watergate? The Ultimate White House Scandal Matrix

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David Corn on television

Corn on MSNBC: Obama Speech Grapples with Security and Civil Liberties Issues

Boy Scouts: You Can Be Gay Until You Turn 18

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E.W. Jackson

Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate E.W. Jackson: Gays Are "Ikky"

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Obama's Counterterrorism Speech: A Pivot Point on Drones and More?

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GOP Food Stamps Proposal Would Discriminate Against African-Americans

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Official at Heart of IRS Tea Party Scandal Spiked Audits of Big Dark-Money Donors

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Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

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I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable.

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Immigration Bill Heads to the Full Senate, 200 Amendments Later

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Barack Obama Oval Office

The Obama Administration Finally Admits Killing 4 Americans

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Boy Scouts: Gays Okay. Treehuggers Not So Much.

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gun and handcuffs

New Louisiana Law Would Jail Journos for Publishing Gun Info

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E.W. Jackson

How Far-Right Activists Like E.W. Jackson Took Over the Virginia GOP

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Conservatives Crawl out of the Woodwork to Claim IRS Persecution

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Is This Big Tea Party Group Really an Innocent Victim of the IRS?

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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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