Politics

VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren Grills Treasury Secretary on Too Big to Fail

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Judges Strike Down Arizona's 20-Week Abortion Ban

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Former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman

Former IRS Chief: "I Certainly Am Not Personally Responsible" for Tea Party Scandal

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America 10 Years After Sequestration

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Conviction of Genocidal Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Overturned by Guatemala's Highest Court

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White House Learned of IRS Tea Party Probe Early—But Didn't Tell Obama

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Why the Government Surveillance of Fox's James Rosen Is Troubling

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4 Ways Apple CEO Tim Cook Spins Tax Avoidance

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"Mark Is Not Going To Die In Vain": New Yorkers Rally After Murder of Gay Man

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The Michele Bachmann Campaign Probe, Explained

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Virginia Republicans Have a Vagina Problem

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Reasons to Be Hopeful a Decade After We Went Into Iraq

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After Girl Expelled From High School and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship, Anonymous Goes on the Offensive

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Poverty Flees to the Suburbs

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Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses. Does That Matter?

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Mark Zuckerberg, Charles Koch, and Sheldon Adelson

Billionaires Now Own American Politics

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IRS

How the IRS's Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

— By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica

Elizabeth Warren Slams Wall Street Again

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Is the Government Spying on Reporters More Often Than We Think?

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Ad Slams Arizona Sen. Flake for Flaking on Background Checks

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IRS Speaks Out: We Messed Up, But We Would've Scrutinized Tea Partiers Anyway

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for May 17, 2013
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Actually, Tea Party Groups Gave the IRS Lots of Good Reasons to Be Interested

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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

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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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