Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder Orders Investigation of IRS

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Contractors Raked in $385 Billion on Overseas Bases in 12 Years

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Did the Acting IRS Commissioner Mislead Congress?

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Minnesota

Minn. Passes Gay Marriage and Michele Bachmann Is Sad

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John Cornyn

Sen. John Cornyn Takes a Stand Against Migrant Deaths. Sort Of.

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Riker's Island

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Rikers Island

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Richard Nixon

Shocking IRS Witch Hunt? Actually, It's a Time-Honored Tradition

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Psychiatry's New Diagnostic Manual: "Don't Buy It. Don't Use It. Don't Teach It."

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What Would Happen if Israel Nuked Iran

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John Boehner

Boehner and the Benghazi Emails: Been There, Done That?

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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk

Electric Car Guru Elon Musk Ditches Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us Group

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Walnut Grove youth correctional facility

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Walnut Grove

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Exclusive: Meet the Woman Who Kicked Off Anonymous' Anti-Rape Operations

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Val Kilmer in Washington, DC

Val Kilmer Was in DC This Week Lobbying for What?!

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Benghazi Isn't Watergate. But the White House Didn't Tell the Full Story.

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Judge: Obama Admin.'s Emergency Contraception Argument Is "Something Out of an Alternate Reality"

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The 7 Craziest Chinese Petitions Submitted to the White House

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mormons building bridges

How the Mormons Ensured Victory for Gay Marriage

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Reeves County Detention Complex smolders following prisoner riots.

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Reeves County

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A Political History of the Cicadas

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State Department Forces Texas Law Student to Take Down Instructions for 3-D-Printed Guns

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Robert MacLean

What TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean Tells Us About Post-9/11 Security

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Rand Paul Wants to Loosen Laws on Offshore Tax Evasion

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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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