Politics

A young woman inmate at Julia Tutwiler prison

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Julia Tutwiler

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At Least 71 Kids Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown

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Want to Track Deaths Along the Border? There's an App for That

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Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

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Koch-Linked Women's Group Takes Credit for Mark Sanford's Win

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Issa Tweets Story Saying Benghazi Testimony Will Yield No "Major Revelations"

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Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee

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This Is How the NRA Lies to Gun Owners About Obama's Agenda

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GOP Senator Wants the Feds to Register Their Guns

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The Downton Abbey Exception and 4 Other Stupid Immigration Amendments

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Sexual Assaults in Military Keep Rising—And Nearly 90 Percent Never Report It

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Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer Wants to Stop You From Printing a Gun at Home. Good Luck.

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Pelican Bay prisoner is escorted by guards.

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Pelican Bay

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LA County Jail's Twin Towers

America's 10 Worst Prisons: LA County

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4,693 People in America Died on the Job in 2011

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Our Arms Race of One

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FBI Agents Want Rep. Mike Rogers to Be Their New Boss. Here's Where He Stands on Civil Liberties

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor

House GOP Advances Fake Pro-Working-Mother Bill

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Lew Slams Wall Street Deregulation Bills

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Mark Zuckerberg's Dark-Money Group Is Ticking Off Progressives

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev Isn't the First Killer to Be Refused a Grave

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Justin Bieber

Here's Why the Syrian Electronic Army Targeted Justin Bieber With Homosexuality Rumors

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America's 14 Most Pissed-Off Comments on the TSA's Airport Body Scanners

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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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