Politics

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Expert: Obama's Housing Agency Nomination Is Good News for Poor People

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Men in Black

Why Darrell Issa Should Hold Hearings on Space Aliens

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America's Fertilizer Keeps Blowing Up. It Doesn't Have To.

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Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Texas death row

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Polunsky

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Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies As Soon As Possible

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Friend Who Had "Fling" With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the 3 Additional Suspects: "They All Idolized Jahar"

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Here's How the Rifle That Just Killed a 2-Year-Old Girl Is Marketed for Kids

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Will Andrew Cuomo Go the Distance on Post-Citizens United Campaign Reform?

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Feds Arrest 3 New Suspects in Connection With Boston Bombings

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Obama to Nominate Former Lobbyist Tom Wheeler for FCC Chair

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for May 1, 2013

What the NRA's Millions Do—and Don't—Buy

By Alan Berlow and Gordon Witkin, Center for Public Integrity

This Website Will Help You Outsmart the Supreme Court's Anti-Transparency Ruling

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America's 10 Worst Prisons: ADX

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Ed Markey Is On Track to Replace John Kerry—With the Help of the "Green Billionaire"

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Is the Obama Administration About to Block Plan B Access? (UPDATED)

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Deporting America's Gang Culture

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How Michael Bloomberg Is Like Kanye West

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How to Be a Good Neocon When It Comes to Syria

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Obama Is Right About Gitmo: It's Bad for Us All

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Study: Budget Cuts Are Making Us Sick

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death penalty

Florida Passes Law To Speed Up Executions

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gitmo

Can Obama Stop the Uprising at Gitmo?

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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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