Politics

Map: Most Americans Support Background Checks for All Gun Buyers

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We Now Have Further Evidence Gun Rampages Are Rising

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Background Check Compromise: What's in the Fine Print?

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Mitch McConnell

McConnell Campaign Manager Decries "Gestapo" Tactics

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Progressives Advise GOP: Back Off On the War on Women

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At Howard, Rand Paul Falsely Claims He Never Opposed 1964 Civil Rights Act

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WATCH: Kentucky Parents Discover Sequestration Will Close Their Head Start Program

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Here's What's in the Compromise Proposal on Background Checks for Gun Buyers

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 10, 2013
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Man Who Wants to Criminalize Gay Sex Has Gay Friends

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New Film Explores Obama's War on Whistleblowers and the Free Press

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Who Is Sri Srinivasan, Obama's "Supreme Court Nominee in Waiting"?

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Smart-Taxi Smackdown: Regulators Ponder the Future of Uber, SideCar, and Lyft

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Bitcoin, Explained

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This Collection of NRA Ads Reveals Its Descent Into Crazy

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Corn on MSNBC: I'm Still Waiting for McConnell to Respond to the Substance of the Story

Did McConnell Use Senate Employees for Oppo Research on Ashley Judd?

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Chris Stewart

VIDEO: There's No "Reasonable" Solution for Climate Change, Says Leader of Climate-Change Subcommittee

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Watch: McConnell Says "Political Left Bugged My Headquarters"

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Before the Great Recession, There Was the Long Recession

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Mitch McConnell

McConnell Asks FBI to Investigate Secret Tape—Then Fundraises Off It

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Sally Kern

Oklahoma One Step Away From Banning Islamic Law (Again)

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CHART: Welfare Benefits Far Smaller Than Scorn Heaped On Them

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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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