Politics

It's Official: A Majority of Americans Wants Pot Legalized

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More on Cuccinelli's Defense of Virginia's Anti-Sodomy Law

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Cuccinelli Campaign Won't Say If He's Committed Any Crimes Against Nature

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Mark Follman on MSNBC: The NRA's Phony School Shooting

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 4, 2013

Charts: Look At How Badly Obama Lags on Judicial Appointments

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Occupy DOE

Occupy the Department Of Education Returns to DC

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Barack Obama

The Tea Party’s Next Bogeyman: Obama's Common Core Conspiracy

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Whatever Happened to the Obama Administration's Review of NYPD Spying?

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Charts: How Foreign Firms Flood America With Guns—and Get Rich Doing It

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Alabama Bill Could Shut Down All Abortion Clinics in State

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The Taliban Are Inadvertently Really Good at Endangered Falcon Conservation

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Bush Lying About WMD Is a Conspiracy Theory?!?

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Ken Cuccinelli

Virginia Gov. Candidate Cuccinelli Defending Law That Forbids Oral Sex

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Study: The GOP Doesn't Care What Americans Think About the Budget

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 3, 2013
New York State Sen. Malcolm Smith

Reformers: Publicly Funded Elections Will Tackle New York's Corruption Problem

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Nearly Four Years After Dr. Tiller's Murder, Wichita Has An Abortion Clinic Again

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Elizabeth Warren illustration

Will Elizabeth Warren Be a Dragon Slayer or a Deal Maker?

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Democrats Are Undermining Wall Street Reform, Too

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NRA's School Security Plan Cites Phony Shooting

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John McCain Flashback: The Gun-Show Loophole is "Wrong"

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Robert Gates walking out of an airplane

The Great Afghan Corruption Scam

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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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