Politics

American Anniversaries from Hell

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New Hampshire House Votes to Repeal Stand Your Ground

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The Greatest Senatorial Hair Cuts of All Time

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My Taxpayer-Subsidized Manicure at the Senate Salon

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Mississippi Nominates Anti-Abortion Lobbyist to Board of Health

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Obama on Gun Violence: "Shame on Us If We've Forgotten"

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8 Things Justice Alito Has Ruled on That Are Newer Than Cellphones and the Internet

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Look at This Drone Deaths Interactive

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Look at This Visualization of Drone Strike Deaths

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North Dakota

No Joke: North Dakota Named Freest State in the Country

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 28, 2013

Schools Are Training Second-Graders to Attack Mass Shooters

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Drone Strikes on Hackers?

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Big Government or Marriage Equality? DOMA Puts Conservative Justices in a Bind

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Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd: I'm Not Running

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Background Checks May Be Gun Control's Best Hope, for Now

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Congress Saves Busted $380 Million Missile Program the Pentagon Won't Buy

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Rick Perry

Rick Perry Needs a Refresher on How Texas Feels About Marriage

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Obama's Organizing for Action Chases Big Money While Fighting Big Money in New York

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 27, 2013

Hillary Clinton Holds the Purse Strings

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Living with No Future in Today's Iraq

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Cecile Richards

"I Can't Even Imagine What Else They Could Think Of. Just Putting Women Behind Bars?"

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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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