Politics

Rick Perry's $487 Million Corporate Slush Fund Doesn't Need Your Stinkin' Audit

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Climate Change Denying Congressman to Head Subcommittee on Climate Change

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John McCain and George W. Bush with cake

McCain's Lesson From Iraq: Surge Hard, But Don't Lie America Into War So Much

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Corn on "Hardball": Iraq, 10 Years Later

Rape Was Rampant During the Vietnam War. Why Doesn't US History Remember This?

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The Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion to Protect America From North Korea's Nonexistent Long-Range Nuclear Missiles

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Rand Paul's Long Road to Immigration Moderation

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Feinstein's Assault Weapons Ban All But Dead

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Sen. Carl Levin Plans to Grill The IRS Over Dark Money

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Harrison Ford Heads To Congress To Talk About Planes, Yet Again

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 19, 2013
True cost of Iraq war

Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion

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Gunmakers and the NRA Bet Big on Silencers. What Could Go Wrong?

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NRA Targets UN Arms Trade Treaty, Again

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Quote of the Day: "How Is That a Woman?"

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Mitch McConnell Will Fundraise With Billionaires After Saying the GOP Is Not The Party of Billionaires

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 18, 2013
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CPAC: Where Ashley Judd Rape Jokes Happen

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For Apple and the Phone Companies, "All a Theft Means Is Another Sale"

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Obama's Labor Pick Could be Cabinet's Most Progressive Member

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President George W. Bush announces the invsasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003.

Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin

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At CPAC, Sarah Palin Has Not Gotten Any Smarter Since Her Disastrous Political Career Ended

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Creating PACs and Spending Their Money

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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

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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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