Politics

OFA director Jim Messina

Organizing for Action, Obama's Big-Money Muscle, Will Reject Corporate and Foreign Money

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Attorney General: Obama Can't Order Drone Attack on Americans on US Soil

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Known and Suspected Terrorists Can Buy Guns in America

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Texas Rep. Wants a George W. Bush National Park

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NRA Fires Back in Defense of Gun Myths

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Sen. Bob Menendez

What the Washington Post Didn't Tell You About the Daily Caller's Senate Sex Story

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VIDEO: Heartwarming Story About Student's Sex Change Surgery Was Misunderstanding, College Says

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Republican Senator Filibusters Obama's CIA Nominee Over Drones

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More Cocaine Could Soon Be on Our Streets, Thanks to the Sequester

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The Government Still Doesn't Want You to Know What Caused the Financial Crisis

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 6, 2013

Personhood Advocates Pledge to Try Again in Mississippi

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Corn on MSNBC: Jeb Bush's Flip-Flop-Flip on Immigration

Hugo Chávez Dead at 58

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England's War on Terror Is a War on Women

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Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil

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Number of Anti- Government Groups Hits Record High

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Senators Will Get to Know When Obama Can Kill Americans—But You Won't

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Study: Trolls on Twitter Do Not Necessarily Represent America, Are Partisan Cynics

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carly rae jepsen

Boy Scouts Have No One Famous to Play at Their Jamboree Because They Kick Out Gay Kids

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Mike Beebe

Arkansas Gov. and Legislature Locked in Fight Over Abortion Bans

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Rick Scott May Want Obamacare, But the Florida Legislature Doesn't

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 5, 2013

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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