Politics

Watch: Piers Morgan Schools John Lott Jr. on Mass Shootings

What's Homeland Security?

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GOP Caves, Stops Blocking Violence Against Women Act

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Bob McDonnell

The Budding Rand Paul–Bob McDonnell Flame War

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Marijuana Legalization May Be Unstoppable

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Newtown "Changed America," But Will Congress Change Gun Laws?

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Chart: Generational Attitudes on Sushi and Gay Marriage Correlate Almost Perfectly

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Corn on MSNBC: The Republican Party's Broken Budget Rhetoric

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Supreme Court Poised to Declare Racism Over

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Alexander Stephens and Rosa Parks

Why Does the Capitol Still Whitewash White Supremacists?

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darwin

Ding Dong (Some) Anti-Evolution Bills Are Dead

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keyhole

Supreme Court: You Can't Challenge Secret Law Because It's Secret

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

Handcuffing 7-Year-Olds Won't Make Schools Safer

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Saint Gabriel Possenti

The Quest to Make This Lizard-Sniping Italian the Patron Saint of Handguns

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More Than Half of Mass Shooters Used Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines

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Chief Justice Roberts' Long War Against the Voting Rights Act

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Trayon Martin's parents hold candlelight vigil

"It Seems Like Yesterday That Trayvon Was Here"

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barack obama

4 Meetings With Obama? That'll Cost You Half a Million

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for February 26, 2013
Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd Is Not the Next Todd Akin

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C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop, the Only US Surgeon General Frank Zappa Sang About, Dead at 96

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Supreme Court

This Supreme Court Case Could Give Corporations Even More Power to Screw Consumers

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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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