Politics

On Civil Liberties, John Brennan Is No Worse Than Barack Obama

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prison cell with light through window

Obama Administration Interrogating Terror Suspects Locked Up Abroad (Again)

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5 Anti-Abortion States to Watch in 2013

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WATCH: Owlie and Hootie Explain the Push to Deregulate Gun Silencers [Saunders Cartoon]

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CHARTS: Gun Buybacks Probably Won't Prevent the Next Newtown

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 7, 2013
chuck hagel

Hagel's Half-Courageous Stand on the Iraq War

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GOP Sen. Ted Cruz: "I Don't Think What Washington Needs Is More Compromise"

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What the FBI's Occupy Docs Do—and Don't—Reveal

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Dick Armey

The "Smoking Gun" Memo That Triggered the FreedomWorks Feud

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Illustration: Yarek Waszul

Inside the Radical Plan to Fight Foreclosures With Eminent Domain

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Karl Rove

Watchdogs to IRS: Reject Rove Group’s Tax Application

— By Justin Elliot, ProPublica

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600 Teachers Apply to Learn How to Shoot a Gun at School

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Fiscal Deal Could Make Health Insurance More Expensive

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 4, 2013
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Dark Money Group Promised the IRS it Would Stay Out of Politics, Then Didn't

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FreedomWorks

Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak—Read Them Here

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Corn on MSNBC: It's Still Chaos in the Republican Caucus
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The Future According to the US Intelligence Community

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VIDEO: GOP "Out for Blood" After Fiscal Cliff Deal

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 3, 2013

House Republicans Derail Bill Targeting Rapists

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Peter King

Republicans Have a Habit of Blocking Disaster Relief for Americans

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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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