Politics

Untrained CIA Agents Were Just Making Up Torture Methods As They Went Along

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The Spending Bill Includes a Huge Insurance Industry Giveaway Too

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All About That Wall Street Giveaway That Elizabeth Warren Hates

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Dozens of Staffers Just Walked Out of Congress. This Powerful Picture Shows Why.

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Watch Elizabeth Warren Slam Republicans For Doing Citibank's Dirty Work

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CIA Director John Brennan Makes First Public Comments Since Release of Torture Report

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Rick Perry: Running for President Is "Not an IQ Test"

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Rumain Brisbon Is Just the Latest to Be Shot Dead by a Cop Over a Phantom Gun

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The Budget Deal Gives the Pentagon Just As Much Money As It Got During the Iraq War

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One Gaza Family's Heartbreaking Story

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Back From the Dead: Soft Money Makes a Comeback in Congress

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Citigroup Wrote the Wall Street Giveaway The House Just Approved

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There Is Something Worse Than Torture in the Senate Torture Report

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Garcetti

LA’s Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Instagram

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7 Ways Afghanistan Is a Total Mess

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Scott Panetti

Why Is Texas So Gung Ho to Execute This Delusional, Mentally Ill Man?

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We Could Soon Be Spending a Lot More Money Fighting Ebola

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Cheney

5 Telling Dick Cheney Appearances in the CIA Torture Report

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Here Are Some of the Worst Conservative Reactions to the CIA Torture Report

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CIA

How the CIA Spent the Last 6 Years Fighting the Release of the Torture Report

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Senate Torture Report: No, Bin Laden Was Not Found Because of CIA Torture

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"Rectal Feeding," Threats to Children, and More: 16 Awful Abuses From the CIA Torture Report

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The Senate Just Released the CIA Torture Report. Read the Full Document.

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CHARTS

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VIDEO

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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

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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

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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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