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beating police

A Texas Grand Jury Recently Cleared 2 White Cops Who Beat a Black Woman in Jail

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Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Staten Island Cop in Death of Eric Garner

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

Tea Partiers Ignore Michele Bachmann's Call for Rally Against "Amnesty"

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Here Are the Places Ferguson Protesters Have Shut Down

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1 in 5 Women Is Sexually Assaulted in College. Just 1 Percent of Attackers Are Punished.

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for December 2, 2014

The Obama Administration Wants to End Racial Profiling "Once and for All"

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James Inhofe

Inhofe's Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory: It's All About Barbra Streisand

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Here's What It's Like to Be a Homeless Techie in Silicon Valley

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Hanging Out With the Tech Have-Nots at a Silicon Valley Shantytown

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Blood Donation

Gay Men Will Soon Be Able to Give Blood—As Long As They Don't Have Gay Sex

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Court Blocks Texas From Executing Mentally Ill Convict—for Now

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President Obama Wants More Cops To Wear Body Cams

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Are Your Racist?

The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men

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Walmart Is Seeing Its Biggest Black Friday Protests Ever Today

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5 Key Inconsistencies in What Happened During the Michael Brown Shooting

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This Article Has Been Retracted

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Heart Surgery

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What If Your Boss Suddenly Told You to Come to Work on Thanksgiving?

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former congressman Ron Paul

Can Ron Paul and Conservative Evangelicals Save a Texas Death-Row Inmate?

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16 Revealing Photos From the Ferguson Grand Jury Files

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6 Basic Assumptions About the Middle East That the Washington Consensus Gets Dead Wrong

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6 Revelations from the Michael Brown Grand Jury Documents

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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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