Politics

This Week in Dark Money

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Mississippi Could Lose Its Only Abortion Clinic

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 6, 2012
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Woman Picking Fruit in Stock Photo Endorses Al Franken

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Lou Ann Zelenik

Tennessee Congressional Race Gets 100 Percent More Anti-Shariah-y

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"Complete Lawlessness" at Orleans Parish Prison

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How Romney Fibs—and Gets Away With It

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The Secret Torture Memo Cheney Didn't Want You To See

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Mitt Romney Hires GOP Super-PAC Guru and Ex-Corporate Lobbyist

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 5, 2012
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Twitter, the FBI, and You

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Anti-Mormons for Mitt?

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Corn on Hardball: Why Does Mitt Think He Should Be President?
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RIP: Insider Trading in Congress

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Scott Brown

Mitt Romney and Scott Brown: Frenemies or Soul Mates?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 4, 2012
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AP Fact-Check of Obama Speech Sort of Defeats Point of Fact-Checking

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Mitt Romney Wins Wisconsin After Scott Walker Lovefest

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Corn on MSNBC: Obama Goes After the Ryan Budget

The US Government Is Data Mining You

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The Times Gets It Wrong on the Debt Deal

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Survey: Jewish Voters Still Heart Obama

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GSA Administrator Resigns Over Hiring a Clown, Other Excesses

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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

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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

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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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