Politics

Rick Santorum

Santorum's Dubious Medicaid Horror Story

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Debate Night: Showdown in South Carolina

—By the Mother Jones news team

Warren Langley at Occupy SF

How an Ex-Wall-Street Power Player Embraced the Occupy Movement

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Gingrich Ally Declares War on...Christians?

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How Newt Stopped Marianne From Revealing Secrets the First Time

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Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Resentment

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The Abu Ghraib of Los Angeles?

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Bradley Manning: Criminal or Whistleblower?

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Anonymous South Carolina Flier Attacks Rick Santorum's Wife

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Newt Gingrich

Poll: Gingrich Rising In South Carolina, Fueled By Debate Performance

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Chart of the Day: 2011 in Reproductive Rights

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Air Force Social Radar

The Air Force Wants to Read Your Brain Waves

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Mitt Romney

Romney Is Rubber, Gingrich Is Glue

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Scalia and Thomas: Who Cares If Your Lawyer Abandons You on Death Row?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 19, 2012
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Romney Floats a Whopper About the Navy

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Romney in 2001 on the Relative Dangers of Animal Rights Activists and Al Qaeda

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Your Post-New Hampshire #FantasyGOP Update

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How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans

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Newt Gingrich and Pitt the Younger

Your Daily Newt: Pitt the Youngest

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21 CEOs With $100 Million Golden Parachutes

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 18, 2012
Sen. Chris Dodd

Dodd to Internet: You And Your Blackout Can Drop Dead

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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

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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