Politics

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Our 27-Year Romance With Newt Gingrich

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Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney

Why Mitt Romney's Gingrich Attacks Could Haunt Him

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Rick Perry

No Country for Innocent Men

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Euromess: The View From Germany

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Mitt Romney

The $10,000 Bet Mitt Romney Will Want to Take Back

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Newt Gingrich

Newt's Big Whopper on the Individual Mandate

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The Myth of Barack Obama, Regulation Lover

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Santorum Gets It Wrong on Manufacturing Jobs

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Will Occupy Shut Down All West Coast Ports?

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Scientific Community Slams Plan B Decision

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Gingrich Flip-Flops on Clemency Toward "American Traitor"

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Newt Gingrich

Your Daily Newt: Speaker of the Yurt

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Colorado Secretary of State: Ease Up On Voting Security

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CIA Black Site in Romania: Hidden in Plain Sight

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After Bachmann and Palin, Who's the Next Virile Female?

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The Love That Dares

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Ron Paul

Don't Believe the Ron Paul Hype

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John Boehner

Watch: Protesters Target John Boehner at Chamber Holiday Party

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for December 9, 2011

VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica of Itself, for Real

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Our Remote Wars Are Hitting Home

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VIDEO: Fox's Bill O'Reilly Gets a Taste of His Own Ambush Medicine

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Newt Gingrich, samurai

Your Daily Newt: The Speaker as Anti-Colonial Samurai

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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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