Politics

ted cruz

As a Private Lawyer, Ted Cruz Defended Companies Found Guilty of Wrongdoing

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White Police Officer Is South Carolina's Third Charged in Past Year for Killing an Unarmed Black Man

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The Walter Scott Shooting Video Shows Exactly Why We Can't Just Take the Police's Word For It

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The Feds Are Investigating 106 Colleges for Mishandling Sexual Assault. Is Yours One of Them?

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BREAKING: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Has Been Found Guilty On All 30 Counts in the Boston Bombing Trial

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Illustration by Mark Hammermeister

The Scandal That Could Blow Up Rand Paul's Machine

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NRA Holds Annual Convention in a State Where Guns Now Kill More Than Cars Do

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Has a Family Problem—and It’s Not Bill

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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans Have Serious Anger Problems—and Can Easily Get Guns

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South Carolina police shooting video

Officer Charged With Murder After Shocking Video Documents Shooting of Unarmed Black Man

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Rand Paul's Announcement Video Pulled Over Copyright Issues

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Look At the Stuff You Can Buy in Rand Paul's Online Store

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Let These Adorable Children Show You Just How Insane the NRA's Fear-Mongering Is

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Rand Paul Just Announced That He's Running for President. Here's His Speech.

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Rand Paul

Rand Paul Just Announced He's Running for President. Here's What You Need to Know About Him.

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If You're Not Into Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, There's a Ninja Running for President

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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin in a hearing in 2013

How Elizabeth Warren Made Expanding Social Security Cool

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Feds Say Georgia's Treatment of Transgender Prisoners Is Unconstitutional

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Chelsea Manning Just Started Tweeting From Prison

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The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying

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Texas Bill Would Name Judges Who Give Minors Permission to Have Abortions

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ETs for Hillary: Why UFO Activists Are Excited About Another Clinton Presidency

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Obama Just Announced a Historic Nuclear Agreement With Iran

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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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