Politics

OWS protesters

Occupy Wall Street Gears Up for the Big Day

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Zygote "Personhood" Heading to Georgia

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Lockheed F-35 Fighter Jet

Taxpayers Get Stuck Saving Defense Contractors' Pensions

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Obama Worth Less Than $51,000 in "Croc Attack Insurance"

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Jon Stewart

Illinois School Suspends Teacher For Playing "Daily Show" Clips

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Newt and Ellis

Newt Gingrich: The World's Most Expensive Historian

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Mayors and Cops Traded Strategies for Dealing With Occupy Protesters

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Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for November 16, 2011

Rick Santorum Attacks Obama On Israel And Iran, Possibly Misquotes The Wire

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Is the US Getting Domestic Indefinite Military Detention for Thanksgiving?

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Keystone XL Delay Shows Climate Change Is a Big Election Issue

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Exclusive Video: Reporter vs. Cop Showdown at Zuccotti Park

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Former GOP Budget Official Says Balanced Budget Amendment Is A Terrible Idea

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Exclusive Video: Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction

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Lee Bright and Michele Bachmann

Bachmann South Carolina Chair: "If at First You Don't Secede, Try Again"

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Occupy Wall Street protester

Adbusters Suggests Occupy Wall Street "Declare 'Victory'" and Head Home for Winter

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How Pot Could Save Obamacare

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Please Stop Using Justin Bieber in Your War Against Internet Censorship

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How the NRA Pushed the Right to Pack Heat Anywhere

—By Rick Schmitt, iWatch News

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for November 15, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Raided

—By the Mother Jones news team

Mitt Romney

Memo to Mitt: There's No Insurgency in 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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