Politics

Texas Governor Rick Perry

Rick Perry's Abortion Emergency

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The Black Banners

Beating Al Qaeda With Pizza, Cookies, and the Koran

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Lego titanic

Inequality Kills Growth

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How US Taxpayers Got Plucked in Iraq

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Map: Occupy Wall Street, a global movement

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 4, 2011

GOP, ALEC Could Make It Harder For 5 Million To Cast Ballots

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Killer Drones Are All the Rage in Warfare

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Supreme Court to Decide Future of Medicaid Payments

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The Paul Ryan Revival Project: Dark Passions Edition

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Facing Perry's "Niggerhead" Scandal, Conservatives Slam…Herman Cain

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How Rick Perry Fed the Subprime Mortgage Monster

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The Onion Predicts the Future: Al Qaeda vs. 9/11 Truthers

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MEK supporters rally in front of the US State Department on Aug. 26, 2011.

Brown Lloyd James: Lobbying for Backers of a Terrorist Group

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Extreme Makeover: Mideast Autocrat Edition

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 3, 2011

Obama's Dangerous Awlaki Precedent

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Policy Riders Ride Again

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John Brennan

Justifying the Awlaki Attack

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US Kills Al Qaeda-Linked Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki

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Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

A Terror Plot Wile E. Coyote Might Love

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The Daily Caller: Still Wrong

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Rick Perry

Rough Justice Under Rick Perry

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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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