Politics

GOP Contenders Get a Pass on Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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Perry Defends In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants

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Herman Cain Repeats EPA Dust Myth

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"You Don't Have a Heart"

—By the Mother Jones news team

Ex-Perry Aide Jay Kimbrough Sacked, Waves Pocket Knife, Apologizes

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It's the Occupation, Stupid

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Expanding The Drone War In Somalia

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Bill Clinton Knocks Rick Perry on Israel Comments, Forgets His Own Past

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Arizona AG: We Love Latinos! Can't Get Enough of 'Em!

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The Countrywide Subprime Mortgage Debacle Lives On

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Rick Perry's Florida Co-Chair: Gays Cause Tornadoes

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A Muslim American's Trans-Atlantic Ordeal

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Who Did Rick Perry Pick As His Top Environmental Cop?

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Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs? Not So Much.

— By Marian Wang, ProPublica

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 22, 2011

Troy Davis Executed in Georgia

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DC District Court Upholds Voting Rights Act

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Pakistan: bin Laden Bodyguard Back On the Street

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USCIS Reaches 10,000 U-Visa Limit

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FBI: Okay, Fine, We'll Do Something About That Anti-Muslim Training

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How Effective Is The TSA's Behavior Detection Program?

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Breitbart Site Says Big Blunder Was "Minor Citation Error"

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Iran Frees Jailed MoJo Contributor

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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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