Politics

SWAT Teams Keep Killing Innocent People in Their Homes

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The Making of the Warrior Cop

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Map: The Most Popular NFL Teams Everywhere in America—According to Twitter

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Here's What's Happening With the Shooting at the Canadian Parliament

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 22, 2014

George W. Bush's Revenge: A Federal Appeals Court Goes on the Rampage

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Lawsuits: Alabama Jailers Allowed 3 Inmates to Die of 19th-Century Ailments

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How the World Series Might Just Help the GOP Win the Senate

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Two SWAT Raids. Two Officers Dead. One Defendant Is Black, One White. Guess What Happened.

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Judge Rips Alabama for Hiring a Discredited Abortion Foe

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Elizabeth Warren Demands An Investigation Of Mortgage Companies

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Rwanda Hits Back at America's Ebola Paranoia

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Dan Patrick

Man Who Believes God Speaks to Us Through "Duck Dynasty" Is About to Be Texas' Second-in-Command

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Texas Just Won the Right to Disenfranchise 600,000 People. It's Not the First Time.

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Yes, Mass Shootings Are Occurring More Often

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"A Golden Age to Spy on Everyone:" A Conversation With Director Laura Poitras

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We Spent $7.6 Billion to Crush the Afghan Opium Trade—and It's Doing Better Than Ever

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Everything You Need to Know About Ebola in America, in One Fantastic Quote

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Colorado Dems: We Caught James O'Keefe and His Friends Trying to Bait Us Into Approving Voter Fraud

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Elizabeth Warren Was on Fire This Weekend. Here Were Her 5 Best Lines.

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The 5 Stupidest Paranoid Responses to Ebola

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Which Dad is More Embarrassing: Ron Paul or Rafael Cruz?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 20, 2014

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

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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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