Politics

Terms of Entrapment: A Guide to Counterterrorism Jargon

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Timeline: The Making of an FBI Superinformant

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How the FBI Outsources Brutal Interrogations

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How a Radical Leftist Became the FBI's BFF

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Illustrations: Jeffrey Smith

The Informants

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Far Right Hate Groups "Like" Facebook

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Indian Nikki Haley Says She Is White

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Koch-Backed Group Buys $150K in TV Time for Wisconsin Ad Blitz

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Huntsman: "I'm Not Ashamed To Be a Conservationist"

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Rick Perry Gets Cold Feet On Gay Marriage

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No, Tea Partiers Are Not Really Targeting Allen West

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Which GOP Candidate is the Worst on Reproductive Rights?

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Why Texas is the China of the West

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"We're Still in the Middle of the Storm"

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Timeline: Homeownership in America, 1995-2010

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for July 29, 2011

This Week in National Insecurity: Debtageddon Edition

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Rick Scott, Military Hero for a Day

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Debt Ceiling: Clueless GOPers Edition

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Baseball and War, All-American Pastimes

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Tea Party "Leaders" The GOP Should Ignore

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The Ft. Hood Suspect's Alleged Antiwar Links

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Bachmann on Reparative Therapy: Still No Comment

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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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