Politics

8 Weird Defense Budget Add-Ons

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Corn on "Hardball": the Palin Problem
Illustration: Mark Matcho

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup

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Bachmann in 2006: "We are in the Last Days"

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Coming Soon: The Palin Emails

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Heads Up, West Coast: Sarah Palin's Road Show Headed Your Way

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Jim DeMint: Mulling a White House Bid

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Pat Robertson: Muslims are the New Nazis

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Does Michele Bachmann Think the Apocalypse is Imminent?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 1, 2011

Citizens United: The Shareholders Strike Back

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Did a Pork-Coated Bullet Kill Bin Laden?

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Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is It Legal?

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Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself on Health Care Reform?

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Bribery! Corruption! The Scandal That Could Bring Down a Presidency

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The GOP Targets Food Safety (Again!)

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Palin, McCain, and Rolling Thunder

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for May 31, 2011

Who's the Most Unpopular Governor in America?

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Vermont Passes Single-Payer Health Care, World Doesn't End

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Remembering America's Soldiers…With Charts

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Classy GOPer Tim Pawlenty Calls Obama A Pub-Crawling "Doofus"

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Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil

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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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