Politics

America's Captains of Industry, Poverty Baron Edition

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Michael Dell: The Making of an American Oligarch

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Pawlenty: Why It's Good to Be No. 2

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Republicans: Let's Cut Social Security, Too

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No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons

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Charts: Where Your Taxes Go

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Pakistan: Fighting Ceasefire with Fire

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America's Trigger-Happy Foreign Policy

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Is Obama Hijacking—Or Reinforcing—the GOP's One Big Idea?

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Which Congressional Staffer's License Plate Is This? (Photos)

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Next Up: GOPers Dig Into Social Security

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Mitt Romney Takes on the Birthers

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 13, 2011

The Texas GOP's War on Gay Sex

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The Dems' Deficit Reduction Balancing Act

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Pakistan to CIA: Get the Hell Out, Please

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Drone Wars in Afghanistan

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Conservative Activist: We Need a New Word for "Gay"

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Can a Tea Partier "Primary Boehner"?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for April 12, 2011

Who Owns the Tea Party?

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Deficit Reduction, Meet the War Budget

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Obama's Upcoming Deficit Speech Leaves Dems "Scrambling"

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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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