Politics

Texas' New Public School Textbooks Promote Climate Change Denial and Downplay Segregation

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 17, 2014

3 State Measures That Could End Legal Abortion

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Screen shot: NRA video "Beauty Shots"

How the NRA Degrades and Objectifies Women

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Jeb Bush and Rick Scott

Why Rick Scott Is Facing a Tea Party Revolt in Florida

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Thom Tillis

This Republican Tried To Stop North Carolina From Apologizing For A Racist Massacre. He’d Like Your Vote, Please.

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Even Liberia's Legislature Can't Escape the Ravages of Ebola

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Rand Paul to Appear at Event Featuring Neo-Confederate Aide He Had to Fire

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Bobby Jindal: "I'm Not an Evolutionary Biologist"

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This GOP Benghazi Hearing Is Actually Worth Having

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pro-abortion rights protesters

GOP Moderates' Secret Confession: We Were Afraid to Vote Against Extreme Abortion Bill

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Could Bitcoin Become Scotland’s Official Currency?

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The Demise of a US Group Backing Moderate Syrian Rebels Is a Bad Sign for Obama's Anti-ISIS Campaign

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The Supreme Court May Be About to Save—or Destroy—Gay Marriage

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assault rifles

Why Gun Control Groups Have Moved Away From an Assault Weapons Ban

Lois Beckett, ProPublica

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 15, 2014

How the Tea Party Is Causing Big Business to Back Democrats

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yes we scan

Unredacted Court Docs Reveal Yahoo's Name and Other Top-Secret Stuff

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The Great State Of California Will Not Be Split Into Six Mediocre States

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton: Strong Parental Leave Laws Are Great. Here’s Why You Can’t Have Them.

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See for Yourself Just How Damn Complicated the Middle East Has Become

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jesus statue

Pennsylvania Teenager Simulates Oral Sex With Jesus Statue, Faces 2 Years in Prison

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

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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