Politics

ISIS Is America's Legacy in Iraq

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Powerful Reporting From Steven Sotloff, the Second Journalist ISIS Executed

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Eric Cantor

Surprise! Eric Cantor Lands $3.4 Million Job on Wall Street

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Which States' Kids Miss the Most School?

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Samuel Johnson

Top Gun Rights Group Backs White Supremacist's Supreme Court Case

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Meet the Risky Mortgage Pioneer Trying to Pay His Buddy's Way Into Congress

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Russia Is Going After McDonald’s. (Can We Give Them Jack in the Box?)

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 29, 2014

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This 11-Year-Old Was Locked Up Trying to Cross the Border. Read the Heartfelt Letter She Sent Obama.

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Here Are the Psychological Reasons Why an American Might Join ISIS

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Is Boko Haram Teaming Up With ISIS for a Super Caliphate?

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This is What a Russian Invasion of Ukraine Looks Like

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How Does a 9-Year-Old Come to Shoot a Fully Automatic Weapon?

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Ex-George Washington University President Responds to Controversy Over His Sexual Assault Remarks

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Immigrants in a detention center

Top Immigration Court Hands Huge Win to Battered Women Seeking Asylum. Conservatives Freak Out.

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Don't Feel Bad for Tall People on Planes. They Probably Make More Money Than You.

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Your Cellphone Company Says Your Location Info Is Private. Think Again.

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Supreme Court justices

Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Reopen

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In Wake of Arizona Uzi Killing, NRA Tweets About Kids Having Fun With Guns

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 27, 2014
Scott Brown

Scott Brown Sure Posts a Lot of Photos of Himself Working Out

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10 Hours in Ferguson: A Visual Timeline of Michael Brown's Death and Its Aftermath

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Michael Brown's Mom Laid Flowers Where He Was Shot—and Police Crushed Them

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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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