Politics

Map: Where You Can—And Can't—Build Your Mosque

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CIA Tapes Found Under Desk Feature 9/11 Plotter's Interrogation

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Bond Guru: Nationalize Fannie, Freddie

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DeLay's Not Out of the Woods Yet

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A Leaner—and Maybe Meaner?—Big Three

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 17, 2010

Justice DeLayed, Again (And Again)

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Five Absurd Things That Simply Can't Happen in Wartime Washington

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The Dems' Bright Spots

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More Misery in Foreclosureland

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Pam Geller's Muslim Crusade

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Obama Should Have Stayed Out of the Mosque Mess

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Who Will Keep Health Insurers in Line?

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FL's Jeff Greene "Not a Partier"

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Fearing Supreme Court Smackdown, Evangelicals Discourage Prop 8 Appeal

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Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Anti-Immigrant Zeal Kill David de la Fuente?

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 16, 2010

Our New Commenting System: More Fun, Less Ugg Spam

Alvin Greene Is Indicted

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This Week in National Insecurity

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Pakistan's Flood...of Opportunism

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GOPer Pushes Detention Camps for Illegal Immigrants

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Khadr Trial Suspended

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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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