Politics

6 Good Reasons a Black Person Might Resist Arrest

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This Guy Appears To Have Live-Tweeted Michael Brown's Shooting

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Meet the St. Louis Alderman Who's Keeping an Eye on Ferguson's Cops

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GOP Obstruction Is Making It Harder To Catch Rapists—Mitch McConnell Would Rather Not Talk About It

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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot:" Peaceful Protests Across the Country Last Night

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Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?

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Who Said It: Hillary Clinton or John McCain?

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Wondering What #NMOS14 Is?

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How Did America's Police Get So Militarized?

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The Ferguson Shooting and the Science of Race and Guns

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Watch President Obama Deliver Remarks About the Violence In Ferguson, Missouri

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Sarah Palin Picks Imaginary Fight With Elizabeth Warren, Loses

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A Few Horrifying Pictures From Ferguson Last Night

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Whites Favor Harsh Sentencing Policies After Seeing Images of Black Prisoners

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Where is Governor Jay Nixon?

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Incredibly Powerful Photo of Black Students at Howard University

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4 Unarmed Black Men Have Been Killed By Police in the Last Month

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Arizona State's Chip Sarafin Just Became the First Publicly Gay Player in Major College Football

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Anonymous Posts St. Louis Police Dispatch Tapes From Day of Ferguson Shooting

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Anonymous' "Op Ferguson" Says It Will ID the Officer Who Killed Michael Brown

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Ferguson Is 60 Percent Black. Virtually All Its Cops Are White.

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Rick Perry

Texas Pays "Thoroughly Discredited" Expert $42,000 to Defend Anti-Abortion Law

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How the US Willingly Blew a Chance to Prevent More Wars in Gaza

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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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