Politics

Why are Dems Being Blamed for Healthcare Failure?

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An SOTU Tradition: Blame Your Predecessor

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Are the Swift Boaters Mounting a Stealth Climate Attack?

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US To Appeal Blackwater Ruling. Then What?

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Economic Illiteracy

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Need to Read: January 26, 2010

What's Obama's Birther Legal Bill?

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Ross Douthat and Jonathan Rauch

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Ending Minority Rule in California?

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Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Tara Tell Me True

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The Best Congress Lobbying Can Buy

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Let Haitians In

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KBR Calls Jamie Leigh Jones A Liar

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The Drone Surge

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Why Make Campaign Contributions?

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The Chamber's 2009 Lobbying Tab

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Unopinionated Media

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Starve the Poor

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November Looms

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Ross Douthat: America's Most Interesting Conservative?

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Need to Read: January 25, 2010

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for January 25, 2010

Ross Douthat's Fantasy World

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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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