Politics

Towns Punts on Countrywide Probe

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The Earmark That Couldn't Get Shot Down

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Selling Health Care

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Fiore Cartoon: Beerplomacy

On Bullshit Dectectors

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Simple Answers to Simple Questions, Max Baucus Edition

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3 Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

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Maybe It's Max Baucus Who Is Playing Us

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Political Reform and Revolution: Yglesias Responds

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Real Change: Presidential Medals of Freedom Edition

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A Tip For Aspiring Racists

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Dodd/Conrad vs. Issa the Inquisitor

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The Loneliness of the Anti-Earmark Crusader

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White House Thwarts Bill to End DADT Funds?

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Another Giveaway, This Time to Insurers

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Of Earmarks and...Blimps? Yes, Blimps

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Horrible News: "The President Will Drink Bud Light"

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for July 30, 2009

What You Should Have Read Yesterday

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Props to Our Bad-Ass Interns

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Government To Allow Release of Guantanamo Detainee

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One-Way Tickets for Homeless?

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Brodner’s Cartoon du Jour: Triumph the Blue Dog

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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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