Politics

GOP Governor's Ex-Campaign Manager Pleads Guilty In Leaked E-Mail Saga

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 18, 2014

How to Forgive Your Torturer

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How the Top Iraqi Terrorist Was Helped by a Bush-Signed Agreement

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Phil Mickelson

Conservatives Uncover Obama Plot to Destroy Phil Mickelson

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The NRA's Very Bad Year at the Supreme Court

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Whistleblower Crackdowns, Self-Censorship, Stonewalled FOIAs: The 1st Amendment Under Attack

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7 Republicans Who Said Obama Wasn't Trying Hard Enough to Bring the Benghazi Attacker to Justice

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Joe Walsh Benghazi tweet

The Dumbest Thing You'll Read All Day About the Benghazi Suspect Capture

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FLASHBACK: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq?

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Missouri GOP: If Polls Are Open Too Long, Voters Will Commit Fraud

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Devon Boggan, the director of the Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond CA

Did This City Bring Down Its Murder Rate by Paying People Not to Kill?

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Supreme Court to NRA: No, People Can't Lie to Buy Guns

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HRC Squirrel

Here's Why the RNC's Anti-Hillary Clinton Campaign Involves an Orange Squirrel Suit

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Watch: John Oliver Destroys Washington's Racist Football Team Name With New Video

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President Obama Plans To Do Something For LGBT Workers That No President Has Ever Done

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 16, 2014
Let the Mitt Romney Resurrection begin!

Republicans' Latest 2016 Savior? Mitt Romney!

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Open-Carry Activists Return to Target With Assault Rifles

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Hillary Clinton at a Wal-Mart book signing in Northern Virginia in 2003

Retail Politics: Hillary Clinton Heads to Costco, Skips Walmart on Latest Book Tour

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The RNC's Squirrel Attack Dog

The RNC's Newest Anti-Hillary Weapon Is a Giant Orange Squirrel

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Oklahoma's execution room.

Autopsy Shows Just How Royally Oklahoma Screwed Up Clayton Lockett's Execution

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7 Talking Points You Need for Discussing the Iraq Crisis

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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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