Politics

One Simple Way to Reduce Health Care Costs, And Why It Won't Happen

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Obama's Tough Tour de Force in Cairo

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Obama's Cairo Speech

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Obama's Nine Hard Truths

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Permanent Lockdown

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Does AF 447 Reveal the Safety Risks of Plastic Aircraft?

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How to Game the College Rankings: Tips From Clemson

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Lessig's Change Congress Targets Dem Senator

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Sotomayor's Prose Problem

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Gaga for the Gipper

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New Cartoon Low: Sotomayor as Pinata

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The Missing Abu Ghraib Photos

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Pawlenty, Franken, and 2012

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New Zealand The World's Safest Country

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A Brief History of the Radical Right

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A Confusing Contradiction in the Pentagon's Torture Photos Story

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Redefining the World

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Obama's Inexcusable Support for New Detainee Photo Secrecy Law

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No Twitter at the White House

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Cheney and Limbaugh: On the Same Stage?

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Will Saletan is Missing the Point on Abortion

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CAP Gets it All Wrong on White House New Media

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Hanging with an Abortion Foe Who Targeted Tiller

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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

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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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