Politics

Pulling Back The Curtain on Kim Jong Il's Many Myrmidons

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The Bush Administration's Anti-Torture Team and Their Anti-Torture Memos

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The Torture Dissidents' Tale

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The Anti-Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Blitz

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The Battle Over Wall Street Reform

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Should Parents Who Call God Instead of the Doctor Be Punished?

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Liberty City 6 Convicted

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Why We're Fighting in Pipelineistan

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Phony Social Security "Crisis" Is Fueled by New Report

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Driving While Texting

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Get Ready For What Could Be The Last Nazi War Crimes Trial

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Steele Doesn't Want Perez Hilton on the Supreme Court

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There's No Ammo on the Shelves

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The Big Health Scam?

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Tyrie's Tough Times

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Steele: "I'm the Gift That Keeps on Giving"

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Is Al Qaeda's Ibn Shaikh al-Libi Dead?

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Talking Fishing With Todd Palin

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Pirate "Consultants" Track Ships From London

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Mother's Day When Mom's on Lock Down

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Fainting in America

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Free From Prison At Last: For an Aging Angola Inmate, Death Is the Only Release

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AIG: The Market Leader in Chutzpah

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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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