Politics

The Curious Retention of Robert Gates

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Picking Up the Pieces: A Sober, War-Time National Security Cabinet Takes Shape

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Be Free, O Turkey, Fly, Fly!

Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Be Free, O Turkey, Fly, Fly!

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Your Top 20 Econundrums? Solved!

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Women Rock Volunteerism

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Major League Baseball Catches Outsourcing Fever

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What Do Obama's Foreign Policy Appointments Tell Us About Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

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Must-Reads on the End of the Bush Administration

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Iraqi Parliament to Vote Today on "Status of Forces Agreement"

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Team of Rivals

Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Team of Rivals

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How's That Bailout Going?

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The MoJo Interview: Frank Rich

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Why Somali Pirates Are Good For Obama

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Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan Celebrate "Exceptional News": John Brennan Won't Be CIA Director

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Conservative Publisher's New Book: "If There Had Been No Civil War, the South Would Have Abolished Slavery Peaceably"

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The Dems' Charlie Rangel Problem

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Bad Signs for Chrysler: Buy One Truck, Get One Free

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Susan Rice to the UN: A Positive Sign for UN-US Relations

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Solicitor General Says Uighur Detainees Have An Immigration Problem

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As Obama Taps Larry Summers, Recalling Summer's Days as a Regulation Foe

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An Immediate Obama Effect in African-American Communities?

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New Report Shows What The Economic Bailout Is Really Costing Us

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Obama's Economic Stimulus Package: Whose Pump Will It Prime?

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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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