Politics

McCain Has a Decision to Make on Jeremiah Wright

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Taliban Sues For Peace, Says It Has Split With Al Qaeda

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Contractors Investigate Contractors In Iraq

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Doonesbury Reads Mother Jones

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Wildlife Preservation: A Cheney Tale

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The Gorilla in the Hearing Room

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Supreme Court Snapshot

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A McCain Flip-Flop on Osama bin Laden?

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Springsteen Does an Obama for Obama

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MoJo Audio: Linguist Robin Lakoff Analyzes Sarah Palin's Accent

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Visiting "Foreclosure Alley"

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Sarah Palin: Not a Charitable Conservative?

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If I Were an Obama Strategist, Here's How I'd Spend the Next Month

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Bailout Bill Passes; Leading Dem Skeptic Issues Statement

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Mission Creep Dispatch: Mark Selden

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GOP Kills Tougher Iran Sanctions Bill

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"Let's Cover This Nation in Prayer For Sarah Palin"

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Heavens, Another Must-Watch Palin/Couric Clip

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Post Debate Snap Polls from CNN Show Little Changes for Palin

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Fireside Chat

Veep Debate: An End to the Sarah Palin Reality TV Show

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VP Debate: Working Moms For Palin? Not These 400

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Guest Liveblogging the Debate

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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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