Politics

Bailout's Handouts

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McCain Reportedly Pulling Out of Michigan

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Obama Up in Florida: Local GOPers Meet Secretly To Worry

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McCain Wants Afghanistan "Surge;" U.S. Commanders Do Not

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Bill O'Reilly Sees Himself as Proof of God

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Mission Creep Dispatch: John Pike

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U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Passes Congress

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A Sign the Obama Campaign May Have Too Much Money on Its Hands

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Final (?) Excerpt From the Palin-Couric Interview

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Swift Boaters Start Your Engines

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McCain Campaign Takes the Hard Questions

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Hugh Hewitt and the Department of Caricatures

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On NPR, McCain Exaggerates Past Relationship with Palin

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Palin Knows How To Debate

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Question: Can Biden Query Palin Tomorrow Night?

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Mission Creep Dispatch: Nick Turse

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The Upside of Sarah Palin's Invisibility in the Press

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Iraq's Sunni Militias Placed Under Control of Baghdad's Shiite-Led Government

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Former CIA Director Porter Goss's Dusty Foggo Problem

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Palin: This Election Is About Change Versus More of the Same

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New Voters to Push Obama Over the Top?

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Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Naked Campaign # 26: Meltdown

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Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away

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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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