Politics

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Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms

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The First Obama-McCain Debate: Not as Telling as Real Life

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Five Alternative Bailout Plans

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Lehman Brothers Records Discarded?

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Ad Addressing McCain Health Issues Banned by CNN, MSNBC

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Mission Creep Dispatch: John Feffer

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As Wall Street Bailout Talks Continue, House Democrats Form a Skeptics Caucus

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Debate Prediction: Nothing Major Will Happen. Nothing Ever Does

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GOP Consultant on Bailout Politics and McCain

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Bringing New Meaning to The Phrase "Golden Parachute"

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Somali Pirates Capture Shipment of Russian Tanks

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McCain's Adjustable Debate Standard

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What Should John McCain's Next Campaign Stunt Be?

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Question re: Debate & Bailout

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Bailout Blowup

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Pooh-Pah Platter

Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Pooh-Pah Platter

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Bush: "This Sucker Could Go Down"

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So Here's What We Know About the Status of the Bailout...

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Bailout Still in Trouble

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Remember the S&L Bailout? John McCain Hopes You Don't

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IAEA's Syrian Contact Assassinated, Stalling Nuclear Probe

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Sarah Palin and the Russians

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Is Bob Barr A Spoiler?

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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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