Politics

Mission Creep Dispatch: C. Douglas Lummis

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Biden Aggressively Defends Upper Class Tax Raise

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Polling Tidbits: Sarah Palin Now Least Popular of the Big Four

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Is McCain More the Populist than Obama?

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Hey Rush Limbaugh: Keep Digging

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Will the Government Bailout Work?

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Palin Proposes "Google For Government," Unaware Obama Already Created It

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Mission Creep Dispatch: Steven Metz

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It's Safe to Say a President Obama Would Improve Relations With Latin America...

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McCain Hearts FDR. What's the (New) Deal?

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McCain-Spain, Continued

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American Royalty Endorses American Royalty, Citing Rednecks

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Palin Blames Wall Street Woes on Lobbyists - The Same Ones Who Now Work for the McCain-Palin Campaign?

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A More Generous Interpretation of the McCain-Spain Gaffe

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McCain vs. The Economy

Federal Action Against Iranian Global Procurement Network Suggests That Deadly Iraq IED Components of US Origin

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Dow Finishes Day Lower Than When Bush Took Office

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Can the FDIC Weather the Financial Storm?

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Sarah Palin's Yahoo Accounts Hacked

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Mission Creep Dispatch: Winslow Wheeler

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McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed - While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work for His Campaign

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What Does Deregulation Beget?

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McCain, Champion Deregulator

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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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