Politics

US Weapons Have a Nasty Habit of Going AWOL

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Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton

Republicans Blew Their Chance to End Hillary Clinton's Career 15 Years Ago. Have They Learned Their Lesson?

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Ash Carter

Ivy League Eggheads Have Led Us Into a String of Disastrous Wars. It's Time For Something New.

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Government Cancels Contract With Prison That Inmates Set on Fire

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The Government Is Finally Doing Something to End the Rape-Kit Backlog

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Contingencies!

Even Life Insurance Actuaries Are Coming Around on Pot

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obama

Obama: It's "Disturbing" That a Climate Change Denier Runs the Senate's Environment Committee

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What Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney Have in Common

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Obama Just Officially Decided White House Emails Aren't Subject to the Freedom of Information Act

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Clintons and Bumpers

Here's What a Close Friend of the Clintons Said About Them in His Diary

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An F-35 Lightning II at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida

The F-35 Is Still FUBAR

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If You Own a Pitchfork, You Will Grab It When You See This Chart

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This Man Is Missing a Chunk of His Brain. The Missouri Supreme Court Says It's Okay to Execute Him.

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Watch Obama Explain Ferguson in Under 5 Minutes

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Key Obama Adviser: "There’s Never Been a Time When We’ve Taken Progressive Action and Regretted It"

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This Arizona Lawmaker Bravely Revealed Her Sexual Assault to Fight a Restrictive Abortion Bill

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The NYPD Is Editing the Wikipedia Pages of Eric Garner, Sean Bell

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Why Are Oklahoma Lawmakers Trying So Hard to Discriminate Against LGBTs?

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Miriam Carey

How a Confused Mom Drove Through a White House Checkpoint and Ended Up Dead

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Ebola’s Legacy: A Potentially Horrifying Measles Outbreak in West Africa

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Katherine Clark

This Democratic Congresswoman Wants the FBI to Take on Gamergate

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Ted Cruz

Cruz the Politician Champions the Death Penalty. Cruz the Private Lawyer Did Something Else.

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Missouri Is About to Execute a Man Who's Missing Part of His Brain

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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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