Politics

Envisioning a President Obama After September 11

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Hi, Me Again. Afghanistan Is Going Poorly

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Time for McCain to Ditch that Balanced Budget Pledge

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How Not to Buy an AK-47

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Dep't of Surrogate Follies: Oops, McCain = Bush

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McCain's NYT Interview: Federalism, Live and In the Flesh

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Comrade Obama? The Right's "Wealth Redistribution" Straw Man

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US Strike Killed 47 in Afghan Wedding Party, Investigation Says

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Subprime: The Miami Case Study

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Bush's Own Version of the Bush Joke

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What's Less Popular Than Airport Security and Alarm Clocks?

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John McCain's Very Bad Week: A Cheat Sheet

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Bloggers on Blogging: Meh

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FEC Back to Work

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Adelson-Funded Freedom's Watch Donates to Pro-McCain Vets Group

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McCain Forgeting Just How Absent He Has Been in Senate

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Back On The Bench!

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McCain Exploits the Steelers. Now the Man Has Gone Too Far

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Congress Atwitter Over Members' Use of Social Networking, Video Sites

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California's Top Democrat Blames Bush (or Somebody) for His Likely Indictment

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Note to Lesbian Pioneers: Avoid Wisconsin

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Jesse Jackson, Out Foxed on Obama

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Black on Black Nihilism

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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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