Politics

Choose your Weapon

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The Torture Playlist

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How To Buy a Gun In Darfur

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Dems Debate: No Shoot-out in Texas, as Clinton Halfheartedly Goes After Obama

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Maybe Hitchens Is Right and God Isn't So Great

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Fewer Guns, Not More 'Heroes'

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A Congressional Race That (Almost) Sums Up Northern California

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Gunmaker Ends Partnership With Blackwater

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A New Smear Email: Obama Gave an Anti-Israel Speech at a Black Church

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McCain Campaign Uses Lobbyist to Strike Back at Iseman Scandal

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Belgrade's Burning

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Conservatives Spinning (in Circles) Over Iseman Scandal

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Can McCain Survive NYT Bombshell About His Coziness with a Female Lobbyist?

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Hillary and the Fork

Brodner's Person of the Day: Bush in Africa

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Doreen the Downer

A Campaign to Stop Stoning Abroad, the Un-Liberation of Women and the De-Closeting of Gays at Home

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Mississippi's Criminal Justice System: Still Burning the Poor Alive

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Can a Texas Pol Who Supports Obama Name One of His Accomplishments? Evidently Not.

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AFRICOM Will Not Be in Africa

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Democratic Politicos Discuss "Bottom Up" Politics

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McCain Tries to Backtrack on 100 Years of War

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Does Clinton Need To Retool? Nah, Just Pump Up the Negative

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Deja Vu: Muslim Didn't Work So Now Obama's a Commie Pinko

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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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