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The Verdict Is In: Our Voting System Is a Loser

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Parsing the Final Iowa Poll

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South Carolina Politics - So Damn Dirty

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Kucinich and Obama Secure Second-Choice Agreement

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ABC, Fox Limit NH Debate

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SugarDaddy.com: Old Dogs, New Tricks

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In Prison, No One Can Hear Your Heart Breaking: Incarcerated Mothers

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Edwards in New Hampshire

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My, What Big, White Teeth You Have: The Trials, and Petty Triumphs of the Widows of Kosovo

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Follow Up On Kristol - Man, Is He Wrong a Lot

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"Mr. Ten Percent:" Bhutto's Party Picks Her Widower, Son as Successor

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Romney Pulling Huckabee Down in Iowa

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Babel: How Racism Can Build Bridges

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Selling His Foreign Policy Experience, Thompson Mispronounces Musharraf

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Boy Oh Boy - Bill Kristol Hired by NY Times

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Ron Paul on the Theory of Evolution: "I Don't Accept It."

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Obama Presents His Closing Argument

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Have Yourselves a Kooky Little Kwanzaa

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See Mary Crash

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Vladimir Putin

Brodner's Person of the Day: Vladimir Putin

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Mormons to the Rescue

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Huxley's Brave New World Led to Bush's Stem Cell Decision

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Edwards Campaign Linked to Trouble-Making 527 Group

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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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