Politics

"Lacerations, Perforations and Death"

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Branding "Progressive" in the Midwest - Your Thoughts?

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Elliot Spitzer Drops Plan To Issue Drivers' Licenses To Illegal Immigrants (Boy, I'll Bet Hillary's Pissed)

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Clinton Fake Question "Scandal": A Report From the Scene

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IslamoHorowitzism Awareness Week

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Brodner's Person of the Day: U.S. Bridge Team

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Blackwater and the Brothers Krongard: How Cookie Crumbled

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Breaking: Blackwater Operators Violated 'Use of Deadly Force' Rules

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Bill Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife Do Lunch

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Al Gore: Venture Capitalist

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Tancredo Go Boom

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Thompson's Fancy Footwork Wins Him Right-To-Life Crown

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Upscale Buenos Aires Shopping Mall Once Housed Torture Chambers

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Assassination Jokes, Anthrax Spores, and Russian Mobsters

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Obama Touches the Third Rail, Sort Of.

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Obama and Edwards: Are Two Reformists in the Race Worse than One?

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Iranian-American Scholar Fears War Within Months - Can He Help Stop It?

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Prez Candidates: Schools? What Schools?

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Little Steven Goes to Washington...and Wants To See Laura Bush

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IPOA Smackdown: DynCorp vs. Blackwater

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Dear Hillary: Success Trumps Sisterhood Every Time

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HMO Pays Staffers to Drop Sick People

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Finally, Cable a la Carte?

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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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