Politics

You Share 98.7 Percent of Your DNA With This Sex-Obsessed Ape

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Alex Sink

GOP Group Attacks Dem for Holding Social Security Position GOPers Promoted

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Illustration: Pete Ryan

Libertarians Plan to Sit Out the Coming Collapse of America…in Chile

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Corn on "Hardball": Why Is the Right Still Talking About Benghazi?
White House Student Film Festival

Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kal Penn Set to Appear at the White House's First Student Film Festival

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NFL truck leaving Arizona

Could the NFL Yank Arizona's Super Bowl Because of an Anti-Gay Law?

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Why Are Americans Always Predicting Their Own Impending Doom?

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Michael Sam

A GOP Lobbyist's Plan to Save America's Sons From Scary Gay Football Players

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for February 25, 2014
South Dakota capitol

GOP Lawmaker: We Need to Ban Sex-Selective Abortions Because of Asian Immigrants

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Hagel's Pentagon Cuts Target Top Brass

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newt gingrich with keys

How Conservatives Learned to Love Prison Reform

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Georgia welcome center

Georgia Lawmakers Want to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners

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gun and capitol

Loaded Chambers: A Brief History of Politicians Accidentally Shooting Things

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Uganda's President Signs Extreme Law That Has Led to Calls to Kill, Burn, and Beat Gays

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Did Slavery Create Modern Medicine?

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Jury Finds Tea Party Senate Candidate Who Rand Paul Endorsed Misled Investors to the Tune of $250,000

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Milton Wolf

Kansas Senate Candidate Milton Wolf Posted X-Rays of Gunshot Victims on Facebook Page

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Supreme Court

Citizens United Takes Another Swing at Campaign Finance Rules

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Reformers Launch $1 Million Ad Blitz Demanding "Fair Elections" Bill in New York State

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We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for February 24, 2014

"So Excited Not to Be Poor Like These Whiny SF Bitches"

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Jason Collins

Openly Gay NBA Player Jason Collins Signed by Brooklyn Nets

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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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