Politics

'08 Campaign's Next Big Issue: Hedge Fund Taxes

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Iraq Creating New Terrorists, and Americans Know It

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Snuggly's Independence Day

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We're All Hoarders Now

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Political "Outsider" Fred Thompson Happy About Libby News

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Patton Oswalt On Bush and Cheney As The Dukes of Hazzard

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Tony Snow Probably Wishes He Could Have That One Back

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Main Catch in War on "Virtually a Free Citizen" in Pakistan

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More Work to Do on Global Warming

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Bad Moon Rising for John McCain

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Bush: Libby Will Still Get 'Harsh Punishment'

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Reaction to Libby's Commuted Sentence: Surprise?

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Why Did Bush Commute Scooter Libby's Sentence?

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Breaking: Bush Lets Libby Off

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Open Source Politics, the Wiki

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Anniversary Update: Bring On the Sarcastic Applause

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A Not-So-Crazy Campaign Finance Proposal

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Editors' Note

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Obama Raised How Much??

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Practical Values: Go Forth and Gentrify?

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Dick Cheney's Ten Animated Commandments of Secrecy

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Bush Staffers Want to Grow Oranges in the Arctic

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The Child Soldiers of Staten Island: Africa's Child Soldiers On Staten Island

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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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