Politics

Iraqi Oil Agreement Reveals the True Winners in Iraq

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Jimmy Carter

Person of the Day: Jimmy Carter

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Bob Kuttner Has Tasted the Obama Kool-Aid, and it is Sweet

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Debating the End of the Vilsack Era

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Your Weekend "Are You Ready for War With Iran?" News Roundup

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The American People Badly Underestimate Iraqi Death Toll

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Disabled Iraq Vets Shortchanged, Already

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One for the Bizarro File

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Important Gay Rights Bills Likely to Pass This Session

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Bill Richardson Serious About This "Running for President" Thing

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Florida Appeals Court Rules Against Girl Based On Fantasized Future Events

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Ahmad Chalabi Breaks My Spirit

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Few Weeks of Anonymity Doom Presidential Campaign, Vilsack Goes Back to Lifetime of Anonymity

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Newsweek: "Petraeus is Engaged in a Giant 'Do-Over.'"

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Wilberforce Be With You: The Christian Right Claims Amazing Grace

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What Do Jet Blue and Gavin Newsom Have in Common?

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Billionaires Toast to Merrill Lynch Underwriting Coal-Fired Power Plants

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Cal. to Consider Bolstering Mental Health Care in Prisons

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Rape, Murder, War Crimes and a Plea

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Obama's Smear Staff

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Whole Foods Smells Weakness, Buys Wild Oats

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Tag--You're It

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What's the Best Case Scenario With Iran?

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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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