Politics

Death Sentences Dropping

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Brownback May Block Bush's Nominee For U.S. District Court Judgeship

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Foreign Aid Used to Manipulate U.N. Votes

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Did Exxon Nix Showing "An Inconvenient Truth" in Schools?

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The Press is Less and Less Protected in America: An Update from the Front Lines

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K Street's New 800-lb Gorilla

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"Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Men": A Homily of the Radical Left?

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Mass Extinction Led to Reordering of Marine Ecosystems

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Iraqi Shi'ites Stone Shi'ite Prime Minister

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Outsourcing Meth

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Sen. Chuck Hagel Advocates Phased Withdrawal

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Plenty Of Troops To Fight Against the War On Christmas

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Thanksgiving for the Bush Family

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Still Deciding!

Marine Gets Less than Two Years for Executing Iraqi Civilian

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Iraqi Students Want Saddam Back

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Be Thankful for Complainers

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NYPD Watches From Above

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Teen Birth Rate at a Record Low

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Outsourcing American Journalism? Meet the Bangalore Bureau

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Lieberman Hires Fellow Changling

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A Victory for Janitors in Houston, With Thanks to a Humble Martyr

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BU College Republicans Create Scholarship For White Students...Sort Of

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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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