Politics

Lead Astray: What Happens When an American Company Offshores Pollution?

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When Is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave? Business and the Bill of Rights

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The Bhopal Evasion

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Northeast Dispatch

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Electronic Voting Gets Its Own Satire Site

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Senators Tell ExxonMobil to Stop Funding Climate Change Deniers (A Story Mother Jones Broke)

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Aye, Caracas!

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Election Conspiracy Theory du Jour: Bush to Declare Martial Law

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The New Jersey X Factor

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Slap-happy in Wyoming

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NBC changes "Shut Up & Sing" to "Shut Up"

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Justice For Pinochet Takes the Weekend Off

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White House Recants on Cheney Water Boarding Confession

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Companies in China Ask... What's In a Name Anyway?

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Hacking Democracy

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When It Comes to Press Freedom, We're Number 53!

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Jane Pauley Sues the NYT for Duping Her into an Advertorial

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Our Landlord the Torturer

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Green Groups Get Local

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Tennessee RNC Attack Ad Pulled: Blame Canada?

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Michael J. Fox: He's Our Man

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While the Administration Struggles with Spin, USIP Forecasts Iraq's Potential "Descent into Hell"

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Nicaragua to Ban Abortions - With Sandinistas' Support

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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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