Politics

Which Is Worse: The U.S. Torturing British Residents or Britain Not Taking Them Back?

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Salacious Exchanges With Underage Male Pages

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Foley Now In Deeper Trouble

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Environmental Damage: Another Reason Why a Border Fence is a Bad Idea

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Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Sex Toys

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Texas to DC: Don't Fence Me In

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Update--PERA Has Passed In the House of Representatives

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Woodward, Kissinger, Vietnam--Let's Do The Time Warp Again

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They've known about Foley for almost a YEAR?

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By the Numbers: Why We Need a Timetable For Leaving Iraq

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Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Emails (Or, "...sick sick sick sick sick.")

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Training Extremists While They Are Young

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U.N. Security Council to Discuss Human Rights Violations in Burma

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Bludgeoning Iraq's "Burgeoning Free Press"

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"Enough with the carrots. It's time for the stick."

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Free Trade Love

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Standing Up Against School Segregation: An Interview with David Engle

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Gerrymandering: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

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Shifting Migration: History Says a Fence Is Not the Answer

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Rwanda Abolishes Death Penalty to Get Justice

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Why Did Bush Want the NIE Released When It So Obviously Contradicts His Happy Talk?

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Going Postal on George Allen

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Presidential Signing Statements Revisited

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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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