Politics

Earmarks Are Like a Virus. In a Barrel. Of Pork.

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Half of Americans Still Think Iraq Had WMDs

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Overheating Reactors (Yet Another Global Warming Feedback Loop)

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Why Can't Israel Defeat Hezbollah?

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The (Not So) Great Stem Cell Brain Drain

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No Peacekeepers for Lebanon

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War in the Middle East: Resources

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Pakistan? Plutonium Reactor? Oh, Sure.

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Mercury found in New York songbirds

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Roundup: War in the Middle East -- Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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Murder, He Retracted (Tony Snow Eats Stem Cell Crow)

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Support Our Troops: It Costs Nothing

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The Real Cut-and-Runners

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Specter Bill To Sue Bush For Use of Signing Statements

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Bush on Lebanon

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Congress to the Rescue

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Specter's Out of Control

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New at Mother Jones: On the War in the Middle East

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100 civilians a day dying in Iraq

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Forgetting About Iraq?

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Middle Class Disappearing From Cities

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New Report: Abusive Techniques Were Authorized, Soldiers' Complaints Ignored

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No End in Sight for Iraq

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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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