Politics

The Public Supports It, So Why No Stem Cell Research?

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Does Everyone Have the Right to a Baby? And Who Pays When Nature Won't Work?

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With Overseas Mechanics and Overstretched Inspectors, FAA Oversight of Airlines is an Accident Waiting to Happen

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Next We Take Tehran: Iran and the Agenda of Empire

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Over Her Dead Body

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Unnatural Wonders

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The Diddly Awards

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Still Cleaning Up After Katrina

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Digging Up the Dirt on Gold

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Making Radio Waves

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The Hogs of War

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Our Best Fiend

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Prison Guards Lock Down Schwarzenegger

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You can't leak something that's already overflowing

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Is Prostitution Really Inevitable?

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Press intimidation: Red meat for the Republican soul

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Coming soon: stem cell showdown

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Clarence Thomas Wears Combat Boots?

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The U.S. couldn't find Gitmo detainee trial witnesses; the Guardian found them in three days!

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If it talks like George W. Bush and acts like George W. Bush...

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Deep, cleansing breath

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America's Increasing Democracy Deficit

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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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