Politics

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Alito's nomination shows conservatives aren't interested in conserving.

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Editor's Note: November/December 2005

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The Watched: Sources

Who's Zooming In on Whom?

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A Form of Liquefied Pot Could Transform the Drug-War Landscape

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Paul Hackett Stood and Fought. Can Democrats Follow His Lead?

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Brain Implants Can Treat Mental Illness. But Who Would Control Those Brave New Minds?

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Left Alone: On the lure of private life in a time of public peril.

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War of the Wires

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Dangerous Work: Journalist Deaths in Iraq and Around the World
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Watchdogs of Ukraine's Orange Revolution

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Pay Now, War Later — war on the layaway plan

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The U.S. drug czar's battle with Canada's prince of pot

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Paging Dr. Ross

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The Diddly Awards

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Flight Risk

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Assassins: A last Basra dispatch from Steven Vincent

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Paging Dr. Ross

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Recon: Executive Perks

The Wrong War

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The Real Rosa Parks

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Follow the Puppet Strings

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Alito and Abortion

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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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