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  The Roots Headlining Why Tuesday? Voting Campaign Concert

  October 29, 2014

• The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster

  October 23, 2014

• Smashy Smashy: When Property Destruction Works

  October 21, 2014

• Anita Sarkeesian on GamerGate: 'We're Going to Fix This'

  October 17, 2014

• Clay Aiken Wants Your Vote Again

  October 15, 2014

• Cornel West Among 49 Protesters Arrested at Ferguson

  October 14, 2014

• Why Are Police Using Military-Grade Weapons in High Schools?

  October 8, 2014

• Hope and Change Index: 6 Years of Progress, By the Numbers

  October 8, 2014

• Ferguson Unrest Renews After Police Chief Joins Protesters

  September 26, 2014

• Video

  Ferguson Police Chief Apologizes to Michael Brown's Family

  September 25, 2014

• Gallery

  The Best Photos from the Flood Wall Street Protest

  September 23, 2014

• 'We Need Hope and Fear in Equal Measure': Naomi Klein

  September 22, 2014

• 'Loud Music' Murder Trial Resumes After Hung Jury

  September 22, 2014

• Video

  Watch: Actors and Activists at the People's Climate March

  September 22, 2014

• Video

  John Oliver Rips NFL's Vague Domestic Abuse Plan

  September 22, 2014

• Gallery

  People's Climate March: The Best Images

  September 22, 2014

• Gallery

  People of the People's Climate March

  September 22, 2014

• Get Ready for the Biggest Climate Protest Ever

  September 19, 2014

• Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Is Still Fighting

  September 17, 2014

• China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet

  September 15, 2014

• Gotye Is Hoping to Become an Australian Politician

  September 4, 2014

• Arcade Fire's 25 Best 'Reflektor' Tour Covers

  September 1, 2014

• Insecurity State: The Politics Behind the Ferguson Protests

  August 28, 2014

• Inside Chevron's 9 Billion Dollar Legal Battle in Ecuador

  August 28, 2014

• The Biggest Tax Scam Ever

  August 27, 2014

• Ferguson's Kids Go Back to School

  August 26, 2014

• Video

  Watch George W. Bush Get Doused for ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

  August 20, 2014

• T.I. Writes Powerful Posts on Ferguson Aftermath

  August 20, 2014

• Elizabeth Warren's Bold Plan to Reduce Student Debt

  August 20, 2014

• Gallery

  Ferguson, Uncensored

  August 19, 2014

• Last Tango in Kabul: Blood and Chaos in a Desperate City

  August 18, 2014

• Video

  Kevin Spacey Pranks Clintons in 'House of Cards' Spoof

  August 16, 2014

• Uneasy Peace in Ferguson: On the Scene in Missouri

  August 15, 2014

• Willie Nelson: 'We've Got to Help' Texas Border Children

  August 14, 2014

• The GOP's Fake Border War

  August 13, 2014

• The Presidency and the Press

  August 4, 2014

• America's Gun Violence Epidemic: Readers' Stories

  July 28, 2014

• John Boehner Uses Billy Joel Puns to Blast Obama's Jobs Plan

  July 26, 2014

• Gallery

  The 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America

  July 14, 2014

• Isla Vista Father Richard Martinez: Turning Anguish Into Activism

  July 14, 2014

• Gallery

  Widely Reported School Shootings Since 2000

  July 14, 2014

• How to Beat the NRA In 7 (Not-So-Easy) Steps

  July 14, 2014

• The Rise of Womens' Gun Culture

  July 14, 2014

• Confessions of a Liberal Gun Lover

  July 14, 2014

• Larry Pratt Is the Gun Lobby's Secret Weapon

  July 14, 2014

• 4 Reasons President Obama's New Trans Rights Policy Is a Big Deal

  July 2, 2014

• Plastic Stones, Melting Snails: 3 New Ways To Maim a Planet

  June 24, 2014

• Rock the Vote Returns for 2014 Midterm Election

  June 23, 2014

• 5 Weird Links Between Colleges and the Prison Industry

  June 18, 2014

• Three Troubling Lessons from the Latest U.S. Drone Strikes

  June 17, 2014

• Video

  Nick Offerman Talks Second Amendment

  June 15, 2014

• Eric Cantor: Burned at the Steakhouse

  June 11, 2014

• Decades After Birth Control Became Legal, It's Still Controversial

  June 6, 2014

• Four Myths About the Bowe Bergdahl Swap That Must Be Destroyed

  June 5, 2014

• Is DEA Dazed & Confused Over Industrial Hemp?

  June 5, 2014

• Three New Ways the Koch Brothers Are Screwing America

  June 4, 2014

• The Other Cannabis War
: The Battle Over Hemp

  June 3, 2014

• 13 Things You Need to Know About Bowe Bergdahl

  June 2, 2014

• Life During Wartime: Sebastian Junger on 'Korengal'

  June 2, 2014

• Six Memorable Quotes From Edward Snowden's NBC Interview

  May 29, 2014

• Barack Obama Surprises White House Talent Show

  May 22, 2014

• A Baffling Hearing on Endless War

  May 21, 2014

• A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change

  May 21, 2014

• Why Are Kids Being Tried in Kangaroo Courts?

  May 16, 2014

• Kentucky Death Match

  May 12, 2014

• How the Trans 100 Is Changing The World

  May 6, 2014

• Video

  'Veep''s Selina Meyer Meets Joe Biden

  May 4, 2014

• Video

  McHale, Obama Take Correspondents' Dinner

  May 4, 2014

• Putin Clamps Down: A Chilling Report From Moscow

  April 30, 2014

• President Obama Finally Gets Serious About Climate Change

  April 23, 2014

• Everything Republicans Say About the Economy is Wrong

  April 23, 2014

• Five Ways Arizona's Abortion Restrictions are Hurting Women

  April 21, 2014

• Simple Kind of Man: Inside George W. Bush's Painting Career

  April 14, 2014

• Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen

  April 14, 2014

• Republican Doug Cox Thinks His Party Has Failed Women

  April 11, 2014

• Obamacare: It's Working!

  April 9, 2014

• 'He's Untouched by History': Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld

  April 1, 2014

• Obama Vs. The Hawks

  April 1, 2014

• Pharrell: 'Let Me Tell You Why Hillary's Going to Win'

  March 25, 2014

• Five Offenses That Can Land Kids (But Not Adults) In Jail

  March 24, 2014

• Freedom by PowerPoint: A Guantanamo 'Forever Prisoner' Seeks Transfer

  March 20, 2014

• Obama Uses Celebs' Moms for Health Care Video

  March 14, 2014

• 11 Jaw-Dropping Lines From Dianne Feinstein's CIA Torture Statement

  March 11, 2014

• Edward Snowden Defends NSA Surveillance Leaks at SXSW

  March 10, 2014

• Five Reasons Same-Sex Marriage Is Sweeping the Nation

  March 6, 2014

• Editorial: Obama's Pot Breakthrough

  March 5, 2014

• Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country

  March 5, 2014

• The Minimum-Wage War

  February 27, 2014

• The Seven Most Common Lies About Abortion

  February 26, 2014

• Thank You, Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi Says Goodbye

  February 20, 2014

• Ex-Morgan Stanley Chief Jams Foot in Mouth, Complains of CEO Abuse

  February 13, 2014

• The Vampire Squid Strikes Again

  February 12, 2014

• Latest Health Care Flap Shows Media at its Most Boring

  February 6, 2014

• Clay Aiken Announces Congressional Run

  February 5, 2014

• How the U.S. Exports Global Warming

  February 3, 2014

• Jamie Dimon's Raise Proves U.S. Regulatory Strategy is a Joke

  January 30, 2014

• 27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the Union

  January 28, 2014

• Can We Fix the Race Problem in America's School Discipline?

  January 24, 2014

• Bailout Architect Runs For California Governor; World Laughs

  January 24, 2014

• The War on Abortion

  January 15, 2014

• Why Beyonce Thinks Gender Equality Is a Myth

  January 13, 2014

• A New Low in Health Care Rhetoric

  January 8, 2014

• The WikiLeaks Mole

  January 6, 2014

• Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization

  January 3, 2014

• Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For

  January 3, 2014

• The Great Marijuana Experiment

  January 3, 2014

• Republicans Quietly Declare War on Themselves

  December 30, 2013

• Sarah Palin's Impressively Incoherent 'Duck Dynasty' Comments

  December 19, 2013

• Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story

  December 17, 2013

• Everything You Need to Know About Today's Court Ruling on NSA Spying

  December 16, 2013

• The Rumored Chase-Madoff Settlement Is Another Bad Joke

  December 16, 2013

• One Year After Newtown: 20 Reasons for Hope And Despair

  December 13, 2013

• Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial

  December 12, 2013

• How CIA Intelligence Shaped 'Zero Dark Thirty'

  December 11, 2013

• 65 Signs That 2013 Wasn't the Worst

  December 9, 2013

• Nelson Mandela Dead at 95

  December 5, 2013

• Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality

  December 4, 2013

• 50 Dumbest Things Right-Wingers Said in 2013

  December 4, 2013

• Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets

  December 4, 2013

• Five Republicans Who Didn't Let a Fatal Crash Spoil a Good Hashtag

  December 3, 2013

• The Next Five States to Legalize Marriage Equality

  November 27, 2013

• John F. Kennedy's Prophetic Rebuke of Tea Party Politics

  November 22, 2013

• Blow by Blow: 10 Politicians Linked to Cocaine

  November 22, 2013

• Will Justice Be Served in the A-Team Killings?

  November 21, 2013

• JFK's Vision of Peace

  November 20, 2013

• The Winners of the 'Chase Twitter Fail' Haiku Contest

  November 19, 2013

• Will Colombia's Farmers Get What They Want?

  November 18, 2013

• Five Things to Know About the Employment Non-Discrimination Act

  November 18, 2013

• 10 Republicans Who Cheered on Batkid, Want to Revoke His Obamacare

  November 16, 2013

• Cyber-Activist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison

  November 15, 2013

• Chase's Twitter Gambit Devolves into All-Time PR Fiasco

  November 15, 2013

• Paul McCartney Calls on Russia to Free Protesters

  November 14, 2013

• By the Numbers: The Top 7 Obamacare Exchanges

  November 13, 2013

• Campaign 2016: The Dumb Season Starts Early

  November 13, 2013

• How Republicans Rig the Game

  November 11, 2013

• Same-Sex Marriage Comes to Illinois

  November 7, 2013

• The Five Biggest Takeaways from Election Night 2013

  November 6, 2013

• The Top Five Political Excuses of All Time

  November 5, 2013

• Chase Isn't the Only Bank in Trouble

  November 5, 2013

• Report: U.S. Doctors Participated in Torture After 9/11

  November 4, 2013

• Voting Rights At Risk in Georgia

  November 4, 2013

• Hurricane Sandy One Year Later: 10 Places That Are Still Suffering

  November 1, 2013

• The Growing Battle Over Transgender Student Rights in California

  November 1, 2013

• Individuals, Worlds Apart, United by the Trauma of Drone Strikes

  October 29, 2013

• Patch Adams Visits a Syrian Refugee Camp

  October 28, 2013

• Nobody Should Shed a Tear for JP Morgan Chase

  October 25, 2013

• Why the Right Wing Is Targeting Birth Control Again

  October 25, 2013

• Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters

  October 24, 2013

• Why Republicans Are Losing the Virginia Governor's Race

  October 24, 2013

• GOP vs. the Poor

  October 24, 2013

• Reports: U.S. Drone Strikes Violate Laws of War

  October 22, 2013

• Q&A: Van Jones on Hosting 'Crossfire' and Getting Along With Newt

  October 18, 2013

• Winners and Losers of the Government Shutdown Showdown

  October 17, 2013

• Six Stories of Obamacare Already Making a Difference

  October 16, 2013

• Gender-Neutral Housing Sparks Campus Debates

  October 16, 2013

• The Tea Party's Government Default Fantasy

  October 11, 2013

• Democrats Must Stop Ted Cruz's Hollywood Ending

  October 11, 2013

• A History of Republican Extremism

  October 10, 2013

• Luis Gutiérrez: Congress' Rebel With a Cause

  October 10, 2013

• Inside the Republican Suicide Machine

  October 9, 2013

• House Republicans' Biggest Fails

  October 8, 2013

• Despite Recent Pledges, Guantanamo Lumbers On

  October 7, 2013

• 8 Flagrant Examples of Republican Shutdown Hypocrisy

  October 7, 2013

• Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks, Too

  October 4, 2013

• 10 Horrifying Things About the Government Shutdown

  October 4, 2013

• Poor Preschoolers Suffer During Government Shutdown

  October 4, 2013

• Don't Forget About the Syrian Refugee Crisis

  October 1, 2013

• Republicans Shut Down the Government, But They Can't Stop Obamacare

  October 1, 2013

• Taibbi Talks Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

  October 1, 2013

• Looting Public Pensions: A New Study

  September 26, 2013

• Looting the Pension Funds

  September 26, 2013

• Bryan Cranston Explores Another Side of Power as LBJ

  September 25, 2013

• AIG CEO Compares Bonuses to Lynch Mobs

  September 24, 2013

• Forbes Calls Goldman CEO Holier Than Mother Teresa

  September 20, 2013

• Is the FBI's Domestic Spying Out of Control?

  September 19, 2013

• Flooding and Fracking in Colorado: Double Disaster

  September 19, 2013

• Taibbi Talks Lehman Anniversary

  September 19, 2013

• The Secret History of America's Nuclear Arsenal

  September 16, 2013

• The Real Reasons for Vladimir Putin's Syria Op-Ed

  September 13, 2013

• When High School Students Are Treated Like Prisoners

  September 12, 2013

• Fact-Checking the Global Warming Deniers

  September 12, 2013

• The Last Word on Global Warming

  September 12, 2013

• ExxonMobil, The Koch Brothers and Global Warming's Denier Elite

  September 12, 2013

• 'The Other Guantanamo': Report Shows Impact of Indefinite Detention

  September 11, 2013

• Bill McKibben to Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

  September 11, 2013

• The Seven Most Extreme State Laws Proposed This Year

  September 10, 2013

• Inside the NYPD's Muslim Spying Program

  September 6, 2013

• 16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters

  September 5, 2013

• Justice Dept. Won't Fight State Marijuana Laws

  August 30, 2013

• How Jerry Brown Turned Around California

  August 29, 2013

• Undercover at the Tar Sands: What It's Really Like Working for Big Oil

  August 28, 2013

• The Fight for Trans Rights in the Military

  August 26, 2013

• Obama's Education Proposal: Change, or Changed Subject?

  August 23, 2013

• Chelsea Manning Reveals Herself to the World: 'I Am A Female'

  August 22, 2013

• Can Marijuana Improve Your Emotional State?

  August 21, 2013

• Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison

  August 21, 2013

• Stop-and-Frisk City: Does Bloomberg Really Care About Kids' Safety?

  August 20, 2013

• Prison Reform Advocates Speak Up for the Voiceless

  August 19, 2013

• Will the U.S. Go Back to Training Mali's Military?

  August 16, 2013

• Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency

  August 15, 2013