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May. 18, 2013
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This story first appeared on the ProPublica website. The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, ...
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The race to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) is starting to take shape, and it's looking pretty one-sided. Rep. John Barrow, the Democrats' most-promising ...
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Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and ...
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The Heritage Foundation report on the costs of immigration reform co-authored by controversial scholar Jason Richwine has been widely debunked, and Richwine himself has ...
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More MoJo content about the September 2012 attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya and the resulting scandal GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama ...
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Virtually everyone in Washington agrees on at least one thing about the IRS scandal: The tax agency's trolling for tea party groups and giving extra scrutiny to their ...
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One of the biggest revelations in the Treasury Department inspector general report on the unfolding IRS-tea party debacle is this: The IRS staffers vetting hundreds of tea ...
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The last time Congress tried to pass major copyright reforms, 2011's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), it pissed off just about every corner of the ...
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A longer version of this story appears at FairWarning . Gerald Wheeler caught the hot dog demonstration at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta in 2002. A man took an ...
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Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to ...
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— By Maggie Severns, the Mother Jones news team
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May. 15, 2013
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Do you miss the mammoth? Dream of dodos? Long for Lycaena dispar dispar ? After centuries of driving species after species to extinction, we're now tantalizingly close to ...
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With US troops ...
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May. 15, 2013
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Read the complete introduction to our 10 Worst Prisons project . Last of 11 parts . Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Nor, however, is it supposed to ...
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How did this get started? It began back in March 2010, when the tea party movement was all the rage. According to a leaked timeline (PDF) from a draft report by the Treasury ...
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AF: We were very, very conservative in doing DSM-IV, which came out in 1994. Despite our efforts to tame diagnostic inflation, the rates of attention deficit disorder (ADD and ...
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Richard Nixon, it turns out, wasn't even the original Richard Nixon. National Archives & Records Administration On Monday, President Obama weighed in on the alleged targeting ...
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James Ridgeway, Jean Casella
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May. 14, 2013
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One lawsuit cites a "deeply entrenched" pattern of violence by guards. USGS/Wikipedia Commons Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Nor, however, is it ...
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This is a story about the future. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy ...
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. In those first minutes, they'll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They'll just stand ...
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Text by James West, Tim McDonnell; Interactive by Duncan Clark
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May. 13, 2013
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This interactive explainer originally appeared on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the last couple weeks, scientists ...
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Close your eyes and listen to Juan Manuel Chavez launch into the Prelude of Bach's Cello Suite No. 1, and you would never guess that, instead of spruce and maple, his ...
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Two years ago, Rehtaeh Parsons told her mother that four boys had gang-raped her while she was drunk on vodka at a house party. A photo of the 15-year old throwing up during ...
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James Ridgeway, Jean Casella
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May. 13, 2013
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The youth prison's record on rape was the worst "of any facility anywhere in the nation." Richard Ross, Juvenile-in-Justice Part 9 of 11. Read the complete introduction to our ...
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In Kevin Drum's latest feature, he imagines a bleak future where robots begin taking all of our jobs . Though he predicts this will happen about three decades from now, the ...
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This cartoon was originally published in the Los Angeles Times.
