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Lois Beckett

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We have gun violence all wrong: Mass shootings only tell a fraction of the story

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Black lives don’t matter in the gun debate: America’s crisis is much bigger than mass murder

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Meet the doctor who gave $1 million of his own money to keep his gun violence research going

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GOP congressman: Money for gun violence research is a “request to fund propaganda”

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Pistols could be the newest poolside accessory

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Kansas governor: It’s OK to ignore federal gun laws

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Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol Sat, Jan. 19, 2013 in Phoenix during a Guns Across America rally. (AP/Matt York)

When gun control is a felony

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GOP embraces big data

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Data brokers are gathering your personal info this very minute

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Will Democrats sell your political opinions to credit card companies?

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Democratic grandmothers spy on their neighbors

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It may be illegal to Instagram your ballot

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Corporate America knows who you vote for

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Five ways Texas discriminates against minority voters

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Is Romney on your Pandora playlist?

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Screenshots taken from two different searches of the Obama for America app, which displays the names and addresses of nearby Democratic voters.

Is your neighbor a Democrat? Obama has an app for that

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Groups follow voters’ Web use

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How Mitt Romney followed me around the Internet

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What Obama knows about you

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The damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday March 15, 2011. White smoke billows from the No. 3 unit. Right: The Chernobyl site in 2008.

Six ways Fukushima is not Chernobyl

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