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Reuters What will Oklahoma's recovery cost?
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Charts
Americans Still Trust Their Local Government, Even as Faith in Washington Crumbles
Blame the remoteness of D.C., or its partisan rancor.
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Photos
Obama vs. Romney: Who Has the Better Graffiti?
Predicting the outcome of the 2012 election with a highly scientific analysis of wall doodles.
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Maps
Where Are the Most Uninsured Americans?
It varies widely across the country.
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Democracy in America
Pontiac Ex-Councilman in Cocaine-Trafficking Bust: Officials Gone Wild
A roundup of the latest crimes, blunders and everyday embarrassments perpetrated by our esteemed municipal leaders.
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How the Creative Class Is Reshaping America's Electoral Map
Educated professionals are anchoring a new kind of voting coalition.
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Maps
Mapping Acceptance of Same-Sex Marriage
There's uneven support for it across the country, but many clusters of agreement.
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Democracy in America
Preachers Exiled from Bourbon Street: This Week in Bans
Also, daddies are forbidden to dance with daughters in Rhode Island and doggy-steroid doping becomes illegal in Tucson.
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Postcard
A Balancing Act for France's Muslims
Keeping belief alive in a country with a strong tradition of secularism.
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Maps
The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Poverty
Despite economic gains, America's largest metros are seeing spikes in inequality.
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The Real Town Behind This Year's Newbery Medal Winning Book
Dead End in Norvelt is based on a New Deal-era subsistence farming community in rural Pennsylvania.
