Matt Connolly

Matt has written for Mother Jones, the Washington Examiner and Chicago Public Radio among many others. He's a resident of Washington, D.C., but much like Bruce Springsteen and pork roll he is a product of New Jersey.

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One Chart Reveals The Dark Side of Today's Stellar Jobs Report

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Three Charts Shows the Hellhole America Has Become Under Obamacare

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Heartbreaking Photos Capture the Humanitarian Crisis the World Forgot

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CNN's Don Lemon Just Asked a Muslim Human Rights Attorney the Worst Question

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America's Budding Marijuana Industry Is About to Get a Big Influx of Green

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Republicans Are Using Special GOP Math to Make All Their Own Plans Look Amazing

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One Map Captures the Sad State of America's Prison-Industrial Complex

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Disgraced Former Virginia Governor Is Going to Prison for Two Years

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By 2050, 10 Million People Will Die Every Year From Something That's Meant to Save Lives

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'Game of Thrones' Is Going Where No TV Show Has Gone Before

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Africa's Greatest Animals Are Being Poached in Record Numbers

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It Will Take You 7.5 Hours to Solve the World's Largest Rubik's Cube — If You're Lucky

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In This Education-Crazy Nation, Teachers Are Becoming Multimillionaires

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One Year After Legalizing Weed, Here's the Lawless Hellscape Colorado Has Become

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This Beautiful Butterfly May Be Headed to the Endangered Species List

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Florida Has the Dumbest Response to Legalized Gay Marriage Yet

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The Death Penalty Is Officially Over in Maryland

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This Tweet Doesn't Sum Up Everything Wrong With College Sports — But the Reaction Does

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For the First Time Since the Great Recession, Americans Are Optimistic About the Economy

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Putin's Biggest Critic Just Told Him Off in the Best Possible Way