Friday, April 26, 2024

How to argue with gun nuts

Understand that pro-gun advocates almost never argue the merits of specific legislation.
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Why the common good disappeared (and how we get it back)

The challenge is to turn all this into a new public spiritedness extending to the highest reaches in the land.

Student and teacher leadership will change the politics of gun control

Falling back on worn out ideology, bumper-sticker arguments, or self-serving strategizing likely won’t work. This is different.

A pledge to transform the resistance, and America

If today’s resistance is to become a lasting movement, we must decide what we’re for.

Long live the Jersey tomato

Instead of trying to squeeze nature into a high-tech, corporate model, our food system should cooperate with nature.

Dallas official urges NRA to take its convention elsewhere and address the ‘madness now’

Dwaine Caraway is asking the NRA to find another place to host this year's annual convention, as well as urging members to take a stand on the issue.

Florida is just one state where it is easier to buy a gun than...

It's also harder to get birth control and purchase over the counter medications, such as Sudafed, than it is to buy a gun.

Gun violence has dropped dramatically in 3 states with very different gun laws

To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.

Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ delivers an empty promise

The administration and its GOP allies are threatening these Americans with even greater hunger and privation.

A kingdom where nobody dies

America’s childhood, a kingdom we’ve surrendered for no good reason at all.