Sunday, September 20, 2026

Tag: gun control

The evil that guns do

The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can’t be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.

Las Vegas massacre dispels the myth of who’s most violent in...

While young and non-White people are perceived as more dangerous, middle-aged White people have the highest rates of gun ownership and commit the most violence.

Is today’s NRA the “price of freedom”?

Someday, people will read about this moment in history books and wonder how we got to this level of insanity.

The time for a debate on gun control is now

The list of massacre sites will continue to grow, without end, until we have the debate and enact sensible gun control.

From a concert in Las Vegas to a funeral in Yemen,...

Just as we are trying to get Congress to take action on gun control, so we must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.  

What’s stopping media from calling Las Vegas killer a ‘terrorist’? His...

Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances.

We need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’

Our political paralysis enables terrorists of any stripe to acquire as many weapons as they want. 

What more is there to say on gun laws?

There comes a point where you feel like there’s nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn’t already been said.

America wasn’t a ‘gun-loving country’ until a $13.5 billion industry made...

Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns – and mass shootings.

Republicans repeal law blocking people with severe mental illness from owning...

Lawmakers that supported the rule are worried about what this may mean for family members that take care of mentally ill individuals.

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The US Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain)

Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices

The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
An Allina Health hospital in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0

Minnesota doctors strike for four days in a first for US hospitals

About 150 physicians at two Allina Health hospitals walked out this week after three years of bargaining over sick days, pay and a role in patient care.
A hospital emergency room entrance in Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid starting October 1

The federal reconciliation law also narrows Medicare and marketplace coverage, and a separate immigration rule is pushing US citizen children off Medicaid alongside their noncitizen family members.

Minnesota hospital doctors stage what union calls first private-sector physician strike in US history

Doctors at two Minneapolis-area hospitals say they're striking over artificial intelligence in patient care, not just pay.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.